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This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the globular star cluster NGC 2419.
Black background. Image is filled with a spherical grouping of blue-white, orange, and red stars. The density of stars is greatest at the center of the sphere. Star numbers taper off toward the image's edges.
This luminous image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows Z 229-15, a celestial object that lies about 390 million...
Spiral galaxy: 2 almost-straight arms coming from the left and right of the golden core that meet a starry, bluish ring around the edge. A faint light halo surrounds the galaxy. One bright star, a few small stars and galaxies all on a black background.
The scattered stars of the globular cluster NGC 6355 are strewn across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Stars fill the view. A dense, spherical collection of blue and yellow-white stars toward the center. The image’s edges hold redder foreground stars, and many small background stars.
Against an inky black backdrop, the blue swirls of barred spiral galaxy NGC 6956 stand out radiantly.
Image center: blue, and pinkish-white swirls of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 6956. Dark, reddish-brown dust lanes along the inner part of the spiral arms. Inky black background with foreground and distant stars and galaxies.
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures a small portion of the Small Magellanic Cloud.
Bright stars cluster at image center. They shine in shades of white, blue, and orange, and have diffraction spikes. The stars grow more sporadic at the image’s edges, and several smaller, more distant stars glow against a black backdrop of space.
This whole collection is NGC 1858, an open star cluster in the northwest region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a...
Bright, blue-white stars of varying sizes fil the scene. A smattering of orange-white stars dotted throughout. A swath of pale-blue gas and dust extends from upper left to lower right across the image.
Open cluster KMHK 1231 is a group of stars loosely bound by gravity. Seen in the upper left of this...
Bright blue-white cluster of stars at upper right, surrounded by field of dimmer stars and rusty-red gas and dust clouds
Looking like a glittering swarm of buzzing bees, the stars of globular cluster NGC 6440 shine brightly in this NASA...
Center of the image is filled with a sphere of white stars. A smattering of orang-white stars dots the sphere. They are set against a black background that holds a smattering of stars.
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows two of the galaxies in the galactic triplet Arp 248 –...
Two face-on spiral galaxies at upper-left and lower-right corners. A long, faint, pale-blue streak joins them, crossing the field diagonally. A small, orange, edge-on spiral galaxy at left of the lower galaxy.
The two interacting galaxies making up the pair known as Arp-Madore 608-333 seem to float side by side in this...
two spiral galaxies, one at upper-left the other at lower-right, both are nearly face-on providing views of their spiral arms, background stars and galaxies
The galaxy NGC 1961 unfurls its gorgeous spiral arms in this newly released image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
bright spiral galaxy fills the scene. Dark reddish-brown dust lanes bisect the spiral arms. Bright blue stars are dotted troughout.
A glittering multitude of stars in the globular cluster Terzan 4 fills this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
reddish-gold fill the scene, bright blue-white stars dot the scene, bright white stars fill the center of the image
This cloudy, turbulent scene shows a stellar nursery within the Large Magellanic Cloud known as N159.
This shot from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).
A shroud of thick gas and dust surrounds a bright young star in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space...
Bright orange-gold cloud fills the center and center-left of the image. A dark gap bisects the cloud. Bright-white stars dot the black background while a few dot the cloud itself.
This scintillating image showcases the globular cluster NGC 6540 in the constellation Sagittarius.
Stars fill the image. Bright, blue-white stars are concentrated in the image's center. Large, gold stars dot the scene.
A little-studied star, TYC 3203-450-1, upstages a galaxy in this Hubble Telescope image from December 2017.
Hubble image of a star and galaxy in Lacerta
This star-studded image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the heart of the globular cluster NGC 6638 in the...
A mass of bright blue-white stars fills the center, gold stars are dotted throughout
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope imaged these two overlapping spiral galaxies named SDSS J115331 and LEDA 2073461, which lie more...
center of image holds two spiral galaxies. The foreground galaxy is face-on, while the one behind it is at a slight angle. Both appear yellow-gold with streams of bright white stars.
This intriguing observation from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a gravitationally lensed galaxy with the long-winded identification SGAS J143845+145407....
Galaxies fill the scene. Large, bright-white galaxy in the center-right of the image. Two reddish-gold spiral (mirrored galaxy) above and below the central galaxy on its right side.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 imaged this lonely spiral galaxy called UGC 9391.
Bright spiral fills the scene. Its spiral arms are diffuse but evident. Bright blue-white star clusters dot its spiral arms.
This glittering gathering of stars is the globular cluster NGC 6558, and it was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space...
bright cluster of blue-white stars at left center. frame filled with red, reddish-gold, blue, and blue-white stars
This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope features the Grand Design Spiral, NGC 3631, located some 53 million light-years away...
sublime face-on spiral galaxy whose central bulge of stars is at center left. Its spiral arms radiate out filling the image. Dark reddish-brown dust lanes line the inner part of the spiral arms.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured this massive galaxy cluster, called Abell 1351, with its Wide Field Camera 3 and...
galaxies in all shapes and sizes fill the screen. Most are gold in color, but a few appear red and blue-white. Long thin arcs of gravitationally lensed light arc around the center of the image.
The subject of this week’s circular Hubble Picture of the Week is situated in the Perseus Cluster, also known as...
An almost circular galaxy is at the center of the image. It has a glowing bar stretching across its core; from the ends of the bar, thin spiral arms wrap around the galaxy to form a closed disk. The arms are fuzzy from the dust and stars they contain. The galaxy is on a black, mostly empty background. A few foreground stars with cross-shaped diffraction spikes can be seen, as well as some distant galaxies in the background.
This huge ball of stars – around 100 billion in total – is an elliptical galaxy located some 55 million...
Upper-right quadrant is filled by a sphere of stars with a bright core near the top. Outward from the core, the sphere is more diffuse. A reddish-orange, edge-on galaxy is in the lower-right quadrant of the image.
The tranquil spiral galaxy UGC 12295 basks leisurely in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
A spiral galaxy directly face-on: Two bright spiral arms extend from a bar, which shines from the center. Fainter arms branch off from these, studded with bright-blue patches of star formation. Small, distant galaxies dotted around on a dark background.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of comet ISON, wrapped in a dusty halo, streaking through the sky in...
Bright spots of varying sizes pop from a pitch-black background. These are galaxies and stars as seen through NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. At the forefront, the biggest bright spot, which appears smeared, like it's moving down the image, is Comet ISON, which is streaking across the sky, enveloped by a dusty halo.
The highly irregular galaxy ESO 174-1, which resembles a lonely, hazy cloud against a backdrop of bright stars, dominates this...
A large, bright, diffuse galaxy. Center is brighter and bluer, fading to a pale, faint, gray halo. An arm on one side that curls around the top. Threads of dark dust cross the center. Many stars shine around the galaxy, on a black background.
This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows JO204, a ‘jellyfish galaxy’ so named for the bright tendrils...
Spiral galaxy with bright core, spiral arms, and a slight glow surrounds it. Below, strands made of bright blue patches trail down like tentacles. Galaxy is just touched by a second, faint galaxy on left.
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a section of the spiral galaxy nicknamed the Needle’s Eye.
a portion of the galaxy fills the upper right half of the image, blue and red clusters of stars and gas dot its edge, a bright foreground star sits to the lower left of the galaxy
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image finds the large spiral galaxy, NGC 3227, wrapped in a turbulent gravitational dance with...
Lower left: large spiral galaxy with reddish brown dust lanes extends toward the center of the image. Center right: bright elliptical galaxy
This Hubble Space Telescope image features two merging galaxies in the VV-689 system, nicknamed the Angel Wing.
2 merging galaxies at image center form what looks like an angel with large wings. Distant galaxies dot the background
We're celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope's 32nd birthday with a stunning look at an unusual close-knit collection of five galaxies.
5 bright galaxies grouped together
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image spotlights the giant elliptical galaxy, UGC 10143, at the heart of galaxy cluster,...
A field of galaxies. A large elliptical galaxy in the top left quadrant, with more distant galaxies visible through its fringes.
The lazily winding spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 5921 snake across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Large spiral galaxy with a bar of stars bisecting the image from the upper left to the lower right.
Composite Image of NGC 3344.
Composite Image of NGC 3344.
The spiral galaxy M91 fills the frame of this Wide Field Camera 3 observation from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Barred Spiral Galaxy M91
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals tendrils of dark dust threading across the heart of the spiral...
Bright galaxy seen from the side. It has a large central bulge of stars and dust cutting across it lengthwise,
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 image shows a stunning view of the spiral galaxy NGC 4571.
A bright spiral galaxy with a large, luminous core.
This colorful image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and published in 2018, celebrated the observatory’s 28th anniversary of viewing...
laguna nebula