Hubble Space TelescopeStar clusters are commonly featured in cosmic photoshoots, and are also well-loved by the keen eye of the NASA/ESA Hubble...This star-studded image shows us a portion of Messier 11, an open star cluster in the southern constellation of Scutum...This Hubble picture shows Messier 28, a globular cluster in the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer), in jewel-bright detail. It...NGC 2903 is located about 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (the Lion), and was studied as...This picture showcases a gravitational lensing system called SDSS J0928+2031.Bright patches of nebulosity near newborn stars, Herbig-Haro objects like HH 7–11 are transient phenomena.Located in the constellation of Hercules, about 230 million light-years away, NGC 6052 is a pair of colliding galaxies first...This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals an ancient, glimmering ball of stars called NGC 1466.Despite the vastness of space, objects tend to get in front of each other.The bright southern hemisphere star RS Puppis, at the center of the image, is swaddled in a gossamer wreath of...Hubble produced this stunningly detailed portrait of the Triangulum galaxy's full spiral face, aglow with the light of nearly 25...Star clusters are common structures throughout the universe, each made up of hundreds of thousands of stars all bound together...This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the unbarred spiral galaxy NGC 5033, located about 40 million light-years awayThe ghost of Cassieopeia's ethereal glow might remind people of apparitions such as those reported by paranormal investigators.This dark, tangled web is a supernova remnant, created after a massive star ended its life in a cataclysmic explosion.Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to discover a ring of black holes or neutron stars in a galaxy...This Hubble image shows a beautiful spiral galaxy called NGC 6744. At first glance, it resembles our Milky Way albeit...NASA, ESA, and STScIThis dramatic image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the planetary nebula NGC 3918.The little-known nebula IRAS 05437+2502 billows out among the bright stars and dark dust clouds that surround it.This Hubble image demonstrates the immense effects of gravity; more specifically, it shows the effects of gravitational lensing caused by...In the northern constellation of Coma Berenices lies the impressive Coma Cluster — a structure of over a thousand galaxies bound...Hubble captured the colorful globular cluster NGC 2108, nestled within the Large Magellanic Cloud in the constellation of the Swordfish...The mind-bending distortions visible in this impressive Hubble image are actually caused by a cosmic phenomenon.NGC 1032 cleaves the quiet darkness of space in two in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.The swirling spiral to the lower left of the frame is far from the most interesting spectacle here — behind...Launched 15 years ago, the Spitzer Space Telescope has made many discoveries, including this detection of the merger of two...This rich and dense smattering of stars is a massive globular cluster, a gravitationally bound collection of stars that orbits...These graceful arcs are a cosmic phenomenon known as an Einstein ring - created as the light from distant galaxies...This pretty, cloud-like object may not look much like a galaxy but it is in fact something known as a...An underlying population of infant stars embedded in the nebula NGC 346 are still forming from gravitationally collapsing gas clouds.NGC 5714 is a spiral galaxy, but that feature is hard to see, as NGC 1787 presents itself at an...In the darkness of the distant universe, these galaxies resemble glowing fireflies, flickering candles, charred embers floating up from a...Light from star-studded galaxy NGC 3972 left it just when the dinosaurs became extinct.Researchers using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have identified a fourth ultraluminous X-ray source, or ULX, as being a...This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a spiral galaxy known as NGC 7331.Roughly 50 million light-years away the little galaxy NGC 1559 has hosted a variety of spectacular exploding stars called supernovae.UGC 6093 is something known as a barred spiral galaxy — it has beautiful arms that swirl outwards from a...The dwarf galaxy NGC 4625, located about 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs)...This spiral galaxy, known as ESO 580-49, actually displays some explosive tendencies.
