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Hubble’s Nebulae

A Collection of Hubble Nebula Images

In celebration of the 34th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s legendary Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers took a snapshot of...
Taking up most of the image, is a multi-colored nebula in shades of blue, pink, yellow, orange, purple, and white. It appears as two translucent orbs attached by a white band.
Astronomers celebrated NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's 33rd launch anniversary with an ethereal photo of a nearby star-forming region, NGC 1333....
Vertical image: blue at top, golden at middle, red at bottom. Bright blue star at top illuminates clouds of gas. Below bright star, fainter stars shine yellow. Image center, brighter yellow star illuminates gas. Image bottom is darker, with splash of red.
This spectacular image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a region called G35.2-0.7N, which lies around 7,200 light-years from...
A nebula with stars. Dense clouds of dust and gas cover the left-hand side and a filament crosses the center horizontally. Billowing streams of gas and dust in various colors emerge from around the center. The very center of the image is permeated with glowing orange regions. Many blue stars with cross-shaped spikes lie in the foreground, and small point-like stars are visible beyond the clouds.
Just in time for the fall foliage season, this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features a glistening scene...
The background is filled with bright orange-red clouds of varying density. Towards the top-left, several large, pale blue stars with prominent cross-shaped spikes are scattered. A small, tadpole-shaped dark patch floats near one of these stars. More of the same dark, dense gas fills the lower-right, resembling black smoke. A bright yellow star and a smaller blue star shine in front of this.
A shroud of thick gas and dust surrounds a bright young star in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope....
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.
A snapshot of the Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus) is featured in this Hubble Space Telescope image. The...
Wispy, nebulous clouds extend from the lower-left of the image. At the top and right the dark background of space can be seen through the sparse nebula. Along the left and in the corner are many layers of brightly-colored gas and dark, obscuring dust. A cluster of small, bright blue stars in the same corner expands out across the image. Many much smaller stars cover the background.
The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this Hubble Space Telescope image, which has also captured...
Two bright stars with diffraction spikes. larger star: lower-right of center. smaller: near upper-left corner. small red stars scattered around them. background: bright-blue gas around larger star/lower right side of image, wispier red gas elsewhere.
This sparkling new image depicts a small section of the Carina Nebula, one of the NASA Hubble Space Telescope’s most-imaged...
Dark, reddish-brown cloud fills the screen stretching from upper-left to filling the bottom of the image. Blue background is dotted with bright-white and yellow-orange stars.
A small, dense cloud of gas and dust called CB 130-3 blots out the center of this image from the...
The image shows an irregularly-shaped bright orange object composed of dense gas and dust, which appears darker and more compact at the centre. This dense cloud, called CB 130-3, is outlined by thinner gas and dust in light shades of blue. The background shows a multitude of bright stars against a black background.
A portion of the open cluster NGC 6530 appears as a roiling wall of smoke studded with stars in this...
Clouds of gas cover the entire view, in a variety of bold colors. in the center the gas is brighter and very textured, resembling dense smoke. around the edges it is sparser and fainter. several small, bright blue stars are scattered over the nebula.
Shreds of the colorful supernova remnant DEM L 190 seem to billow across the screen in this Hubble Space Telescope...
Center-top: supernova remnant in the shape of a flame, many long strands and thin layers of gas that glow orange and blue. Faint gas clouds outline its edges. several scattered blue and red stars surround it. the background is black with small red stars.
This peculiar Hubble Space Telescope portrait showcases NGC 1999, a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion. NGC 1999 is around...
Faint, wispy clouds glow from the light of a central, pale star. A hole in the clouds, roughly in the shape of a keyhole, shows black space.
This celestial cloudscape captures the colorful region in the Orion Nebula surrounding the Herbig-Haro object HH 505. Herbig-Haro objects are...
Clouds of blue, orange, yellow, and red fill the scene. wispy-white shockwave arcs stream across the colorful background.
A jet from a newly formed star flares into the shining depths of reflection nebula NGC 1977 in this Hubble...
Hubble image of NGC 1977. Bright blue cloud with a reddish-orange jet (bottom, center). Far-right side and bottom right corner, reddish-orange cloud
Mounded, luminous clouds of gas and dust glow in this Hubble Space Telescope image of a Herbig-Haro object known as...
Hubble image of NGC 1977. Bright blue cloud with a reddish-orange jet (bottom, center). Far-right side and bottom right corner, reddish-orange cloud.
Stars are born from turbulent clouds of gas and dust that collapse under their own gravitational attraction. As the cloud...
Blue and white, orange-red nebula bisected by a dark nebula, image is dotted with blue-white stars.
N44 is a complex nebula filled with glowing hydrogen gas, dark lanes of dust, massive stars, and many populations of...
Nebula image of bright blue, purple dust surrounded by stars of all sorts of colors. At the top of the image, a large nebula with swirls and clouds of dust and gas is present, at the bottom of the image, a smaller nebula with bright white stars.
This Hubble Space Telescope image depicts a special class of star-forming nursery known as Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules, or frEGGs...
Whisp-like, purple-hued view of star-forming region against black backdrop of space.
Abell 78 is an unusual type of planetary nebula. After exhausting the nuclear fuel in their cores, stars with a...
A glowing white center surrounded by a blue-purple shell/ring. Many bright stars glow in the background.
The Snowman Nebula is an emission nebula that resides in the constellation Puppis in the southern sky, about 6,000 light-years...
Bluish, brownish, orange-red nebula in upper half of image. Image is dotted with blue-white and reddish stars throughout.
Stars are born from clouds of gas and dust that collapse under their own gravitational attraction. As the cloud collapses,...
Orange glow of looping clouds emanates from bright-white central star. Dark dust lanes extend from the right and left of the central star.
The Prawn Nebula is a massive stellar nursery located in the constellation Scorpious, about 6,000 light years from Earth. Though...
Starfield with dark dust lanes diagonally across the image. Bright-white and rust-colored clouds extend both sides of the dust lane.
NGC 6891 is a bright, asymmetrical planetary nebula in the constellation Delphinus, the Dolphin. This Hubble image reveals a wealth...
Bright blue nebula with a darker blue halo and a bright orange-yellow star at its center.
NGC 2438 is a planetary nebula, formed after the death of a Sun-like star. The medium-sized star would have expelled...
Circular nebula with reddish-white star at center, turquoise interior with hazy, cloudy yellow-orange and red rings around the center.
This Hubble image captures a portion of a dark nebula in the constellation Cepheus. LDN 1165 is part of a...
Orange nebula emerges from dark nebula, with white nebula below stretching to the bottom of the image.
This Hubble image captures a portion of the reflection nebula IC 2631 that contains a protostar, the hot, dense core...
Bright blue cloud fills the scene, orange-red rings surround bright-white stars in the upper-left corner of the image.
The Flame Nebula is a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that lies about 1,400 light-years from Earth. It’s...
Dark nebula looking like a flame rising through the center of the image against a turquoise and blue glowing nebula, stars dotted throughout.
The Flame Nebula or NGC 2024 is a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that lies about 1,400 light-years...
Hubble image of blue and white background cloud superimposed with orange and dark cloudy wisps.
This image shows knots of cold, dense interstellar gas where new stars are forming. These Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules (frEGGs)...
The the light of newly-formed pair of bright pink stars on the right silhouettes two dark, cold, brownish gas clouds in the lower center and upper-right. Many stars of different colors glimmer in the background.
These cosmic ribbons of gas have been left behind by a titanic stellar explosion called a supernova. DEM L249 is...
A field full of stars of all different colors, with several deep red tendrils/streaks of gas running from top to bottom near the center.
Cleopatra’s Eye, or NGC 1535, is a planetary nebula in the constellation Eridanus. This nebula has an unusual structure that...
Bright turquoise nebula with a fainter teal halo and a bright red star at its center, with a few other, smaller red stars in the background.
This Hubble Space Telescope captures the emission nebula NGC 2313. The bright star V565 — surrounded by four prominent diffraction...
Near the center of the image shines a bright star with four spikes. It forms a vertex of a triangle of wispy blue and blue-white light that forms the emission nebula taking up about a third of the image. To the right and above the bright star, the image quickly fades from pale red to black, which is where a dense cloud of dust blocks our view of the nebula.
Nestled amongst the vast clouds of star-forming regions like this one lie potential clues about the formation of our own...
Orange flame-shaped clouds of gas, with dark edges, extend to the upper-left, upper-right, and lower-left of the bright center. A more blue-grayish cloud extends to the lower-right. Bright stars of different colors scattered throughout.
This striking image features a relatively rare celestial phenomenon known as a Herbig–Haro object. This particular Herbig–Haro object is named...
A reddish haze pierced by a diagonal blue filament, against the black backdrop of space.
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope near-infrared vision captured a remarkable image of a young star's unseen, planet-forming disk casting...
Dark clouds fill the scene. They are outlined by faded yellow-gray and blue-white clouds of gas. Stars dot the scene.
This Hubble Space Telescope portrait reveals the gaseous remains of an exploded massive star that erupted 1,700 years ago. The...
Plumes of gas that are colored blue, red, and green form a loose circle at the center.
The star AG Carinae is surrounded by an expanding shell of gas and dust. The nebula is about five light-years...
Bright-white star surrounded by a pinkish and white shell of gas. Black background dotted with stars.
This dark, tangled web is an object named SNR 0454-67.2. It is a supernova remnant, created after a massive star...
Red and blue streamers of gas and dust in space, with bright multicolored stars scattered throughout.
While appearing as a delicate and light veil draped across the sky, this image from the Hubble Space Telescope actually...
A long, thin, twisted ribbon of orange gas and dust stretches from left to right across the image. Bright-white stars dot the black background. One bright, blue-white star at bottom left. A small swath of blue gas stretches below the orange ribbon on the right side.
As nuclear fusion engines, most stars live placid lives for hundreds of millions to billions of years. But near the...
Bright blue cloud of dust and gas with bits of purple gas surrounding it the large glob of gas in the center.