Constellation Monoceros, Orion, Canis Major, Canis Minor; Location of the Cone Nebula

The Tadpole Galaxy: Distorted Victim of Cosmic Collision

Against a stunning backdrop of thousands of galaxies, this odd-looking galaxy with the long streamer of stars appears to be racing through space, like a runaway pinwheel firework. This picture of the galaxy UGC 10214 was taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), which was...

Cone Nebula (NGC 2264): Star-Forming Pillar of Gas and Dust

Resembling a nightmarish beast rearing its head from a crimson sea, this monstrous object is actually an innocuous pillar of gas and dust. Called the Cone Nebula (NGC 2264) - so named because, in ground-based images, it has a conical shape - this giant pillar resides in a...

The Omega Nebula: Hotbed of Star Formation

A watercolor fantasyland? No. It's actually an image of the center of the Omega Nebula, a hotbed of newly born stars wrapped in colorful blankets of glowing gas and cradled in an enormous cold, dark hydrogen cloud. This stunning picture was taken by the newly installed Advanced...

The Mice (NGC 4676): Colliding Galaxies With Tails of Stars and Gas

The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), the newest camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, has captured a spectacular pair of galaxies engaged in a celestial dance of cat and mouse or, in this case, mouse and mouse. Located 300 million light-years away in the constellation Coma...

Rich Background of Galaxies Behind the Tadpole Galaxy

The Cone Nebula (NGC 2264)

The Omega Nebula (Swan Nebula/M17)

"The Mice" (NGC 4676): Colliding Galaxies Stream Stars and Gas

ACS ERO Collage

Jubilant astronomers unveiled humankind's most spectacular views of the universe, courtesy of the newly installed Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Among the suite of four ACS photographs to demonstrate the camera's capabilities is a...

Cone Nebula with Outline of ACS Image

Constellation Sagittarius; Location of the Omega Nebula, M17

The Omega Nebula, M17 with Outline of ACS Image

"The Mice:" A Computer Simulation of Colliding Galaxies

Simulation of the formation of the galaxy known as "The Mice." The simulation depicts the merger of two spiral galaxies, pausing and rotating at the stage resembling the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys image of "The Mice," dissolving to that image, and...

The Tadpole Galaxy, UGC 10214

Camera move on ACS image of "Tadpole Galaxy".

The Cone Nebula, NGC 2264

Panning the ACS image of the Cone Nebula.

The Omega or Swan Nebula, M17

Zoom from ground-based images to ACS image of the M17 nebula.

"The Mice," NGC 4676 – Pan Right and Zoom Out

Camera move on ACS image of "The Mice."

"The Mice," NGC 4676 – Pan Left and Zoom Out

Camera move on ACS image of "The Mice."

NASA Press Briefing: First Images from Hubble's New Camera