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The Flame Nebula, also called NGC 2024, is a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that lies about 1,400...
Image of a colorful blues and dark browns nebula with stars.
Hubble’s Contentious Constant Poster
The deepest X-ray image ever produced, obtained by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The central region of the image contains the...
Black background with small scattered dots colored white, light pink, blue, and red.
Horsehead Nebula Hubble
This beautiful, glittering swirl is named, rather unpoetically, J125013.50+073441.5. A glowing haze of material seems to engulf the galaxy, stretching...
Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across a more complete spectrum...
Resembling the shape of a butterfly, two lobes of gas and dust stretch across a starry black background in shades of green and blue, growing paler toward where they meet.
This Picture of the Week revisits the Veil Nebula, a popular subject for Hubble images! This object was featured in...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this image of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 61, also known as NGC 4303....
The contorted object captured by Hubble in this picture is IRAS 22491-1808, also known as the South America Galaxy. It...
This image shows the sky around the ultra diffuse galaxies NGC 1052-DF4 and NGC 1052-DF2. It was created from images forming...