![Top Left: two, lobed, white clouds expand from image center. They are edged by pink and reddish-pink clouds. Top Right: Galaxies. Bottom Left: A field of red, white, yellow, orange, and blue stars. Bottom Right: A greenish-blue background dotted with stars. A pillar of rusty-orang gas and dust rises from the bottom and extends across and toward the left of the image block.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/hubble-postsm4-images-stsci-01evvnjy904mz2w413ctqrn854.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
Hubble Post SM4 Images
These four images are among the first observations made by the new Wide Field Camera 3 aboard the upgraded NASA Hubble Space Telescope. The image at left shows NGC 6302, a butterfly-shaped nebula surrounding a dying star. Next is a picture of a clash among members of a galactic grouping called Stephan's Quintet. The second from the right gives viewers a panoramic portrait of a colorful assortment of 100,000 stars residing in the crowded core of Omega Centauri, a giant globular cluster. At right, an eerie pillar of star birth in the Carina Nebula rises from a sea of greenish-colored clouds.
Credits: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team
TakenSeptember 9, 2009
Image CreditNASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team
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