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.

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
Download Share

Tags

TakenSeptember 9, 2009
Image CreditNASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team
Size336x400px