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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.

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.

These two gravitationally interacting galaxies are oriented so that they appear to mark the number 10 in this Hubble Space...

Left: a disk galaxy that appears nearly edge-on to our line of sight with its long axis vertical and just left of image center. It has a bright core with a smooth ring of starlight surrounding it. Right: a ring galaxy. Its pancake-shaped disk of material appears is a clumpy blue ring of intense star formation. A dusty reddish blob at the bottom of the blue ring may be the galaxy's original nucleus.

The magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 2276 looks a bit lopsided in this Hubble Space Telescope snapshot. A bright hub of...

On a black, starry background is a large spiral galaxy filled with streaks of blue and pink. Its right-side arm appears to be breaking away from the rest of the galaxy.

Stars of all ages are on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the sparkling spiral galaxy called...

An oval-shaped spiral galaxy. Only the center and lower half of the galaxy is in frame. Its center is primarily golden in color with a white glowing core, while its thick spiral arms are mostly blue, particularly at the outskirts; these colors merge in between. Dark lanes of dust swirl through the center, blocking some of the galaxy’s light. Stars and distant galaxies are visible around the edges on a black 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this Hubble Space Telescope image, which has also captured...

$Two bright stars with diffraction spikes. larger star: lower-right of center. smaller: near upper-left corner. small red stars scattered around them. background: bright-blue gas around larger star/lower right side of image, wispier red gas elsewhere.$

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.

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.

The twisted, worm-like structure of galaxy IRAS 23436+5257, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, is most likely the result of...

The central portion of this spiral galaxy is the only part visible, giving it an asymmetric form with a tail.

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures an ongoing cosmic collision between two galaxies — a spiral galaxy is...

Spiral galaxy with blue-white rings of stars and red-brown streaks of gas. The center glows white so brightly that it seems to form a bar above and below the galaxy.

Not surprisingly, interacting galaxies have a dramatic effect on each other. Studies have revealed that as galaxies approach one another,...

A swirl of white stars in the center with streaks of red-brown dust, with "arms" of stars extending out to the left and right.

This picture, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows a galaxy known as NGC 6872 in the constellation of Pavo...

One small spiral galaxy and one large one on the right side of the image, stretched to the left across the field of stars

This image, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the peculiar galaxy NGC 3256. The galaxy is about 100 million...

A galaxy with a white core, and rings of orange and red-brown around it. Its arms and trails of stars and dust are white, dark red, and pinkish.

A rare and spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies appears in this Hubble Space Telescope image of the Cartwheel Galaxy,...

The large galaxy on the left has a swirling yellow core and a blue ring around it, with thin hazy stars and gas in between. On the right are two small galaxies, a yellow spiral above a blue blob.

The unusual disk-ring structure of polar ring galaxies like NGC 4650A is not yet understood fully. One possibility is that...

A disk of red stars ringed by dust, gas, and more stars.

What appears as a bird's head, leaning over to snatch up a tasty meal, is a striking example of a...

A yellow-brown galaxy with bands of pink, white, and blue stars and brown dust is being stretched to the lower half of the image by an orange-y galaxy mostly out of frame. The clump of stars being stretched towards it appears purple-white

This Hubble Space Telescope image reveals an intergalactic "pipeline" of material flowing between two battered galaxies that closely encountered one...

Two bright galaxies with glowing yellowish cores. The one at bottom-left has two thick blue-white spiraling arms, and the one at center right has a thin glowing white haze around it. Both of them seem to be surrounded by a yellow glow.,

A dusty spiral galaxy appears to be rotating on edge, like a pinwheel, as it slides through the larger, bright...

In the upper left is a glowing white core with a pinkish haze around it, and a greenish haze at its edges, particularly the upper left. To its lower right, in the foreground, are trails made by "arms" of white stars and black gas/dust.

This Hubble Space Telescope image displays a beautiful pair of interacting spiral galaxies with swirling arms. The smaller of the...

Two spiral galaxies of similar sizes (the one on the right is slightly bigger), looking like a pair of eyes. The right one is white and reddish-orange, the one on the left is mostly white with brown streaks. Foreground stars in the upper left and lower right.

UGC 8335 is a strongly interacting pair of spiral galaxies resembling two ice skaters. The interaction has united the galaxies...

$Two distorted galaxies, looking like white-and-orange shells with streaks of white stars. The galaxies are above-right and below-left compared to each other. More spiral galaxies in the background near the bottom, two diffracted foreground stars on the right.$

ESO 593-8 is an impressive pair of interacting galaxies with a feather-shaped member crossing a nearby companion. The two components...

Two galaxies criss-crossing each other, together looking like the body and wings of a bird. Many bright foreground stars with crosshairs.

AM 0500-620 consists of a highly symmetric spiral galaxy seen nearly face-on and partially backlit by a background galaxy. The...

Spiral galaxy above and slightly left of center, blue-white arms made of of stars, and streaks of brown gas. To its lower right, just below central, an orange-white glowing sphere. Bright foreground star in the upper-right.

Close encounters between galaxies sometimes end in grand mergers and overflowing sites of new star birth as the colliding galaxies...

A grid of three rows and four columns, twelve images total, containing interacting galaxies of various shapes, sizes, and colors.

These four dwarf galaxies waited billions of years to come together, setting off a fireworks show as thousands of new...

The stars, gas, and dust seem to form a blue, white, and purple knot-shaped bow on the left, with a small red-orange spiral in the background in the upper left. A bright white foreground star just lower-left of center. Another smaller, purple-white spiral in the bottom-right.