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This image shows the central section of galaxy Messier 94 (M94), which lies in the small northern constellation of Canes...

Large spiral galaxy with bright spot in the center; large arms spiraling around the center, the inner arms are dark brown gas while the outer arms are bluish stars and gas.

This Hubble Space Telescope snapshot of the dynamic blue-green planet Neptune reveals a monstrous dark storm (top center) and the...

Sphere of Neptune seen. Dark blue circle with two small dark spots on the Northern portion.

This beautiful image features the globular star cluster M75. Discovered in 1780 by Pierre Méchain, M75 was also observed by...

Large globular cluster of countless stars. The center is extremely bright and white due to the amount of stars.

Galaxy Messier 51 (M51, also designated NGC 5194) is nicknamed the Whirlpool because of its prominent swirling structure. Its two...

Large spiral galaxy as seen from the top. On the left, the large galaxy with its purple and blue arms spiraling around. To the right, a smaller whiter galaxy is connected to one of the arms of the larger galaxy.

The Hubble Space Telescope photographed this peculiar system of galaxies known as Arp 194. This interacting group contains several galaxies,...

Large galaxy at the top of the image, spiraling in, at the bottom a smaller galaxy is there, the two galaxies are almost linked by a bright blue line of stars and gas.

The Hubble Space Telescope snapped this picture of Mars on October 28, 2005, within a day of its closest approach...

Full shot of Mars. Rusty red, you can see many of the ground features of the planet, with dust coming from the north.

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope snapshot reveals what looks like an uncanny pair of glowing eyes staring in our direction....

Two galaxies, each has a bright-white core. Their cores are very close together. They are surrounded by light blue gas, dust, and stars that form a ring around the cores.

This image of the central region of spiral galaxy NGC 3521 is not out of focus. Instead, the galaxy itself...

Large spiral of dust and gas orbiting bright white center of this galaxy image. The spiral is dusty and dark brown with dark blue interspersed.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the iridescent interior of one of the most active galaxies in our local...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of an enormous bubble being blown into space by a super-hot, massive star....

Large blue bubble in the center of the image with tufts of yellow/orange clouds of dust and gas in the top left of the image, and a bit at the top of the blue bubble. Random purple stars are seen speckled at random throughout the image.

A head-on collision between two galaxies fueled the unusual triangular-shaped star-birthing frenzy, as captured this Hubble Space Telescope image. The...

Two galaxies one right one on the left. right galaxy has a blue-white triangular star forming region surrounding it.

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows rich detail in a pair of star clusters 166,000 light-years away in the Large...

Large cluster of stars globbing together. The image itself has an orange hue to the point that every star is either orange, white orange, or deep red. Brighter in the center of the image.

In the center of this image, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, are two faint galaxies that seem to be...

Like lifting a giant veil, the near-infrared vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope uncovers this dazzling view deep inside the...

Intertwined wisps of light purple clouds of dust and gas envelope the entire image. Countless orange stars pepper the image.

This spectacular image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures the spiral galaxy NGC 105, which lies roughly 215 million light-years...

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the spiral galaxy NGC 105, which lies roughly 215 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. While it looks like NGC 105 is plunging edge-on into a collision with a neighbouring galaxy, this is just the result of the chance alignment of the two objects in the night sky. NGC 105’s elongated neighbour is actually far more distant and remains relatively unknown to astronomers. These misleading conjunctions occur frequently in astronomy — for example, the stars in constellations are at vastly different distances from Earth, and only appear to form patterns thanks to the chance alignment of their component stars. The Wide Field Camera 3 observations in this image are from a vast collection of Hubble measurements examining nearby galaxies which contain two fascinating astronomical phenomena — Cepheid variables and cataclysmic supernova explosions. Whilst these two phenomena may appear to be unrelated — one is a peculiar class of pulsating stars and the other is the explosion caused by the catastrophic final throes of a massive star’s life — they are both used by astronomers for a very particular purpose: measuring the vast distances to astronomical objects. Both Cepheids and supernovae have very predictable luminosities, meaning that astronomers can tell precisely how bright they are. By measuring how bright they appear when observed from Earth, these “standard candles” can provide reliable distance measurements. NGC 105 contains both supernovae and Cepheid variables, giving astronomers a valuable opportunity to calibrate the two distance measurement techniques against one another. Astronomers recently carefully analysed the distances to a sample of galaxies including NGC 105 to measure how fast the Universe is expanding — a value known as the Hubble constant. Their results don’t agree with the predictions of the most widely-accepted cosmological model, and their analysis shows that there is only a 1-in-a-million chance that this discrepancy was caused by measurement errors. This discrepancy between galaxy measurements and cosmological predictions has been a long-standing source of consternation for astronomers, and these recent findings provide persuasive new evidence that something is either wrong or lacking in our standard model of cosmology.

Asteroid P/2010 A2 puzzled astronomers in 2010 with its comet-like tail. The object appeared so unusual in ground-based telescope images...

Looking like an apparition rising from whitecaps of interstellar foam, the iconic Horsehead Nebula has graced astronomy books ever since...

Large, dark red cloud of dust and gas surrounded by grey wisps of smoke and gas. Many stars in the black background of space.

This Hubble Space Telescope image captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being...

Large orange, yellow, and red clouds of dust and gas. Called Mystic Mountain because they appear as if they're giant mountainous pillars of gas with a blue background.

This is an image of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula located about 8,000 light-years away, taken with the Wide Field...

Two sets of rings in orange and gold stacked one above the other form the shape of a hourglass. At image center, where the two sets of rings overlap, is an area of white, green and black dust in a shape that is similar to the human eye.

This Hubble Space Telescope image, taken in 1994, shows several blue, loop-shaped objects that actually are multiple images of the...

Spots of light that are galaxies in this image. Some of the galaxies appear to be stretched due to gravitational lensing. Three very bright orange spots of light near the center in a row.

The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission nebula called NGC 6357, located about 8,000 light-years from...

This dramatic image offers a peek inside a cavern of roiling dust and gas where thousands of stars are forming....

Large clouds of dust and gas in pinks, purples, on the outside with brighter yellows and whites nearer to the center. Bright white stars in the center of the image.

In this unusual image, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures a rare view of the celestial equivalent of a geode —...

Not only is the Cat's Eye Nebula, formally cataloged NGC 6543, one of the first planetary nebulae to be discovered,...

Purple and soft yellow dust and gas surrounding bright white star in the center of the image. Lots of bubbles of dust interweave each other.

This Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet image of Saturn was taken when the planet's rings were at a maximum tilt of...

Saturn, seen in purples, greens and blues, is surrounded by its bright yellow rings.

A nearly perfect ring of hot, blue stars pinwheels about the yellow nucleus of an unusual galaxy known as Hoag's...

Peering deep into M1, this spectacular Hubble image captures the nebula’s beating heart: the rapidly spinning pulsar at its core....

While many other images of the famous Crab Nebula nebula have focused on the filaments in the outer part of the nebula, this image shows the very heart of the Crab Nebula including the central neutron star — it is the rightmost of the two bright stars near the centre of this image. The rapid motion of the material nearest to the central star is revealed by the subtle rainbow of colours in this time-lapse image, the rainbow effect being due to the movement of material over the time between one image and another.

The Crab Nebula is an expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese astronomers recorded this violent event...

Bright green, orange, and yellow tendrils intertwined within this egg shaped nebula.

A photogenic and favorite target for amateur astronomers, the full beauty of nearby spiral galaxy M83, also known as the...

Galaxy with soft purple arms and blue stars spiraling around its bright white center.

"Starry Night," Vincent van Gogh's famous painting, is renowned for its bold whorls of light sweeping across a raging night...

Large red star in the center of the image surrounded by brown dust and gas swirling around it unevenly.

Looking like a glittering swarm of buzzing bees, the stars of globular cluster NGC 6440 shine brightly in this Hubble...

Large grouping of stars, uncountable stars forming together in a giant cluster.

In celebration of the 29th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers used Hubble to capture this...

M82 or the Cigar galaxy, shines brightly at infrared wavelengths and is remarkable for its star formation activity. The Cigar...

Cigar Galaxy M82

A colorful assortment of 100,000 stars resides in the crowded core of Omega Centauri, a giant globular cluster. This is...

NGC 1300 is considered by many as a prototypical barred spiral galaxy. Barred spirals differ from normal spiral galaxies in...

This close-up, visible-light view by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals previously unseen details of the Ring Nebula. The object is...

Glowing like a multi-faceted jewel, the planetary nebula IC 418 lies about 2,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of...

Colorful oval shaped nebula with orange gas on the outside as the color gets more and more purple the more you move to the inside. A bright white/purple star sits at the center.

Galaxies come in a range of shapes and sizes, and astronomers use this fact to classify them based on their...

Two dramatically different faces of the Red Planet appear in these comparison images showing how a global dust storm engulfed...

Two different shots of rusty Mars next to each other. On the left you can see Mars and lots of defining surface features. Dark mountains, large blank plains, white caps on the North and South poles. On the right image, Mars is totally covered in dust and you can barely make out any of those features.

Galaxy NGC 6861 features a prominent disk of dark bands circling its center. These bands are a result of large...