Hubble Space Telescope

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Globular star cluster NGC 2203 contains lots of astronomical treats that have helped astronomers puzzle together the lifetimes of stars....

Bright specks of white and red stars against black backdrop of space

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals an ancient, glimmering ball of stars called NGC 1466. It is a...

Tightly-packed group of white stars near the center, while thinning out at the edges. Many red-orange stars are scattered throughout.

Almost like snowflakes, the stars of the globular cluster NGC 6441 sparkle peacefully in the night sky, about 13,000 light-years...

Tightly-packed grouping of whitish and reddish stars, with a few blue ones in the foreground.

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the globular cluster NGC 6380, which lies around 35,00 light-years from Earth, in the...

A thick group of many thousands of whitish stars as the center. Near the edges, where the stars are thinner, some blue and red-orange stars are visible. A very bright blue-white star shines in the foreground in the upper-left.

Caldwell 25 (C25) is a globular cluster dubbed "the Intergalactic Wanderer.” Unlike most globular clusters, Caldwell 25 may not be...

Left: amateur image, right: Hubble image of Caldwell 25. The left image holds a pinkish-white conglomerate of stars against a black background dotted with more stars. The right image resolves stars in the center of the cluster. Orange, blue, white, and red stars are splattered across the image, increasing in density toward the center of this ball of stars.

Caldwell 39 (C39) is a planetary nebula with a dying star at its heart located 5,000 light-years away in the...

Left: amateur image, right: Hubble image of Caldwell 39.

Caldwell 58 (C58), also called Caroline’s Cluster in honor of astronomer Caroline Herschel, is an open cluster of stars some...

Left: amateur image, center: Digitized Sky Survey (ground-based image), right: Hubble image of Caldwell 58. The left image holds a black background dotted with white stars. A white square denotes the area of the star cluster captured in the Hubble image. The center image shows a wider field of view of the cluster. The right, Hubble, image is littered with blue-white and yellow-orange stars against a black background.

Two images of Caldwell 7 (C7), a spiral galaxy some 12 million light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis. The left...

amateur image, right: Hubble image of Caldwell 7. The left image reveals a faint, nearly face-on galaxy. It has a bright-white core and faintly visible spiral arms. The right image reveals the galaxy's bright-white core with black dust lanes blocking some of its light. Bright, pinkish-white regions dot the galaxy, while blue stars and gas seem to surround the bright-white core, particularly on the left side of the image.

Many colorful stars are packed close together in this Hubble Space Telescope image of the globular cluster NGC 1805. This...

Cluster of blue- and red-hued stars against the black backdrop of space

Open star cluster NGC 330 lies around 180,000 light-years away inside the Small Magellanic Cloud. The cluster — which is...

Hundreds of blue-white stars, packed more tightly near the center of the image and becoming more scattered moving outwards. Near the center are around a dozen white stars, and scattered throughout here and there are red-orange stars. Many thousands more stars dot the background.

This glittering gathering of stars is the globular cluster NGC 6558. NGC 6558 is closer to the center of the...

Bright cluster of blue-white stars at left center. frame filled with red, reddish-gold, blue, and blue-white stars

This scintillating image showcases the globular cluster NGC 6540 in the constellation Sagittarius. A globular cluster is a stable, tightly...

Stars fill the image. bright, blue-white stars are concentrated in the image's center. large, gold stars dot the scene.

This star-studded image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the heart of the globular cluster NGC 6638 in the constellation...

A mass of bright blue-white stars fills the center, gold stars are dotted throughout

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures the sparkling globular cluster NGC 6569 in the constellation Sagittarius. Hubble explored...

Stars fill the image; center holds sphere of densely packed, bright, blue-white stars; gold-colored stars, with a smattering of blue stars, surround the central sphere

Terzan 2 is a globular cluster in the constellation Scorpio. Globular clusters are stable, tightly gravitationally bound clusters of tens...

White, gold, red-orange, and blue stars fill the the image

Bright, blue-white stars of the open cluster BSDL 2757 pierce through the rusty-red tones of gas and dust clouds in...

A couple of dozen bright stars in the foreground, mostly blue-white but some red-orange. Red-orange gas and dust in the background along the bottom half of the image and in the top-right corner. Thousands more stars in the background, scattered throughout.

Open cluster KMHK 1231 is a group of stars loosely bound by gravity. Seen in the upper right of this...

A thick grouping of blue-white stars in the upper right, with red-orange gas and dust in the upper half of the image. Thousands of stars dot the background throughout.

Against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars. This whole collection is NGC 1858,...

A couple dozen blue-white stars glow in the foreground, while a blue cloud of dust and thousands more distant stars shine in the background.

A twinkling group of stars dominates the center of this Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC 2002 is an open star...

A thick glob of blue-white stars and red-orange stars near the center. Smaller groupings of blue-white stars farther out.

This glittering group of stars, shining through the darkness like sparks left behind by a firework, is NGC 2660 in...

A smattering of bluish-white and reddish-white stars, more plentiful on the right side of the image. On the left side shines a much brighter red-orange star.

This glittering gathering of stars is Pismis 26, a globular star cluster located about 23,000 light-years away. Many thousands of...

Bright blue-white stars fill the scene with a smattering or bright yellow-white stars

In the top left corner of this starry sight, the globular cluster NGC 2031 shines brilliantly. This dense group of...

A burst of stars stand out in the upper left of this image from the Hubble Spun Space Telescope. The stars spred across the dark tapestry of space, in white, blue and red colors.

In the top left corner of this starry sight, the globular cluster NGC 2031 shines brilliantly. This dense group of...

Two images of Messier 42 (M42), better known as the Orion Nebula. The left image was taken with an 8-inch...

Left: amateur image, right: Hubble image of Messier 42. Left image holds a bright-white center surrounded by pink clouds. The background is dotted with pinkish-white stars. The right image reveals a colorful cloud in shades of pink, orange, rust, purple, green, and brown. It too holds a bright-white center and is dotted with blue-white clouds.

Three images of Messier 78 (M78), a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion. The left image was taken with an...

Left: amateur image, center: European Southern Observatory Image, right: Hubble image of Messier 78.

Two images of Messier 45 (M45). The left image was taken with a Celestron 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope and a Canon...

Left: amateur image, right: Hubble image of Messier 45. The amateur image looks like a bright-blue star surrounded with glowing gas. The Hubble image shows the star 's light at the upper-right of the image. Bright knots of dust and gas appear to extend toward the stat.

Two images of Messier 77 (M77). The left image was taken with a Celestron 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope and a Canon...

Amateur Image: Photographed by and used with permission of K. Hartnett; Hubble Image: Hubble image of Messier 77. It appears as a large, circular, face-on spiral.

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a small portion of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The SMC is...

$Bright stars cluster at image center. they shine in shades of white, blue, and orange, and have diffraction spikes. the stars grow more sporadic at the image�s edges, and several smaller, more distant stars glow against a black backdrop of space.$

The densely packed globular cluster NGC 6325 glistens in this image. This concentrated group of stars lies around 26,000 light...

A dense cluster of bright stars. The core of the cluster is to the left and has a distinct group of blue stars. Surrounding the core are a multitude of stars in warmer colors. These stars are very numerous near the core and become more sparse, as well as more small and distant, out to the sides of the image. A few larger stars also stand in the foreground near the edges of the image.]

The glittering, glitzy contents of the globular cluster NGC 6652 sparkle in this star-studded image. The core of the cluster...

$A dense spherical cluster of stars. The stars merge into a bright core in the center, and spread out to the edges gradually, giving way to an empty, dark background. Most of the stars are small points of light. A few stars with cross-shaped diffraction spikes appear larger and stand out in front.$

This image reveals episodes of star formation that are occurring across the face of the nearby galaxy NGC 4214. Located...

The nebula appears in the foreground in the lower right as a glob of red, orange, and yellow gas and dust with glowing white stars within, and smaller globs of red and yellow gas and dust in the upper left and upper right. The dwarf galaxy appears as a fuzzy collection of yellow-orange stars in the background on the left.

In this image, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured two nebulae, situated so they appear as one. They reside in the...

$The center of the image displays a combination of two nebulas, red clouds of gas and dust, that are close to each other. On the left and right is a massive number of stars and galaxies, which appear as red, green, and blue dots. The brightest stars have plus-sign-shaped diffraction spikes.$