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This star chart for M7 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A starchart that shows the location of M7 in the constellation Scorpius above the southern horizon in August at 10 pm.

The smaller, ground-based image (lower left) taken by the European Southern Observatory, illustrates the small area of Messier 7 that...

Lower left: small image, faint stars on a black background. Larger blue-white stars dot the scene but are concentrated at image center. Right side: A black background is filled with small, reddish-orange stars and scattered with larger blue-white stars.

Visible right next to the stinger of the scorpion in the constellation Scorpius, Messier 7 is an easy naked-eye target...

A black background is filled with small, reddish-orange stars. Larger blue-white stars are scattered across the image, with a slightly higher concentration at upper left.

Though fragile comet nuclei have been seen falling apart as they near the Sun, nothing like the slow breakup of...

Two large and one smaller bright, blue-white dots surrounded with a blue cloud.

Hubble is assembled in the clean room of the Lockheed Missile Space Company. The Optical Telescope Assembly (OTA), which contains...

A white-garbed worker wearing a helmet climbs a ladder to reach a portion of the Hubble Space Telescope under assembly in a clean room.

Backlit wisps along the Horsehead Nebula upper ridge are being illuminated by Sigma Orionis, a young five-star system just off...

Backlit wisps along the Horsehead Nebula upper ridge are being illuminated by Sigma Orionis, a young five-star system just off the top of this image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Hubble’s Spirograph In this classic Hubble image from 2000, the planetary nebula IC 418 glows like a multifaceted jewel with...

This Hubble telescope snapshot of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula, reveals that the object has an hourglass shape with an...

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.

Image released 11 Aug 2011. The "Necklace Nebula" is located 15,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagitta (the Arrow). In...

This is a color Hubble Space Telescope (HST) heritage image of supernova remnant N49, a neighboring galaxy, that was taken...

This image shows a composite view of the Crab nebula, an iconic supernova remnant in our Milky Way galaxy, as...

This image shows a composite view of the Crab nebula, an iconic supernova remnant in our Milky Way galaxy, as viewed by the Herschel Space Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope.

This shot from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of...

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

The Mystic Mountain is seen as a chaotic pillar of colorful gas and dust, narrowing toward the top of the image. The dust and gas is mostly yellow, brown, and orange, all jutting against a hazy purple and blue background with a few pink stars.

NASA Hubble peers into a small portion of the nebula near the star cluster NGC 2074. The region is a...

NASA Hubble peers into a small portion of the nebula near the star cluster NGC 2074. The region is a firestorm of raw stellar creation, perhaps triggered by a nearby supernova explosion. It lies about 170,000 light-years away near the Tarantula

Venus Cloud Tops Viewed by Hubble. This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, taken...

Venus Cloud Tops Viewed by Hubble. This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, taken on January 24 1995, when Venus was at a distance of 70.6 million miles 113.6 million kilometers from Earth.

Hubble Captures Best View of Mars Ever Obtained from Earth

Hubble Captures Best View of Mars Ever Obtained from Earth

Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - Full Disk

Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - Full Disk

Saturn from Far and Near Hubble Space Telescope

Saturn from Far and Near Hubble Space Telescope

Several hundred never before seen galaxies are visible in this deepest-ever view of the universe, called the Hubble Deep Field,...

Hundreds of galaxies of all shapes and sizes shining against the dark background of space.

This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of a concentration of stars within the globular cluster NGC 6752. Hidden among...

Resembling an opulent diamond tapestry, this image from NASA Hubble Space Telescope shows a glittering star cluster that contains a...

Resembling an opulent diamond tapestry, this image from NASA Hubble Space Telescope shows a glittering star cluster that contains a collection of some of the brightest stars seen in our Milky Way galaxy called Trumpler 14.

In the center of this image from the Hubble Space Telescope, partially obscured by a dark cloud of dust, a...

In the center of this image from the Hubble Space Telescope, partially obscured by a dark cloud of dust, a newborn star shoots twin jets out into space as a sort of birth announcement to the universe.

A delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy. This image, taken by NASA Hubble Space Telescope, is a...

A delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy. This image, taken by NASA Hubble Space Telescope, is a very thin section of a supernova remnant caused by a stellar explosion that occurred more than 1,000 years ago.

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured for the first time snapshots of fledging white dwarf stars beginning their...

Stars in white and orange hues crowd the image, more concentrated toward the center.

Morphologies, masses, and structures - oh, my! This beautiful clump of glowing gas, dark dust and glittering stars is the...

This Picture of the Week revisits the Veil Nebula, a popular subject for Hubble images! This object was featured in...

Colorful wisps of dust and gas appear diagonally from lower left to upper right ot the image, set against the black backdrop of space.

This 1986 artist's concept depicts Hubble in space after being deployed by the space shuttle.

Illustration of Hubble being deployed in space from a space shuttle orbiting Earth.

Jeffrey A. Hoffman is reflected in the helmet visor of F. Story Musgrave as Hoffman photographs the veteran astronaut during...

Astronaut in a white space suit in space taking a selfie with Hubble in the photo.

The jellyfish galaxy JW39 hangs serenely in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

This is a temperature map of exoplanet WASP-43b. The gas giant planet orbits very close to its parent star with...

Top two-thirds of the image holds a bright-light-yellow star at center. Around the star is the oval orbit of the planet. Points along the orbit indicate the planet's location and temperature measurements. The bottom third of the image holds four spheres, close-ups of the individual temperature maps.

Hubble’s sensitivity to ultraviolet light reveals radiation from super-heated gas falling onto a world called PDS 70b. The glare of...

Blue background. Center of image is a disk blocking the light of a star. Below and just to the left of the disk, at about seven o'clock, is a bright white point. This is PDS 70b.

Left: This Hubble image of the asteroid Vesta was taken in May 1996 when the asteroid was 110 million miles...

Upper left: a mottled grey and white spheroid. Center: Vesta's crater is revealed in colors of red, yellow, green, blue, and white. Right: a mottled spheroid, darker than the one at left, in grey, white, and black.

VESTA (RIGHT) To prepare for the Dawn spacecraft's visit to Vesta, astronomers used Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 to...

Left: mottled spheroid in colors of white, grey, and tan. Left: mottled spheroid mainly bluish-grey and white with a slight some tan areas.

Screenshot of the "Name That Nebula" game.

An astronaut stands in front of a background of a nebula against a deep field of galaxies. The words "Name That Nebula" hovers above.

A screen displays the text "Select Your Birth Date" with the option to choose a month and day and submit.

Overall size comparison of Webb and Hubble.

Illustration of the Webb space telescope on the left and the Hubble space telescope on the right.

Astronaut Richard M. (Rick) Linnehan, mission specialist, waves to crewmates inside the Space Shuttle Columbia's crew cabin as he participates...

Astronaut in white space suit waving to the camera outside of the Hubble Space Telescope floating in space.

Steven L. Smith, STS-103 payload commander, waves to a crewmate located inside the Space Shuttle Discovery's cabin during the first...

Astronaut in a white space suit tethered to the Hubble Space Telescope floating in space.

In this April 25, 1990, photograph taken by the crew of the STS-31 space shuttle mission, the Hubble Space Telescope...

Hubble Space Telescope being deployed in space from the the shuttle Discovery's cargo bay, the Earth in the background.