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This star chart for Caldwell 7 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 7

Supernova hunters may be familiar with Caldwell 7 as the galaxy hosted a supernova in 2004.

Large grouping of stars within a galaxy center, surrounded by light blue dust and gas

This star chart for Caldwell 69 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C69 in the lower portion of the constellation Scorpius, in the southern night sky in July at 10pm.

Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across a more complete spectrum...

Two lobes of gas and dust expand outward from the center toward the lower left and upper right of the image. The center of each lobe is lavender, ringed by orange, and then a teal green. The nebula is on a black background dotted with stars.

This close-up image showing details in one lobe of Caldwell 69 was taken by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera...

Two lobes of gas and dust expand outward from the center toward the lower left and upper right of the image. Most of the image is filled by the lower lobe. The center of each lobe is bright-white ringed by a orange-yellow and then a rusty, orange-brown. The nebula is on a black background.

Hubble captured this image of Caldwell 69 on July 27, 2009 with its Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) in ultraviolet...

Two lobes of gas and dust expand outward from the center toward the lower left and upper right of the image. The center of each lobe is bright-white ringed by a rose-pink and then a rusty, orange-brown. The nebula is on a black background dotted with stars.

This star chart for Caldwell 68 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C68 in the top of the constellation Corona Australis, and below Sagittarius, in the southern night sky in August at 10pm.

Caldwell 68 is a hazy reflection nebula, a star-forming cloud of gas and dust that glows with the energy emitted...

Two bright stars shine a distance away from each other, looking like eyes. An orangey haze emanates around and between them.

This star chart for Caldwell 67 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C67 next to the constellation Fornax on the right, in the southern night sky in December at 10pm.

Caldwell 67 is a Seyfert galaxy. Lurking at the very center of the galaxy, a supermassive black hole 100 million...

A white ring of stars surrounds the orangey center glow. Two reddish-brown arms of gas and dust emerge from opposite sides around the center. These arms become more bluish, with scattered trails of pink, at the ends.

This star chart for Caldwell 66 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C66 between the constellations of Scorpius and Hydra, and below Virgo, in the southern night sky in June at 10pm.

Caldwell 66 is one of the oldest, most remote globular clusters in our galaxy. Most globular clusters reside on the...

Bright-white spherical cluster of stars in the upper left corner. Stars taper off down and out to the right of the cluster against a black background. Reddish-orange stars dot the scene.

This star chart for Caldwell 65 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C65 above the constellation Sculptor, in the southern night sky in November at 10pm.

NGC 253 is a large, almost edge-on spiral galaxy, and is one of the nearest galaxies beyond our local neighborhood...

The center of this giant spiral galaxy appears yellow, and is surrounded by a reddish-brown cloud of gas and dust. Arms farther from the center are a purplish-blue, dotted with dark clouds of gas.

A close-up view from Hubble shows that NGC 253 is ablaze with the light from thousands of young, blue stars....

In this wide-field image, the center of the galaxy is on the left, surrounded by dark clouds of gas, which make several "rings" of spiral arms around the center that extend farther and farther out to the right, filled with white stars in between.

This star chart for Caldwell 63 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C63 below the constellation Aquarius, in the southern night sky in October at 10pm.

Gases collide near the dying star that produced the Helix Nebula. Astronomers have dubbed the dark, tadpole-like objects in the...

The lower left corner of gas and dust is a bright orangish-yellow. Streams of gas resembling tadpoles flow up and to the right from this cloud, which fades into a pink-yellow, then to a green-blue, and then into blue.

Comet-like tendrils cluster along the inner rim of the nebula’s reddish outer gas ring. This composite picture is a seamless...

This zoomed-in image of the Helix nebula seems to make a rainbow outwards from the star. It's blue at the center, fading to white, then yellow, then orange, and finally red at the outer edges.

This image shows a fine web of filamentary "bicycle-spoke" features embedded in the colorful red and blue ring of gas....

This nebula resembles an eye, with the "pupil" immediately around the star appearing a light blue, the "iris" fading into a mixture of blue, orange, and red with a yellow-orange ring around it, and the sclera appearing bright red-orange.

This star chart for Caldwell 62 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C62 below the constellation Cetus on the right, in the southern night sky in November at 10pm.

This ultraviolet image, taken by NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) spacecraft, shows the "hole" in Caldwell 62 along with a...

This ultraviolet image of C62 shows an icy blue-and-white galactic disk, arranged vertically.

A ground-based image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in the lower left shows the galaxy Caldwell 62 (NGC 247)....

This inset image shows that Hubble's image of C62 is one portion of a larger spiral galaxy, taken by a ground-based observatory, which appears as a glowing white disk scattered with large spheres of pink.

This Hubble image shows the central region of a spiral galaxy known as Caldwell 62. Its nucleus is visible here...

The galaxy's nucleus is visible here as a bright, whitish patch, surrounded by a mixture of bluish-white stars and blackish clouds of gas and dust.

This star chart for Caldwell 60 & 61 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C60 and C61 as seen from the Northern Hemisphere in the southern night sky in mid April at 10pm.

A ground-based telescopic view on the left shows the long tails of the Antennae galaxies. On the right, a natural-color...

Left: black and white, wide-field view of two galaxies colliding. Right: Hubble image of the two galaxy cores, intertwined. The cores are bright yellow-orange. Sweeping around the cores are bright bluish-purple areas of star formation. Rusty-brown clouds and filaments give them a knotted appearance.

This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of...

Two galaxies merge, a larger one at the top of the image and a smaller one below it. Both galaxies glow with a yellowish center, have rings of pink and bluish-white stars around them, and are connected by a large cloud of dust, brown, red, and pink.

This star chart for Caldwell 6 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 6.

This closer view of billowing clouds of gas around the dying star at the center of the Cat’s Eye Nebula...

Bright red clouds of dust and gas surround a bright white star in the center of the image.

Caldwell 6 is also known as NGC 6543, but is commonly called the Cat’s Eye Nebula.

Large clouds of white dust and gas surrounding a bright white star in the center.

Planetary Nebula Caldwell 59, also known as the Ghost of Jupiter. A notable feature of the nebula is the presence...

A blue star shining at the center of the nebula is surrounded by a thick white bubble, which turns pale orange at the outer edges. It has a small red "flare" outside this bubble at either pole, and a thick spherical layer of blue around the whole structure.

This star chart for Caldwell 58 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C58 to the left of the constellation Canis Major, in the southern night sky in February at 10pm.

Taken by the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), the ground-based image of Caldwell 58 (NGC 2360) in the lower left shows...

Caroline's Cluster is shown as an inset image from a Digitized Sky Survey ground-based image of C58, which has a much thicker concentration of stars.

Caldwell 58 is an open cluster — a group of stars loosely bound together by gravity. Astronomers used Hubble to...

Several very bright stars are scattered throughout the field of view, with many fainter ones behind them. Most of the brightest stars are bluish-white, while the rest have a reddish-orange hue, and some slightly-less-bright stars are deep red.

This star chart for Caldwell 57 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C57 above the constellation Sagittarius, in the southern night sky in September at 10pm.

This Hubble image, taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, shows another huge star-forming region in Caldwell 57,...

A greenish-yellow spherical glowing gas cloud, which becomes a dark pinkish-red at the edges.

This Hubble image zooms in to a stellar nursery within Caldwell 57 called Hubble-V. The image combines observations taken by...

This pinkish-red glowing gas cloud resembles curling flames from a campfire. A faint tail of gas trailing off the top of the cloud sits opposite a dense cluster of bright white and yellow stars at the bottom.

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a field of stars in the galaxy’s outskirts. The galaxy’s center is out of...

Tens of thousands of stars fill this image as tiny dots, more concentrated in the upper left corner. Stars taper off as you move down and to the right.

This star chart for Caldwell 56 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C56 in the lower-right of the constellation Cetus, in the southern night sky in November at 10pm.

The ground-based image of Caldwell 56 (NGC 246) from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), in the lower right, shows the...

This image indicates that the zoomed-in image of C56 was inset from another image from a ground-based telescope, which shows the whole blue bubble structure around the white dwarf star.

This image of the planetary nebula Caldwell 56 was captured by Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. It provides...

Near the center of the image is a bright orange star, and in the upper left, are two reddish-pink stars near each other. The entire image is filled by a turquoise, cloud-like "bubble".