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This inset image shows the location of Hubble's view within the Andromeda galaxy.

At the upper right, an image shows thousands of distant stars that crowd the view against black space. A rosy, bloomlike tendril of red nebulosity shines near the center-top. This image is connected with white lines to a lower-left view of the Andromeda galaxy, where it reaches to one of its upper spiral arms. Andromeda has a glowing, yellow core with spiral arms interlaced with dark dust and purplish star formation. White text at the top reads “M31”.

This inset image shows the location of Hubble's view within the Andromeda galaxy.

At the upper right, an image shows thousands of distant stars crowding the view against black space. Tendrils of red nebulosity bloom across the image. This image is connected with white lines to a lower-left view of the Andromeda galaxy, where it reaches to one of its upper spiral arms. Andromeda has a glowing, yellow core with spiral arms interlaced with dark dust and purplish star formation. White text at the top reads “M31”.

This inset image shows the location of NGC 261 within the Small Magellanic Cloud.

On the right, a large image of NGC 261 shows thousands of stars that fill black space, with a glowing, nebulous cloud of pink dominating most of the lower right half of the view. White lines connect this image to a wider view on the lower left, showing a diffuse, pinkish galaxy. White text above it reads “SMC - NGC 361”.

These two Hubble images of NGC 346 show the star cluster in visible and ultraviolet wavelengths of light.

Two images of NGC 346 side-by-side. The left image shows NGC 346 in visible light, with the cluster of white stars shining against blue nebulosity. The right image shows it in ultraviolet light, with a grouping of large, glowing, and purplish stars dominating the image’s center. Dark ridges of gas and dust are visible around them, with more background stars crowding the view. White text above both images reads “SMC - NGC 346”.

This inset image shows the location of NGC 346 within the Small Magellanic Cloud.

At the upper right, an image shows a grouping of large, glowing, and purplish stars dominating the image’s center. Dark ridges of gas and dust are visible around them, with more background stars crowding the view. This image is connected with white lines to a wider view to its lower left, showing a diffuse galaxy. White text above it reads “SMC - NGC 346”.

This inset image shows where N11 is located within the Large Magellanic Cloud.

$The bottom half of the image shows N11. Glowing clouds of pink and red gas and dust fill the image, along with several stars – foreground stars shine with diffraction spikes, and more distant stars fill the background. Above it to the right, a smaller image shows a starry region of space with orange tendrils of gas and dust with a white rectangle designating the portion that shows N11. To its left, another small image shows a wide view of a diffuse galaxy with a white rectangle designating the portion that shows N11. To its left, white text reads “LMC - N11”.$

The Tucana Dwarf galaxy resides about 3 million light-years away, at the far edge of our Local Group of galaxies.

More closely concentrated near the center, several stars shine against black space along with a few distant galaxies.

NGC 261 is located within one of the Milky Way’s closest galactic companions, the Small Magellanic Cloud.

Thousands of stars fill the image against black space, with a glowing, nebulous cloud of pink dominating most of the lower right half of the view.

The Pegasus Dwarf spheroidal galaxy, also known as Andromeda VI, is one of at least 13 dwarf galaxies that orbit...

$Several stars shine against black space. A few foreground stars with diffraction spikes throughout.$

NGC 346 is nestled within the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy to our Milky Way.

A grouping of large, glowing, and purplish stars dominate the image’s center. Dark ridges of gas and dust are visible around them, with more background stars crowding the view.

This Hubble image shows a complex cluster of emission nebulae, nestled within the Large Magellanic Cloud.

$Glowing clouds of pink and red gas and dust fill the image, along with several stars – foreground stars shine with diffraction spikes, and more distant stars fill the background.$

The galaxy Leo A resides about 2.6 million light-years away.

$A black background dotted with stars and distant galaxies. The distribution of stars increases toward image center, forming the loose oval shape of the irregular galaxy Leo A that stretches horizontally across the image. Three foreground stars shine brightly – one located at center-top, and two others in the lower-right quadrant of the image. Each holds four bright barbs (called diffraction spikes) that extend outward from the star.$

Andromeda III is one of at least 13 dwarf satellite galaxies in orbit around the Andromeda galaxy, or Messier 31,...

$Several stars fill the image, more closely concentrated near the center. Foreground stars with diffraction spikes shine throughout as well.$

Clusters of stars set the interstellar medium ablaze in the Andromeda Galaxy about 2.5 million light-years away.

Thousands of distant stars crowd the view against black space. Tendrils of red nebulosity bloom across the image.

Scientists probed Andromeda’s spiral arms using Hubble to analyze the collection of stars buried in its cosmic bouquets.

Thousands of distant stars crowd the view against black space. A rosy, bloomlike tendril of red nebulosity shines near the center-top.

VV124, or UGC 4879, is an isolated dwarf galaxy that resides just beyond our own Local Group of galaxies some...

An oblong smudge of stars stretches diagonally across the image from upper-left to lower-right. It holds stars in blue, orange, yellow, and white. The highest concentration of stars is near the image center and toward the lower-right. This region also holds bright, light-blue clumps of stars. Star densities taper off in all directions as you move away from the core. A number of bright, distant galaxies dot the scene, with a few shining through UGC 4879.

Messier 33 is the third largest galaxy in our Local Group of galaxies.

Thousands of bright stars crowd the image, alongside bright pink and red regions of nebulosity.

This inset image shows Hubble's view of the center of galaxy M33.

At the right, an image shows thousands of bright stars, alongside bright pink and red regions of nebulosity. It’s connected via white lines to a wider image to its lower left, showing a spiral galaxy with reddish tendrils throughout its arms. Text up top reads “M33” in white.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the subtle glow of the galaxy named IC 3430, located 45 million light-years...

A relatively small, oval-shaped galaxy, tilted diagonally. Its center glows brightly and dims gradually to its edge. Its center also holds a few small, blue, glowing spots where stars are forming and dark wisps of dust that cross the galaxy. The image has a black background on which many background galaxies and foreground stars are visible.

On 17 August 2017, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo Interferometer both detected gravitational waves from the...

A lenticular galaxy seen face on. To the upper left of the galaxy's core is a bright, yellow dot with a box around it. That is the kilonova. The bottom of the image holds three expanded views of the kilonova at different times.

This star chart for Caldwell 53 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

C53 finder chart for mid-southern latitudes at 10:00 p.m. in April.

This star chart for Caldwell 40 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A finder chart for C40 for mid-southern latitudes, in the constellation Leo at 10:00 p.m. in April.

This star chart for Caldwell 48 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C48 to the upper-right of the constellation Cancer in the southern night sky at 10pm in March.

This star chart for M46 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Shows the location of M46 from mid-southern latitudes in the night sky, near the constellation Canis Major at 10pm in February.

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

Shows the location of C58 from mid-southern latitudes in the night sky, near the constellation Canis Major at 10pm in February.

This star chart for Caldwell 39 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Shows the location of C39 from mid-southern latitudes in the southern night sky, near the constellation Gemini, at 10pm in February.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image treats viewers to a wonderfully detailed snapshot of the spiral galaxy NGC 3430 that...

A spiral galaxy with three prominent arms wrapping around it. The galaxy holds plenty of extra gas and dark dust between the arms. There are shining blue points throughout the arms and some patches of gas out beyond the galaxy’s edge, where stars are forming. The center of the galaxy also shines brightly. It is on a dark background where some small orange dots mark distant galaxies.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 5238, located 14.5 million light-years from Earth in...

A dwarf irregular galaxy. It appears as a cloud of bluish gas, filled with point-like stars that spread beyond the edge of the gas. A few glowing red clouds sit near its center. Many other objects are visible around it: distant galaxies in the background, four-pointed stars in the foreground, and star clusters that are part of the galaxy appear as bright spots surrounded by more tiny stars.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image depicts the spiral galaxy NGC 3810. The galaxy was part of a 2023 Hubble...

A spiral galaxy with a shining core at its center and winding spiral arms that extend outward. A bright point in the galaxy, just below the core, is the Type Ia supernova, SN2022zut. A white circle marks the supernova.

Measuring the distance to truly remote objects like galaxies, quasars, and galaxy clusters is a crucial task in astrophysics, particularly...

A spiral galaxy seen almost face-on. Large spiral arms whirl out from its center, filling the scene. They glow faintly blue from the stars within, with some small bright patches of blue and pink marking areas of star formation. Thin filaments of dark reddish dust that block light overlay the stars. The galaxy’s center shines brightly white.

A team of astronomers analyzed observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope taken over a span of 18 years to measure...

A three-paneled image shows different perspectives of the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy. The first panel fill's the left half of the image. It is a Digitized Sky Survey image of the region. The upper-right and lower-right images are zoomed-in Hubble images of areas denoted by white boxes in the left-side image. Each of the images holds a field of distant galaxies and foreground stars on a inky-black background.

An international team of astronomers used more than 500 images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope – spanning two decades of...

This image includes three panels. The first image at left shows the globular cluster Omega Centauri, a collection of myriad stars colored red, white, and blue on the black background of space. The second image, middle, zooms in on details of the central region of this cluster, with a closer view of the individual stars. The third image, at right, zooms in further to show the location of the intermediate-mass black hole candidate in the cluster. A dark region is circled and labeled "likely location of black hole." A scale bar about one-sixth the width of the image is labeled "0.1 light-year."

This image shows the central region of the Omega Centauri globular cluster, where NASA's Hubble Space Telescope found strong evidence...

The central region of the globular star cluster Omega Centauri. It appears as a collection of myriad stars colored red, white, and blue on the black background of space.

An international team of astronomers has used more than 500 images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope – spanning two decades...

A Hubble image of the globular cluster Omega Centauri, a collection of myriad stars colored red, white, and blue on the black background of space.

It might appear featureless and unexciting at first glance, but NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations of this elliptical galaxy —...

The bright-white, diffuse glow of an elliptical galaxy sits at image center. The galaxy's core appears as an intense-white circle that gets more diffuse as you move outward from the core. A rusty-red, diffuse cloud is visible to the upper-left of the galaxy. It extends to the upper-left corner of the image, where it is very faint. Black background dotted with foreground stars and distant galaxies.

This scientific visualization explores the iconic Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16 or M16) using data from...

In the Hubble version of the model (left), the pillars feature dark brown opaque dust and bright yellow ionized gas...

Two visualizations using Hubble and Webb data. The left image is from visible-light data collected by Hubble. The right visualization is from infrared-light data collected by Webb.

This image is a mosaic of visible-light and infrared-light views of the same frame from the Pillars of Creation visualization....

Mosaic of the Pillars of Creation visualization model, composed of 4 rectangular strips oriented 45 degrees clockwise from vertical. Strips alternate between Hubble and Webb views of the visualization model, with each strip labeled: “Hubble” at lower right corners of first and third strips; “Webb” at upper left corners of the second and fourth strips. Webb strips have drop shadows that make it look like they are overlaid on top of larger Hubble image. Mosaic shows 3 vertical structures (pillars) of thick smoke-like material. Pillar edges are glowing, with thin wisps of material moving away into space. In Hubble strips, pillars are dark brown and opaque, on greenish blue background. In Webb strips, pillars are bright orange to brown with a distinct area of bright red at the top of middle pillar. A red star appears at the tip of a peak in the left pillar and the background is deep blue.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image presents a visually striking collection of interstellar gas and dust. Named RCW 7, the...

Clouds of gas and dust with many stars. The clouds form a flat, blue background toward the bottom, and become thicker and smokier toward the top. Stars on one side light the nebula. A thick arc of gas and dust reaches around from the bottom-right corner of the image toward the top-left corner. It begins as a dark and obscuring cloud at bottom right and gradually becomes brightly lit by many stars at the upper left. Other large, foreground stars lie between the nebula and the viewer.

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope features the galaxy NGC 1546.

A galaxy against a black backdrop dotted with more distant galaxies and a few foreground stars. The galaxy is slightly tilted toward us, providing a good view of dark dust lanes from slightly above. They are backlit by the galaxy’s core. This dust appears rusty-brown. The core itself glows brightly in a yellowish light as brilliant-blue regions sparkle through the dust. Several background galaxies also are visible, including an edge-on spiral just to the left of NGC 1546.