Hubble's Starry Sights

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

Hubble Glimpses a Glittering Gathering of Stars

Pismis 26 is a globular star cluster located about 23,000 light-years away.

Bright blue-white stars fill the scene, but are concentrated on the right side of the image. a bright reddish-orange star sits in the upper left quadrant of the image near image center.

Hubble Spies Sparkling Spray of Stars in NGC 2660

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

Sonification: Pismis 24

Pismis 24 is a stunning star cluster that lies within the nebula NGC 6357. The sonification takes data from this image and represents it with sound.

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Center of the image is filled with a sphere of white stars. a smattering of orang-white stars dots the sphere. they are set against a black background that holds a smattering of stars.

Hubble Captures a Swarm of Stars

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

Bright. blue-white stars set against a black backdrop. rusty-red streams of gas and dust rise from the bottom of the image and in the upper right corner.

Hubble Views a Cloud-Filled, Starry Scene

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

Bright, blue-white stars of varying sizes fil the scene. a smattering of orange-white stars dotted throughout. a swath of pale-blue gas and dust extends from upper left to lower right across the image.

Hubble Spies Emission Nebula-Star Cluster Duo

This collection is NGC 1858, an open star cluster in the northwest region of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

A tight group of bright, blue-white stars just left of center in the image. the group also holds a few orange-white stars. A smattering of blue-white stars against a black background fills the rest of the scene.

Hubble Observes an Outstanding Open Cluster

A twinkling group of stars, called NGC 2002, dominates the center of this image.

Bright blue-white cluster of stars at upper right, surrounded by field of dimmer stars and rusty-red gas and dust clouds

Hubble Spots Bright Splash of Stars Amid Ripples of Gas and Dust

Open cluster KMHK 1231 is a group of stars loosely bound by gravity.

A group of blue-white stars gathered in the upper left corner of the image. the group includes a smattering of orang-white stars. the rest of the image holds a black background is dotted with stars.

Hubble Beholds Brilliant Blue Star Cluster

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

Left: nearly spherical gathering of white stars at center top. blue gas cloud extends from top left to center bottom. right: center left spherical gathering of blue-white and orange stars, reddish gas cloud extends from bottom right corner to top center.

Hubble Captures Dual Views of an Unusual Star Cluster

While these two images may look dazzlingly different, they are actually pictures of the same cosmic object: NGC 1850.

Dr. Ken Carpenter explains just how amazing these objects are. Credit: NASA GSFC; Lead Producer: James Leigh

Hubble's Star Clusters

Hubble's observations of star clusters help us better understand how stars form and evolve.

Forming in giant clouds of gas and dust, stars are often found in multiples or large clusters that hold as few as tens to as many as millions of stars.

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Bright, reddish-gold spherical swarm of stars fills the center of the image. Even brighter blue-white foreground stars dot the entire scene.

Thousands upon thousands of stars illuminate this breathtaking image of star cluster Liller 1, imaged with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3. This stellar system, located 30,000 light-years from Earth, formed stars over 11 billion years.

ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Ferraro

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Hubble's Starry Sights