Meet Your Cosmic Neighbors

August 19-30, 2024
Join Hubble on a trip through our cosmic neighborhood!

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.
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From August 19-30, take a trip through our cosmic neighborhood with Hubble as your tour guide! Explore our local universe with newly released Hubble images of nearby galaxies and cosmic objects. Through daily social media posts, learn more about our corner of the cosmos and your place within it!

Meet Your Cosmic Neighbors

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.

Hubble Spots Billowing Bubbles of Stellar Floss

A bubbling region of stars both old and new lies some 160,000 light-years away in the constellation Dorado.

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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.

Hubble Examines a Possible Relic

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the dwarf irregular galaxy UGC 4879 or VV124.

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

Hubble Peers Into the Center of a Star-forming Powerhouse

This view from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope plunges into the center of spiral galaxy Messier 33, also known as the Triangulum Galaxy. 

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Hubble E-Books

Hubble has a wealth of free e-books available to download. Explore our Hubble Focus series and learn more about a specific scientific phenomena, or discover one of our other e-books that provide an overview of the mission, celebrate anniversaries, and more. Happy reading!

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Full cover image of the Hubble Focus: Dark Universe e-book. Black background with a galaxy cluster that is superimposed with a blue-white haze that indicates the location of dark matter. Top of the image holds the phrase, "Hubble Focus." The "o" in focus is Hubble as we look down the tube of the telescope.
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