credit STScI and NASA
The Egg Nebula, also known as CRL 2688, is shown as it looks in infrared light. This Hubble view recounts the last gasps of a dying, sun-like star.
credit Wolfgang Brandner (JPL/IPAC), Eva K. Grebel (University of Washington), You-Hua Chu (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and NASA
In this stunning picture of the giant galactic nebula NGC 3603, the crisp resolution of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures various stages of the life cycle of stars in one single view.
credit Kirk Borne (STScI), and NASA
In 1994, the Hubble Space Telecope took this true-color image of the Cartwheel Galaxy, located 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor.
credit NASA, R. Sahai, J. Trauger (JPL) and The WFPC2 Science Team
This is an image of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula located about 8,000 light-years away, taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
credit Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA)
In this picture, image-processing specialists have worked to provide a crisp, extremely accurate view of Saturn, highlighting the planet’s pastel colors.
credit Steve Lee (University of Colorado), Jim Bell (Cornell University), Mike Wolff (Space Science Institute) and NASA
This image is centered near the location of the Pathfinder landing site. Dark sand dunes that surround the polar cap merge into a large, dark region called Acidalia. This area is composed of dark, sand-size grains of pulverized volcanic rock.
credit Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA)
This Hubble image of a spiral-shaped galaxy is more than just a pretty picture. A series of images like this allowed astronomers to measure its distance (60 million light-years from Earth) 10 times more accurately than ever before.
credit A. Caulet (ST-ECF, ESA) and NASA
This image reveals a pair of 0.5-light-year-long interstellar "twisters" in the heart of the Lagoon Nebula, which lies 5,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.
credit Lawrence A. Sromovsky (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and NASA
On Neptune, winds blow at 900 miles per hour, and huge storms come and go with regularity. The bottom images show Neptune’s Hubble portrait circa 1996. The top images were taken in 1998 and help illustrate the dynamic weather features that dominate the planet.
credit E.J. Schreier (STScI) and NASA
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope offers a stunning, unprecedented close-up view of a turbulent firestorm of starbirth along a dust disk girdling Centaurus A, the nearest active galaxy to Earth.
