Jul 11, 2024, 04:24 PM IST
The Orion Nebula is a picture book of star formation, from the massive, young stars shaping the nebula to the pillars of dense gas that may be the homes of budding stars.
The star V830 Orionis shines on the cloud of material left over from its formation, here seen as the NGC 1999 reflection nebula.
The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula.
The Crab Nebula is an expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion
These opaque, dark knots of gas and dust called 'Bok globules' are absorbing light in the center of the nearby emission nebula and star-forming region, NGC 281.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the elliptical galaxy Messier 105
Omega Centauri is about 10 times as massive as other big globular clusters – almost as massive as a small galaxy – and consists of roughly 10 million stars that are gravitationally bound
This image shows the central region of the Omega Centauri globular cluster, where NASA's Hubble Space Telescope found strong evidence for an intermediate-mass black hole candidate
View a collection of Hubble's nebula images taken over the years
When a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, it expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star shrinks