Jul 31, 2024, 03:52 PM IST

10 stunning images of stars captured by NASA Hubble telescope

Shweta Singh

Located in the constellation Virgo (The Virgin), approximately 50 million light-years from Earth, the galaxy NGC 4535 presents a truly stunning sight to behold.

In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope conducted a unique experiment by spending 10 consecutive days observing a dark, seemingly empty patch of sky, about the size of a pinhead held at arm's length, near the Big Dipper.

This galaxy is often referred to as the "Black Eye" or "Evil Eye" galaxy due to the dark band of dust that sweeps across one side of its bright nucleus.

This image of Caldwell 69 includes ultraviolet, visible, and infrared observations captured by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 in 2019 and 2020.

In the galaxy on the left, the bright blue patch is a cascade of clusters and associations of young, hot blue stars, formed due to the tidal forces of gravitational interaction.

NGC 6355 is a galactic globular cluster located in the inner regions of our Milky Way galaxy. It lies less than 50,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus.

This 100 million-year-old globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and a birthplace for billions of stars.

This environment is far from peaceful. Ultraviolet radiation and violent stellar winds have created a vast cavity in the gas and dust surrounding the cluster, offering an unobstructed view of it.

This galaxy, known as NGC 1569, shines with the light of millions of newly formed young stars. NGC 1569 is producing stars at a rate 100 times faster than that observed in our Milky Way Galaxy and has been doing so almost continuously for the past 100 million years.