7 stunning pictures of Universe captured by NASA

Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of Backlit wisps along the Horsehead Nebula upper ridge are being illuminated by Sigma Orionis.

Hubble’s Spirograph In this classic Hubble image from 2000, the planetary nebula IC 418 glows like a multifaceted jewel with enigmatic patterns. IC 418 lies about 2,000 light-years from Earth.

Hubble captured this image of Caldwell 34, made from observations taken in 1994 and 1997. The gas and dust is impacted by shock waves as debris crashes into it at speeds close to 400,000 miles per hour.

Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across a more complete spectrum of light.

This Hubble telescope snapshot of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula, reveals that the object has an hourglass shape with an intricate pattern of etchings in its walls. 

This image shows a composite view of the Crab nebula, an iconic supernova remnant in our Milky Way galaxy, as viewed by the Herschel Space Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope.

The "Necklace Nebula" is located 15,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagitta (the Arrow).

Credit: NASA