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V838 Monocerotis
This is an image of a pulse of light from a star's outburst traveling through the surrounding space, illuminating material ejected by the star at a much earlier epoch. This is one of a series of "snapshots" of the ongoing phenomenon that took place over many months, and provided an unusual opportunity to follow a rapidly changing subject and the rare ability to tease out its full 3D structure.
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Pandora's Cluster
Formed by pile-up of at least four separate, smaller galaxy clusters which took place over a span of 350 million years ago. The galaxies in the cluster make up less than 5% of its mass. The gas — around 20% — is so hot that it shines only in X-rays (colored red in this image). The distribution of invisible dark matter, making up around 75 percent of the cluster's mass, is colored here in blue.
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Saturn’s Dynamic Auroras
Scientist Pick: Viewing the planet's southern polar region for several days, Hubble snapped a series of photographs of the aurora dancing in the sky. When compared with Earth, where auroral storms develop in about 10 minutes and may last for a few hours, Saturn's auroral displays always appear bright and may last for several days.
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Planetary Nebula NGC 5189
Planetary nebulae are the final stage in the life of a medium-sized star like our Sun. While consuming the last of the fuel in its core, the dying star expels a large portion of its outer envelope. The appearance of NGC 5189 could be explained by the presence of a binary companion orbiting the central star and influencing the pattern of ejection during its nebula-producing death throes.
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SNR 0509-67.5
This is the image of supernova remnant 0509-67.5 The result shows soft green and blue hues of heated material from the X-ray data surrounded by the glowing pink visible light shell, which shows the ambient gas being shocked by the expanding blast wave from the supernova. Ripples in the shell's appearance coincide with brighter areas of the X-ray data.
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Perfect Storm on Mars
Scientist Pick: This Martian dust storm, larger by far than any seen on Earth, has raised a cloud of dust that has engulfed the entire planet for the past three months (right image). This abrupt onset of global warming in Mars' thin atmosphere is happening at the same time as the planet's surface has chilled precipitously under the constant dust shroud.
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IRAS 20324+4057
The caterpillar-shaped knot is a protostar which is still in the process of collecting material from an envelope of gas surrounding it. However, that envelope is eroded by the radiation from nearby stars. Protostars in this region should become young stars with masses about 1-10 times that of our Sun, but if the radiation destroys the gas envelope before that, their final masses may be reduced.
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Fomalhaut b
Scientist Pick: This is the first visible-light image ever taken of a planet around another star in which Hubble blocks out the light of the star Fomalhaut to make visible this encircling dust ring.The box on the right shows two images of planet Fomalhaut b that we captured in 2004 and 2006 to show its orbit around Fomalhaut, evidence that we really are seeing a planet.
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NGC 2841
Hubble reveals a majestic disk of stars and dust lanes in this view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2841. A bright cusp of starlight marks the galaxy's center. Spiraling outward are dust lanes silhouetted against a population of middle-aged stars. Much younger blue stars trace the spiral arms.
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Hodge 301
The star cluster Hodge 301 is 20 million to 25 million years old. Hodge 301 is home to many aging, red supergiant stars. Roughly 40 massive stars already have exploded as supernovae. The expanding wave of debris is slamming into gas ejected stars in another cluster, creating a ridge of star formation between the two clusters.
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Centaurus A
Image shows the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. The warped shape of Centaurus A's disk of gas and dust is evidence for a past collision and merger with another galaxy. The resulting shockwaves cause hydrogen gas clouds to compress, triggering a firestorm of new star formation. Centaurus A contains the closest active galactic nucleus to Earth. The center is home to a supermassive black hole.
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Hoag’s Object
The interacting galaxy duo that makes up this celestial hummingbird is collectively called Arp 142 consisting galaxies NGC 2936 along with NGC 2937, at lower left. The orbits of the galaxy's stars have become scrambled due to gravitational tidal interactions with the other galaxy. This warps the galaxy's orderly spiral, and interstellar gas is strewn out into giant tails like stretched taffy.
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SN 1987A
This is the ongoing explosion of a supermassive star, and a great example of an object that has been looked at many times with Hubble. The longevity of the Hubble mission allows insight into phenomena like this, which would not have been possible with a shorter-lived mission.
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AM 0644-741
Resembling a diamond-encrusted bracelet, a ring of brilliant blue star clusters wraps around the yellowish nucleus of what was once a normal spiral galaxy- image from Hubble. Ring galaxies are an especially striking example of how collisions between galaxies can dramatically change their structure. They arise from a collision in which one galaxy plunges directly through the disk of another.
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M87 Jet
Streaming out from the center of the galaxy M87 like a cosmic searchlight is one of nature's most amazing phenomena, a black-hole-powered jet of electrons and other subatomic particles traveling at nearly the speed of light. The blue of the jet contrasts with the yellow glow from the combined light of billions of unseen stars and the yellow, point-like globular clusters that make up this galaxy.
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Galactic Core
This infrared image of the center of our Milky Way Galaxy taken by Hubble and the Spitzer Space Telescope reveals a new population of massive stars and new details in complex structures in the hot ionized gas swirling around the central 300 light-years. This sweeping panorama is the sharpest infrared picture ever made of the galactic core.
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Most Distant Galaxy Candidate
Scientist Pick: This image is likely to be the most distant object ever seen in the universe. The object's light traveled 13.2 billion years to reach Hubble, roughly 150 million years longer than the previous record holder. The age of the universe is approximately 13.7 billion years. The tiny, dim object is a compact galaxy of blue stars that existed 480 million years after the Big Bang.
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The Antennae
The colliding Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light-years from Earth, are shown in this composite image by Hubble, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The collision, which began more than 100 million years ago and is still occurring, has triggered the formation of millions of stars in clouds of dust and gas in the galaxies.
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Cat’s Eye Nebula
The Cat's Eye Nebula, one of the first planetary nebulae discovered, also has one of the most complex forms known to this kind of nebula. 11 rings, or shells, of gas make up the Cat's Eye. Each ring is actually the edge of a spherical bubble seen projected onto the sky appearing bright along its outer edge. The view from Hubble is like seeing an onion cut in half, where each layer is discernible.
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Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A
A supernova such as the one that resulted in supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) is the explosive demise of a massive star that collapses under the weight of its own gravity. Cas A is relatively young, estimated to be only about 340 years old. Hubble has observed it on several occasions to look for changes in the rapidly expanding filaments.
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LH 95 in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Swirls of gas and dust reside in this ethereal-looking region of star formation. This majestic view, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), reveals a region where low-mass, infant stars and their much more massive stellar neighbors reside. A shroud of blue haze, glowing hydrogen, gently lingers amid the stars.
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Abell 520
This is the core of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 520, formed from a violent collision of massive galaxy clusters. Superimposed on the image are colorful maps showing the concentration of starlight, hot gas, and dark matter. Starlight is orange, green is hot gas, and blue is mass — mostly dark matter.
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Ring Nebula
The Ring Nebula is the glowing remains of a Sun-like star. The blue gas in the nebula's center is actually a football-shaped structure that pierces the red doughnut-shaped material. The faint, scallop-shaped material surrounding the ring was expelled by the star during the early stages of nebula formation. This outer material was imaged by the Large Binocular Telescope.
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Tarantula Nebula
As one of the largest known regions of star formation anywhere, the Tarantula Nebula has been studied in great detail. Hubble shows the brilliant cluster of bright blue, hot, young stars blowing a cavity in the cloud from which they formed, and from which new stars are still forming.
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Interacting Galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163
Two spiral galaxies pass by each other like majestic ships in the night. The larger and more massive galaxy is cataloged as NGC 2207 (left), and the smaller one on the right is IC 2163. Strong tidal forces from NGC 2207 have distorted the shape of IC 2163, flinging out stars and gas into long streamers stretching out a hundred thousand light-years.
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Star Cluster Pismis 24
The brightest object in the picture was once thought to weigh as much as 200 to 300 solar masses. This would have made it by far the most massive known star in the galaxy, and put it considerably above the currently believed upper mass limit of about 150 solar masses for individual stars. However, Hubble images show that it is really two stars, each 100 solar masses, orbiting one another.
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NGC 3603
Image shows a young, glittering collection of stars surrounded by clouds of interstellar gas and dust — the raw material for new star formation. The nebula, located 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Carina, contains a central cluster of huge, hot stars, called NGC 3603. Most of the stars in the cluster were born around the same time but differ in size, mass, temperature, and color.
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Arp 273
Galaxies collide! The titanic gravitational forces rip apart entire galaxies and they fall back together, forming completely different structures. Interacting galaxies provide some of the most interesting and varied visual forms known. Arp 273 is a particularly interesting example of this, with terrific form, a strong feeling of motion and power, yet extraordinarily graceful.
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Eta Carinae
Estimated to be 100 times more massive than our Sun, unstable star Eta Carinae may be one of the most massive stars in our galaxy. It radiates about five million times more power than our Sun. Eta Carinae survived a giant outburst about 150 years ago, when it became one of the brightest stars in the southern sky. The explosion produced two polar lobes, all moving outward at about 1.5 million mph.
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Abell 2218
Here is a rich galaxy cluster composed of thousands of galaxies with a mass equivalent to 10,000 galaxies interspersed throughout the cluster. The cluster is located relatively nearby — at a distance of 2 billion light-years. The gravitational field from this huge concentration of matter distorts & magnifies the light from distant galaxies helping to know about the first galaxies in the universe.
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Triple Eclipse on Jupiter
Scientist Pick: Five spots — one colored white, one blue, and three black — are scattered across the upper half of Jupiter. Inspection by Hubble reveals that these spots are actually a rare alignment of three of Jupiter's largest moons — Io, Ganymede, and Callisto — across the planet's face. Jupiter appears in pastel colors in this photo because the observation was taken in near-infrared light.
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Pluto System
This is the Pluto system — Pluto, Charon, and the four moons around them (Nix, Hydra, Kerberos, and Styx). Hubble is the only telescope that has such fine resolution to be able to see these tiny little dots around Pluto, way at the outer edge of our solar system. We have known about Pluto and Charon since 1986, but all four of those moons were discovered by Hubble within the last decade.
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Omega Centauri
It is a colorful assortment of 100,000 stars residing in the crowded core of a giant star cluster. The image reveals a small region inside the massive globular cluster Omega Centauri, which boasts nearly 10 million stars. Globular clusters, ancient swarms of stars united by gravity, are the homesteaders of our Milky Way. The stars in Omega Centauri are between 10 billion and 12 billion years old.
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Horsehead Nebula
The Horsehead Nebula is a dense cloud of gas and dust embedded in it. Most previous views have been almost identical. But when seen in infrared light, it takes on a whole new appearance.The area above the top of the horse is bright in visible but dark in infrared, while the body of the horse shows up much brighter in the infrared compared to the visible.
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Hourglass Nebula
Here is a young planetary nebula, reveals that the object has an hourglass shape.The results shed new light on the poorly understood ejection of stellar matter that accompanies the slow death of Sun-like stars. The hourglass shape may be produced by the expansion of a fast stellar wind within a slowly expanding cloud, which is denser near its equator than near its poles.
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NGC 5584
It shows a brilliant, blue glow of galaxy NGC 5584. Among the galaxy's myriad stars are pulsating stars called Cepheid variables and one recent Type Ia supernova, an exploding star. Astronomers use Cepheid variables and Type Ia supernovae as reliable distance markers to measure the universe's expansion rate. It was one of eight galaxies astronomers studied to measure the universe's expansion rate.
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Mystic Mountain
These pillars show the telltale signature of new stars forming at their tips and strong jets of material being ejected into the interstellar medium for great distances. Many such features are seen in the Carina Nebula, a vast area of dust and gas in our Milky Way Galaxy. This is the most obvious and spectacular example, similar to others in an immense Hubble mosaic made a few years before.
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DEM L 190
Resembling the puffs of smoke and sparks from a summer fireworks display, these delicate filaments are actually sheets of debris from a stellar explosion in a neighboring galaxy. Denoted N 49, or DEM L 190, this is the remnant of a massive star that died in a supernova blast whose light would have reached Earth thousands of years ago.
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I Zwicky 18
Hubble snapped a view of the youngest galaxy ever seen. This "late bloomer" may not have begun active star formation until about 13 billion years after the Big Bang. Called I Zwicky 18, the galaxy may be as young as 500 million years old. This youngster has gone though several sudden bursts of star formation — the first only some 500 million years ago and the latest only 4 million years ago.
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Butterfly Nebula, NGC 6302
What resemble dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees F. The gas is tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour—fast enough to travel from Earth to the Moon in 24 min. A dying star is at the center of this fury. It has ejected its envelope of gases and is now unleashing a stream of UV radiation that is making the material glow.
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Carina Nebula
This huge picture of the Carina Nebula, one of the most dynamic, complex places we know of in the Milky Way. Hubble's view of the nebula shows star birth in a new level of detail. The fantasy-like landscape of the nebula is sculpted by the action of outflowing winds and scorching ultraviolet radiation from the monster stars that inhabit this inferno.
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Orion Nebula
This dramatic image offers a peek inside a cavern of roiling dust and gas where thousands of stars are forming. More than 3,000 stars of various sizes appear in this image of the Orion Nebula. Some of them have never been seen in visible light. Ultraviolet light unleashed by the four central stars is carving a cavity in the nebula and disrupting the growth of hundreds of smaller stars.
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Whirlpool Galaxy and Companion
The graceful, winding arms of the majestic spiral galaxy M51 (NGC 5194) appear like a grand spiral staircase sweeping through space. They are actually long lanes of stars & gas laced with dust. Some astronomers believe that the Whirlpool's arms are prominent because of the effects of a close encounter with NGC 5195, the small, yellowish galaxy at the outermost tip of one of the Whirlpool's arms.
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Dust Pillars in the Carina Nebula
These one-light-year-tall pillars of cold hydrogen and dust are located in the Carina Nebula. Violent stellar winds and powerful radiation from massive stars are sculpting the surrounding nebula. Inside the dense structures, new stars may arise.
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