The Hubble Space Telescope Part 2
The Hubble Space Telescope Part 2 contains 25 of the top 100 images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a telescope in orbit around the Earth, named after astronomer Edwin Hubble. Its position outside the Earth's atmosphere provides significant advantages over ground-based telescopes - images are not blurred by the atmosphere, there is no background from light scattered by the air, and the Hubble can observe ultra-violet light that is normally absorbed by the ozone layer in observations made from Earth.
The Dumbbell Nebula
An aging star's last hurrah is creating a flurry of glowing knots of gas that appear to be streaking through space in this close-up image of the Dumbbell Nebula, taken with NASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
| Photo by: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team |
The Ant Nebula
This dramatic NASA, ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, showing 10 times more detail, reveals the ant's body as a pair of fiery lobes protruding from a dying, Sun-like star.
| Photo by: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team |
A Reflection Nebula in Orion
Just weeks after NASA astronauts repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in December 1999, the Hubble Heritage Project snapped this picture of NGC 1999, a nebula in the constellation Orion.
| Photo by: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team |
Jupiters Great Red Spot
When 17th-century astronomers first turned their telescopes to Jupiter, they noted a conspicuous reddish spot on the giant planet. This Great Red Spot is still present in Jupiter's atmosphere, more than 300 years later. It is now known that it is a vast storm, spinning like a cyclone.
| Photo by: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team |
Glittering Jewels
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has given us a keyhole view towards the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy, where a dazzling array of stars reside. Most of the view of our galaxy is obscured by dust.
| Photo by: NASA, ESA, Hubble Space Telescope |
Star formation in neighbouring galaxy
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the iridescent tapestry of star birth in a neighbouring galaxy in this panoramic view of glowing gas, dark dust clouds, and young, hot stars.
| Photo by: NASA/ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team |
Gas at a Doomed Star
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest view yet of the most famous of all planetary nebulae: the Ring Nebula (M57).
| Photo by: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team |
Carina Nebula
Hubble's view of the Carina 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.
| Photo by: NASA, ESA, N. Smith |
Years after Stellar Outburst
The Hubble Space Telescope's latest image of the star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) reveals dramatic changes in the illumination of surrounding dusty cloud structures.
| Photo by: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team |
New stars shed light on the past
This image depicts bright blue newly formed stars that are blowing a cavity in the centre of a fascinating star-forming region known as N90.
| Photo by: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team |
Hubble Photographs Turbulent Neighborhood
A small portion of the rough-and-tumble neighborhood of swirling dust and gas near one of the most massive and eruptive stars in our galaxy
| Photo by: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team |
The best Earth-based view of Mars
Frosty white water ice clouds and swirling orange dust storms above a vivid rusty landscape reveal Mars as a dynamic planet in this sharpest view ever obtained by an Earth-based telescope.
| Photo by: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team |
A Mammoth Cosmic Collision
This spectacular new image from the NASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the group of galaxies called Stephan's Quintet has provided a detailed view of one of the most exciting star forming regions in the local Universe.
| Photo by: NASA, ESA |
N159 in the Large Magellanic Cloud
A NASA, ESA Hubble Space Telescope view of a turbulent cauldron of starbirth, called N159, taking place 170,000 light-years away in our satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).
| Photo by: NASA, ESA, Hubble Space Telescope |
Galaxy NGC 4314
This close-up view by Hubble also shows other interesting details in the galaxy's core: dust lanes, a smaller bar of stars, dust and gas embedded in the stellar ring, and an extra pair of spiral arms packed with young stars.
| Photo by: NASA, ESA |
Storm of turbulent gases
Like the fury of a raging sea, this anniversary image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a bubbly ocean of glowing hydrogen, oxygen, and sulphur gas in the extremely massive and luminous molecular nebula Messier 17.
| Photo by: NASA, ESA, and J. Hester |
The Trifid Nebula
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Trifid Nebula reveals a stellar nursery being torn apart by radiation from a nearby, massive star.
| Photo by: NASA, ESA and Jeff Hester |
Stellar Nursery
The barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672, showing up clusters of hot young blue stars along its spiral arms, and clouds of hydrogen gas glowing in red.
| Photo by: NASA, ESA |
Cosmic Dust Bunnies
This giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1316 reveals the dust lanes and star clusters giving evidence that it was formed from a past merger of two gas-rich galaxies.
| Photo by: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team |
Star cluster Pismis 24
The star cluster Pismis 24 lies in the core of the large emission nebula NGC 6357 that extends one degree on the sky in the direction of the Scorpius constellation.
| Photo by: NASA, ESA |
View of Mars
This view of Mars, the sharpest photo ever taken from Earth, reveals small craters and other surface markings only about a dozen miles (a few tens of kilometres) across.
| Photo by: NASA, ESA, J. Bell and M. Wolff |
The galaxy cluster Abell
This image shows the full overview of the galaxy cluster Abell 2218.
| Photo by: NASA, ESA |
A View of HH 32 Nebula
This object, about 1,000 light-years from Earth, is somewhat older than Hubble's variable nebula, and the wind from the bright central star has already cleared much of the dust out of the central region, thus exposing the star to direct view.
| Photo by: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team |
Life Cycle of Stars
In this stunning picture of the giant galactic nebula NGC 3603, the crisp resolution of the NASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures various stages of the life cycle of stars in one single view.
| Photo by: NASA, ESA |
Behind a Dusty Veil Lies a Cradle of Star Birth
NGC 253 is a large, almost edge-on spiral galaxy, and is one of the nearest galaxies beyond our local neighborhood of galaxies. This dramatic galaxy shows complex structures such as clumpy gas clouds, darkened dust lanes, and young, luminous central star clusters.
| Photo by: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team |
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