![]() | Phantom GalaxyIn the new Hubble image of the galaxy M74 we can also see a smattering of bright pink regions decorating the spiral armsDownload WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage |
![]() | The Trifid NebulaThis NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Trifid Nebula reveals a stellar nursery being torn apart by radiation from a nearby, massive star.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA and Jeff Hester |
![]() | The Red Spider NebulaHuge waves are sculpted in this two-lobed nebula some 3000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius. This warm planetary nebula harbours one of the hottest stars known and its powerful stellar winds generate waves 100 billion kilometres high.Download WallpaperPhoto by: ESA & Garrelt Mellema |
![]() | The Ghost Head NebulaThe Ghost Head Nebula is one of a chain of star-forming regions lying south of the 30 Doradus nebula in the Large Magellanic CloudDownload WallpaperPhoto by: ESA, NASA |
![]() | ghostly star-forming pillar of gas and dustResembling a nightmarish beast rearing its head from a crimson sea, this celestial object is actually just a pillar of gas and dust called the Cone Nebula.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA |
![]() | The Boomerang NebulaThe Boomerang Nebula is a young planetary nebula and the coldest object found in the Universe so far.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA |
![]() | Storm of turbulent gasesLike 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.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, and J. Hester |
![]() | Pillars of CreationThese eerie, dark pillar-like structures are actually columns of cool interstellar hydrogen gas and dust that are also incubators for new stars.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA/ESA Jeff Hester and Paul Scowen |
![]() | Gas at a Doomed StarThe NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest view yet of the most famous of all planetary nebulae: the Ring Nebula (M57).Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team |
![]() | Light and Shadow in the Carina NebulaPreviously unseen details of a mysterious, complex structure within the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) are revealed by this image of the Keyhole Nebula, obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA/ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team |