![]() | Thackeray's GlobulesStrangely glowing dark clouds float serenely in this remarkable and beautiful image taken with the Hubble Space Telescope.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team |
![]() | Star formation in neighbouring galaxyThe 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.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA/ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team |
![]() | Nearby Dust CloudsThe yearly ritual of spring cleaning clears a house of dust as well as dust bunnies, those pesky dust balls that frolic under beds and behind furniture.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA |
![]() | Colours in the TarantulaThe Tarantula is situated 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in the Southern sky and is clearly visible to the naked eye as a large milky patch.Download WallpaperPhoto by: ESA/NASA, ESO and Danny LaCrue |
![]() | Crab NebulaThe Crab Nebula is one of the most intricately structured and highly dynamical objects ever observed. The new Hubble image of the Crab was assembled from 24 individual exposures taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and is the highest resolution image of the entire Crab Nebula ever made.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA and Allison Loll/Jeff Hester |
![]() | Years after Stellar OutburstThe Hubble Space Telescope's latest image of the star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) reveals dramatic changes in the illumination of surrounding dusty cloud structures.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team |
![]() | Stellar spire in the Eagle NebulaAppearing like a winged fairy-tale creature poised on a pedestal, this object is actually a billowing tower of cold gas and dust rising from a stellar nursery called the Eagle Nebula. The soaring tower is 9.5 light-years or about 90 trillion kilometres high, about twice the distance from our Sun to the next nearest star.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team |
![]() | View of the Orion NebulaThis dramatic image offers a peek inside a cavern of roiling dust and gas where thousands of stars are forming. The image, taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, represents the sharpest view ever taken of this region, called the Orion Nebula.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto |
![]() | Carina NebulaHubble'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.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, N. Smith |
![]() | Extreme star cluster bursts into lifeThe star-forming region NGC 3603 - seen here in the latest Hubble Space Telescope image - contains one of the most impressive massive young star clusters in the Milky Way. Bathed in gas and dust the cluster formed in a huge rush of star formation thought to have occurred around a million years ago. The hot blue stars at the core are responsible for carving out a huge cavity in the gas seen to the right of the star cluster in NGC 3603’s centre.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage |