![]() | Ghostly Reflections in the PleiadesThe Hubble Space Telescope has caught the eerie, wispy tendrils of a dark interstellar cloud being destroyed by the passage of one of the brightest stars in the Pleiades star cluster. Like a flashlight beam shining off the wall of a cave, the star is reflecting light off the surface of pitch black clouds of cold gas laced with dust. These are called reflection nebulae.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team |
![]() | Remarkable double clusterLocated in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our neighbouring dwarf galaxies, this young globular-like star cluster is surrounded by a pattern of filamentary nebulosity that is thought to have been created during supernova blasts.Download WallpaperPhoto by: ESA, NASA and Martino Romaniello |
![]() | The Tarantula NebulaIn the most active starburst region in the local universe lies a cluster of brilliant, massive stars, known to astronomers as Hodge 301.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team |
![]() | Dusty Spiral GalaxyIn 1995, the majestic spiral galaxy NGC 4414 was imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the HST Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA |
![]() | Hubble finds infant stars in neighbouring galaxyThe exquisite sharpness of the NASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope has plucked out an underlying population of infant stars embedded in the nebula NGC 346 that are still forming from gravitationally collapsing gas clouds.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA and A. Nota |
![]() | Magellanic gemstone in the southern skyHubble has captured the most detailed image to date of the open star cluster NGC 265 in the Small Magellanic Cloud.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA |
![]() | Hubble Ultra Deep FieldThis view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The snapshot includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes, and colours.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, and S. Beckwith |
![]() | Probing the distant Universe for young galaxiesThis Hubble Space Telescope image shows 28 of the more than 500 young galaxies that existed when the universe was less than 1 billion years old.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, R. Bouwens and G. Illingworth |
![]() | Star cluster Pismis 24The 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.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA |
![]() | New stars shed light on the pastThis image depicts bright blue newly formed stars that are blowing a cavity in the centre of a fascinating star-forming region known as N90.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team |