![]() | The Ant NebulaThis 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.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team |
![]() | NGC 3314 GalaxyThrough an extraordinary chance alignment, the Hubble telescope has captured a view of a face-on spiral galaxy lying precisely in front of another larger spiral. The unique pair is called NGC 3314.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team |
![]() | The Glowing Eye of NGC 6751Glowing in the constellation Aquila, the nebula is a cloud of gas ejected several thousand years ago from the hot star visible in its center.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team |
![]() | The Bubble NebulaAstronomers, using the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope in October and November 1997 and April 1999, imaged the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) with unprecedented clarity.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA,, Donald Walter |
![]() | A View of HH 32 NebulaThis 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.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team |
![]() | NGC 2346 NebulaNGC 2346 is remarkable because its central star is known to be actually a very close pair of stars, orbiting each other every 16 days.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team |
![]() | NGC 2440 NebulaNGC 2440 is another planetary nebula ejected by a dying star, but it has a much more chaotic structure than NGC 2346. The central star of NGC2440 is one of the hottest known, with a surface temperature near 200,000 degrees Celsius.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team |
![]() | Swarm of Ancient StarsThis stellar swarm is M80 (NGC 6093), one of the densest of the 147 known globular star clusters in the Milky Way galaxy.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team |
![]() | Ring Around NGC 4650ALocated about 130 million light-years away, NGC 4650A is one of only 100 known polar-ring galaxies.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team |
![]() | The Eskimo NebulaIn its first glimpse of the heavens following the successful December 1999 servicing mission, the NASA, ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a majestic view of a planetary nebula, the glowing remains of a dying, Sun-like star.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, Hubble Space Telescope |