![]() | Galaxy NGC 2787Tightly wound, almost concentric, arms of dark dust encircle the bright nucleus of the otherwise nondescript galaxy, NGC 2787, in this image created by the Hubble Heritage team.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team |
![]() | The first evaporating planetThis artist's impression shows a dramatic close-up of the scorched extrasolar planet HD 209458b in its orbit only 7 million kilometres from its yellow Sun-like star.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, Alfred Vidal-Madjar |
![]() | Finding the ashes of the first starsArtist's impression of a quasar located in a primeval galaxy or protogalaxy a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, and Wolfram Freudling |
![]() | The mysterious Garden-sprinkler nebulaThere are many mysterious objects seen in the night sky which are not really well understood. For example, astronomers are puzzled by the jets emerging from planetary nebulae.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA |
![]() | Young stars sculpt gasThis Hubble Space Telescope view shows one of the most dynamic and intricately detailed star-forming regions in space, located 210,000 light-years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage |
![]() | Composite ultraviolet-visible-infrared image of NGC 1512This picture is a multi-wavelength composite made by seven individual exposures made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, Dan Maoz |
![]() | Cosmic Dust BunniesThis 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.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team |
![]() | Beautiful Barred Spiral GalaxyBarred spirals differ from normal spiral galaxies in that the arms of the galaxy do not spiral all the way into the center, but are connected to the two ends of a straight bar of stars containing the nucleus at its center.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team |
![]() | Majestic Sombrero GalaxyNASA,ESA Hubble Space Telescope has trained its razor-sharp eye on one of the universe's most stately and photogenic galaxies, the Sombrero galaxy, Messier 104 (M104).Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team |
![]() | Hubble Looks Through Cosmic Zoom LensThe Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has used a natural zoom lens in space to boost its view of the distant universe.Download WallpaperPhoto by: NASA, ESA |