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Great Carina Nebula

Gum 37, Mountain Tops

Halo of Cat's Eye © © ©

A Vista of NGC 2626 © LOIRLab

Orion Nebula in Visible and Infrared ©

In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, Hubble once again lifts the veil on a famous — and frequently photographed — supernova remnant: the Veil Nebula. The remnant of a star roughly 20 times as massive as the Sun that exploded about 10,000 years ago, the Veil Nebula is situated about 2,400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. Hubble images of this photogenic nebula were first taken in 1994 and 1997, and again in 2015.

NGC 6164, Dragon's Egg

Credits: Adam Block, Steward Observatory,University of Arizona

Credits: Franck Bugnet

Credits: Daniel Stern

Credits: Star Shadows Remote Observatory

Credits: Howard Trottier

Credits: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team

Polaris, The North Star

Credits: Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, et al., JPL, Caltech, NASA

This peculiar portrait from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcases NGC 1999, a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion. NGC 1999 is around 1,350 light-years from Earth and lies near the Orion Nebula, the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. NGC 1999 itself is a relic of recent star formation – it is composed of debris left over from the formation of a newborn star.

A celestial lightsaber in Orion B ©