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Interacting Galaxies Arp 273 by Hubble Heritage

Comet McNaught and the Milky Way

M52: Open Cluster in Cassiopeia © JWST

NGC 1365, Island Universe

This winter snow angel is out of this world! The Hubble Space Telescope captured this festive image of the bipolar star-forming region Sharpless 2-106. A massive, young star, IRS 4 is responsible for the furious star birth we see in this nebula. Twin lobes of super-hot gas, glowing blue in this image, stretch outward from the central star. This hot gas creates the “wings” of the celestial angel.

A ring of dust and gas orbiting the star acts like a belt, cinching the expanding nebula into an hourglass shape. Hubble's sharp resolution reveals ripples and ridges in the gas as it interacts with the cooler interstellar medium.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA).

ALT TEXT: Looking somewhat like an angel with outstretched wings, this blue-and-orange star-forming region is set against a black background punctuated by bright stars of various sizes. Some of the stars are white, while others are orange, and one in the bottom-right corner is bright red. Many of these stars have starburst-like diffraction spikes. The “angel’s” long wings are cavities outlined in a feathery pattern of blue and white. Its flowing, “dress” is a triangular, orange area of denser, dustier gas that trails off into the blackness of space. At its waist is a bright white-and-orange, centrally located star.

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NGC 7822, Question Mark

Carina Nebula, NGC 3372.

Distance: 7500 light years.

Credit: ESO/T. Preibisch.

Hubble Celebrates 29th Anniversary with a Colorful Look at the Southern Crab Nebula ✨ ✨ by NASA Goddard Photo and Video

M51 (NIRCam image) by James Webb Space Telescope