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 | Thackeray's Globules in IC 2944 Strangely glowing dark clouds float serenely in this remarkable and beautiful image taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. These dense, opaque dust clouds -- known as "globules" -- are silhouetted against nearby bright stars in the busy star-forming region, IC 2944. Photo Platform: Hubble
Date Released: January 3, 2002 small - medium - download large - movie |
 | Zoom-in to the Horsehead Nebula Rising from a sea of dust and gas like a giant seahorse, the Horsehead nebula is one of the most photographed objects in the sky. The Hubble telescope took a close-up look at this heavenly icon, revealing the cloud's intricate structure. This detailed view of the horse's head is being released to celebrate the orbiting observatory's eleventh anniversary. Photo Platform: Hubble
Date Released: April 24, 2001 - movie |
 | Zoom into the Orion Nebula This view of the Orion Nebula is being released to celebrate the orbiting observatory's eleventh anniversary. Photo Platform: Hubble
Date Released: April 26, 2001 - movie |
 | Orion Nebula Fly-Through This animation reveals the topography and beauty of the Orion Nebula like never before. Based on data obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope, all of the gas clouds, stars and proplyds are positioned as accurately as possible. Photo Platform: Hubble
Date Released: April 26, 2001 - movie |
 | Hubble Image of Horsehead Nebula Rising from a sea of dust and gas like a giant sea horse, the Horsehead nebula is one of the most photographed objects in the sky. Photo Platform: Hubble Space Telescope
Date Released: April 24, 2001 small - medium - download large |
 | Nebula N83B - massive infant stars rock their cradle Extremely intense radiation from newly born, ultra-bright stars has blown a glowing spherical bubble in the nebula N83B. A new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image has helped to decipher the complex interplay of gas and radiation in a star-forming region of a nearby galaxy. Photo Platform: Hubble Space Telescope
Date Released: March 28, 2001 small - medium - download large |
 | Astro-Entomology? Ant-like Space Structure Previews Death of Our Sun From ground-based telescopes, this cosmic object -- the glowing remains of a
dying, Sun-like star -- resembles the head and thorax of a garden-variety ant.
But this dramatic Hubble telescope image of the so-called "ant nebula" (Menzel
3, or Mz3) shows even more detail, revealing the "ant's" body as a pair of
fiery lobes protruding from the dying star. Photo Platform: Hubble
Date Released: February 1, 2001 small - medium - download large - movie |
 | IC 418: The "Spirograph" Nebula Glowing like a multi-faceted jewel, the planetary nebula IC 418 lies about
2,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lepus. In this picture,
the Hubble telescope reveals some remarkable textures weaving through
the nebula. Their origin, however, is still uncertain. Photo Platform: Hubble
Date Released: September 7, 2000 small - medium - download large |
 | The Orion Nebula: The Jewel in the Sword (03d-01) This photo shows a small section of the observational data (in one infrared
spectral band only, here reproduced in B/W) on which PR Photo 03a/01 is based.
The field is centred on one of the famous Orion silhouette disks (Orion 114-426)
(it is located approximately halfway between the centre and the right edge of
PR Photo 03c/01). Photo Platform: ESO
Date Released: January 17, 2001 small - medium - download large |
 | The Orion Nebula: The Jewel in the Sword (03c-01) This photo shows the delicate tracery created at the so-called Bright Bar, as
the intense UV-light and strong winds from the hot Trapezium stars eat their
way into the surrounding molecular cloud. Photo Platform: ESO
Date Released: January 17, 2001 small - medium - download large |
 | The Orion Nebula: The Jewel in the Sword (03b-01) This photo shows the traces of a massive outflow of gas from a very young
object embedded in the dense molecular cloud behind the Orion Nebula. Photo Platform: ESO
Date Released: January 17, 2001 small - medium - download large |
 | The Orion Nebula: The Jewel in the Sword (03a-01) This is a colour composite mosaic image of the central part of the Orion
Nebula, based on 81 images obtained with the infrared multi-mode ISAAC
instrument on the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory. Photo Platform: ESO
Date Released: January 17, 2001 small - medium - download large |
 | Rare Spherical Planetary Nebula Provides Step Toward Accurate Measurement of Chemical Compositions in Stars Abell 39, the 39th entry in a catalog of large nebulae discovered by George Abell in 1966, is a beautiful example of a
planetary nebula. It was chosen for study by George Jacoby (WIYN Observatory), Gary Ferland (University of Kentucky),
and Kirk Korista (Western Michigan University) because of its beautiful and rare spherical symmetry. Photo Platform: NOAO
Date Released: January 8, 2001 small - medium - download large |
 | NGC6543 Cat's Eye Nebula The X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory have revealed a bright central star surrounded by a cloud
of multimillion-degree gas in the planetary nebula known as the Cat's Eye. This Chandra image, where the intensity of the
X-ray emission is correlated to the brightness of the orange coloring, captures the expulsion of material from a star that is
expected to collapse into a white dwarf in a few million years. Photo Platform: Chandra
Date Released: January 8, 2001 small - medium - download large |
 | Ghostly Reflections in the Pleiades NASA's 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. Photo Platform: Hubble
Date Released: December 6, 2000 small - medium - download large |
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