The Butterfly Nebula, also known as NGC 6302, is a bipolar planetary nebula located in the constellation Scorpius1. It is one of the most complex structures ever observed in planetary nebulae12. The nebula’s wingspan stretches across three light years2, and it is named for its resemblance to a butterfly.
— Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble SM4 ERO Team
The Tadpole Galaxy, also known as UGC 10214 and Arp 188, resides approximately 420 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. Its most striking feature is a trail of stars extending about 280,000 light-years from the galaxy.
— Credit: NASA/ACS Science Team/ESA
— Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team(STScI/AURA)
Galaxy NGC 1300 is a barred spiral galaxy located about 61 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus1. The galaxy is about 110,000 light-years across1. It is a member of the Eridanus Cluster, a cluster of 200 galaxies.
— Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team(STScI/AURA)
The Mice Galaxies, also known as NGC 4676, are two spiral galaxies located in the constellation Coma Berenices. They are about 290 million light-years distant. These galaxies have begun the process of colliding and merging.
— Credit: NASA/ACS Science Team/ESA
The Helix Nebula, also known as NGC 7293 or Caldwell 63, is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Aquarius. It was discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding, most likely before 1824. This object is one of the closest of all the bright planetary nebulae to Earth. The distance, measured by the Gaia mission, is 655±13 light-years.
— Credit: NASA/ESA
The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, is home to the iconic Pillars of Creation. It is located in the constellation Serpens, some 6,500–7,000 light-years away from Earth. The Pillars of Creation are towering structures of interstellar gas and dust.
— Credit: NASA/ESA
Jupiter’s Aurora is a stunning light show in the planet’s atmosphere, similar to Earth’s Northern Lights. These auroras are created when high-energy particles enter a planet’s atmosphere near its magnetic poles and collide with atoms of gas. The extraordinary vivid glows shown in the new observations are known as auroras.
— Credit: NASA/ESA/John Clarke (Univ. of Michigan)
The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (HUDF) is a deep-field image of a small region of space in the constellation Fornax, containing an estimated 10,000 galaxies. The original data for the image was collected by the Hubble Space Telescope from September 2003 to January 2004 and the first version of the image was released on March 9, 2004.
— Credit: NASA/ESA/H. Teplitz
Liller 1 is a globular cluster in the constellation Scorpius, discovered by the American astronomer William Liller in 1977. It is located close to the centre of the Milky Way in its galactic bulge, only 2,600 light-years (800 pc) from the centre. Liller 1 is just under 30,000 light years from Earth. Swip Up to know more.
— Credit: Hubble Space Telescope: INSTAGRAM