Origins of the Crab Nebula
Crab Nebula, a supernova is located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. This Nebula is the result of a core-collapse supernova from the death of a massive star. (Photo: Nasa)
Dorado constellation
This new image of NGC 1546 in Dorado shows dust lanes backlit by the galaxy's core, appearing rusty brown. The bright yellow core indicates older stars, while blue regions reveal active star formation. Background galaxies, including an edge-on spiral, are visible. (Photo: Nasa)
Celestial fireworks
L1527 is a molecular cloud that harbors a protostar. It resides about 460 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus. The region in between, which shows up in white, is a mixture of PAHs, ionized gas, and other molecules. (Photo: Nasa)
Lights of a galactic bar
NGC 4731 lies in the constellation Virgo and is located 43 million light-years from Earth. The abundance of color illustrates the galaxy's billowing clouds of gas, dark dust bands, bright pink star-forming regions and, most obviously, the long, glowing bar with trailing arms.
(Photo: Nasa)
Hubble observes a cosmic fossil
NGC 2005 is located about 750 light-years from the heart of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), which is the Milky Way’s largest satellite galaxy some 162,000 light-years from Earth. (Photo: Nasa)
'Rose' of Galaxies
A large spiral galaxy named UGC 1810 has a disk that is distorted into a rose-like shape by the gravitational tidal pull of the companion galaxy below it, known as UGC 1813. (Photo: Nasa)
High mass stars
This image of NGC 281 from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows high-mass stars driving powerful winds and intense radiation, creating large columns of gas and dust. (Photo: Nasa)
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