Located 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros, V838 Monocerotis displays a stunning light echo captured by Hubble.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Discovered on February 23, 1987, Supernova 1987A was one of the brightest stellar explosions in over 400 years.
Credit: NASA, ESA, R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation), and M. Mutchler and R. Avila (STScI)
AG Carinae, a brilliant blue giant shining with the power of 1 million suns, is among the Milky Way's brightest stars. Hubble captured its spectacular outburst in vivid detail.
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI
In the center of the image, partially obscured by a dark, Jedi-like cloak of dust, a newborn star shoots twin jets out into space as a sort of birth announcement to the universe.
Credit: NASA and ESA
RS Puppis, a luminous Cepheid variable star, is 10 times more massive and 200 times larger than the Sun. It brightens and dims every six weeks, glowing 15,000 times brighter than the Sun.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-Hubble/Europe Collaboration
Omega Centauri, a globular cluster with nearly 10 million stars, lies 16,000 light-years away. Its ancient stars, aged between 10 and 12 billion years, are bound together by gravity.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team
Messier 80, home to a nova observed in 1860, contains a white dwarf that ignited a thermonuclear explosion after gaining hydrogen from a companion star.
Credit: The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA)
Located in the constellation Gemini, AFGL 5180 is a stellar nursery where a massive star forms, carving cavities through surrounding clouds with powerful jets of light.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. C. Tan
Digit Intro 2021
Digit Intro 2021