Mystic Mountain

This image captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars.

Westerlund 2

Westerlund 2, a giant cluster of 3,000 stars, resides in a raucous stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29.

DEM L 190

Shreds of the colorful supernova remnant DEM L 190 seem to billow across the screen in this Hubble Space Telescope image.

M16, Pillars of Creation in Infrared Light

Observing in infrared light, Hubble pierced through the obscuring gas and dust of M16’s Pillars of Creation. This image reveals the young stars that are being formed within the pillars.

M1 – Crab Nebula

The Crab Nebula is an expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. This Hubble mosaic is one of the largest images ever taken of a supernova remnant by the space telescope.

Horsehead Nebula

Looking like an apparition rising from whitecaps of interstellar foam, the Horsehead Nebula has graced astronomy books ever since its discovery over a century ago.

Pismis 24

The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission nebula called NGC 6357, located about 8,000 light-years from Earth.

Veil Nebula

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled in stunning detail a small section of the expanding remains of a massive star that exploded about 8,000 years ago.