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