Hubble Shop: Postcards

Postcards with the best Hubble images • Personal and eye catching

The front of the cards has beautiful full color photographs with some of the best Hubble images. The back of the card has a short faint description of the image depicted on the front of the card. There is, course, plenty of writing space for those who wish to send this lovely card to friends or family.

The postcards are made using a high quality four colour offset process on a heavy 300 /m2 matte carton with a glossy front. Actual size is 17 x 12.0 cm.

Please note that the representation here on the web does not do the real postcards justice.

Postcard01: The Eagle Nebula

Stars in the Eagle Nebula are born in clouds of cold hydrogen gas that reside in chaotic neighbourhoods, where energy from young stars sculpts fantasy-like landscapes in the gas. The tower may be a giant incubator for those newborn stars. Read...
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1.00 €

Postcard02: The Black Eye Galaxy

A collision of two galaxies has left a merged star system with an unusual appearance as well as bizarre internal motions. Messier 64 (M64) has a spectacular dark band of absorbing dust in front of the galaxy's bright nucleus, giving rise to its...
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1.00 €

Postcard03: Star-forming Nebula - NGC 346

The exquisite sharpness of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has plucked out an underlying population of infant stars embedded in the nebula NGC 346 that are still forming from gravitationally collapsing gas clouds. Read more about the image here.
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Postcard04: Erupting Star V838 Monocerotis

The Hubble telescope has imaged V838 Mon and its light echo several times since the star's outburst in 2002. Each time Hubble observes the event, different thin sections of the dust are seen as the pulse of illumination continues to expand away...
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Postcard05: The Helix Nebula

This image of the Helix Nebula shows a fine web of filamentary "bicycle-spoke" features embedded in the colorful red and blue gas ring. The Helix is one of the nearest planetary nebulae to Earth. Read more about the image here.
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1.00 €

Postcard06: The Cat's Eye Nebula

Planetary nebulae represent the last phase in the lives of Sun-like stars. Hubble first revealed the Cat’s Eye Nebula's intricate structures in 1994. A new image reveals the full beauty of a bull's eye pattern of eleven or more concentric rings,...
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Postcard07: The Tarantula Nebula

The Tarantula Nebula is the largest stellar nursery we know in the local Universe. In fact if this enormous complex of stars, gas and dust were at the distance of the Orion Nebula it would be visible during the day and cover a quarter of the sky....
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Postcard09: The Boomerang Nebula

The Boomerang Nebula is a young planetary nebula and the coldest object found in the Universe so far. Planetary nebulae form around a bright, central star when it expels gas in the last stages of its life. Read more about the image here.
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1.00 €

Postcard10: The Cone Nebula

Resembling a nightmarish beast rearing its head from a crimson sea, the Cone Nebula is actually just a pillar of gas and dust. Radiation from hot, young stars (located beyond the top of the image) has slowly eroded the nebula over millions of...
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1.00 €