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A rose made of galaxies
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A rose made of galaxies
Credit:

NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Extreme star cluster bursts into life in new Hubble image
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Extreme star cluster bursts into life in new Hubble image
Credit:

NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration

Stellar Nursery in the arms of NGC 1672
Colliding galaxies make love, not war
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Colliding galaxies make love, not war
Credit:

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration. Acknowledgement: B. Whitmore ( Space Telescope Science Institute) and James Long (ESA/Hubble).

Magnetic monster NGC 1275
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Magnetic monster NGC 1275
Credit:

NASA, ESA and Andy Fabian (University of Cambridge, UK)

Hubble sees galaxies galore
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Hubble sees galaxies galore
Credit:

NASA, ESA, and S. Beckwith (STScI) and the HUDF Team

Hubble's sharpest view of the Orion Nebula
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Hubble's sharpest view of the Orion Nebula
Credit:

NASA, ESA, M. Robberto ( Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team

Most detailed image of the Crab Nebula
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Most detailed image of the Crab Nebula
Credit:

NASA, ESA and Allison Loll/Jeff Hester (Arizona State University). Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)

Hubble Mosaic of the Majestic Sombrero Galaxy
The magnificent starburst galaxy Messier 82
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The magnificent starburst galaxy Messier 82
Credit:

NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA). Acknowledgment: J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin), M. Mountain (STScI) and P. Puxley (NSF).

The Eagle has risen: Stellar spire in the Eagle Nebula
Pillars of Creation
Butterfly emerges from stellar demise in planetary nebula NGC 6302
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Butterfly emerges from stellar demise in planetary nebula NGC 6302
Credit:

NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

Young stars sculpt gas with powerful outflows
A Poster-Size Image of the Beautiful Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300
Hubble captures view of “Mystic Mountain”
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Hubble captures view of “Mystic Mountain”
Credit:

NASA, ESA, M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)

Galactic wreckage in Stephan's Quintet
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Galactic wreckage in Stephan's Quintet
Credit:

NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 6217
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Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 6217
Credit:

NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

Dramatically backlit dust lanes in NGC 7049
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Dramatically backlit dust lanes in NGC 7049
Credit:

NASA, ESA and W. Harris (McMaster University, Ontario, Canada)

Holiday Wishes from the Hubble Space Telescope
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Holiday Wishes from the Hubble Space Telescope
Credit:

NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration

Star birth in the extreme
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Star birth in the extreme
Credit:

NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Nearby Dust Clouds in the Milky Way
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Nearby Dust Clouds in the Milky Way
Credit:

NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA)
Acknowledgment: P. McCullough (STScI)

Largest ever galaxy portrait - stunning HD image of Pinwheel Galaxy
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Largest ever galaxy portrait - stunning HD image of Pinwheel Galaxy
Credit:

Image: European Space Agency & NASA

Acknowledgements:

Project Investigators for the original Hubble data: K.D. Kuntz (GSFC), F. Bresolin (University of Hawaii), J. Trauger (JPL), J. Mould (NOAO), and Y.-H. Chu (University of Illinois, Urbana)

Image processing: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)

CFHT image: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope/J.-C. Cuillandre/Coelum

NOAO image: George Jacoby, Bruce Bohannan, Mark Hanna/NOAO/AURA/NSF

Out of this whirl: The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) and companion galaxy
Hubble Spies Cosmic Dust Bunnies
Light continues to echo three years after stellar outburst
Hubble studies sequences of star formation in neighbouring galaxy
A 'wallpaper' of distant galaxies is a stunning backdrop for a runaway galaxy
Hubble's newest camera takes a deep look at two merging galaxies
Hubble's newest camera images ghostly star-forming pillar of gas and dust
The Red Spider Nebula: Surfing in Sagittarius - not for the faint-hearted!
Light and Shadow in the Carina Nebula
Saturn In Natural Colours
Hubble snaps close-up of the Tarantula
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Hubble snaps close-up of the Tarantula
Credit:

NASA, ESA

Flocculent spiral NGC 2841
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Flocculent spiral NGC 2841
Credit:

NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration Acknowledgment: M. Crockett and S. Kaviraj (Oxford University, UK), R. O'Connell (University of Virginia), B. Whitmore (STScI) and the WFC3 Scientific Oversight Committee.

ACS Image of NGC 5866
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ACS Image of NGC 5866
Credit:

NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA)

Thackeray's Globules in IC 2944
The Spirograph Nebula
A Grazing Encounter Between two Spiral Galaxies
Galaxies in a Swarm of Star Clusters
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Galaxies in a Swarm of Star Clusters
Credit:

ESA/Hubble & NASA 

An Extraordinary Celestial Spiral
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An Extraordinary Celestial Spiral
Credit:

ESA/NASA & R. Sahai

Collision leaves giant Jupiter bruised
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Collision leaves giant Jupiter bruised
Credit:

NASA, ESA, Michael Wong (Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD), H. B. Hammel (Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO) and the Jupiter Impact Team

Quadruple Saturn moon transit snapped by Hubble
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Quadruple Saturn moon transit snapped by Hubble
Credit:

NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Acknowledgment: M. Wong (STScI/UC Berkeley) and C. Go (Philippines)

Galaxy Playing Twister
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Galaxy Playing Twister
Credit:

NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA)

Looking Down a Barrel of Gas at a Doomed Star
Spectacular Hubble view of Centaurus A
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Spectacular Hubble view of Centaurus A
Credit:

NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration. Acknowledgment: R. O’Connell (University of Virginia) and the WFC3 Scientific Oversight Committee

Abell 2218
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Abell 2218
Credit:

NASA, ESA, and Johan Richard (Caltech, USA)
Acknowledgement: Davide de Martin & James Long (ESA/Hubble)

New stars shed light on the past
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New stars shed light on the past
Credit:

NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration

Ghostly Reflections in the Pleiades
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Ghostly Reflections in the Pleiades
Credit:

NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA), George Herbig and Theodore Simon (University of Hawaii).

A Reflection Nebula in Orion
True colour Image of Impact Zones D and G
Gaseous Streamers Flutter in Stellar Breeze
Hubble images remarkable double cluster
The Trifid Nebula: Stellar Sibling Rivalry
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The Trifid Nebula: Stellar Sibling Rivalry
Credit:

NASA/ESA and Jeff Hester (Arizona State University)

WFC3 visible image of the Carina Nebula
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WFC3 visible image of the Carina Nebula
Credit:

NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

Abell 1703
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Abell 1703
Credit:

NASA, ESA, and Johan Richard (Caltech, USA)
Acknowledgement: Davide de Martin & James Long (ESA/Hubble)

Hubble view of star-forming region S106
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Hubble view of star-forming region S106
Credit:

NASA & ESA

A Dying Star’s Toxic Legacy
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A Dying Star’s Toxic Legacy
Credit:

ESA/Hubble & NASA

The Unique Red Rectangle: sharper than ever before
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The Unique Red Rectangle: sharper than ever before
Credit:

ESA/Hubble and NASA

Hubble views NGC 4522
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Hubble views NGC 4522
Credit:

NASA & ESA

Mammoth stars seen by Hubble
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Mammoth stars seen by Hubble
Credit:

NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain)

The Hourglass Nebula
Hubble view of the huge star formation region N11 in the Large Magellanic Cloud
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Hubble view of the huge star formation region N11 in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Credit:

NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain)

Hubble snaps heavyweight of the Leo Triplet
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Hubble snaps heavyweight of the Leo Triplet
Credit:

NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin and Robert Gendler

Star on a Hubble diet
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Star on a Hubble diet
Credit:

NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain). Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)

Cassiopeia A - The colourful aftermath of a violent stellar death
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Cassiopeia A - The colourful aftermath of a violent stellar death
Credit:

NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration. Acknowledgement: Robert A. Fesen (Dartmouth College, USA) and James Long (ESA/Hubble)

Arp 148
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Arp 148
Credit:

NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University), K. Noll (STScI), and J. Westphal (Caltech)

Stellar fireworks are ablaze in galaxy NGC 4449
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Stellar fireworks are ablaze in galaxy NGC 4449
Credit:

NASA, ESA, A. Aloisi (STScI/ESA), and The Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration

A New View of the Helix Nebula
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A New View of the Helix Nebula
Credit:

NASA, ESA, C.R. O'Dell (Vanderbilt University), and M. Meixner, P. McCullough, and G. Bacon ( Space Telescope Science Institute

)

Nebula NGC 2080, nicknamed the 'Ghost Head Nebula'
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Nebula NGC 2080, nicknamed the 'Ghost Head Nebula'
Credit:

ESA, NASA, & Mohammad Heydari-Malayeri (Observatoire de Paris, France)

Hubble Revisits an Old Friend
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Hubble Revisits an Old Friend
Credit:

ESA/Hubble & NASA

Hubble snaps image of space oddity
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Hubble snaps image of space oddity
Credit:

NASA, ESA, William Keel (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa), and the Galaxy Zoo team

Hubble spots a celestial bauble
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Hubble spots a celestial bauble
Credit:

NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Acknowledgement: J. Hughes (Rutgers University)

Hubble views NGC 4402
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Hubble views NGC 4402
Credit:

NASA & ESA

The gargantuan galaxy NGC 1132
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The gargantuan galaxy NGC 1132
Credit:

NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration. Acknowledgment: M. West (ESO, Chile)

IC Beauty
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IC Beauty
Credit:

NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA

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NGC 2346
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NGC 2346
Credit:

NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI).

Lensing cluster Abell 383
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Lensing cluster Abell 383
Credit:

NASA, ESA, J. Richard (CRAL) and J.-P. Kneib (LAM). Acknowledgement: Marc Postman (STScI)

Orion’s Lesser-known Nebula Takes Centre Stage
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Orion’s Lesser-known Nebula Takes Centre Stage
Credit:

ESA/Hubble & NASA

Doing Cartwheels to Celebrate the End of an Era
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Doing Cartwheels to Celebrate the End of an Era
Credit:

ESA/Hubble & NASA

Barred Spiral Bares All
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Barred Spiral Bares All
Credit:

ESA/Hubble & NASA

A cosmic concoction in NGC 2467
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A cosmic concoction in NGC 2467
Credit:

NASA, ESA and Orsola De Marco (Macquarie University)

Unusual Spiral NGC 4921 in the Coma Galaxy Cluster
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Unusual Spiral NGC 4921 in the Coma Galaxy Cluster
Credit:

NASA, ESA and K. Cook (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)

Hubble finds dark matter ring in galaxy cluster
Symphony of colours in the Tarantula
Dying star creates fantasy-like sculpture of gas and dust
The Lure of the Rings
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The Lure of the Rings
Credit:

NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)

The Boomerang Nebula - the coolest place in the Universe?
Eleven years in orbit: Hubble observes the popular Horsehead nebula
The Eskimo Nebula
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The Eskimo Nebula
Credit:

NASA, ESA, Andrew Fruchter (STScI), and the ERO team (STScI + ST-ECF)

NGC 2440
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NGC 2440
Credit:

NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI).

Hubble's Variable Nebula (NGC 2261)
The Hubble Deep Field
Preview of a Forthcoming Supernova
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Preview of a Forthcoming Supernova
Credit:

ESA/Hubble & NASA

Hubble image of NGC 1073
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Hubble image of NGC 1073
Credit:

NASA & ESA

The Frosty Leo Nebula
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The Frosty Leo Nebula
Credit:

ESA/Hubble & NASA

First Globular Cluster Outside the Milky Way
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First Globular Cluster Outside the Milky Way
Credit:

ESA/Hubble & NASA

Hubble image of galaxy cluster MACS J1206
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Hubble image of galaxy cluster MACS J1206
Credit:

NASA, ESA, M. Postman (STScI) and the CLASH Team

An Extraordinarily Slender Galaxy
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An Extraordinarily Slender Galaxy
Credit:

ESA/Hubble & NASA

A Lucky Observation of an Enigmatic Cloud
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A Lucky Observation of an Enigmatic Cloud
Credit:

ESA/Hubble, R. Sahai and NASA