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A rose made of galaxies

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

Extreme star cluster bursts into life in new Hubble image

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

Stellar Nursery in the arms of NGC 1672

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NASA, ESA

Colliding galaxies make love, not war

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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).

New infrared view of the Horsehead Nebula — Hubble’s 23rd anniversary image

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

Magnetic monster NGC 1275

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

Hubble sees galaxies galore

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

Hubble's sharpest view of the Orion Nebula

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

Hubble Mosaic of the Majestic Sombrero Galaxy

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

The magnificent starburst galaxy Messier 82

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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

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

Pillars of Creation

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Jeff Hester and Paul Scowen (Arizona State University), and NASA/ESA

Butterfly emerges from stellar demise in planetary nebula NGC 6302

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NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

Young stars sculpt gas with powerful outflows

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NASA, ESA and A. Nota (ESA/STScI, STScI/AURA)

A poster-size image of the beautiful barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300

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

Hubble view of M 106

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NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and R. Gendler (for the Hubble Heritage Team). Acknowledgment: J. GaBany

Hubble captures view of “Mystic Mountain”

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

Galactic wreckage in Stephan's Quintet

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NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

Barred spiral galaxy NGC 6217

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NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

Dramatically backlit dust lanes in NGC 7049

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

Holiday Wishes from the Hubble Space Telescope

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

Star birth in the extreme

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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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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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Image: European Space Agency & NASA

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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

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

Hubble Spies Cosmic Dust Bunnies

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

Light continues to echo three years after stellar outburst

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

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Hubble studies sequences of star formation in neighbouring galaxy

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NASA/ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/HEIC

A 'wallpaper' of distant galaxies is a stunning backdrop for a runaway galaxy

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NASA, Holland Ford (JHU), the ACS Science Team and ESA

Hubble's newest camera takes a deep look at two merging galaxies

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NASA, Holland Ford (JHU), the ACS Science Team and ESA

Hubble's newest camera images ghostly star-forming pillar of gas and dust

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NASA, Holland Ford (JHU), the ACS Science Team and ESA

The Red Spider Nebula: Surfing in Sagittarius - not for the faint-hearted!

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ESA & Garrelt Mellema (Leiden University, the Netherlands)

Light and Shadow in the Carina Nebula

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

Saturn In Natural Colours

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Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA/ESA)

Hubble snaps close-up of the Tarantula

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NASA, ESA

Flocculent spiral NGC 2841

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

Thackeray's Globules in IC 2944

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

The Spirograph Nebula

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NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA

A Grazing Encounter Between two Spiral Galaxies

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NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI)

Galaxies in a swarm of star clusters

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ESA/Hubble & NASA

An extraordinary celestial spiral

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ESA/NASA & R. Sahai

Collision leaves giant Jupiter bruised

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

Looking Down a Barrel of Gas at a Doomed Star

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Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA/ESA

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Hubble image of Messier 77

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NASA, ESA & A. van der Hoeven

Spectacular Hubble view of Centaurus A

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

Ghostly Reflections in the Pleiades

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

A Reflection Nebula in Orion

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NASA/ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI

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True colour Image of Impact Zones D and G

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H. Hammel, MIT and NASA/ESA

Gaseous Streamers Flutter in Stellar Breeze

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NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team

Hubble images remarkable double cluster

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ESA, NASA and Martino Romaniello (European Southern Observatory, Germany)

The Trifid Nebula: Stellar Sibling Rivalry

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NASA/ESA and Jeff Hester (Arizona State University)

A tale of galactic collisions

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ESA/Hubble & NASA
Acknowledgement: Luca Limatola

Hubble image of LRLL 54361 and its surroundings

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NASA, ESA, and J. Muzerolle (STScI)

WFC3 visible image of the Carina Nebula

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NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

Abell 1703

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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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NASA & ESA

A dying star’s toxic legacy

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ESA/Hubble & NASA

The unique Red Rectangle: sharper than ever before

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ESA/Hubble and NASA

Hubble views NGC 4522

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NASA & ESA

Mammoth stars seen by Hubble

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

The Hourglass Nebula

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Raghvendra Sahai and John Trauger (JPL), the WFPC2 science team, and NASA/ESA

Hubble image of Abell 68

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NASA & ESA. Acknowledgement: N. Rose

The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field

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NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), and the HUDF09 Team

Hubble view of the huge star formation region N11 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

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

Hubble snaps heavyweight of the Leo Triplet

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

Stellar flare hits HD 189733b (artist's impression)

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NASA, ESA, L. Calçada

Arp 148

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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)