Hubble photo gallery
Photos by NASA
| • | Hubble scores cosmic thriller |
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| This beast rearing its head from a crimson sea is a pillar of gas and dust called the Cone Nebula and resides in a turbulent star-forming region 2,500 light-years from Earth. The picture was taken by the new Hubble camera. |
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| This picture of the "Tadpole" galaxy, 420 million light-years from Earth, was taken last month with the Hubble telescope's new Advanced Camera for Surveys and shows more than 6,000 galaxies in the background. |
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| The region of the nebula shown in this photograph is about 3,500 times wider than our solar system. The area represents about 60 percent of the total view captured by ACS. The nebula, also called M17 and the Swan Nebula, resides 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. |
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| Located 300 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices, the colliding galaxies have been nicknamed "The Mice" because of the long tails of stars and gas emanating from each galaxy. Otherwise known as NGC 4676, the pair will eventually merge into a single giant galaxy. |
