Black Holes Go 'Mano a Mano'. NASA public domain image colelction.
This image of NGC 6240 contains new X-ray data from Chandra (shown in red, orange, and yellow) that has been combined with an optical image from the Hubble Space Telescope originally released in 2008. In 2002, ... More
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Produces Clear Color Photo of Jupiter
*Description*: This is the first true-color photograph of the giant planet Jupiter from the Wide Field Planetary Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. All features in this image are cloud formations in the ... More
HST image of Protoplanetary Disks in the Orion Nebula
These four images show frisbee shaped dust disks, called protoplanetary disks, around embryonic stars in the Orion Nebula being blowtorched by a blistering flood of ultraviolet radiation from the region's brig... More
Hubble Panoramic View of Orion Nebula Reveals Thousands of Stars
*Description*: A new image from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes looks more like an abstract painting than a cosmic snapshot. The magnificent masterpiece shows the Orion nebula in an explosion of inf... More
Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: SWEEPS fields Object Description: Stellar Field Near the Galactic Bulge Position (J2000): R.A. 17h 59m 00s Dec. -29 ° 12' 00" Constellatio... More
Hubble Space Telescope Celestial Fireworks
*Description*: Resembling the puffs of smoke and sparks from a summer fireworks display in this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, these delicate filaments are actually sheets of debris from a stellar e... More
HST WC/PC First Light Image. NASA public domain image colelction.
*Description*: On the right is part of the first image taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) Wide Field Planetary Camera. It is shown with a ground-based picture from Las Campanas, Chile, Observator... More
Very Long Baseline Array Reveals Formation Region of Giant Cosmic Jet ...
*[top left] - *:This radio image of the galaxy M87, taken with the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope in February 1989, shows giant bubble-like structures where radio emission is thought to be powered by th... More
Hubble Space Telescope Finds a Double Nucleus in the Andromeda Galaxy
*Description*: [Right] - HST View of Galactic Nucleus A NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of a "double nucleus" in the giant spiral galaxy in Andromeda, M31. Each of the two light-peaks contains a few... More
Hubble Identifies Stellar Companion to Distant Planet
*Description*: [bottom left text] Hubble Space telescope observed and identified the host star to a gravitationally lensed planet first discovered in 2003 by ground-based telescopes. [left box] A foreground r... More
Hubble Space Telescope of Cone Nebula (NGC 2264)
Resembling a nightmarish beast rearing its head from a crimson sea, this monstrous object is actually an irnocuous pillar of gas and dust. Called the Cone Nebula (NGC 2264), this giant pillar resides in a turbu... More
Sculptor Galaxy Seen as Infrared Rainbow
The Sculptor galaxy is shown in different infrared hues, in this new mosaic from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The main picture is a composite of infrared light captured with all four of ... More
Illustration of a Light Echo. NASA public domain image colelction.
Imagine yourself standing in a large open chamber like an aircraft hangar. If you clap your hands, you will be rewarded with a series of echoes reverberating through the building. These sound echoes are very mu... More
First ESA Faint Object Camera Science Images Pluto - the "Double Plane...
*Description*: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has obtained the clearest pictures ever of our solar system's most distant and enigmatic object: the planet Pluto. The observations were made with the European Spac... More
An Ancient Storm in the Jovian Atmosphere
When 17th-century astronomers first turned their telescopes to Jupiter, they noted a conspicuous reddish spot on the giant planet. This Great Red Spot is still present in Jupiter's atmosphere, more than 300 yea... More
Hubble Space Telescope Captures First Direct Image of a Star
*Description*: This is the first direct image of a star other than the Sun, made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Called Alpha Orionis, or Betelgeuse, it is a red supergiant star marking the shoulder of the... More
The Infrared Helix. NASA public domain image colelction.
The Helix Nebula, which is composed of gaseous shells and disks puffed out by a dying sunlike star, exhibits complex structure on the smallest visible scales. In this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telesco... More
Gravitational Waves, US Navy Photogrpah
Artists’ conception of the merger of two neutron stars. Top panel: two stars are still separated, but starting to spiral together and already emitting gravitational waves; Bottom panel: collision has occurred a... More
A camera operator images the Moon through the eyepiece
A camera operator images the Moon through the eyepiece of the U.S. Naval Observatory's historic 12-inch refractor telescope as part of a Science Channel documentary being filmed on the Observatory grounds. USN... More
Wispy Dust and Gas Paint Portrait of Starbirth
*Description*: This active region of star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), as photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, unveils wispy clouds of hydrogen and oxygen that swirl and mix with du... More
Dying Star Creates Fantasy-like Sculpture of Gas and Dust
*Description*: In this detailed view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the so-called Cat's Eye Nebula looks like the penetrating eye of the disembodied sorcerer Sauron from the film adaptation of "The Lord o... More
A Bright Ring of Star Birth around a Galaxy's Core
*Description*: An image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals clusters of infant stars that formed in a ring around the core of the barred-spiral galaxy NGC 4314. This stellar nursery, whose inhabitants w... More
Hubble's Latest Views of Light Echo from Star V838 Monocerotis
*Description*: A detailed look at the V838 Mon light echo from September 2006, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: V838 Monocerot... More
The Infrared Helix. NASA public domain image colelction.
The Helix nebula exhibits complex structure on the smallest visible scales. It is composed of gaseous shells and disks puffed out by a dying sun-like star. In this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescop... More
Panoramic Hubble Picture Surveys Star Birth, Proto-Planetary Systems i...
*Description*: This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The picture, seamles... More
Hubble Reveals Stellar Fireworks Accompanying Galaxy Collisions
*Description*: This Hubble Space Telescope image provides a detailed look at a brilliant "fireworks show" at the center of a collision between two galaxies. Hubble has uncovered over 1,000 bright, young star c... More
Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: SWEEPS fields Object Description: Stellar Field Near the Galactic Bulge Position (J2000): R.A. 17h 59m 00s Dec. -29 ° 12' 00" Constellatio... More
The Cat's Eye Nebula. NASA public domain image colelction.
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows one of the most complex planetary nebulae ever seen, NGC 6543, nicknamed the "Cat's Eye Nebula." Hubble reveals surprisingly intricate structures including concentri... More
Hubble Legacy National Air and Space Museum
Astronaut Scott Altman speaks, Wednesday evening, Sept. 9, 2009, during a celebration of the Hubble Legacy at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Altman, commanded STS-125, the repair mission to th... More
Building Planets NASA Image of The Day
This artist's animation illustrates a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star the same age and size as our Sun. Asteroids are chunks of rock from ''failed'' planets, which never managed to coalesce into fu... More
Dreamy, Young Stars NASA Image of The Day
The Orion Nebula is a 'happening' place where stars are born and this colony of hot, young stars is stirring up the cosmic scene in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The young stars dip and peak i... More
Hubble Heritage Project's First Anniversary
*Description*: Hubble's variable nebula is named (like the Hubble telescope itself) after the American astronomer Edwin P. Hubble, who carried out some of the early studies of this object. It is a fan-shaped c... More
Hubble Finds Hidden Exoplanet in Archival Data
In 19 years of observations, the Hubble Space Telescope has amassed a huge archive of data--an archive that may contain the telltale glow of undiscovered extrasolar planets. Such is the case with HR 8799b, show... More
The Carina Nebula: Star Birth in the Extreme
*Description*: A towering "mountain" of cold hydrogen gas laced with dust is the site of new star formation in the Carina Nebula. The great gas pillar is being eroded by the ultraviolet radiation from the hott... More
Stellar Nursery in the Rosette Nebula
This image from the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory shows the cloud associated with the Rosette Nebula, a stellar nursery about 5,000 light-years from Earth in the Monoceros, or Unicorn, cons... More
The Greatest Stars NASA Image of The Day
The small open star cluster Pismis 24 lies in the core of the NGC 6357 nebula in Scorpius, about 8,000 light-years away from Earth. The brightest object in the center of this image is designated Pismis 24-1 and... More
The Early Cosmos NASA Image of The Day
Stars are forming in Henize 2-10, a dwarf starburst galaxy located about 30 million light years from Earth, at a prodigious rate, giving the star clusters in this galaxy their blue appearance. This combination ... More
Hubble Celebrates 15th Anniversary with Spectacular New Images
*Description*: This wide-field image of the Eagle Nebula was taken at the National Science Foundation's 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak with the NOAO Mosaic CCD camera. It shows the areas seen in greater deta... More
A New Twist on an Old Nebula. NASA public domain image colelction.
*Description*: This composite image is a view of the colorful Helix Nebula taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Mosaic II Camera on the 4-meter telescope at C... More
Hubble Captures a "Five-Star" Rated Gravitational Lens
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: SDSS J1004+4112 Object Description: Galaxy cluster gravitational lens Position (J2000): R.A. 10h 04m 11s.84 Dec. +41° 12' 50".4 Constellat... More
Internal Heat Drives Jupiter's Giant Storm Eruption
*Description*: An image of Jupiter in visible-light from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) on May 11, 2007 showing the turbulent pattern generated by the two plumes at the upper left part of Jupiter. Te... More
Illustration of a Light Echo. NASA public domain image colelction.
Imagine yourself standing in a large open chamber like an aircraft hangar. If you clap your hands, you will be rewarded with a series of echoes reverberating through the building. These sound echoes are very mu... More
Giant Twisters in the Lagoon Nebula
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image reveals a pair of one-half light-year long interstellar "twisters," eerie funnels and twisted-rope structures in the heart of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) which lie... More
HST image of Galaxy NGC 3079. NASA public domain image colelction.
These images reveal dramatic activities within the core of the Galaxy NGC 3079, where a lumpy bubble of hot gas rises from a cauldron of glowing matter. Image at left shows the bubble in the center of the gala... More
A Galactic Spectacle NASA Image of The Day
The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth, are shown in this composite image from NASA's Great Observatories--the Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), the Hubble Space Telescope (gold ... More
HST's First Observation Of Jupiter
*Description*: This black and white picture of Jupiter, taken in green light at 1:14 a.m. on the 11th March, 1991 by the Planetary Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows a wealth of fine detail in the ... More
Hubble Celebrates 15th Anniversary with Spectacular New Images
*Description*: This wide-field image of the Eagle Nebula was taken at the National Science Foundation's 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak with the NOAO Mosaic CCD camera. Technical facts about this news re... More
Merger of Two White Dwarf Stars
*Description*: This artist's illustration shows three steps in the merger of a pair of white dwarf stars. The illustration depicts how planets may form around massive white dwarfs and is based upon theoretical... More
Hubble Reveals Stellar Fireworks Accompanying Galaxy Collisions
Technical facts about this news release: Back to entire collection [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/index/416/ ] Next release [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1997/33/ ] P... More
Hubble Ultraviolet Image of Multiple Comet Impacts on Jupiter
*Description*: Ultraviolet image of Jupiter taken by the Wide Field Camera of the Hubble Space Telescope. The image shows Jupiter's atmosphere at a wavelength of 2550 Angstroms after many impacts by fragments ... More
Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy
*Description*: This is an artist's impression of a unique type of exoplanet discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope. The planet is so close it to its star that it completes an orbit in 10.5 hours. The plane... More
Hubble Space Telescope Celestial Fireworks
*Description*: Resembling the puffs of smoke and sparks from a summer fireworks display in this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, these delicate filaments are actually sheets of debris from a stellar e... More
Panoramic Hubble Picture Surveys Star Birth, Proto-Planetary Systems i...
*Description*: This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The picture, seamles... More
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Discovers Young Star Clusters in Giant G...
Technical facts about this news release: Back to entire collection [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/index/631/ ] Next release [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1992/07/ ] P... More
Hubble Provides Multiple Views of How to Feed a Black Hole
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Centaurus A (NGC 5128) Position (J2000): Right ascension: 13: 25.5 (hours : minutes) Declination: -43 : 01 (degrees : minutes) Constellati... More
Hubble Clicks Images of Io Sweeping Across Jupiter
While hunting for volcanic plumes on Io, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured these images of the volatile moon sweeping across the giant face of Jupiter. Only a few weeks before these dramatic images were ta... More
Hubble Space Telescope Markarian 817
Capturing the Spectacular Outflow from Markarian 817 Rings of brilliant blue stars encircle the bright, active core of this spiral galaxy, whose monster black hole is blasting material into space at 9 million m... More
Hubble Hunts Down Binary Objects at the Fringe of Our Solar System
*Description*: This illustration shows that the Kuiper Belt is shaped like a disk [see inset diagram] and resides within the shell-like structure of the Oort Cloud. Located on the outskirts of the solar system... More
The Eagle Nebula - Public domain drawing
These eerie, dark pillar-like structures are columns of cool interstellar hydrogen gas and dust that are also incubators for new stars. The pillars protrude from the interior wall of a dark molecular cloud like... More
A New Twist on an Old Nebula. NASA public domain image colelction.
*Description*: This composite image is a view of the colorful Helix Nebula taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Mosaic II Camera on the 4-meter telescope at C... More
Fireworks Near a Black Hole in the Core of Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4151
*Description*: The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) simultaneously records, in unprecedented detail, the velocities of hundreds of gas knots streaming at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour from... More
An Abrasive Collision Gives One Galaxy a "Black Eye
*Description*: This picture of M64 is a color composite of CCD images from the 0.9-meter telescope of the Kitt Peak National Observatory, near Tucson, Arizona, taken in January 1997. The image has been rotated... More
An Abrasive Collision Gives One Galaxy a "Black Eye
*Description*: This picture of M64 is a color composite of CCD images from the 0.9-meter telescope of the Kitt Peak National Observatory, near Tucson, Arizona, taken in January 1997. The image has been rotated... More
Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: SWEEPS fields Object Description: Stellar Field Near the Galactic Bulge Position (J2000): R.A. 17h 59m 00s Dec. -29 ° 12' 00" Constellatio... More
The Infrared Helix. NASA public domain image colelction.
The Helix Nebula, which is composed of gaseous shells and disks puffed out by a dying sunlike star, exhibits complex structure on the smallest visible scales. In this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telesco... More
History Revealed NASA Image of The Day
More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this panoramic, full-color view of thousands of galaxies. This image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, was made from mosaics taken in September a... More
Galaxy M82. NASA public domain image colelction.
View of M82, a small, nearby galaxy that long ago bumped into its larger neighbor, M81. New infrared and visible-light pictures from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal for the first time important details of... More
Kepler Discovery (201102020005HQ)
Jack Lissauer, a planetary scientist and a Kepler science team member at NASA's Ames Research Center, speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2010, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Scientists usi... More
Tycho's Supernova Remnant. NASA public domain image colelction.
This image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) takes in several interesting objects in the constellation Cassiopeia, none of which are easily seen in visible light. The red circle visible in ... More
Hubble's Latest Views of Light Echo from Star V838 Monocerotis
*Description*: A detailed look at the V838 Mon light echo from September 2006, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: V838 Monocerot... More
A Galactic Spectacle NASA Image of The Day
The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth, are shown in this composite image from NASA's Great Observatories--the Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), the Hubble Space Telescope (gold ... More
A Chameleon Sky NASA Image of The Day
The sands of time are running out for the central star of this the Hourglass Nebula. With its nuclear fuel exhausted, this brief, spectacular, closing phase of a sun-like star's life occurs as its outer layers ... More
Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter
*Description*: When 17th-century astronomers first turned their telescopes to Jupiter, they noted a conspicuous reddish spot on the giant planet. This Great Red Spot is still present in Jupiter's atmosphere, m... More
Dying Star Creates Fantasy-like Sculpture of Gas and Dust
*Description*: In this detailed view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the so-called Cat's Eye Nebula looks like the penetrating eye of the disembodied sorcerer Sauron from the film adaptation of "The Lord o... More
NASA Hubble Space Telescope Photographs Jupiter Aurora
*Description*: The image at top right shows Jovian aurora observed on February 8, 1992, by the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera (FOC) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST). This is the first di... More
Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: SWEEPS fields Object Description: Stellar Field Near the Galactic Bulge Position (J2000): R.A. 17h 59m 00s Dec. -29 ° 12' 00" Constellatio... More
Hubble Identifies Stellar Companion to Distant Planet
*Description*: [bottom left text] Hubble Space telescope observed and identified the host star to a gravitationally lensed planet first discovered in 2003 by ground-based telescopes. [left box] A foreground r... More
Hubble Panoramic View of Orion Nebula Reveals Thousands of Stars
*Description*: A new image from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes looks more like an abstract painting than a cosmic snapshot. The magnificent masterpiece shows the Orion nebula in an explosion of inf... More
Jupiter's Main and Gossamer Ring Structures
The schematic structures of Jupiter's main and gossamer rings are depicted here. Scientists studying data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft have found that the ring system is made up of impact debris created when ... More
Astro-1 Image Taken by Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
This image shows a part of the Cygnus loop supernova remnant, taken by the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) on the Astro Observatory during the Astro-1 mission (STS-35) on December 5, 1990. Pictured is a por... More
An Infrared View of the Galaxy. NASA public domain image colelction.
This composite color infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a new population of massive stars and new details in complex structures in the hot ionized gas swirling around the central 300 l... More
In the Constellation Cassiopeia NASA Image of The Day
Tycho's Supernova, the red circle visible in the upper left part of the image, is SN 1572 is a remnant of a star explosion is named after the astronomer Tycho Brahe, although he was not the only person to obser... More
Wispy Dust and Gas Paint Portrait of Starbirth
*Description*: This active region of star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), as photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, unveils wispy clouds of hydrogen and oxygen that swirl and mix with du... More
Astronomers Track Down Asteroids in Hubble Archive
*Description*: Astronomers Karl Stapelfeldt and Robin Evans have tracked down about 100 small asteroids by hunting through more than 28,000 archival images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and ... More
Hubble Captures a "Five-Star" Rated Gravitational Lens
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: SDSS J1004+4112 Object Description: Galaxy cluster gravitational lens Position (J2000): R.A. 10h 04m 11s.84 Dec. +41° 12' 50".4 Constellat... More
HST image of Stephan's Quintet. NASA public domain image colelction.
Close-up view of Stephan's Quintet, a group of five galaxies. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image showcases three regions of star birth: Long, sweeping tail and spiral arms of NGC 7319 (near center), the ... More
Hubble Heritage Project's First Anniversary
*Description*: Hubble's variable nebula is named (like the Hubble telescope itself) after the American astronomer Edwin P. Hubble, who carried out some of the early studies of this object. It is a fan-shaped c... More
Hubble Sees Faintest Stars in a Globular Cluster
*Description*: This graph schematically plots two populations of stars Hubble has seen in a neighboring star cluster. The graph, a simplified version of the original data, plots stellar brightness (vertical ax... More
Atlas V/Centaur. NASA public domain image colelction.
Baltimore-based Charm City Cakes crafted this artistic installment especially for Goddard's Yuri's Night celebration. The Hubble Space Telescope (right) seems to peer at Jupiter in this hanging display. Though ... More
Milton Bridges, a Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni
Milton Bridges, a Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni resident, looks at the moon through a telescope during a full moon tea ceremony and musical act in Iwakuni City, Japan, Oct. 4, 2017. Giving station residents ... More
An Expanding Bubble in Space. NASA public domain image colelction.
Astronomers, using the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in October and November 1997 and April 1999, imaged the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) with unprecedented clarity. For the f... More
Hubble Finds an Hourglass Nebula around a Dying Star
*Description*: This is an image of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula located about 8,000 light-years away, taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Th... More
Internal Heat Drives Jupiter's Giant Storm Eruption
*Description*: An image of Jupiter in visible-light from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) on May 11, 2007 showing the turbulent pattern generated by the two plumes at the upper left part of Jupiter. Te... More
The Infrared Helix. NASA public domain image colelction.
The Helix nebula exhibits complex structure on the smallest visible scales. It is composed of gaseous shells and disks puffed out by a dying sun-like star. In this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescop... More
Computer Generated View of Earth as seen from the Asteroid Toutatis
This computer generated image depicts a view of Earth as seen from the surface of the asteroid Toutatis on Nov 29th 1996. A 2.5 degree field-of-view synthetic computer camera was used for this simulation. Touta... More
Light Echo From Star V838 Monocerotis
This series of photos, captured by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys from May to December 2002, dramatically demonstrates the reverberation of light through space caused by an ... More
A Super-Efficient Particle Accelerator
This image, created from data obtained from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, shows a part of the roughly circular supernova remnant known as RCW 86.... More
Stars at the Galactic Center. NASA public domain image colelction.
The center of our Milky Way Galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas. But, in this stunning vista, the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared cameras penetrate... More
In the Constellation Cassiopeia, History of NASA
Tycho's Supernova, the red circle visible in the upper left part of the image, is SN 1572 is a remnant of a star explosion is named after the astronomer Tycho Brahe, although he was not the only person to obser... More
Looking Down a Barrel of Gas at a Doomed Star
*Description*: The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest view yet of the most famous of all planetary nebulae: the Ring Nebula (M57). In this October 1998 image, the telescope has looked down a... More