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Real images from the Space Telescopes: Hubble, Spitzer, and others.

This is a "barred
spiral" galaxy, NGC
1300, the largest Hubble
image of a complete galaxy.
Incredible detail. It is 69
million light years away in
Eriadnus, a Southern
constellation. Read  more
from hubblesite.org
Barred Spiral NGC 1300
Like many other objects,
Hubble has resolved the
enigmatic Antenna Galaxy,
which looked to Earthbound
'scopes like a fuzzy
insect, into reality: The
Antennae are a pair of
interacting galaxies,
caught in each other's
gravitational pull, and
tearing each other apart.
Hubble Antenna Galaxies Poster
Finally! Our most-requested
Hubble image. Scientists
aimed Hubble at a dark void
in the sky, and this is
what they saw! It's teeming
with hundreds of colorful
galaxies of all types and
sizes.
Hubble Deep Field
7000 light years away in the
constellation Serpens,
north of Scorpio. This is
another of the Eagle's
"pillars of
creation" but with
much finer detail, from the
dusty base to the blast of
ultraviolet light at the
top. Brilliant new blue
stars shine like Christmas
tree lights, while unseen
stars illuminate from
within and silhouette the
column from behind. Read
more from hubblesite.org.
Eagle Nebula Pillar (M-16)
This celebrated interacting
galaxy is 37 million light
years away in the
constellation Canes
Venatici, near the Big
Dipper. It is actually a
pair of interacting
galaxies viewed nearly face
on. A lower-angle study is
the subject of the Kim Poor
print  Starcatcher. Read
more  from hubblesite.org.
M-51 (The Whirlpool Galaxy)
NGC 6302 is a planetary
nebula 3800 light years
distant in the direction of
Scorpius. Planetary nebulae
are the result of
gas-shedding episodes from
a dying star. Photo by the
newly-installed Wide-field
Camera 3.
NGC 6302
An image from NASA's Spitzer
and Hubble Space Telescopes
looks more like an abstract
painting than a cosmic
snapshot. It shows the
Orion nebula in an
explosion of infrared,
ultraviolet and
visible-light colors. At
the heart is a set of four
massive stars, called the
Trapezium. These are
100,000 times brighter than
our sun.
The Orion Nebula
This is a stellar birthplace
seen by Spitzer in the
infrared. In the Northern
constellation Cassiopeia,
it is enormous-four full
Moons wide.
W5 Star forming Region
Only 450 light years away in
the constellation Aquarius,
this long-observed
planetary nebula, created
from outgassing of a dying
star has been imaged in
glorious detail and color
by Hubble. Nicknamed
"The Eye of God"
it spans an area half the
size of the moon. Read
more  from hubblesite.org.
The Helix Nebula (NGC 7293)
This is another familiar
dusty star-forming pillar
hundreds of light-years
long, in the Southern
hemisphere constellation of
Carina. Photo by the
newly-installed Wide-field
Camera 3.
Star Pillar in Carina
The Cone nebula is actually a
pillar of gas and dust.
Called the Cone Nebula (NGC
2264) -- so named because,
in ground-based images, it
has a conical shape -- this
giant pillar resides in a
turbulent star-forming
region.
The Cone Nebula
The Crab nebula is a
six-light-year-wide remnant
of a star gone supernova .
Japanese and Chinese
astronomers recorded it
1,000 years ago in
1054.

The orange
filaments are remains of
the star and are  mostly
hydrogen. Blue in the outer
part is neutral oxygen,
green is singly-ionized
sulfur, and red is
doubly-ionized oxygen. The
spinning neutron star
embedded in the center  is
the dynamo powering the
nebula's eerie bluish glow.
The blue light comes from
electrons whirling at
nearly the speed of light
around magnetic field lines
from the neutron star. The
neutron star, like a
lighthouse, ejects twin
beams of radiation that
appear to pulse 30 times a
second due to the neutron
star's rotation. A neutron
star is the crushed core of
the exploded star.
The Crab Nebula
This image is from the
Spitzer Space Telescope's
infrared instrument. This
barely visible area is in
the Northern constellation
Cassiopeia comes to life in
the infrared. The original
"Pillars of
Creation" in M16 would
barely fill the tips of one
of these
"mountains."
Infrared light can look
through dusty areas and see
infant star formation.
Mountains of Creation
Obtained with the Advanced
Camera for Surveys, is
Hubble's latest view of an
expanding halo of light
around a distant star,
named V838 Monocerotis. The
illumination of
interstellar dust comes
from the red supergiant
star at the middle of the
image, which gave off a
flashbulb-like pulse of
light in 2002.
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