18 years of Hubble Space Telescope (2) vertical city This Hubble image shows the most detailed view of the Crab Nebula to date. The Crab is arguably the most interesting object, and one of the most studied, in all of astronomy.
The Crab Nebula is one of the objects observed more closely structured and highly dynamic. This Hubble image of the Crab was assembled from 24 individual exposures taken with the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Credit: NASA, ESA and Allison Loll / Jeff Hester, Davide De Martin (ESA / Hubble)
star sculptures 
[ image detail ] This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a view of the most dynamic and intricate parts of stars in space, located 210,000 years light away in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. In the center of the region is a brilliant star cluster called NGC 346. A dramatic structure of arc, with a peak torn filaments surrounding the group.
A torrent of radiation from hot stars in the cluster NGC 346 in the center of this picture, the densest areas around you destroy, creating a fantasy sculpture of dust and gas. The dark, intricate ridge crest, generates a particularly dramatic silhouette. It contains several small dust globules that point toward the central group, like windsocks caught in a gale.
Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Note (ESA / STScI, STScI / AURA)
cosmic dust under the bed
As the dust " bunnies "under beds, surprisingly complex loops spots and cosmic dust lie hidden in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1316. This image from data obtained with the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals the dust roads and star clusters of this giant galaxy that give evidence that is formed from a past merger of two gas rich galaxies.
Credit: NASA, ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI / AURA)
Whirlpool Galaxy (M51)
The elegant and majestic winding arms of the spiral galaxy M51 (NGC 5194) appear as a large spiral staircase through space. Although they are actually long lanes of stars and gas with dust.
This image, taken in January 2005 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys of opinion on board the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope, illustrates a spiral galaxy's grand design, curve from its spiral arms, where young stars reside, to its yellowish central core, a home of older stars. The galaxy is nicknamed the Whirlpool because of its swirling structure.
The Whirlpool of the most striking feature is its turn two weapons, a feature called great design spiral galaxies. Many spiral galaxies possess numerous, loosely shaped arms which make their spiral structure less pronounced. These arms serve an important purpose in spiral galaxies, stars are factories, compressing hydrogen gas and the creation of groups of new stars. In Whirlpool, the line assembly begins with the dark clouds of gas on the inner edge, then moves to bright pink star-forming regions, and ends with the brilliant blue star clusters along the outer edge.
Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI / AURA)
the Eagle Nebula
Appearing
like a winged creature on a pedestal, this object is actually a tower of cold gas and dust rising from a stellar nursery called the Eagle Nebula. The tower stands at 9.5 light years or about 90 trillion miles high, almost twice the distance from our Sun to the next nearest star.
Stars in the Eagle Nebula are born in clouds of cold hydrogen gas that reside in chaotic neighborhoods, where energy from young stars sculpts that fantastic way. The tower may be a giant nursery for newborn stars. A torrent of ultraviolet light from a huge band, hot, new stars.
The dominant colors in the image were produced by gas energized by the star of the powerful group of ultraviolet light. Color blue at the top oxygen is bright. The red in the lower colon is glowing hydrogen. The Eagle Nebula image was taken in November 2004 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys of opinion on board the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Credit: NASA, ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI / AURA)
light echo of V838 Mon
Hubble Space Telescope's latest image of the star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) reveals dramatic changes in the illumination of the dust cloud surrounding structures. The effect, called a light echo, has been unveiling never-before-seen dust patterns ever since the star suddenly brightened for several weeks in early 2002.
Credit: NASA, ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA / STScI)
the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300
The Hubble telescope captured a sample of stars glowing gas and dark clouds of interstellar dust in this image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300. NGC 1300 is considered foreign to the prototype of spiral galaxies. Barred spiral galaxies differ from normal spiral in the arms of spiral galaxy not go to the center, but connected to the two ends of a straight bar of stars containing the nucleus at its center.
Credit: NASA, ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI / AURA)
Symphony of colors in the Tarantula 
[ image detail ] The Tarantula is situated to 170000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in the southern sky and is clearly visible to the naked eye as a large milky patch. Astronomers believe that this small irregular galaxy is undergoing a period of violence. Is in orbit around the Milky Way and has had several close encounters with her. It is believed that interaction with the Milky Way has caused an episode of energetic star formation - part of which is visible as the Tarantula Nebula.
Just above the center of the image there is a huge group of very hot stars called R136. The stars in R136 are also among the most massive stars we know. R136 is also a very young group, the oldest stars have 5 million or so years. Its smaller stars, however, are still forming, so astronomers observe R136 to try to understand the early stages of stellar evolution.
This mosaic of the Tarantula Nebula was conducted in 15 individual exposures taken through three filters that can narrow the light of ionized oxygen (501 nm, as shown in blue), hydrogen-alpha (656 nm, as shown in green) and ionized sulfur (672 nm, as shown in red). The exposure time for the WFPC2 images individual range between 800 and 2800 seconds in each filter.
Credit: ESA / NASA, ESO and Danny LaCrue
studies of star formation 
[ image detail ] captures the iridescent tapestry
of star birth in a neighbor in this galaxy. The view includes glowing gas, dark dust clouds and hot young stars newborn. The star-forming region, designated as N11B lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), located 160,000 light-years from Earth.
Great Nube de Magallanes (LMC) se encuentra en la constelación de Dorado y se rocía con un número de regiones de en curso de formación estelar. Una de estas estrellas que forman la región, N11B, se muestra en esta imagen de Hubble. Se trata de una subregión dentro de un área más grande de formación estelar llamada N11. N11 es la segunda más grande de estrellas que forman la región en LMC. Es sólo superado por el tamaño y la actividad de 'el rey de los viveros estelares', 30 Doradus, ubicada en el lado opuesto de LMC.
Crédito: NASA / ESA y el Hubble Heritage Team (AURA / STScI / HEIC
Among nearly 10000 galaxies, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, is a representation of "deep" of the universe, cutting across thousands of million light years. The image includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes and colors. The smallest may be one of the most distant galaxies known, from when the universe was only 800 million years. The nearest galaxy - the biggest, brightest, well defined and elliptical spiral comes from 1000 million years ago.
In vibrant contrast to the rich harvest of classic spiral and elliptical galaxies, there is a zoo of oddball galaxies trash on the ground. Some seem to toothpicks, others like links on a bracelet. Few seem to be interacting. These oddball galaxies chronicle a period when the universe was younger and more chaotic. The order and structure were beginning to emerge.
The image required 800 exposures over the course of 400 Hubble orbits around Earth. The total exposure time was 11.3 days, taken between September 24, 2003 and January 16, 2004.
Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith and (STScI) and HUDF Team
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