NGC 300 Detail 1: Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys shows individual as well as clusters of stars in the spiral galaxy NGC 300, located approximately 7 million light-years away from Earth. In this image, a dense swarm of stars, patches of dust, and a bright star cluster are visible, all located near the nucleus of the galaxy. Similar clusters are thought to be related to the formation of supermassive black holes.

Name: NGC 300
Type: Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Spiral
Category: Galaxies
Constellation: Sculptor
Distance: 7 million light years
Release date: 30 September 2008, 16:00
Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton and B. Williams (University of Washington)

NGC 300 Detail 2: Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys shows individual stars, clusters of stars and nebulae in the spiral galaxy NGC 300, located approximately 7 million light-years away from Earth. The image shows a star-forming region a few thousand light-years farther from the galaxy's centre. The yellow nebulosities are the glow from hot gas that has been heated by radiation from the nearest young, blue stars. The image at far right reveals more diffuse groupings of young, blue stars, farther away from the galaxy's centre, along with faint shells of hot gas.

Name: NGC 300
Type: Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Spiral
Category: Galaxies
Constellation: Sculptor
Distance: 7 million light years
Release date: 30 September 2008, 16:00
Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton and B. Williams (University of Washington)

NGC 300 Detail 3: Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys shows individual stars and clusters of stars in the spiral galaxy NGC 300, located approximately 7 million light-years away from Earth.

Name: NGC 300
Type: Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Spiral
Category: Galaxies
Constellation: Sculptor
Distance: 7 million light years
Release date: 30 September 2008, 16:00
Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton and B. Williams (University of Washington)

Hubble scores a perfect ten: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is back in business. Just a couple of days after the orbiting observatory was brought back online, Hubble aimed its prime working camera, the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), at a particularly intriguing target, a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies called Arp 147. The two galaxies happen to be oriented so that they appear to mark the number 10. The left-most galaxy, or the "one" in this image, is relatively undisturbed, apart from a smooth ring of starlight. It appears nearly edge-on to our line of sight. The right-most galaxy, the "zero" of the pair, exhibits a clumpy, blue ring of intense star formation.

Name: Arp 147
Type: Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Interacting
Category: Galaxies
Constellation: Cetus
Distance: 450 million light years
Release date: 30 October 2008, 14:00
Credit: NASA, ESA and M. Livio (STScI)

DSS image of Fomalhaut (ground-based image): This image shows Fomalhaut, the star around which the newly discovered planet orbits. Fomalhaut is much hotter than our Sun, 15 times as bright, and lies 25 light-years from Earth. It is blazing through hydrogen at such a furious rate that it will burn out in only one billion years, 10% the lifespan of our star. The field of view is 2.7 x 2.9 degrees.

Name: Fomalhaut
Type: Milky Way : StarMilky Way : Star : Circumstellar Material : Planetary System
Category: Exoplanets
Constellation: Piscis Austrinus
Distance: 25 light years
Release date: 13 November 2008, 20:30
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)

Fomalhaut and Piscis Austrinus (ground-based image): Fomalhaut is the brightest star in this image, seen in the upper-left. Fomalhaut is much hotter than our Sun, 15 times as bright, and lies 25 light-years from Earth. It is blazing through hydrogen at such a furious rate that it will burn out in only one billion years, 10% the lifespan of our star. Fomalhaut is located in the constellation Piscis Austrinus, the Southern Fish. Fomalhaut is the brigest star in this constellation, and is in fact one of the brightest stars in the night sky.

Name: Fomalhaut, Piscis Austrinus
Type: Milky Way : StarMilky Way : Sky Phenomenon : Night Sky : Constellation
Category: Stars
Distance: 25 light years
Release date: 13 November 2008, 20:30
Credit: A. Fujii

Mammoth stars seen by Hubble: The image shows a pair of colossal stars, WR 25 and Tr16-244, located within the open cluster Trumpler 16. This cluster is embedded within the Carina Nebula, an immense cauldron of gas and dust that lies approximately 7500 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Carina, the Keel. WR 25 is the brightest, situated near the centre of the image. The neighbouring Tr16-244 is the third brightest, just to the upper left of WR 25. The second brightest, to the left of WR 25, is a low mass star located much closer to the Earth than the Carina Nebula.

Name: Tr16-244, WR 25
Type: Milky Way : StarMilky Way : Star : Type : Wolf-RayetMilky Way : Star : Grouping : Cluster : Open
Category: NebulaeStar Clusters
Constellation: Carina
Distance: 7500 light years
Release date: 25 November 2008, 14:00
Credit: NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain)

Wide-field image showing the region of WR 25 and Tr16-244: WR 25 and Tr16-244, at the bottom of the image, are located within the open cluster Trumpler 16. This cluster is embedded within the Carina Nebula, an immense cauldron of gas and dust that lies approximately 7500 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Carina, the Keel. At the top of the image, a peculiar nebula with the shape of a "defiant" finger points towards WR25 and Tr16-244.

Name: Tr16-244, WR 25
Type: Milky Way : StarMilky Way : Star : Type : Wolf-Rayet
Category: Stars
Constellation: Carina
Distance: 7500 light years
Release date: 25 November 2008, 14:00
Credit: NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain)

The multiple stellar system of WR 25: In WR 25 two of the stars are so close to each other that they look like a single object, but Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys shows them as two.

Name: WR 25
Type: Milky Way : Star : Type : Wolf-RayetMilky Way : Star : Grouping : Binary
Category: Stars
Constellation: Carina
Distance: 7500 light years
Release date: 25 November 2008, 14:00
Credit: NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain)

Unusual spiral NGC 4921 in the Coma Galaxy Cluster: This very deep image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4921 along with a spectacular backdrop of more distant galaxies. It was created from a total of 80 separate pictures through yellow and near-infrared filters.

Name: NGC 4921
Type: Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Spiral
Category: Galaxies
Constellation: Coma Berenices
Distance: 250 million light years
Release date: 5 February 2009, 12:00
Credit: NASA, ESA and K. Cook (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)

Annotated view of NGC 4921: Very deep NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope imaging of NGC 4921 with annotation to indictate the locations of some of the more interesting features of the galaxy and its surroundings.

Name: NGC 4921
Type: Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Spiral
Category: Galaxies
Distance: 250 million light years
Release date: 5 February 2009, 12:00
Credit: NASA, ESA and K. Cook (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)