Outflows from merging galaxy J1713+2817: This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy J1713+2817 shows it is undergoing a firestorm of star birth, as shown by its bright white cores. This star-making frenzy was ignited by mergers with other galaxies. The odd shape of the galaxy is telltale evidence of a close encounters. The new Hubble Wide Field Camera 3 observations of this and eleven other galaxies undergoing the same process suggest that energy from the star-birthing frenzies created powerful winds that are blowing out the gas, meaning it is not available to form future generations of stars. This activity occurred when the Universe was half its current age of 13.7 billion years. The gas-poor galaxies may eventually become so-called red and dead galaxies, composed only of aging stars. This Hubble false-colour image was processed to bring out important details in the galaxy. The images were taken in 2010.

Name: J1713+2817
Type: Unspecified : Galaxy : Type : Interacting
Category: Galaxies
Constellation: Hercules
Release date: 19 November 2014, 11:47
Credit: NASA, ESA, and P. Sell (Texas Tech University)

Outflows from merging galaxy J2118+0017: This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy J2118+0017 shows it is undergoing a firestorm of star birth, as shown by its bright white cores. This star-making frenzy was ignited by mergers with other galaxies. The odd shape of the galaxy is telltale evidence of a close encounters. The new Hubble Wide Field Camera 3 observations of this and eleven other galaxies undergoing the same process suggest that energy from the star-birthing frenzies created powerful winds that are blowing out the gas, meaning it is not available to form future generations of stars. This activity occurred when the Universe was half its current age of 13.7 billion years. The gas-poor galaxies may eventually become so-called red and dead galaxies, composed only of aging stars. This Hubble false-colour image was processed to bring out important details in the galaxy. The images were taken in 2010.

Name: J2118+0017
Type: Unspecified : Galaxy : Type : Interacting
Category: Galaxies
Constellation: Aquarius
Release date: 19 November 2014, 11:47
Credit: NASA, ESA, and P. Sell (Texas Tech University)

Outflows from merging galaxy J2140+1209: This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy J2140+1209 shows it is undergoing a firestorm of star birth, as shown by its bright white cores. This star-making frenzy was ignited by mergers with other galaxies. The odd shape of the galaxy is telltale evidence of a close encounters. The new Hubble Wide Field Camera 3 observations of this and eleven other galaxies undergoing the same process suggest that energy from the star-birthing frenzies created powerful winds that are blowing out the gas, meaning it is not available to form future generations of stars. This activity occurred when the Universe was half its current age of 13.7 billion years. The gas-poor galaxies may eventually become so-called red and dead galaxies, composed only of aging stars. This Hubble false-colour image was processed to bring out important details in the galaxy. The images were taken in 2010.

Name: J2140+1209
Type: Unspecified : Galaxy : Type : Interacting
Category: Galaxies
Release date: 19 November 2014, 01:55
Credit: NASA, ESA, and P. Sell (Texas Tech University)

A firestorm of star birth (artist’s illustration): This illustration depicts a view of the night sky from a hypothetical planet within the youthful Milky Way galaxy 10 billion years ago. The heavens are ablaze with a firestorm of star birth; glowing pink clouds of hydrogen gas harbour countless newborn stars, and the bluish-white hue of young star clusters litter the landscape. The star birth rate is 30 times higher than it is in the Milky Way today. The Sun, however, is not among these fledgling stars — it will not be born for another 5 billion years.

Type: Early Universe : Galaxy
Category: Galaxies
Release date: 10 April 2015, 17:47
Credit: NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI)

Hubble galaxy at redshift z = 0.26: This image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a galaxy similar in mass to the Milky Way. The galaxy is seen as it was 3.1 billion years ago.

Type: Unspecified : Galaxy
Category: Galaxies
Distance: z=0.26 (redshift)
Release date: 10 April 2015, 17:47
Credit: NASA, ESA, C. Papovich (Texas A&M University), H. Ferguson (STScI), S. Faber (University of California, Santa Cruz), and I. Labbé (Leiden University)

Hubble galaxy at redshift z = 0.65: This image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a galaxy similar in mass to the Milky Way. The galaxy is seen as it was 6.1 billion years ago.

Type: Unspecified : Galaxy
Category: Galaxies
Distance: z=0.65 (redshift)
Release date: 10 April 2015, 17:47
Credit: NASA, ESA, C. Papovich (Texas A&M University), H. Ferguson (STScI), S. Faber (University of California, Santa Cruz), and I. Labbé (Leiden University)