Starbirth: This picture, an assembly of individual images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows young stars at the center the Orion nebula. The seemingly infinite tapestry of rich detail revealed by Hubble shows a churning turbulent star factory set within a maelstrom of flowing, luminescent gas. Located 1,500 light-years away, along our spiral arm of the Milky Way, the Orion nebula is located in the middle of the sword region of the constellation Orion the Hunter, which dominates the early winter evening sky, at northern latitudes.  The stars have formed from collapsing clouds of interstellar gas within the last million years. The most massive clouds have formed the brightest stars near the center and these are so hot that they illuminate the gas left behind after the period of star formation was complete.  The more numerous faint stars are still in the process of collapsing under their own gravity, but have become hot enough in their centers to be self luminous bodies.

Name: Messier 42, NGC 1976, Trapezium Cluster
Type: Milky Way : Star : Grouping : Cluster : OpenMilky Way : Nebula : Type : Star Formation
Category: Star Clusters
Constellation: Orion
Distance: 1400 light years
Release date: 20 November 1995, 06:00
Credit: NASA, C.R. O'Dell and S.K. Wong (Rice University)

Core of Galaxy NGC 4261- Artist Concept: This is an illustration of how the night sky might look to a dweller in the core of galaxy NGC 4261, which harbors an 800-light-year-wide disk of dust and 1.2 billion-solar-mass black hole. This imaginary view is from a hypothetical planet inside the dust dusk, looking toward the black hole. The black hole's white-hot glow from super-heated gas is reddened by intervening dust.

Name: NGC 4261
Type: Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : EllipticalLocal Universe : Galaxy : Component : Central Black Hole
Category: Galaxies
Distance: 100 million light years
Release date: 4 December 1995, 12:30
Credit: J. Gitlin ( Space Telescope Science Institute)

The Hubble Deep Field: Several hundred never before seen galaxies are visible in this 'deepest-ever' view of the universe, called the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), made with the Hubble Space Telescope. Besides the classical spiral and elliptical shaped galaxies, there is a bewildering variety of other galaxy shapes and colours that are important clues to understanding the evolution of the universe. Some of the galaxies may have formed less that one billion years after the Big Bang.

Name: HDF, Hubble Deep Field
Type: Early Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Deep Field
Category: Cosmology
Constellation: Ursa Major
Release date: 15 January 1996, 16:00
Credit: Robert Williams and the Hubble Deep Field Team (STScI) and NASA/ESA

Hubble Deep Field details: Representing a narrow 'keyhole' view stretching all the way to the visible horizon of the universe, the HDF image covers a speck of sky a tiny fraction the diameter of the full Moon. This is so narrow, just a few foreground stars in our Milky Way Galaxy are visible and are vastly outnumbered by the menagerie of far more distant galaxies.

Name: HDF, Hubble Deep Field
Type: Early Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Deep Field
Category: Cosmology
Constellation: Ursa Major
Release date: 15 January 1996, 16:00
Credit: Robert Williams and the Hubble Deep Field Team (STScI) and NASA/ESA

Hubble Deep Field details: Representing a narrow 'keyhole' view stretching all the way to the visible horizon of the universe, the HDF image covers a speck of sky a tiny fraction the diameter of the full Moon. This is so narrow, just a few foreground stars in our Milky Way Galaxy are visible and are vastly outnumbered by the menagerie of far more distant galaxies.

Name: HDF, Hubble Deep Field
Type: Early Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Deep Field
Category: Cosmology
Constellation: Ursa Major
Release date: 15 January 1996, 16:00
Credit: Robert Williams and the Hubble Deep Field Team (STScI) and NASA/ESA

Hubble Deep Field details: Representing a narrow 'keyhole' view stretching all the way to the visible horizon of the universe, the HDF image covers a speck of sky a tiny fraction the diameter of the full Moon. This is so narrow, just a few foreground stars in our Milky Way Galaxy are visible and are vastly outnumbered by the menagerie of far more distant galaxies.

Name: HDF, Hubble Deep Field
Type: Early Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Deep Field
Category: Cosmology
Constellation: Ursa Major
Release date: 15 January 1996, 16:00
Credit: Robert Williams and the Hubble Deep Field Team (STScI) and NASA/ESA

Full WFPC2 Mosaic - Full Resolution: One peek into a small part of the sky, one giant leap back in time. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope provided one of the deepest, most detailed visible views of the universe. Representing a narrow "keyhole" view stretching to the visible horizon of the universe, the Hubble Deep Field image covers a speck of the sky only about the width of a dime 75 feet away. The field is a very small sample of the heavens but it is considered representative of the typical distribution of galaxies in space. In this small field, Hubble uncovered a bewildering assortment of at least 1,500 galaxies at various stages of evolution.

Name: HDF, Hubble Deep Field
Type: Early Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Deep Field
Category: Cosmology
Release date: 15 January 1996, 16:00
Credit: R. Williams (STScI), the Hubble Deep Field Team and NASA/ESA

The Hubble Deep Field: Several hundred never before seen galaxies are visible in this 'deepest-ever' view of the universe, called the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), made with the Hubble Space Telescope. Besides the classical spiral and elliptical shaped galaxies, there is a bewildering variety of other galaxy shapes and colours that are important clues to understanding the evolution of the universe. Some of the galaxies may have formed less that one billion years after the Big Bang.

Name: Hubble Deep Field
Type: Early Universe : Galaxy : Grouping : Cluster
Category: Galaxies
Constellation: Ursa Major
Release date: 2 May 2019, 16:00
Credit: Robert Williams and the Hubble Deep Field Team (STScI) and NASA/ESA

The Egg Nebula: This image of the Egg Nebula, also known as CRL2688 and located roughly 3, 000 light-years from us, was taken in red light with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. This image sheds new light on the poorly understood ejection of stellar matter which accompanies the slow death of Sun-like stars. The image is shown in false color.

Name: CRL 2688, Egg Nebula
Type: Milky Way : Nebula
Category: Nebulae
Constellation: Cygnus
Distance: 1400 light years
Release date: 16 January 1996, 06:00
Credit: Raghvendra Sahai and John Trauger (JPL), the WFPC2 science team, and NASA/ESA

Stellar Death Process: This Hubble Space Telescope image of planetary nebula NGC 7027 shows remarkable new details of the process by which a star like the Sun dies. New features include: faint, blue, concentric shells surrounding the nebula; an extensive network of red dust clouds throughout the bright inner region; and the hot central white dwarf, visible as a white dot at the center.

Name: NGC 7027
Type: Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Planetary
Category: Nebulae
Constellation: Cygnus
Distance: 3000 light years
Release date: 16 January 1996, 15:30
Credit: H. Bond (STScI) and NASA/ESA