3D Image of Eta Carinae: This is a unique three-dimensional image of the star Eta Carinae, with its twin lobes and equatorial disk of expanding dust and gas. To see the 3D structure the image must be viewed through colour 3D glasses with the left eye looking through a red filtered lens, and right eye looking through a blue filtered lens.

Name: Eta Carinae, IRAS 10431-5925
Type: Milky Way : Star : Type : Wolf-Rayet
Category: Stars
Constellation: Carina
Distance: 7500 light years
Release date: 1 July 2019, 16:00
Credit: Jon Morse (University of Colorado), Kris Davidson (University of Minnesota), and NASA/ESA

Faint Galaxy in the Hubble Deep Field: Small portion of the Hubble Deep Field image -- the deepest view of the universe taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. The arrow points to a very faint galaxy that appears to be more distant than any known previously. Other galaxies in the image are at smaller distances.

Name: HDF, Hubble Deep Field
Type: Early Universe : GalaxyEarly Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Deep Field
Category: CosmologyGalaxies
Release date: 26 June 1996, 22:00
Credit: Ken Lanzetta and Amos Yahil (State University of New York at Stony Brook), and NASA/ESA

Hubble's 100,000th Exposure: The Hubble Space Telescope achieved its 100, 000th exposure June 22 with a snapshot of a quasar that is about 9 billion light-years from Earth. The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2clicked this image of the quasar, the bright object in the center of the photo. The fainter object just above it is an elliptical galaxy. Although the two objects appear to be close to each other, they are actually separated by about 2 billion light-years. Located about 7 billion light-years away, the galaxy is almost directly in front of the quasar.

Name: Quasar
Type: Early Universe : Galaxy : Activity : AGN : Quasar
Category: CosmologyQuasars and Black Holes
Release date: 18 July 1996, 06:00
Credit: Charles Steidel (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA) and NASA/ESA

NGC 604 in Galaxy M33 (ground-based image): This is a site where new stars are being born in a spiral arm of the galaxy. Though such nebulae are common in galaxies, this one is particularly large, nearly 1, 500 light-years across. The nebula is so vast it is easily seen in ground-based telescopic images.

Name: M 33, Messier 33
Type: Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Spiral
Category: GalaxiesNebulae
Constellation: Triangulum
Distance: 3 million light years
Release date: 7 August 1996, 06:00
Credit: Palomar Observatory, Caltech and the STScI Digitized Sky Survey (AURA)

NGC 604 in galaxy M33: This is a Hubble Space Telescope image (right) of a vast nebula called NGC 604, which lies in the neighbouring spiral galaxy Messier 33, located 2.7 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulum.

Name: Messier 33, NGC 604
Type: Local Universe : Nebula : Appearance : Emission : H II Region
Category: Nebulae
Constellation: Triangulum
Distance: 3 million light years
Release date: 7 August 1996, 06:00
Credit: Hui Yang (University of Illinois) and NASA/ESA

Hubble's View of 18 Proto Galaxies: Embedded in this Hubble Space Telescope image of nearby and distant galaxies are 18 young galaxies or galactic building blocks, each containing dust, gas, and a few billion stars. Each of these objects is 11 billion light-years from Earth and much smaller than today's galaxies.

Name: Proto Galaxy
Type: Early Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Deep Field
Category: Cosmology
Release date: 4 September 1996, 21:00
Credit: Rogier Windhorst and Sam Pascarelle (Arizona State University) and NASA/ESA

Star-Forming Region in Galaxy NGC 2366: Clusters of stars and a fishhook-shaped cloud of luminescent gases glow brilliantly in NGC 2363, a giant star-forming region in the Magellanic galaxy NGC 2366. The brightest star visible on this image (at the tip of the fishhook) is a rare class called an erupting Luminous Blue Variable (LBV). This monstrous star (30 to 60 times as massive as the Sun) is in a very unstable, eruptive phase of its life.

Name: NGC 2363
Type: Local Universe : Nebula : Type : Star Formation
Category: Nebulae
Constellation: Camelopardalis
Distance: 13 million light years
Release date: 11 October 1996, 06:00
Credit: Laurent Drissen, Jean-Rene Roy and Carmelle Robert (Department de Physique and Observatoire du mont Megantic, Universite Laval) and NASA/ESA

Star-Forming Region in Galaxy NGC 2366: A black and white (visual) image of the irregular galaxy NGC 2366 obtained at the Canada-France-Hawaii (CFHT) 3.6-meter telescope on Mauna Kea on February 7, 1996.

Name: IRAS 07233+6917, NGC 2366
Type: Local Universe : Star : Type : Variable : IrregularLocal Universe : Nebula : Type : Star Formation
Category: Galaxies
Constellation: Camelopardalis
Distance: 13 million light years
Release date: 11 October 1996, 06:00
Credit: Laurent Drissen and Yvan Dutil/CFHT and NASA/ESA

Cartwheel Galaxy Region: The Cartwheel is part of a group of four galaxies, as shown in this collage of images from ground-based optical and radio telescopes and the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. Located 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor, the galaxy (located near the bottom right corner) looks like a wagon wheel. The galaxy's nucleus is the bright object in the center; the spokes are wisps of material connecting the nucleus to the outer ring of young stars. The galaxy's unusual configuration was created by a nearly head-on collision with a smaller galaxy about 200 million years ago.

Name: Cartwheel Galaxy, IRAS 00352-3359
Type: Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Lenticular
Category: Galaxies
Distance: 400 million light years
Release date: 26 November 1996, 06:00
Credit: Curt Struck and Philip Appleton (Iowa State University), Kirk Borne (Hughes STX Corporation), and Ray Lucas ( Space Telescope Science Institute), Jim Higdon (Australia Telescope National Facility's Paul Wild Observatory), Victor Blanco (Cerro Tololo)

Illustration of Comet-Like Objects Racing Through the Cartwheel Galaxy's Core: This artist's illustration offers a 'window seat' view of comet-like clouds of gas racing through the heart of the Cartwheel galaxy at 700,000 mph. The large orange and yellow pancake-like object is the galaxy's core, and the white streaks along its edges are the comet-like objects. The objects probably were spawned by a collision between high-speed and slow-moving material. This artist's illustration offers a 'window seat' view of comet-like clouds of gas racing through the heart of the Cartwheel galaxy at 700, 000 mph. The large orange and yellow pancake-like object is the galaxy's core, and the white streaks along its edges are the comet-like objects. The objects probably were spawned by a collision between high-speed and slow-moving material.

Name: Cartwheel Galaxy, IRAS 00352-3359
Type: Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Ring
Category: Galaxies
Distance: 500 million light years
Release date: 26 November 1996, 06:00
Credit: J. Gitlin ( Space Telescope Science Institute), and NASA/ESA

Giant 'Twisters' in the Lagoon Nebula: This Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image reveals a pair of one-half light-year long interstellar 'twisters' -- eerie funnels and twisted-rope structures (upper left) -- in the heart of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) which lies 5, 000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.

Name: Lagoon Nebula
Type: Milky Way : Nebula : Appearance : Emission : H II Region
Category: Nebulae
Constellation: Sagittarius
Distance: 5000 light years
Release date: 22 January 1997, 06:00
Credit: A. Caulet (ST-ECF, ESA) and NASA