NGC 6369: This image is a part of the Hubble Gallery of Planetary Nebulae.

Name: IRAS 17262-2343, Little Ghost Nebula, NGC 6369
Type: Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Planetary
Category: Nebulae
Constellation: Ophiuchus
Distance: 3500 light years
Release date: 17 December 1997, 06:00
Credit: Howard Bond (ST ScI) and NASA/ESA

NGC 6720: This image is a part of the Hubble Gallery of Planetary Nebulae.

Name: IRAS 18517+3257, M 57, Messier 57, NGC 6720, Ring Nebula
Type: Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Planetary
Category: Nebulae
Constellation: Lyra
Distance: 2300 light years
Release date: 17 December 1997, 06:00
Credit: Howard Bond (ST ScI) and NASA/ESA

NGC 7662: This image is a part of the Hubble Gallery of Planetary Nebulae.

Name: IRAS 23234+4215, NGC 7662
Type: Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Planetary
Category: Nebulae
Constellation: Andromeda
Distance: 2500 light years
Release date: 17 December 1997, 06:00
Credit: Bruce Balick and Jason Alexander (University of Washington), Arsen Hajian (S. Naval Observatory), Yervant Terzian (Cornell University), Mario Perinotto (University of Florence), Patrizio Patriarchi (Arcetri Observatory) and NASA/ESA

NGC 7662: This image is a part of the Hubble Gallery of Planetary Nebulae.

Name: IRAS 23234+4215, NGC 7662
Type: Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Planetary
Category: Nebulae
Constellation: Andromeda
Distance: 2500 light years
Release date: 17 December 1997, 06:00
Credit: Howard Bond (ST ScI) and NASA/ESA

IC 4406: This image is a part of the Hubble Gallery of Planetary Nebulae.

Name: IC 4406, IRAS 14192-4355
Type: Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Planetary
Category: Nebulae
Constellation: Lupus
Distance: 5000 light years
Release date: 17 December 1997, 06:00
Credit: Howard Bond (ST ScI) and NASA/ESA

Hubble's planetary nebula gallery. A view of NGC 6826: NGC 6826's eye-like appearance is marred by two sets of blood-red 'fliers' that lie horizontally across the image. The surrounding faint green 'white' of the eye is believed to be gas that made up almost half of the star's mass for most of its life. The hot remnant star (in the centre of the green oval) drives a fast wind into older material, forming a hot interior bubble which pushes the older gas ahead of it to form a bright rim. (The star is one of the brightest stars in any planetary.) NGC 6826 is 2, 200 light- years away in the constellation Cygnus. The Hubble telescope observation was taken Jan. 27, 1996 with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2.

Name: Blinking Planetary, NGC 6826
Type: Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Planetary
Category: Nebulae
Constellation: Cygnus
Distance: 5500 light years
Release date: 17 December 1997, 06:00
Credit: Bruce Balick (University of Washington), Jason Alexander (University of Washington), Arsen Hajian (U.S. Naval Observatory), Yervant Terzian (Cornell University), Mario Perinotto (University of Florence, Italy), Patrizio Patriarchi (Arcetri Observatory, Italy) and NASA/ESA

Hubble's Planetary Nebula Gallery. A View of NGC 3918: NGC 3918 is in the constellation Centaurus and is about 3, 000 light-years from us. Its diameter is about 0.3 light-year. It shows a roughly spherical outer envelope but an elongated inner balloon inflated by a fast wind from the hot central star, which is starting to break out of the spherical envelope at the top and bottom of the image.

Name: IRAS 11478-5654, NGC 3918
Type: Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Planetary
Category: Nebulae
Constellation: Centaurus
Distance: 5000 light years
Release date: 17 December 1997, 06:00
Credit: Howard Bond ( Space Telescope Science Institute), Robin Ciardullo (Pennsylvania State University) and NASA/ESA

Hubble's planetary nebula gallery. A view of Hubble 5: Hubble 5 is a striking example of a 'butterfly' or bipolar (two-lobed) nebula. The heat generated by fast winds causes each of the lobes to expand, much like a pair of balloons with internal heaters. This observation was taken Sept. 9, 1997 by the Hubble telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. Hubble 5 is 2, 200 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius.

Name: Hubble 5
Type: Milky Way : Nebula
Category: Nebulae
Constellation: Sagittarius
Distance: 2200 light years
Release date: 17 December 1997, 06:00
Credit: Bruce Balick (University of Washington), Vincent Icke (Leiden University, The Netherlands), Garrelt Mellema (Stockholm University), and NASA/ESA

Hubble's Planetary Nebula Gallery. A View of NGC 7009: NGC 7009 has a bright central star at the centre of a dark cavity bounded by a football-shaped rim of dense, blue and red gas. The cavity and its rim are trapped inside smoothly-distributed greenish material in the shape of a barrel and comprised of the star's former outer layers. At larger distances, and lying along the long axis of the nebula, a pair of red 'ansae', or 'handles' appears. Each ansa is joined to the tips of the cavity by a long greenish jet of material. The handles are clouds of low-density gas. NGC 7009 is 1, 400 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. The Hubble telescope observation was taken April 28, 1996 by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2.

Name: IRAS 21014-1133, NGC 7009, Saturn Nebula
Type: Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Planetary
Category: Nebulae
Constellation: Aquarius
Distance: 2300 light years
Release date: 17 December 1997, 06:00
Credit: Bruce Balick (University of Washington), Jason Alexander (University of Washington), Arsen Hajian (U.S. Naval Observatory), Yervant Terzian (Cornell University), Mario Perinotto (University of Florence, Italy), Patrizio Patriarchi (Arcetri Observatory, Italy), NASA/ESA

Hubble's Planetary Nebula Gallery. A View of NGC 5307: NGC 5307 also lies in Centaurus but is about 10, 000 light-years away and has a diameter of approximately 0.6 light-year. It is an example of a planetary nebula with a pinwheel or spiral structure; each blob of gas ejected from the central star has a counterpart on the opposite side of the star.

Name: IRAS 13478-5057, NGC 5307
Type: Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Planetary
Category: Nebulae
Constellation: Centaurus
Distance: 8000 light years
Release date: 17 December 1997, 06:00
Credit: Howard Bond ( Space Telescope Science Institute), Robin Ciardullo (Pennsylvania State University) and NASA/ESA

DIRBE 60 micrometer image of sky: Astronomers have assembled the first definitive detection of a background infrared glow across the sky produced by dust warmed by all the stars that have existed since the beginning of time. For scientists, the discovery of this "fossil radiation" is akin to turning out all the lights in a bedroom only to find the walls, floor, and ceiling aglow with an eerie luminescence.

Name: Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment, DIRBE
Type: Unspecified : Cosmology : Morphology : Deep Field
Category: Cosmology
Release date: 9 January 1998, 06:00
Credit: Michael Hauser (STScI), the COBE/DIRBE Science Team, and NASA/ESA

DIRBE 100 micrometer image of sky: Astronomers have assembled the first definitive detection of a background infrared glow across the sky produced by dust warmed by all the stars that have existed since the beginning of time. For scientists, the discovery of this "fossil radiation" is akin to turning out all the lights in a bedroom only to find the walls, floor, and ceiling aglow with an eerie luminescence.

Name: Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment, DIRBE
Type: Unspecified : Cosmology : Morphology : Deep Field
Category: Cosmology
Release date: 9 January 1998, 06:00
Credit: Michael Hauser (STScI), the COBE/DIRBE Science Team, and NASA/ESA