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Orion Nebula Protoplanetary Disc like jewels hidden in the Hubble images
These dramatic Hubble images offers a peek inside a cavern of roiling dust and gas where thousands of stars are forming. The image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, represents the sharpest view ever taken of this region, called the Orion Nebula. At the bottom of the image you can see a protoplanetary disc.
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Orion Nebula
The Orion Nebula is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion, and is known as the middle "star" in the "sword" of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. Hubble images zoom in on its majestic beauty.
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Crab Nebula
In 1054, Chinese astronomers took notice of a “guest star” that was, for nearly a month, visible in the daytime sky. The “guest star” they observed was actually a supernova explosion, which gave rise to the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide remnant of the violent event. This is one on many Hubble images that tells the story of how the universe formed.
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Infrared Eagle Nebula
This majestic view taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope tells an untold story of life and death in the Eagle nebula, an industrious star-making factory located 7,000 light-years away in the Serpens constellation.
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Helix Nebula
The Helix Nebula is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Aquarius. Discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding, probably before 1824, this object is one of the closest of all the bright planetary nebulae to Earth. The Hubble images give us a close up look at this nebula.
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Veil Nebula
The Veil Nebula is the visible portion of the nearby Cygnus Loop, a supernova remnant formed roughly 10,000 years ago by the death of a massive star. That star – which was 20 times the mass of the Sun – lived fast and died young, ending its life in a cataclysmic release of energy. The Hubble images show a cosmic web within this nebula.
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Horsehead Nebula
While drifting through the cosmos, a magnificent interstellar dust cloud became sculpted by stellar winds and radiation to assume a recognizable shape. Fittingly named the Horsehead Nebula, it is embedded in the vast and complex Orion Nebula. The Hubble images of this nebula is among of the most iconic images Hubble has captured.
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Mystic Mountain
This turbulent cosmic pinnacle lies within a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7500 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina. The image celebrates the 20th anniversary of Hubble's launch and deployment into an orbit around the Earth. Like the eagle nebula its beauty is outstanding.
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Cone Nebula
Resembling a nightmarish beast rearing its head from a crimson sea, this celestial object is actually just a pillar of gas and dust. Called the Cone Nebula (in NGC 2264) shows the upper 2.5 light-years of the Cone, a height that equals 23 million roundtrips to the Moon. The entire pillar is seven light-years long. Hubble images are portraying living art with the iconic Cone Nebula.
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V838 Monocerotis Light Echo
The star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) reveals dramatic changes in the illumination of surrounding dusty cloud structures. The effect, called a light echo, has been unveiling never-before-seen dust patterns ever since the star suddenly brightened for several weeks in early 2002. This is another one of the iconic Hubble images that are a testament of living art in the Univeres.
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Butterfly Nebula
These Hubble images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depict NGC 6302, commonly known as the Butterfly Nebula. NGC 6302 lies within our Milky Way galaxy, roughly 3800 light-years away in the constellation of Scorpius.
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Eskimo Nebula
In its first glimpse of the heavens following the successful December 1999 servicing mission, Hubble images by the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a majestic view of a planetary nebula, the glowing remains of a dying, Sun-like star.
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Ant Nebula
From ground-based telescopes, the so-called "ant nebula" (Menzel 3, or Mz 3) resembles the head and thorax of a garden-variety ant. This dramatic NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, showing 10 times more detail, reveals the "ant's" body in thase Hubble images.
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Celestial Fireworks
Resembling the puffs of smoke and sparks from a summer fireworks display in these Hubble images from NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope, these delicate filaments are actually sheets of debris from a stellar explosion in a neighboring galaxy. This Celestial Fireworks supernova remnant within the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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Tarantula Nebula
These new Hubble images show a cosmic creepy-crawly known as the Tarantula Nebula in infrared light. This region is full of star clusters, glowing gas, and thick dark dust.
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Nebula NGC 6751
The Hubble telescope has spied a giant celestial 'eye', known as planetary nebula NGC 6751. The Hubble Heritage Project is releasing this picture to commemorate the Hubble telescope's tenth anniversary, and to highlight the beauty of the many Hubble images taken by Hubble.
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Tangled Web
This dark, tangled web is an object named SNR 0454-67.2. It formed in a very violent fashion — it is a supernova remnant, created after a massive star ended its life in a cataclysmic explosion and threw its constituent material out into surrounding space. This is one of many Hubble images to capture supernova.
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Pillars of Creation
This image taken by the James Webb Telescope shows the pillars as seen in infrared light, allowing it to pierce through obscuring dust and gas and unveil a more unfamiliar — but just as amazing — view of the pillars. This give us a more detailed look that the Hubble images have provided thus far.
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Carina Nebula
The Cosmic Cliffs, this landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope. This image of the Carina Nebula provides a more dynamic images that the Hubble images have given.
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Horsehead / Flame Nebula
These Hubble images of the Horsehead Nebula and the Flame Nebula (left) in the constellation Orion are favorite telescope targets for amateur observers. (Credit: Stephan/Wikimedia Commons)
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