Picture Album: Nebulae

Massive Star VY Canis Majoris - Visible Light Celestial Maternity Ward N81 in the Small Magellanic Cloud Light Echo from Star V838 Monocerotis A Protoplanetary Disk Silhouetted Against the Orion Nebula Star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) - May 20, 2002 Jet in Carina: WFC3 UVIS/IR Composite Supernova Remnant N 63A The Stingray Nebula: The Youngest Known Planetary Nebula (Hen-1357) Expanding Flash From Supergiant Star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) Star Cluster R136 in Nebula 30 Doradus Nebula N159 Supernova Remnant LMC N132D Firestorm of Star Birth In Galaxy NGC 604 The Boomerang Nebula Light Echo From Star V838 Monocerotis - May 20, 2002 NGC 5315 Two-Lobed Planetary Nebula Hubble 5 A Glowing Pool of Light: Planetary Nebula NGC 3132 The Heart of the Trifid Nebula (Messier 20/NGC 6514) Rainbow Image of the Egg Nebula Close-Up of the Helix Nebula Butterfly-Shaped "Papillon" Nebula (inset) Found in Nebula N159... Full Image of Trifid Nebula (Messier 20/NGC 6514) Veil Nebula - Segment #2 Star Cluster R136 in Nebula 30 Doradus Behind the Gas and Dust of Orion's Trapezium Cluster Changes in the Crab Pulsar The Pencil Nebula: Remnants of an Exploded Star (NGC 2736) Rotten Egg Nebula (OH231.8+4.2) An Old Star Gives Up the Ghost Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A Pismis 24 and NGC 6357 Cotton Candy Nebula (IRAS17150-3224) Comet-like Filaments Along the Inner Rim of the Helix Nebula's Gas Ring... He 2-47 Nearby Dust Clouds in the Milky Way Planetary Nebula NGC 7027 in Infrared Light Orion Nebula ( NGC 1976, M42) Comet-Like Knots Around a Dying Star in the Helix Nebula Orion in Miniature Planetary Nebula NGC 3918 Bow Shock Near Young Star LL Ori The Retina Nebula: Dying Star IC 4406 Symbiotic Star in the Southern Crab Nebula (He2-104) Blows Bubbles... Full Hubble ACS Image of NGC 3603 Star Factory at the Center of the Orion Nebula Jet in Carina: WFC3 IR The Crab Nebula From the Ground (left) and Its Interior With Pulsar The Ant Nebula (Menzel 3): Fiery Lobes Protrude From Dying, Sun-like Star... IC 4593 The Great Orion Nebula Generations of Star Formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud The Egg Nebula: Searchlight Beams and Multiple Arcs Around a Dying Star... Close-Up of the Helix Nebula Scattered Light from the Boomerang Nebula Planetary Nebula NGC 6210 The Orion Nebula's Biggest Stars 'Double Bubble' of Gas and Dust in the Large Magellanic Cloud Carina Nebula Details: The Caterpillar Jet Structure in the Orion Nebula Veil Nebula - Segment #3 Stars Bursting to Life in the Chaotic Carina Nebula Veil Nebula - Segment #1 Closeup of Jet in Trifid Nebula (Messier 20/NGC 6514)