12/15/2011STScI-2011-383.Hubble Serves Up a Holiday Snow Angel
The bipolar star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106, or S106 for short, looks like a soaring, celestial snow angel. The outstretched "wings"... (More)
5/12/2011STScI-2011-145.Galaxy NGC 4214: A Star-Formation Laboratory
The dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 is ablaze with young stars and gas clouds. Located around 10 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs), the galaxy's... (More)
1/10/2011STScI-2011-016.Hubble Zooms in on a Space Oddity
A ghostly, glowing, green blob of gas has become one of astronomy's great cosmic mystery stories. The space oddity was spied in 2007 by Dutch high-school teacher... (More)
7/6/2010STScI-2010-228.Starburst Cluster Shows Celestial Fireworks
Like a July 4 fireworks display, a young, glittering collection of stars looks like an aerial burst. The cluster is surrounded by clouds of interstellar gas and dust—the raw material... (More)
12/15/2009STScI-2009-3210.Hubble's Festive View of a Grand Star-Forming Region
Just in time for the holidays: a Hubble Space Telescope picture postcard of hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds. The festive portrait... (More)