Dec 9, 2024, 07:37 PM IST
The star AG Carinae is battling gravity and radiation to prevent self-destruction, surrounded by a vast shell of gas and dust. Its nebula spans about five light-years, roughly the distance to Alpha Centauri.
This Hubble image shows the ancient globular cluster NGC 3201, a dense collection of stars discovered in 1826 by James Dunlop, described as "pretty large, pretty bright" and "rather irregular" at its center.
This Hubble image shows RS Puppis, a Cepheid variable star that changes brightness by nearly five times every 40 days.
This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the first of four pictures capturing the light echo from a stellar outburst in January 2002.
This image shows NGC 121, a globular cluster in the Tucana constellation, made up of old stars orbiting galaxy centers like satellites.
Hubble captured a stunning view of the XZ Tauri star system, its neighbor HL Tauri, and nearby young stellar objects, with XZ Tauri blowing a hot gas bubble and illuminating the region with bright clumps, winds, and jets.
Hubble captures the young stellar object SSTC2D J033038.2+303212 in Perseus, still forming and surrounded by a bright, swirling disc of material. The star emits a murky chimney of material, framed by bursts of gas.
This image shows R Aquarii, a symbiotic binary star system in Aquarius, consisting of a white dwarf and a red giant, surrounded by a large nebula.
Astronomers used over 500 Hubble images from two decades to detect seven fast-moving stars in Omega Centauri, providing strong evidence for an intermediate-mass black hole.