10 glittering images of stars captured by NASA

The globular cluster, NGC 2298, sparkles in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image.

The dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 is ablaze with young stars and gas clouds.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has helped astronomers find the final piece of a celestial puzzle by nabbing a third runaway star.

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field image is an iconic photo. It is focused on one of the darkest regions of the night sky.

This picture shows a cluster that is 2000 light-years away in the constellation Carina.

This image shows the death of a star. Though it may appear to be a beautiful, cloudy butterfly, it is, in fact, a violent explosion.

This image shows a collection of stars that have shone for billions of years. There are hundreds of thousands of stars in this image.

A tightly bound pair of actively forming stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, in high-resolution near-infrared light. 

A new analysis of about 10,000 normal Sun-like stars in the Milky Way's galactic bulge reveals that our galaxy's hub is a dynamic environment.

A crowd of stars that looks rather like a stadium darkened before a show, lit only by the flashbulbs of the audience's cameras.