“Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex Area Of The Milky Way” By Martin Campbell On Flickr.

Andromeda glowing in infrared.

Crescent Nebula

New view of the Pillars of Creation

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Galaxy Trio Arp 286:

NGC 5566 (bottom), NGC 5569 (left), & NGC 5560 (center)

Bubble Nebula by Hubble Heritage Via Flickr: For the 26th birthday of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers are highlighting a Hubble image of an enormous bubble being blown into space by a super-hot, massive star. The Hubble image of the Bubble Nebula, or NGC 7635, was chosen to mark the 26th anniversary of the launch of Hubble into Earth orbit by the STS-31 space shuttle crew on April 24, 1990. The Bubble Nebula is 7 light-years across — about one-and-a-half times the distance from our sun to its nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri. The Bubble Nebula was discovered in 1787 by William Herschel, a prominent British astronomer. It is being formed by a prototypical Wolf-Rayet star, an extremely bright, massive, and short-lived star that has lost most of its outer hydrogen and is now fusing helium into heavier elements. The star is about 4 million years old, and in 10 million to 20 million years, it will likely detonate as a supernova. 

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) heritage.stsci.edu/2016/13/ hubbledev.stsci.edu/newscenter/archive/releases/2016/13/

Sh2-119 Sharpless 119,emission nebular in Narrowband by Paul C. Swift on Flickr.

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let them live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”   ~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Mammoth stars seen by Hubble - WR 25 and Tr16-244, located within the open cluster Trumpler 16

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Crab Pulsar at the core of the Crab Nebula