Hubble Classic: Stars, Galaxies And Nebulae

The dancer in Dorado

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Clearest photo of a galaxy you will ever see!

 Venus and Pleiades

Mars, as seen by ESA's Mars Express satellite

Corona Australis

Nebula is mostly hydrogen gas, and a small amount of metals (elements above helium) which tend to be covered as "Dust", but it's the dust that best reflect the light of the stars, and as the largest and most energetic of them are blue, you get these areas of blue haze. Hydrogen more often glows red when bombarded by UV light, the two colours together quite magical.

The area has a number of NGC objects 6726,6727,6729 but born of the same huge molecular cloud.

Our Milky Way has many such areas full of star birth, and as blue giants are not long lived, supernova and star death too.

New pics of Io just dropped

More are over here at NASA's Juno probe site.

Andromeda over the Swiss Alps Image Credit: Dzmitry Kananovich

November 12, 1980: Voyager 1 made its closest approach to Saturn, flying within 124,000 kilometers (77,000 miles) of the ringed planet.

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Dec. 3, 2009 - Stellar Jewel Box NGC 3603