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Core of Orion's Trapezium shows four massive
stars. Energetic gases from the lower-right star produce cometary structures
in surrounding stars, with a bright head and a tail pointing directly away
from the energetic central massive star. |
| A vast nebula called NGC 604, which lies
in the neighboring spiral galaxy M33, is located 2.7 million light-years
away in the constellation Triangulum. |
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The HST can resolve individual stars in
other galaxies, making it invaluable for identifying a rare class of pulsating
stars, called Cepheid Variable stars, embedded within M100's spiral arms. |
| This superb HST image reveals a pair of
one-half light-year long interstellar "twisters" - eerie funnels
and twisted-rope structures - in the heart of the Lagoon Nebula which lies
5,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. |
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This Hubble image provides a detailed look at a unique
cluster of three white oval-shaped storms that lie southwest (below and to the left) of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. |
| An eerie, nearly mirror-image pair of red
luminesent gas "hula-hoops" frame the expanding debris of a star
seen as a supernova explosion in 1987. |
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This image reveals the true shape of MyCn18
to be an hourglass with an intricate pattern of "etchings" in
its walls. |
| A small portion of the Cygnus Loop supernova
remnant, which marks the edge of a bubble-like, expanding blast wave from
a colossal stellar explosion 15,000 years ago. |
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Each gaseous head of these cometary knots
in the Helix nebula is at least twice the size of our solar system; each
tail stretches 100 billion miles, about 1,000 times the Earth's distance
to the Sun. |
| The Cartwheel galaxy, a rare and spectacular
head-on collision between two galaxies located 500 million light-years
away in the constellation Sculptor. |
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Several hundred never before seen galaxies
are visible in this "deepest-ever" view of the universe, called
the Hubble Deep Field. |
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