Excellent Images from Refurbished Hubble Space Telescope

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This image illustrates the planetary nebula, catalogued as NGC 6302, but more commonly called the Bug Nebula or the Butterfly Nebula. The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), a new camera on board NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was inaugurated by NASA astronauts in May 2009, during the servicing mission to upgrade and fix the 19-year-old Hubble telescope. NGC 6302 lies within our Milkyway Galaxy, approximately 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. The shining gas is the star's outer layers, barred over about 2,200 years. The "butterfly" extends for more than two light-years, which is about half the distance from the Sun the nearest star, Alpha Centauri.

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image creates a picture poised of gas and dust, the column exists in a turbulent planetary nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years left in the southern constellation Carina. The image shows that astronomers are given a much more entire view of the pillar and its contents when separate details not seen at visible wavelengths are uncovered in near-infrared light. Sizzling radiation and fast winds (streams of charged particles) from these stars are forming the pillar and causing new stars to form within it. Streamers of gas and dust can be seen elegant off the top of the structure.

An image taken by the renovated Hubble Space Telescope shows Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 6217.

An image taken by the renovated Hubble Space Telescope shows a panoramic outlook of a colorful range of 100,000 stars dwelling in the crowded core of a massive star cluster, Globular Star Cluster Omega Centauri.

This picture taken by the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope, shows the planet Jupiter.

This picture taken by the renovated Hubble Space Telescope shows Gravitational Lensing in Galaxy Cluster Abell 370.

An image taken by the restored Hubble Space Telescope shows a conflict among members of a famous galaxy quintet exposes a collection of stars across a ample color range, from young age, blue stars to aging, red stars.

This picture captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's extensive field and Planetary Camera-2 and released in 2001 shows an abnormal edge-on galaxy, revealing details of its twisted dusty disk and showing how colliding galaxies generate the formation of new generations of stars. During explanations of the galaxy the camera, designed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, passed a milestone taking its 100,000th image since shuttle astronauts fix it in the Hubble in 1993.

Resembling the ferocity of a raging sea, this image actually shows a sparkling ocean of shining hydrogen gas and small amounts of other elements such as oxygen and sulfur. The photograph was taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on May 29-30, 1999, arrests a small region within M17, a source of star formation. M17, also known as the Omega or Swan Nebula, is located about 5,500 light-years away in the gathering Sagittarius. The image was released to honor the thirteenth anniversary of Hubble's launch on April 24, 1990.

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An image of the core of the Omega Nebula, a source of newly born stars enclosed in colorful blankets of glowing gas and hold in an enormous cold, dark hydrogen cloud. This dazzling picture was taken April 1 and 2, 2002 by the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The section of the nebula shown in this photograph is about 3,500 times wider than our solar system. The nebula, also called as M17 and the Swan Nebula, exists in 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius.

An illustration of a pillar of gas and dust. Called as the Cone Nebula (NGC 2264) because in ground-based imagery it has a conical shape, this huge pillar resides in a unstable star-forming region. This image, taken in April 2, 2002, by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on board NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows the upper 2.5 light-years of the nebula, a height that equals upto 23 million roundtrips to the Moon. The whole nebula is 7 light-years long. The Cone Shaped Nebula exists in 2,500 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros.

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January 2000 image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of Keyhole Nebula NGC 1999, a nebula in the group Orion, about 1,500 light-years from the earth, in a region of our Milky Way galaxy where new stars are created actively. The nebula shines because the light from an implanted source illuminates its dust; the nebula does not release any visible light of its own. The nebula is enlightened by a bright, recently created star, visible to the left of center. Its collection is anticipated to be 3.5 times that of the Sun.