Picture Album: Nebulae

The Omega Nebula (Swan Nebula/M17) Supernova Remnant LMC N 63A in X-Ray, Optical and Radio Radiation The Great Orion Nebula The Orion Nebula: Stellar Birthplace The Omega Nebula: Hotbed of Star Formation Planetary Nebula NGC 6543: Gaseous Cocoon Around a Dying Star Pismis 24 and NGC 6357 Orion Nebula: Hubble Space Telescope View Vs. Ground-Based View Pismis 24 - Double Star V838 Monocerotis - November 2005 Star Cluster R136 Nearby Dust Clouds in the Milky Way Over the Edge Firestorm of Star Birth In Galaxy NGC 604 Comet-like Filaments Along the Inner Rim of the Helix Nebula's Gas Ring... The Pencil Nebula: Remnants of an Exploded Star (NGC 2736) Light Echo From Star V838 Monocerotis - December 17, 2002 Scattered Light from the Boomerang Nebula Details of Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A Veil Nebula - Segment #3 N11, the Second-Largest Star Formation Region in the Large Magellanic Cloud... Supernova Remnant N 63A Star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) - October 28, 2002 Comet-Like Knots Around a Dying Star in the Helix Nebula Orion in Miniature Generations of Star Formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud The Trifid Nebula: Stellar Nursery Torn Apart By Radiation From... The Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) The Ghost Head Nebula (NGC 2080) Star Cluster R136 - Wide Field/Planetary Camera The Stingray Nebula: The Youngest Known Planetary Nebula (Hen-1357) 'Double Bubble' of Gas and Dust in the Large Magellanic Cloud Details of Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A Behind the Gas and Dust of Orion's Trapezium Cluster Supersonic Exhaust from Nebula M2-9 Close-Up of M27, the Dumbbell Nebula Massive Star VY Canis Majoris - Visible Light Sculpting the Landscape Gomez's Hamburger: A Sun-Like Star Near the End of Its Life Massive Stars Sculpt Gas of Nebula N83B (NGC 1748) Thackeray's Globules: Dense, Opaque Dust Clouds in Star-Forming... Supernova Remnant E0102 in the Small Magellanic Cloud Vast Star-Forming Region 30 Doradus A Dying Star in Globular Cluster M15 A Protoplanetary Disk in the Orion Nebula He 2-47 Star-Forming Region in the Carina Nebula: Detail 2 An Old Star Gives Up the Ghost The Boomerang Nebula Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A - December 2004 Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A - March 2004 NGC 5315 Veil Nebula - Segment #1 Supernova Remnant LMC N132D Star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) - May 20, 2002 Butterfly-Shaped "Papillon" Nebula (inset) Found in Nebula N159... Star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon)- September 2, 2002 The Retina Nebula: Dying Star IC 4406 30 Doradus in Infrared Planetary Nebula NGC 6210 The Heart of the Trifid Nebula (Messier 20/NGC 6514) Details of Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A The Orion Nebula's Trapezium Cluster The Glowing Eye of Planetary Nebula NGC 6751 Gaseous Streamers from Nebula N44C Flutter in Stellar Breeze Southern Crab Nebula (He2-104) Giant "Twisters" and Star Wisps in the Lagoon Nebula Pillars of Gas Orion Nebula's Planetary Nurseries Torched By Radiation from Hot Star Nebula N159 Light Echo From Star V838 Monocerotis - September 2, 2002 Star Factory at the Center of the Orion Nebula Failing Stars Veil Nebula - Segment #2 Silkworm Nebula (IRAS 17441-2411) Close-up of Three Protoplanetary Disks in the Orion Nebula Symbiotic Star in the Southern Crab Nebula (He2-104) Blows Bubbles... Planetary Nebula NGC 3918 Full Image of Trifid Nebula (Messier 20/NGC 6514) Planetary Nebula NGC 6818 Rotten Egg Nebula (OH231.8+4.2) Star Cluster R136 in Nebula 30 Doradus NGC 5307 Star Cluster R136 in Nebula 30 Doradus Cluster of Galaxies with Recent Supernova Jet in Carina: WFC3 IR Light Echo From Star V838 Monocerotis - May 20, 2002 Rotten Egg Nebula (OH231.8+4.2) Planetary Nebula NGC 2371 Pismis 24 Star Cluster Celestial Maternity Ward N81 in the Small Magellanic Cloud Stellar Winds and Radiation From Eruptive Star Eta Carinae Sculpt Gas... Flaring Disk in Mystery Object He 2-90 Close-Up of the Helix Nebula Trifid Nebula (Messier 20/NGC 6514) Fireworks of Star Formation Light Up Galaxy NGC 4214 Nebula N81 in the Small Magellanic Cloud Hen 1357: A Young Planetary Nebula Mysterious Object He 2-90: Possibly a Duo of Aging Stars Close-Up Images of the Orion Nebula Hubble Snaps "Family Portrait" Star Cluster R136 in Nebula 30 Doradus Carina Nebula Details: Pillar Planetary Nebula NGC 7027: A Sun-Like Star Burning Out Planetary Nebula NGC 7027 in Infrared Light Two-Lobed Planetary Nebula Hubble 5 Cotton Candy Nebula (IRAS17150-3224) Cluster of Galaxies with Recent Supernova - Detail - July 5, 2006 Central Star of Nebula NGC 2440: One of Hottest Known Stars Planetary Nebula NGC 6210 The "Rotten Egg" Nebula: A Planetary Nebula in the Making A Turtle-Shaped Nebula, NGC 6210, and the Structure Around Its Star (inset)... Collision of Gases Near a Dying Star in the Helix Nebula The Dumbbell Nebula (M27) Cosmic Ice Sculptures: Dust Pillars in the Carina Nebula Spiral-Structured Planetary Nebula NGC 5307 A Planetary Nebula (N66) in the Large Magellanic Cloud Hubble's Variable Nebula (NGC 2261) IC 4593 Uncovering the Veil Nebula Mosaic of Carina Nebula Region NGC 2346 Closeup of Jet in Trifid Nebula (Messier 20/NGC 6514) Butterfly Wing-Shaped Planetary Nebula NGC 2346 Herbig Haro 32: Jets of Material Ejected From a Young Star Dark Globule and Stellar Jet in the Carina Nebula Cluster of Galaxies with Recent Supernova - Detail - April 24, 2006 Stingray Nebula (Hen-1357)