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Photograph courtesy NASA
This image shows a cluster of stars called the Seven Sisters, also known as the Pleiades. Located about 400 light-years away, the cluster has thousands of stars but gets its name from seven of its brightest members. -
Photograph courtesy NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
This strange photo is of a type of star called a red supergiant. Here it is surrounded by clouds, which create a light echo. -
Photograph courtesy NASA/ESA/P. Challis and R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
The leftovers of a supernova look like a huge pearl necklace. The circle of bright spots is debris that was shot out from the exploding star. -
Photograph courtesy NASA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
The multicolored ribbons in this Hubble Space Telescope photo are clumps of debris from the massive Cassiopeia A supernova. Each clump is much larger than the diameter of our entire solar system. -
Photograph courtesy NASA
This Hubble Space Telescope photo shows the Quintuplet star cluster. This cluster is a collection of young stars only a hundred light-years from the center of our Milky Way galaxy. -
Photograph courtesy NASA/ESA/Hans Van Winckel (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)/Martin Cohen (University of California, Berkeley)
The nebula called the Red Rectangle gets its name for the way it looks through telescopes on Earth. But this Hubble Space Telescope photo shows that it should really be called the "Red X" nebula. -
Image courtesy NASA
This drawing by an artist shows a neutron star that flared up so brightly in December 2004 that it temporarily blinded all the x-ray satellites in space and lit up the Earth's upper atmosphere. -
Photograph courtesy NASA/Yves Grosdidier (University of Montreal and Observatoire de Strasbourg)/Anthony Moffat (Universitie de Montreal)/Gilles Joncas (Universite Laval)/Agnes Acker (Observatoire de Strasbourg)
This photo was taken in 1997 by the Hubble Space Telescope. It shows glowing blobs of gas around a superhot star.
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