Wednesday, November 21, 2012 9:22:00 AM | by v-bafitz
Hubble Space Telescope images
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Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 6217.
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A celestial object that looks like a butterfly.
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The Crab Nebula.
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A region of the Eagle Nebula.
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Galaxies.
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Bright blue newly formed stars blow a cavity in the center of a star-forming region known as N90.
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The central region of our Milky Way galaxy.
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Merging A
ntennae galaxies.
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Hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by clouds. The grouping, called R136, is in the 30 Doradus Nebula.
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Two spiral galaxies pass by each other. The larger and more massive galaxy, left, is NGC 2207, and the smaller one on the right is IC 2163.
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Herbig-Haro 110 is a geyser of hot gas from a newborn star that splashes up against and ricochets off the dense core of a cloud of molecular hydrogen.
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A snapshot of Mars.
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Astronomers have spotted mid-size black holes that are neither supermassive nor as light-weight as a handful of stars using the Hubble Space Telescope.
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The Bug Nebula (NGC 6302) has impressive walls of compressed gas, with a dark torus surrounding the inner nebula.
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Remnants from a star that exploded thousands of years ago, known as the Pencil Nebula or NGC 2736.
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This image of the coil-shaped Helix Nebula is a composite of images from the Hubble Space Telescope and from the Mosaic Camera on the National Science Foundation's 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Ariz.