Nebula November

November 2021
Hubble celebrated the science behind some of the most beautiful cosmic objects imaged by Hubble – nebulae!

Upper 2/3 holds a bright white and blue gas and dust-cloud ring around a central void or bubble. lower 1/3 holds blue and white
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Nebulae are some of the most resplendent objects in the universe, and they come in various shapes, sizes, and types. Hubble's Field Guide to Nebulae will help you identify these resplendent clouds in all of their magnificent forms. Credit: NASA GSFC, Lead Producer: Paul Morris, Lead Writer: Andrea Gianopoulos

Hubble's Nebula November

Upper 2/3 holds a bright white and blue gas and dust-cloud ring around a central void or bubble. lower 1/3 holds blue and white

Mysterious “Superbubble” Hollows Out Nebula in New Hubble Image

N44 is a complex nebula filled with glowing hydrogen gas, dark lanes of dust, and massive stars. 

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Hubble image of a spherical, turquoise nebula with a bright central star.

Hubble Spies Eye in the Sky

Cleopatra’s Eye, or NGC 1535, is a planetary nebula in the constellation Eridanus. 

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Hubble image of giant red nebula and smaller blue neighbor nebula (NGC 2014 and NGC 2020)

Sonification: Cosmic Reef

The Cosmic Reef shows two nebulae, NGC 2014 and NGC 2020. The sonification takes data from this image and represents it with sound.

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Red-orange and yellow ring the turquoise center of this spherical planetary nebula

Hubble Images Colorful Planetary Nebula Ringed by Hazy Halo

NGC 2438 is a planetary nebula that formed after the death of a Sun-like star.

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At the center of the image is the dying star. It's surrounded by a white-and-orange wispy "cloud" of gas. Farther away, more gas and dust creates an orange-and-yellow circular "ring" around the center.

Sonification: NGC 2392

This stunning nebula formed after the demise of a star like our Sun. The sonification takes data from this image and represents it with sound.

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The the light of newly-formed stars silhouettes the dark, cold, gas clouds called free-floating evaporating gaseous globules (freggs).

Hubble Spots Dark Star-Hatching frEGGs

These Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules (frEGGs) were first seen in Hubble’s famous 1995 image of the Eagle Nebula.

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Hubble space telescope images the glowing red tendrils of gas from the supernova remnant, dem l249.

Hubble Captures the Shredded Remains of a Cosmic Explosion

These cosmic ribbons of gas have been left behind by a titanic stellar explosion called a supernova.

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3 bright, blue-white stars at upper left mark the beginning of a bright and dusty reddish-brown, orange, and white

Hubble Surveys A Snowman Sculpted from Gas and Dust

The Snowman Nebula is an emission nebula that some 6,000 light-years from Earth.

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Black background. At image center is a colorful ring of gas and dust. The ring is a deep red along the outside. Moving inward toward the center of the ring, the colors change from red, to orange, to yellow, to pinkish-white, to a light blue sphere in the center.

Sonification: Helix Nebula

The Helix Nebula is 655 light-years away and 3 light-years across. The sonification takes data from this image and represents it with sound.

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Bright blue cloud fills the scene, orange-red rings surround bright-white stars in the upper-left corner of the image

Reflected Starlight Bathes Forming Star in New Hubble Image

This image captures a portion of the reflection nebula IC 2631 that holds the hot, dense core of a forming star.

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Left center: inky-black dark nebula; center: orange nebula emerges from dark nebula, with white nebula below stretching to the bottom of the image. .

Hubble Images Dark Nebula Cloaking Stars Within Dusty Depths

This image captures a portion of a dark nebula, LDN 1165.

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Blue and white, orange-red nebula bisected by a dark nebula, image is dotted with blue-white stars

Nebula Churns Out Massive Stars in New Hubble Image

This star-forming nebula is known for producing a particular kind of massive star known as a B-Type star. 

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Against a backdrop of stars and distant galaxies, an orange glow of looping clouds emanates from a bright-white central star. dark dust lanes extend from the right and left of the central star.

Hubble Spies Newly Forming Star Incubating in IC 2631

This infrared image captures a protostar in a reflection nebula.

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Dark dust lanes and clumps block the light from bright white, red, and rust-colored clouds that stretch diagonally across the image. blue-white stars fill the upper right

Hubble Catches Celestial Prawn Drifting Through the Cosmic Deep

The Prawn Nebula is a massive stellar nursery located in the constellation Scorpius, about 6,000 light years from Earth. 

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Image of a colorful blues and dark browns nebula with stars.

Hubble Spots Swirls of Dust in the Flame Nebula

The Flame Nebula, also called NGC 2024, is a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that lies about 1,400 light-years from Earth. 

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Hubble image of blue and white background cloud superimposed with orange and dark cloudy wisps

Hubble Finds Flame Nebula’s Searing Stars May Halt Planet Formation

The Flame Nebula or NGC 2024 is a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that lies about 1,400 light-years from Earth. 

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Hubble image of NGC 1977. Bright blue cloud with a reddish-orange jet (bottom, center). Far-right side and bottom right corner, reddish-orange cloud

Hubble Spots a Swift Stellar Jet in Running Man Nebula

A jet from a newly formed star flares into the shining depths of reflection nebula NGC 1977 in this Hubble image. 

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Bright blue nebula with a darker blue halo and a bright orange-yellow star at its center

Hubble’s View of Planetary Nebula Reveals Complex Structure

NGC 6891 is a bright, asymmetrical planetary nebula in the constellation Delphinus, the Dolphin.

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Dr. Jennifer Wiseman explains these colorful clouds and their role in forming stars. Credit: NASA GSFC, Lead Producer: James Leigh

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    Hubble's Nebulae

    Hubble's cosmic menagerie of nebulae observations holds a wide variety of awe-inspiring forms, each one revealing part of a grand story of how stars evolve.

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    Hubble’s near-infrared instruments see through the gas and dust clouds surrounding newborn stars.

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    Hubble Science: The Death Throes of Stars

    From colliding neutron stars to exploding supernovae, Hubble reveals details of some of the mysteries surrounding the deaths of stars forming nebulae. 

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