Pic from Hubble

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These images are some of the first from the newly refurbished Hubble Telescope. Truely unbelievable images of space.

This first image shows a gas cloud that is a birth place of new stars, the split image show on top the real light image and the bottom shows what is going on in the cloud. The star in the middle of the cloud with the white jets coming out of it is possibly a young planetary system forming.

 

This one they say is a star exploding, nick named the Butterfly nebula.

The image reveals a small region inside the massive globular cluster Omega Centauri, which boasts nearly 10 million stars. The red stars are the coolest of the stars, while the blue are the hottest.

These are a cluster of galaxies. The 3 golden ones are actually fairly close together and will probably all collide someday. The upper left one is no where near the others, it is actually closer to earth than the others hence the reason you can see more defined stars.

This image was one of the very first after maintenance, it is NGC 6217. The detail is amazing.

All images and info were obtained from nasa.gov.