By Neha Yadav
Published Apr 28, 2024

Hindustan Times
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10 spectacular images of universe captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope

The universe is home to innumerable galaxies. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed and captured several such galaxies. Here is a look at some of them. 

This stunning image is of Westerlund 2, a giant cluster of 3,000 stars, located in a stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29.

This spectacular image is of merging star clusters in 30 Doradus. The image shows massive clusters of stars in 30 Doradus nebula, also known as the Tarantula Nebula.

This astounding image is of the Black Eye Galaxy or NGC 4826, a spiral galaxy located 17 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices.

This amazing image is of a 100 million-year-old globular cluster NGC 1850 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

Here's another stunning image of a 100 million-year-old globular cluster NGC 1850, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, approximately 160,000 light-years away in the constellation Dorado.

This mesmerising image is of a cluster of huge, hot stars called NGC 3603, surrounded by clouds of interstellar gas and dust.

This gorgeous Hubble image shows a ring of dark matter in the galaxy cluster ZwCl0024+1652. 

This beautiful image is of the N44 nebula surrounded by glowing hydrogen gas, dust and massive stars. The image shows a starry gap called "superbubble" formed by gas and dust in the nebula.

This infrared image of the M16's Pillars of Creation captured by Hubble telescope shows young stars surrounding the pillars formed by dust and gas.

Here's a striking infrared view of the Tarantula Nebula. The image shows a cluster of more than 800,000 stars and protostars embedded inside the nebula.