This 1994 Hubble image of Jupiter shows eight impact sites from Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which broke into 21 fragments during a close pass in 1992 after being discovered in 1993

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Hubble captured Eta Carinae’s massive gas clouds from a 150-year-old outburst expanding at 1.5 million mph

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NGC 3132, or the Southern Ring Nebula, is a nearby planetary nebula about 2,000 light-years away, formed by gas ejected from a dying star—seen as the faint star near the bright central one in this Hubble image

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IC 418 is a bright nebula 2,000 light-years away, formed from a dying Sun-like star. Its hot core lights up the gas, and will eventually fade into a white dwarf—just like our Sun will in 5 billion years

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Hubble saw Seyfert’s Sextet, four galaxies slowly merging, with one distant galaxy and one star tail nearby

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