Westerlund 2

Known as Gum 29, this noisy celestial hatching place is home to a massive cluster of 3,000 stars.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Nota (ESA/STScI), and the Westerlund 2 Science Team

MACS J0416.1-2403

The Hubble Space Telescope's Frontier Fields project, which combined the strength of natural "gravitational lenses" in space with Hubble's capacity to produce long-exposure deep field views.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and L. Infante (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)  2

Globular cluster NGC 6355

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the dispersed stars of the globular cluster NGC 6355. The galactic globular cluster NGC 6355 is located in the inner regions of our Milky Way galaxy.

Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, E. Noyola, R. Cohen

Globular Cluster NGC 1850, Take Two

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a Milky Way satellite galaxy and the birthplace of billions of stars, is home to this 100 million-year-old globular cluster.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA and N. Bastian (Donostia International Physics Center); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

Globular Cluster NGC 1850, Take One

Situated in the Milky Way's satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is where billions of stars are born. The cluster is located in the constellation Dorado, some 160,000 light-years away.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA and P. Goudfrooij (Space Telescope Science Institute); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

Starburst Galaxy NGC 1569

The light from millions of young, newly formed stars shines in this galaxy, which is known as NGC 1569. For the past 100 million years, NGC 1569 has been nearly continually releasing stars at a rate 100 times faster than that of our Milky Way Galaxy.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and A. Aloisi (STScI/ESA)

Galaxy AM 0644-741

Ring galaxies form when two galaxies collide and one of them plunges straight through the other's disk. This image shows the galaxy AM 0644-741, which is situated in the southern constellation Volans, about 300 million light-years away.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI); Acknowledgment: J. Higdon (Cornell U.) and I. Jordan (STScI)

Sombrero Galaxy M104

Messier 104 (M104), the Sombrero Galaxy's defining feature, is a bright white, bulbous nucleus surrounded by thick dust lanes that make up the galaxy's spiral structure. The galaxy is angled almost edge-on as viewed from Earth.

Image Credit: NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

NGC 3603

Clouds of interstellar gas and dust, the building blocks of new star formation, envelop the massive, hot star cluster known as NGC 3603..

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, R. O'Connell (University of Virginia), F. Paresce (National Institute for Astrophysics, Bologna, Italy), E. Young (Universities Space Research Association/Ames Research Center)