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A Multicolored Window Into Orion’s Stellar Nursery

The Orion Nebula is one of the closest and most spectacular star-forming regions to Earth, visible with a telescope just below the three stars of Orion’s famous belt. This image brings us deep into that familiar patch of sky, revealing a giant cloud where stars are actively being born.

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In this composite view, multiple observatories combine their strengths. Chandra highlights young, energetic stars glowing in X-rays, shown in vivid reds, greens, and blues. Webb reveals the colder gas and dust in darker red tones—raw material that will one day collapse into new stars. Together, they offer a layered look into the heart of the Orion Nebula, where dusty rose clouds weave through thousands of golden, white, and blue stars. Brighter concentrations at the distant core and shadowed layers along the edges give the scene a striking sense of depth, capturing a stellar nursery in full activity.

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/E. Feigelson; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and J. Major

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A Star-Forming Factory in Motion

NGC 346 is a remarkable star cluster nestled within the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located about 200,000 light-years from Earth. While Hubble has observed this region before, this image is the first to merge infrared, optical, and ultraviolet data—offering an exceptionally detailed look inside one of our neighboring galaxy’s most active stellar nurseries.

At the center of this turbulent cloud are more than 2,500 newborn stars. The most massive among them blaze with intense blue light, flooding the surrounding nebula with energy. By comparing observations taken 11 years apart, astronomers discovered that many of these stars are spiraling inward toward the cluster’s core, drawn by streams of gas flowing in from outside and fueling ongoing star formation.

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Visually, the scene is rich and layered: pale blue wisps of gas fill the background, overlaid with denser pink clouds. Arcs of reddish-brown dust curve around the cluster, sculpted by intense radiation from the young stars. Behind it all, faint orange stars shimmer through the haze, adding depth to this dynamic snapshot of stars being born in motion.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Nota, P. Massey, E. Sabbi, C. Murray, M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble)

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New Space Mission Training Launching at Space Park Leicester 🚀

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Space Park Leicester is launching an exciting new professional development programme this March: The Executive Guide to Space.

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A Galaxy That Refuses to Be Labeled

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Captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, NGC 2775 has left astronomers scratching their heads. Galaxies are usually sorted into neat categories based on their shape and structure—spirals with graceful arms, ellipticals with smooth profiles, and more. But NGC 2775 doesn’t play by the rules.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Belfiore, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team

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Title: A Galaxy Marked by an Ancient Encounter

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This is Hubble’s sharpest view yet of NGC 7722, a disk-shaped galaxy located about 187 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. Coiling through its outer disk and halo are dramatic lanes of dark red dust, twisting and breaking apart as they cross the galaxy’s glowing face. These striking features aren’t just beautiful—they’re clues.

Astronomers believe these dust lanes are the lingering scars of a past merger with another galaxy, an ancient interaction that reshaped NGC 7722’s structure. Against the black backdrop of space, nearby stars and distant galaxies frame the scene, while the galaxy’s bright core and layered dust rings reveal a system still bearing the marks of a cosmic collision.

Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. J. Foley (UC Santa Cruz), Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Acknowledgment: Mehmet Yüksek

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Deep Inside the Tarantula Nebula

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This image zooms into the heart of the famous Tarantula Nebula, a massive star-forming region of gas and dust located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Its sweeping, wispy arms once reminded astronomers of a spider’s long legs, earning it the memorable name that has stuck ever since.

In this close-up of the nebula’s central region, ionized gases glow intensely as newborn stars ignite and flood their surroundings with energy. The scene captures star formation in full swing, showing how light, motion, and matter combine to shape one of the most active stellar nurseries in our cosmic neighborhood.

Credits: NASA, ESA

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X-Ray Heartbeat of the Milky Way

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This extraordinary image peers into the very core of our galaxy, capturing the region around Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole located about 26,000 light-years from Earth. Within a field of view no bigger than a pinprick on the sky, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected an astonishing 3,300 individual X-ray sources—each one a clue to the violent and energetic processes shaping our galactic center.

Bathed in burnt orange, deep gold, blue, and hints of green, the scene feels alive with motion. At its center, a bright, lumpy glow marks the intense X-ray emission from Sagittarius A* itself. Surrounding it are layered clumps, diffuse clouds, and vast lobes of superheated gas stretching for dozens of light-years—evidence of powerful outbursts that occurred repeatedly over the last ten thousand years. Threaded through the chaos are mysterious X-ray filaments, some likely tied to pulsar wind nebulas where magnetic fields and high-energy particles collide. Built from 86 observations totaling more than three million seconds of exposure, this image offers one of the deepest and most detailed looks ever at the turbulent engine powering our galaxy.

Credits: NASA Chandra

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Where Darkness Becomes the Cradle of Stars

Infrared eyes let astronomers peer into parts of the universe that visible light can’t reach. Dust and gas that appear cold and invisible to optical telescopes glow softly in infrared, revealing the hidden structure of our galaxy. Yet some regions are so dense and frigid that even infrared light can’t escape. These dark pockets, rather than being empty, may be the perfect environments for future stars to form.

This view from NASA’s retired WISE telescope shows one of those regions: the infrared dark cloud IRDC G11.11–0.11. Set against the Milky Way’s diffuse green glow, the scene is filled with white, blue, and red stars. Bright yellow knots shine near the bottom, while red and orange clouds line the left edge. Just beside them lies an eerie, irregular dark patch—an ultra-cold, dense cloud silhouetted against the galactic background, quietly storing the raw material for new stars.

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Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA

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A Star Is Carving Its Way Into the Cosmos

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This golden-toned Hubble image captures a newly forming star in the constellation Orion, known as HUNTR/X. Shining brightly near the upper left, the young star unleashes powerful stellar winds that push outward, carving a hollowed cavity into the surrounding clouds of gas and dust. This dramatic interaction is unfolding within the Orion Molecular Cloud complex, located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, in Orion’s iconic “sword.”

Four radiant beams extend from the developing star, cutting through the swirling nebula. As the dust thins toward the top right and bottom left of the frame, hundreds of distant background stars come into view—offering a glimpse of the broader galaxy beyond this active stellar nursery.

Credits: NASA, ESA, and T. Megeath (University of Toledo); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

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A Galaxy in Profile — A Stunning Edge-On View

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In this striking Hubble view, an edge-on galaxy stretches diagonally across the frame, cutting a sleek line from the lower left to the upper right. Its thin, dark silhouette stands out against the deep black of space, while the surrounding field is sprinkled with stars and far-off galaxies, each a tiny beacon in the vast cosmic sea.

This perspective gives us a rare glimpse of a galaxy’s structure from the side, revealing the layered complexity of its disk and the hidden depths beyond our own Milky Way.

Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA; Acknowledgment: Nick Rose

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