By Sheetal Kumari | April 24, 2025
These Hubble images show Saturn’s white spot, a great storm in the planet’s equatorial region, discovered by amateur astronomers in September, 1990.
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This 1994 Hubble image shows R136, a young stellar cluster in the 30 Doradus Nebula, located within the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.
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This Hubble snapshot of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula, reveals that the object has an hourglass shape with an intricate pattern of “etchings” in its walls.
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Hubble captured massive gas and dust clouds around Eta Carinae, revealing structures 10 billion miles wide, despite being 8,000 light-years from Earth.
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In 2000, Hubble captured Abell 2218, a massive galaxy cluster acting as a cosmic magnifying glass, after its successful servicing mission in December 1999.
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Hubble’s mosaic shows the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide supernova remnant observed in 1054 by Japanese, Chinese, and likely Native American astronomers.
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Hubble captured a light echo from a star eruption, with light spreading through surrounding dust nearly five years after the initial outburst.
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This Hubble image reveals a majestic disk of stars and dust lanes in the spiral galaxy NGC 2841. A bright cusp of starlight marks the galaxy’s center.
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Hubble captured NGC 248, two glowing red nebulae in the Small Magellanic Cloud, lit by radiation from brilliant central stars.
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Hubble captured Caldwell 69’s colourful gas wings in 2020, revealing more about the Butterfly Nebula’s structure using near-ultraviolet to near-infrared light.
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