Cosmic eye candy. This week marks the anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope way back in 1990. Thanks, Hubble, for providing us with “whoa” fodder for 22 years!
The merging Antennae galaxies. As the two galaxies smash together, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars.
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The massive star Eta Carinae in our Milky Way galaxy that experts believe might explode in a supernova at any time.
(Reuters / NASA)
A giant star-forming nebula with massive young stellar clusters.
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Supernova remnant 0509-67.5, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy about 170,000 light-years from Earth.
(Reuters / NASA)