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Here is LEDA 36252 - a cosmic tadpole. Galaxies of this class are referred to as tadpoles because they have bright heads and elongated tails. This one is only 80 million light years away, but galaxies like this are uncommon in the nearby Universe. However they are quite common in the distant University. Remember that a telescope is like a time machine and we see distant objects as they were long ago. So it's probably that this tadpole shape is a stage that many galaxies pass through during their evolution.


Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Elmegreen (Vassar College), B. Elmegreen (IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center), J. Almeida, C. Munoz-Tunon, and M. Filho (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias), J. Mendez-Abreu (University of St. Andrews), J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin-Madison), M. Rafelski (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), and D. Ceverino (Center for Astronomy at Heidelberg University)

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Inspired by Hubble, Katie Shapo painted this nebula. Beautiful.

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This is DEM L316A, a supernova remnant located 160,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).

The LMC is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and is visible in the southern hemisphere sky where it does indeed look like a cloud. The remnant is what's left after a violent explosion occurring on a white dwarf in a binary system. The material ejected travels through space at enormous speeds, heating up and energizing the gas in the space between the stars. That's what makes it glow.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Y. Chu

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Here is the unromantically named IRAS 05437+2502. It's quite a dramatic image with the nebula surrounded by bright stars and dark dust clouds. It's in the Constellation Taurus the Bull.

Credit: ESA/Hubble, R. Sahai and NASA

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Inspired by Hubble do igfos has made a doodle out of Hubble Space Telescope images, using #IPICCY.

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A dazzling - and at the same time mysterious - view of NGC 6611. It's a young open star cluster about 6500 light years from us, and part of the Eagle Nebula.

The stars don't just look bright, they are bright. There are lots of young hot blue stars which make the surrounding gas glow. The cluster plus the nebula are known as Messier 16. There are also some very dark patches. These aren't holes in space, as was once thought, but areas of opaque dust that blot out the light from objects beyond them.

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Hubble has taken this superb close-up of part of the Tarantula Nebula. It's a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It's home to supernova remnants, the heaviest star ever found and other unusual objects. The Tarantula Nebula is the most luminous nebula of its type in the local Universe.

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Here is a superb Hubble portrait of Alpha and Beta Centauri. The Alpha Centauri group - which also contains a third star Proxima Centauri - is the closest star system to the Earth. It's located in the constellation Centaurus the Centaur just over four light years away.

Alpha and Beta Centauri form a beautifully bright pair in the southern skies.

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A dramatic image from Hubble showing NGC 3918, an eye-shaped planetary nebula. It's located about 4900 light years away in the constellation Centaurus. Deep in the center of the gas cloud is a white dwarf. White dwarfs are tiny remnants of what were formerly red giants. When the stars run out of fuel, they may collapse into small, but compact, dwarfs.

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