NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured very beautiful and breathtaking images of our Milky Way, showcasing stellar nurseries, cosmic explosions, and grand spirals that reveal the mysteries of our universe.
6 Latest Images Of Milky Way Captured By NASA Hubble Space Telescope
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NGC 3603
Hubble’s latest view of NGC 3603 highlights one of the Milky Way’s most massive young star clusters. Formed a million years ago, its hot blue stars carved vast cavities in surrounding gas.
Antennae Galaxies
The Antennae Galaxies shine in Hubble’s finest-ever image. Previously photographed in 1997 and 2006, this breathtaking capture reveals stunning cosmic collisions and brilliant bursts of star formation between the merging galaxies.
Crab Nebula
Hubble provides the most detailed full view of the Crab Nebula ever made. Created from 24 exposures, this high-resolution image captures intricate structures of one of astronomy’s most studied remnants.
Eagle Nebula
Resembling a mystical tower, the Eagle Nebula is a billowing column of gas and dust nearly 9.5 light-years tall. It serves as a stellar nursery, incubating newborn stars within.
Whirlpool Galaxy (M51)
The Whirlpool Galaxy, NGC 5194, resembles a cosmic spiral staircase. This sharpest image ever taken reveals its sweeping arms filled with young stars and its glowing yellowish core of older stars.
Lagoon Nebula
To mark Hubble’s 28th anniversary, this colourful image of the Lagoon Nebula was released. Spanning 55 by 20 light-years, it captures a small but turbulent star-forming region 4,000 light-years away.
