Meet Your Cosmic Neighbors

From August 19-30, take a trip through our cosmic neighborhood with Hubble as your tour guide! Explore our local universe with newly released Hubble images of nearby galaxies and cosmic objects. Through daily social media posts, learn more about our corner of the cosmos and your place within it!

Meet Your Cosmic Neighbors

Glowing clouds of pink and red gas and dust fill the image, along with several stars – foreground stars shine with diffraction spikes, and more distant stars fill the background.

Hubble Spots Billowing Bubbles of Stellar Floss

A bubbling region of stars both old and new lies some 160,000 light-years away in the constellation Dorado.

An oblong smudge of stars stretches diagonally across the image from upper-left to lower-right. It holds stars in blue, orange, yellow, and white. The highest concentration of stars is near the image center and toward the lower-right. This region also holds bright, light-blue clumps of stars. Star densities taper off in all directions as you move away from the core. A number of bright, distant galaxies dot the scene, with a few shining through UGC 4879.

Hubble Examines a Possible Relic

This Hubble image captures the dwarf irregular galaxy UGC 4879 or VV124.

Thousands of bright stars crowd the image, alongside bright pink and red regions of nebulosity.

Hubble Peers Into the Center of a Star-forming Powerhouse

This view from Hubble plunges into the center of spiral galaxy Messier 33, also known as the Triangulum Galaxy.

A black background dotted with stars and distant galaxies. The distribution of stars increases toward image center, forming the loose oval shape of the irregular galaxy Leo A that stretches horizontally across the image. Three foreground stars shine brightly – one located at center-top, and two others in the lower-right quadrant of the image. Each holds four bright barbs (called diffraction spikes) that extend outward from the star.

Hubble Finds Structure in an Unstructured Galaxy

This Hubble image features the nearby dwarf irregular galaxy Leo A, located some 2.6 million light-years away.

More closely concentrated near the center, several stars shine against black space along with a few distant galaxies.

Hubble Reaches a Lonely Light in the Dark

A splatter of stars glows faintly at almost 3 million light-years away in this new image of the Tucana Dwarf from Hubble.

A grouping of large, glowing, and purplish stars dominate the image’s center. Dark ridges of gas and dust are visible around them, with more background stars crowding the view.

Hubble Captures Unique Ultraviolet View of a Spectacular Star Cluster

NGC 346 is nestled within the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy to our Milky Way.

Several stars shine against black space. A few foreground stars with diffraction spikes throughout.

Hubble Pinpoints a Dim, Starry Mini-galaxy

A glittering collection of stars shines against a background of much more distant galaxies in this view from Hubble of the Pegasus Dwarf spheroidal galaxy, also known as Andromeda VI.

Thousands of stars fill the image against black space, with a glowing, nebulous cloud of pink dominating most of the lower right half of the view.

Hubble Traces Star Formation in a Nearby Nebula

NGC 261 blooms a brilliant ruby red against a myriad of stars in this new image from Hubble.

Several stars fill the image, more closely concentrated near the center. Foreground stars with diffraction spikes shine throughout as well.

Hubble Observes An Oddly Organized Satellite

Andromeda III is one of at least 13 dwarf satellite galaxies in orbit around the Andromeda galaxy.

Thousands of distant stars crowd the view against black space. Tendrils of red nebulosity bloom across the image.

Hubble Zooms into the Rosy Tendrils of Andromeda

Clusters of stars set the interstellar medium ablaze in the Andromeda Galaxy about 2.5 million light-years away.

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Full cover image of the Hubble Focus: Dark Universe e-book. Black background with a galaxy cluster that is superimposed with a blue-white haze that indicates the location of dark matter. Top of the image holds the phrase, "Hubble Focus." The "o" in focus is Hubble as we look down the tube of the telescope.

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