Mother of stars

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team
Official comment: An eerie pillar of star birth in the Carina Nebula rises from a sea of greenish-colored clouds. More can be viewed here
From Jan: The Hubble Telescope shows us an object containing stars, gas and dust in which new stars are being born. How we [...]

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Purple Rain

A recent discovery has surprised many scientists and quite a few intelligent laymen. Yes, the further away some galaxies appear to be the nearer they may really be. The popular idea is that space is expanding because distant objects appear to be moving ever faster away from us with increasing distance, according to [...]

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Galactic merging

 
Object Names: Hickson Compact Group 90, HCG 90, M59
Credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Sharples (University of Durham)
From the Hubble Site here I quote:
“The three galaxies—NGC 7173 (middle left), NGC 7174 (middle right), and NGC 7176 (lower right)—are part of Hickson Compact Group 90, named after astronomer Paul Hickson, who first cataloged these small clusters [...]

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Stellar home

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
100,000 stars under their mutual gravitation sending their light to you from 25,000 years ago.
For details see:  This Hubble Page

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