#HubbleFriday This Hubble image shows a special type of star-forming nursery, known as Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules (or frEGGs for short). FrEGGS are dark, compact globules of dust and gas, some of which create low-mass stars. The boundary between the cool, dusty frEGG and a hot bubble of ionized gas can be seen as the glowing blue and purple edges in this image. For more information, visit the link in our bio! Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sahai #NASA #Hubble #Friday #weekend #stars #space #science #universe #astronomy #telescope

#HubbleFriday About 60 million light-years from Earth, the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy (NGC 1365) is home to enormous star-forming regions. The blue and fiery orange swirls in this Hubble image show us where stars have just formed and the dusty sites of future stellar nurseries. The bright, light-blue regions on the outer edges indicate the presence of baby stars that formed from combining gas and dust in the galaxy’s outer arms. For more information, visit the link in our bio! Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team; Acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla) #NASA #Hubble #Friday #space #science #galaxy #stars #telescope #astronomy #universe

Great Hubble science is a global phenomenon! Scientists from about three dozen countries have won Hubble observation time. As a result, data from Hubble have been used in over 17,000 scientific publications. As @worldspaceweek continues, we’re reminded of the international success of the Hubble mission. Learn more about the telescope’s groundbreaking discoveries at the link in our bio! #WorldSpaceWeek #WSW2020 #NASA #Hubble #telescope #space #science #STEM #world #astronomy

#HubbleClassic Billowing clouds of super-hot gas form celestial "wings" around a massive, young star in the star-forming region Sharpless 2-106. A ring of dust and gas orbiting the star acts like a belt, cinching the expanding nebula into an hourglass shape. Credits: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) #Hubble #NASA #classic #stars #space #science #nebula #astronomy #universe #cosmos

#HubbleFriday Looking this good isn’t easy. Capturing this Hubble image of the galaxy NGC 5643 took 30 different exposures and nine hours of observation time! This beautiful galaxy is about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Lupus. The observation was proposed by Adam Riess, who (alongside Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt) was awarded a Nobel Prize in physics in 2011 for his contributions to the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe. For more information, check out the link in our bio! Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al.; Acknowledgement: Mahdi Zamani #NASA #Hubble #Friday #galaxy #beautiful #space #science #universe #astronomy #cosmos

#HubbleClassic Like bees around a hive, galaxies hover around the center of cluster Abell 1689. Astronomers estimate that Abell 1689 also contains over 160,000 groups of stars called globular clusters — the largest collection of globular clusters known. For more information about Hubble, visit the link in our bio! Credits: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Blakeslee (NRC Herzberg Astrophysics Program, Dominion Astrophysical Observatory), and H. Ford (JHU) #NASA #Hubble #classic #astronomy #space #science #telescope #universe #galaxy #cosmos

Tomorrow is International #ObserveTheMoon Night! 🌕🔭 Hubble has made exciting observations of our Moon, including this glimpse at the Crater Tycho. What will you see? Learn more at moon.nasa.gov/observe! Credits: NASA, ESA, and D. Ehrenreich (Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG)/CNRS/Université Joseph Fourier) #NASA #Hubble #Moon #observe #science #space #telescope #astronomy #weekend