Esa/hubble: Ground Based Image of Comet 17 P/holmes

The Hubble image at right, taken on 4 Nov., shows the heart of Comet 17P/Holmes. The central portion of the image has been specially processed to highlight variations in the dust distribution near the nucleus. About twice as much dust...

This ground-based image was taken by Japanese amateur astronomer Akira Fujii and shows a close-up of Sirius.

Ground-based Image of Globular Cluster NGC 6397

This ground-based image shows the region surrounding NGC 2074 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. These visible-light emission-line image was taken on the UM/CTIO Curtis Schmidt telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) as...

This ground-based image was taken by Robert Gendler and shows the two merging Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038 and NGC 4039) and their impressive long tidal tails.

This ground-based image is 0.15 degrees wide and shows where Hubble pointed its cameras. The horizontal bar in this spiral galaxy is visible and so is an outer ring of star formation.

This ground-based image is 0.15 degrees wide and shows a ground-based view of the galaxy NGC 1512. The image is from the Digitized Sky Survey II.

This ground-based image of M82 was taken by Robert Gendler with a 12 inch telescope from a suburb outside Hartford, Connecticut. Credit: Robert Gendler

This ground-based image of M81 (left) and M82 (right) was taken by Robert Gendler with a 12 inch telescope from a suburb outside Hartford, Connecticut. The distance between the two popular galaxies is 37 arc-minutes (approximately a moon...

This is an Akira Fujii constellation image of the Hydra, Centaurus, and Crux constellations. This image was used in a zoom animation highlighting the M83 Hubble release image.