Esa/hubble: Helix Nebula With Annotated Features

Looks can be deceiving, especially when it comes to celestial objects like galaxies and nebulas. These objects are so far away that astronomers cannot see their three-dimensional structure. The Helix Nebula, for example, resembles a...

This cropped version of the Helix Nebula mosaic shows cometary-filaments embedded along a portion of the inner rim of the nebula's red and blue gas ring. At a distance of 650 light-years, the Helix is one of the nearest planetary nebulae...

An image of Helix Nebula.

An image of the Helix Nebula.

An image of the Helix Nebula.

Ground (Palomar) image of the Trifid Nebula with location of WFPC2 field

An image of the Cone Nebula.

Turning its 2.4-metre eye to the Tarantula Nebula, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken this close-up of the outskirts of the main cloud of the Nebula.

This is a NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope picture of a recently-formed "planetary nebula", known as Hen 1357.

Probing a glowing bubble of gas and dust encircling a dying star, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a wealth of previously unseen structures.