These pictures show the Tarantula Nebula, located about 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud – a galaxy that orbits ... Hydrocarbons, shown in blue and purple, skim the edges ...

Blue stars are by far the biggest and brightest stars in the galaxy. To the naked eye ... than the sun Cosmic imposter bathes distant nebula in fiery red glow: 'This star should not be here ...

A sparkling cloudscape is revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope, which used its instruments to capture multiple wavelengths when pointed at a dwarf galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The observatory captured thousands of images of the spiral galaxy ... swirl of red, blue and purple. The solar objects featured in the photos include the "Crab Nebula" and Cassiopeia A, supernova ...

The barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672 is a wispy scene ... gas and dust—within which stars form—a ghoulish blue hue. A region of the Eagle Nebula known as the Pillars of Creation.