The Hubble telescope captured a display of starlight, glowing gas, and silhouetted dark clouds of interstellar dust in this 4-foot-by-8-foot image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300.

Starlight bounces off a normally dark, interstellar core cloud (center) inside a larger cloud called L183 in a short-infrared-wavelength Spitzer Space Telescope image released on September 24.

Using a new technique that removes starlight from an image, scientists re-examined a Hubble Space Telescope picture taken in 1998 and stripped away starlight to reveal a "hidden" world.