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Besides the dark dust, NGC 7049appears similar to a smooth elliptical galaxy, although featuring surprisingly few globular star clusters.

"Anemic" galaxy NGC 4921 belongs to a class of galaxies in which star formation is nearly absent, giving it a haunting translucency.

Although NGC 1097 seems to be wrapping its companion in its spiral arms, this is no gentle motherly giant.

In this dazzling image, the galaxy NGC 1427A is seen as it travels through the Fornax cluster of galaxies, to which it belongs.

Viewed from Earth, NGC 6744 is about two-thirds the size of a full moon, but it's so faint you can't see it without a backyard telescope.

Strange features of NGC 1313 include that its spiral arms are lopsided and its rotational axis is not at the center of the nuclear bar.

One of these galaxies was NGC 4258, whose distance was very accurately determined through observations with radio telescopes.

The last picture is of a classic spiral galaxy called NGC 4145, located approximately 68 million light-years from Earth.

Explanation: NGC 660 lies near the center of this intriguing skyscape, swimming in the boundaries of the constellation Pisces.

NGC 2976 does not look like a typical spiral galaxy. It has a star-forming disk, but no obvious spiral pattern.

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X-ray images suggest that resulting winds and stellar explosions create plumes of hot gas extending into a halo around NGC 2841.

More than 9, 000 light-years away from Earth, stars form within the star cluster NGC 281, colloquially known as the "Pacman Nebula. "

The star is part of the open cluster of stars labelled NGC 2264 and known as the Snowflake cluster.

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Within the SMC, stellar nurseries like NGC 346 also are thought to be similar to those found in the early universe.

Explanation: In this beautiful celestial still life composed with a cosmic brush, dusty nebula NGC 2170 shines at the upper left.

One progenitor hypothesis is that NGC 1132 is the result of a series of galaxy mergers in what once was a small group of galaxies.

Grand spiral galaxy NGC 1232, captured in detail by one of the new Very Large Telescopes, is a good example.

The evidence also suggests that the star birth in NGC 4150 was sparked by a collision and merger with a dwarf galaxy.

The image is being billed as the sharpest shot yet of the star-forming region known as NGC 604.

The two spiral galaxies in the center of the image are edge-on NGC 3190 with its distinctive, warped dust lanes, and S-shaped NGC 3187.

Its broad arms are distorted by gravitational interaction with a fellow Virgo cluster member, giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4697.

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Contrasting blue reflection nebula NGC 2023, surrounding a hot, young star, is at the lower left.

The Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392), also known as the Clownface Nebula, was discovered by astronomer William Herschel in 1787.

Out of view, off the lower edge of the picture lies another distorted galaxy, hockey stick-shaped NGC 4656.

Star clusters like NGC 3603 provide important clues to understanding the origin of massive star formation in the early, distant universe.

Sliding your cursor over the image will label the larger galaxies using NGC catalog designations.

Explanation: NGC 6240 offers a rare glimpse of a cosmic catastrophe in its final throes.

Dusty NGC 1333 is seen as a reflection nebula in visible light images, sporting bluish hues characteristic of starlight reflected by dust.

By chance, there is relatively little interstellar dust between us and NGC 4214, making our measurements of it more accurate.

NGC 2392 lies about 5000 light-years away and is visible with a small telescope in the constellation of Gemini.

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NGC 4214 contains a large amount of gas, some of which can be seen glowing red in the image, providing abundant material for star formation.

NGC 6334 is one of the most active nurseries of massive stars in our galaxy and has been extensively studied by astronomers.

NGC 1275 is one of the closest giant elliptical galaxies.

The faint, wide arcs or shells of NGC 474 could have been formed by a gravitational encounter with neighbor NGC 470.

Partly obscured by foreground dust, the nebula itself surrounds NGC 1893, a young galactic cluster of stars that energizes the glowing gas.

Hubble has also captured the outer spiral arms of NGC 4911, along with thousands of other galaxies of varying sizes.

NGC 6559 provides a perfect demonstration of the first parts of the stellar life cycle.

As an elliptical galaxy, NGC 1132 has little dust and gas, and few stars have formed in it recently.

How was this unusual looking galaxy created? No one is sure, especially since spiral galaxy NGC 7049looks so strange.

NGC 1999 shows a remarkable jet-black cloud near its center, located just to the right and lower right of the bright star.

A classic planetary nebula, the Cat's Eye (NGC 6543) represents a final, brief yet glorious phase in the life of a sun-like star.

The galaxy, known as NGC 4911, contains rich lanes of dust and gas near its center.

Above M87 is the famous interacting galaxy pair NGC 4438, also known as The Eyes.

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows NGC 1275, the galaxy located in the center of the Perseus Galaxy Cluster.

Images of NGC 3132 reveal two stars close together within the nebulosity, one of 10th magnitude, the other 16th.

Colorful, spiky stars in this cosmic portrait of NGC 1055 are in the foreground, well within the Milky Way.

The hot, remnant stellar core of NGC 2818 will eventually cool off for billions of years as a white dwarf.

Dark shapes with bright edges winging their way through dusty NGC 6188 are tens of light-years long.

Since 2002, there has been intense interest in follow-up observations of NGC 6240, as well as a search for similar systems.

At top center is NGC 7319 and the compact galaxy group known as Stephan's Quintet.

NGC 2818 is one of very few planetary nebulae in our galaxy located within an open cluster.

Continued numerical modeling of galaxies like NGC 1313 might shed some light on its unusual nature.

It is the spiral galaxy NGC 4603, the most distant galaxy in which Cepheid variables have been found.

About 44 million light years away sits NGC 5866, the Spindle Galaxy, seen here in an edge-on view that reveals its thinness.

NGC 6946 is bright in infrared light and rich in gas and dust, exhibiting a furious rate of star formation.

The sharp Hubble data also reveal more distant background galaxies seen right through NGC 2442's star clusters and nebulae.

Spanning over 60, 000 light-years, the peculiar elliptical galaxy, also known as NGC 5128, is featured in this sharp color image.

Admittedly, NGC 6744 is about twice the diameter of the Milky Way, but that doesn't change the similarity in the architecture of the two.

Explanation: Galaxies of the NGC 7771 Group are featured in this intriguing skyscape.

Hubble has delivered an unrivalled snapshot of the nearby barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672.

Near NGC 4452's center is a slight bulge of stars, while hundreds of background galaxies are visible far in the distance.

Billows of cosmic dust swirl amid NGC 1316, a giant elliptical galaxy formed billions of years ago when two spiral galaxies merged.

Surrounded by natal gas and dust, NGC 602 is featured in this stunning Hubble image of the region.

along with a smaller reflection nebula in the region, NGC 2071 (top).

Explanation: NGC 3314 is actually two large spiral galaxies which just happen to almost exactly line up.

Explanation: Nearly 50 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major, NGC 4013 was long considered an isolated island universe.

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Observations of distant Cepheids such as those in NGC 4603 also help astronomers to precisely measure the expansion rate of the universe.

Galaxies of the NGC 7771 group are featured in this intriguing skyscape.

Brighter NGC 2327 forms the head with the more diffuse IC 2177 as the wings and body.

An imaginative eye toward the expansive IC 417 and diminutive NGC 1931 suggests a cosmic spider and fly.

The Crab Nebula (catalogue designations M1, NGC 1952, Taurus A) is a supernova remnant in the constellation of Taurus.

On the left is an emission nebula cataloged as NGC 7000, famous partly because it resembles our fair planet's continent of North America.

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The Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is a planetary nebula in the constellation of Draco.

The small open star cluster Pismis 24 lies in the core of the NGC 6357 nebula in Scorpius, about 8, 000 light-years away from Earth.

Explanation: From our vantage point in the Milky Way Galaxy, we see NGC 6946 face-on.

Located about 2, 000 light years from Earth in the constellation Lyra, the Ring Nebula is also known as Messier Object 57 and NGC 6720.

The spiral in the upper left corner is NGC 3185, the 4th member of the Hickson group.

The other object is the lenticular companion galaxy NGC 5195.

NGC 7380 is located in the constellation Cepheus about 7, 000 light-years from Earth within the Milky Way Galaxy.

British astronomer John Herschel first recorded NGC 6334 in 1837 during his stay in South Africa.

You may not have heard of NGC 6744, a galaxy about 30 million light years away from Earth, but it sure looks familiar.

At the estimated distance of NGC 7129, this telescopic view spans about 40 light-years.

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The nebula, located 20, 000 light-years away in the constellation Carina, contains a central cluster of huge, hot stars, called NGC 3603.

NGC 6946 is also bright in infrared light and rich in gas and dust, exhibiting a high star birth and death rate.

At the upper right lies NGC 7635 (the Bubble Nebula) and star cluster M52.

Featured in this sharp telescopic image, globular star cluster Omega Centauri (NGC 5139) is some 15, 000 light-years away.

From our vantage point in the Milky Way Galaxy, we see NGC 6946 face-on.

This field spans around 40 light-years at the estimated distance of NGC 7822.

This field spans around 60 light-years at the estimated distance of NGC 7822.

NGC 3982 is located about 68 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.

The unique planetary nebula NGC 2818 is nested inside the open star cluster NGC 2818A.

The background galaxies are about one tenth the apparent size of NGC 7331 and so lie roughly ten times farther away.

Galaxies NGC 5216 (top) and NGC 5218 really do look like they are connected by a string.

Image: Composite image of galaxy NGC 3115.

The cloud, called NGC 2467, lies in the southern constellation of Puppis about 13, 000 light-years from Earth.

Barred spiral galaxy NGC 4731 lies some 65 million light-years away.

Dust disk around a black hole in galaxy NGC 4261.

NGC 4833 is a globular cluster discovered by Abbe Lacaille during his 1751-1752 journey to South Africa, and catalogued in 1755.

Third is the Eskimo Nebula NGC 2392 located 5000 light years.

Over 60, 000light-years across, M51's spiral arms and dust lanes clearly sweep infront of its companion galaxy, NGC 5195.

NGC 7380 was discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1787.

The images of NGC 6357 were taken with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 in April 2002.

This dark tower, NGC 6231, and associated nebulae are about 5, 000 light-years away.

This is a composite image of NGC 1068, oneof the nearest and brightest galaxies containing a rapidly growingsupermassive black hole.

Over 60, 000 light-years across, M51's spiral arms and dust lanes clearly sweep in front of its companion galaxy, NGC 5195.

For scale, NGC 3190 is about 75, 000 light-years across at the estimated distance of Hickson 44.

The picture at upper right shows a relatively calm galaxy called NGC 4145.

One hypothesis is that these globulars survive from an even earlier galaxy that was subsumed into NGC 1316.

Broader than the disk, NGC 660's ring spans about 40, 000 light-years.

Bars such as that observed in NGC 936 are common features of galaxies; however, this one is significantly more marked than average.

At the estimated distance of NGC 6188, the picture spans about 200 light-years.

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The centre of NGC 6240 as observed by the Hubble Space Telescope