5 colourful images of nebula captured by NASA Hubble Space Telescope

Carina Nebula: This sparkling new image depicts a small section of the Carina Nebula, one of the NASA Hubble Space Telescope’s most-imaged objects.

Hourglass Nebula: This Hubble image reveals the true shape of MyCn18 to be an hourglass with an intricate pattern of "etchings" in its walls.

This stunning Hubble image offers the sharpest view of the Orion Nebula ever obtained.

NGC 6302: The “Butterfly Nebula”: NGC 6302 lies between 2,500 and 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius.

Hubble’s Spirograph: In this classic Hubble image from 2000, the planetary nebula IC 418 glows like a multifaceted jewel with enigmatic patterns.