A dazzling planetary nebula: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has turned its eagle eye to the planetary nebula NGC 6572.

A frEGGs-cellent Discovery: This image depicts a new class of star-forming nursery, known as Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules.

Firestorm of star birth seen in a Local Galaxy: This festively colourful nebula is called NGC 604.

Massive starbirth in N81: A Hubble Space Telescope 'family portrait' of young, ultra-bright stars nested in their embryonic cloud of glowing gases.

Rainbow image of a dusty star: The Egg Nebula offers astronomers a special look at the normally invisible dust shells swaddling an aging star.

The glowing eye of NGC 6751: The Hubble telescope captured a giant celestial 'eye', known as planetary nebula NGC 6751.

The heart of the Trifid Nebula: Cataloged as Messier 20, is a well-known region of star formation lying within Milky Way Galaxy.