Jewel Bug Nebula 💎🪲 NGC 7027, affectionately called the “Jewel Bug” Nebula, is a planetary nebula – a collection of clouds of dust and gas cast off by a dying star. Hubble’s near-ultraviolet observations of this nebula will help reveal how much dust obscures its central star and how hot the star really is. The Jewel Bug Nebula is located around 3,000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. Image credit: NASA, ESA and J. Kastner (RIT) Music credit: “Inertia” by Lincoln Jaeger [PRS] via At

Zoom into the Andromeda galaxy The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is the sharpest large composite image ever taken of our galactic neighbor. Though the galaxy is over 2 million light-years away, the Hubble telescope is powerful enough to resolve individual stars in a 61,000-light-year-long section of the galaxy's pancake-shaped disk. It's like photographing a beach and resolving individual grains of sand. An