Trifid Nebula by the Hubble Space Telescope.

First released VLT Survey Telescope image shows the star-forming region Messier 17.

Omega Nebula.

Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way.

Keyhole Nebula, imaged by Hubble Space Telescope. The small nebula to the upper left has been nicknamed "finger of God" or "God's birdie", due to the gesture it appears to be making.

 
"Mystic Mountain"

Colour-composite image of the Etta Carina Nebula, revealing exquisite details in the stars and dust of the region. 

Super massive star Eta Carinae as imaged by Hubble Space Telescope.

A Hubble Space Telescope (HST) false-color image/diagram of the Carina Nebula.

The Eta Carina Nebula around the Wolf–Rayet star WR 22.

The Eta Carina Nebula. 

Carina Nebula.

A photogenic variable star, Eta Carinae, embedded in the Carina Nebula.

Imploding vacuum tube, photographed with high speed air-gap flash.

The expanding remnant of SN 1987A, a Type II-P supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Given that we can’t teleport objects yet, this could be the next best thing. inForm is a system that uses Kinect technology to allow people to remotely manipulate objects and physically interact with data or temporary installations.

Meet the newest member of the wild cat family: Leopardus guttulus. This little guy had been mistaken as L. tigrinis, but a genetic analysis revealed it’s a different species. The two species of tigrina are found in Brazil and both could be endangered.

BEAUTIFULLY preserved baby dinosaur found.

Researchers have developed a new treatment for osteoporosis. The product, which stimulates bone formation, is easily dissolved in water and, besides increasing bone mass, it prevents f

A new study suggests that Alzheimer’s disease could be a late stage of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes causes changes to the brain which have been associated with Alzheimer’s, but researchers recently discovered that the hippocampus of patients with type 2 diabetes is not sensitive to insulin, making the brain “diabetic”. This leaves insoluble plaques of a protein called beta-amyloid in the brain, which are considered an onset of Alzheimer’s disease.

Using a compact but powerful laser, a research team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has developed a new way to generate synchrotron X-rays.

Move over graphene! The new single-layer material "stanene" is made up of tin atoms, and could greatly increase the speed of next-generation computer chips and reduce their power consumption.

Estimated at 310 million light years aways, Galaxy NGC 4921 has been dubbed "anemic" because of its low rate of star creation.

Circumstellar rings around SN 1987A, with the ejecta from the supernova explosion at the center of the inner ring.

Supernova SN 1987A, one of the brightest stellar explosions since the invention of the telescope more than 400 years ago

The expanding supernova remnant around Supernova 1987A and its interaction with its surroundings, seen in X-ray and visible light.

A time sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images, taken in the 15 years from 1994 to 2009, showing the collision of the expanding supernova remnant with a ring of dense material ejected by the progenitor star 20,000 years before the supernova.

The massive, young stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides in the 30 Doradus Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. There is no known star-forming region in the Local Group as active and as luminous as 30 Doradus. The image, taken in ultraviolet, visible, and red light by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, spans about 100 light-years.

The young cluster RMC 136a.

Filaments in The Tarantula Nebula in the LMC. 

The nebula can be seen at the centre of this image.

Tarantula nebula from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).

Tarantula Nebula and its surroundings.

Heart of the Tarantula Nebula: R136 is located in the center of the image while Hodge 301 is in upper right. 

LMC Region near the Tarantula Nebula.

Central region of the Tarantula Nebula – a mosaic of 15 Hubble images. 

close-up of the Tarantula Nebula.

Brilliant star VFTS 682 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit ESO et al.

Hubble's Panoramic View of a Star-Forming Region in the super star cluster called R136.

The Tarantula Nebula, first light image of the TRAPPIST national telescope at La Silla Observatory.

Trifid Nebula seen at different wavelengths.

Messier 17 is an H II region in the constellation Sagittarius.

A small portion of the Tarantula Nebula, a giant H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Three-colour composite mosaic image of the Eagle Nebula.

Northwestern part of the region, well away from the centre.

A view of the stellar spire within M16, the Eagle Nebula.

An MRI machine that uses a superconducting magnet. The magnet is inside the doughnut-shaped housing, and can create a 3 tesla field inside the central hole.

colorless gas, exhibiting a red-orange glow when placed in a high-voltage electric field.