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The Butterfly Nebula, located in our Milky Way galaxy, is about 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. The "wings" stretch for over two light-years. (Photo: AP/NASA)![Looking at Heaven]()
The Carina Nebula, where stars are being born 7,500 light-years from Earth. The interaction between hydrogen and ultraviolet light gives the nebula its red and purple color. (Photo: AP/NASA)![Looking at Heaven]()
This photograph of galaxy cluster Abell 370 demonstrates gravitational lensing, or a curve in spacetime that causes light to be deflected. (Photo: AP/NASA)![Looking at Heaven]()
Jupiter is 2.5 times the mass of all the other planets in the Solar System combined. (Photo: AP/NASA)![Looking at Heaven]()
Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 6217 is part of the Ursa Major constellation, 6 million light-years from Earth. (Photo: AP/NASA)![Looking at Heaven]()
Omega Centauri, a star cluster 16,000 light-years from Earth, contains stars more than 10 billion years old. (Photo: AP/NASA)![Looking at Heaven]()
Five galaxies, known as Stephan's quintet, cut across time, with young blue stars and aging red stars together coexisting in space. (Photo: AP/NASA)Looking at Heaven
The Hubble Space Telescope is once again sending images of space back to Earth after a repair mission in May. Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis installed and fixed cameras and repaired electronics. NASA scientists expect the multi-billion dollar telescope to continue to take photographs until at least 2014. These photographs were taken during the repair process and were released on September 9, 2009.
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