10 stellar images of space captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope frequently shares spectacular and stellar images of space that are worth exploring. Here are some of them.

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This stunning image features a beautiful view of a nearby star-forming region, NGC 1333. The nebula is situated in the Perseus molecular cloud, approximately 960 light-years away from Earth.

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This gorgeous image is of a close-knit collection of five galaxies, called the Hickson Compact Group 40. It consists of three spiral-shaped galaxies, an elliptical galaxy, and a lenticular galaxy.

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Captured by NASA's Hubble telescope, this splendid image of NGC 6302, known as the Butterfly Nebula, shows technicolour wings formed from gas and dust. 

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This beautiful image shows the majestic spiral galaxy UGC 2885, located about 232 million light-years away from Earth in the northern constellation Perseus. This galaxy is 2.5 times wider than our Milky Way galaxy.

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This amazing image is of a star system Arp-Madore, created by the collision of two galaxies. The collision pulled and stretched the galaxies' disks of dust, gas, and stars outward. 

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This spectacular image is a composite image of a spiral galaxy, NGC 4258, located about 20 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici.

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This colourful and surreal image is of the Lagoon Nebula, a vast stellar nursery located 4,000 light-years away from Earth. It shows a giant star, called Herschel 36 shining bright in the center.

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This marvellous image is of a cosmic, double-bladed lightsaber inside the turbulent Orion B molecular cloud complex,where new stars are born. It is situated at least 1,350 light-years away from Earth.

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This astounding image is of the pillars of dust and gas formed in M16, the Eagle Nebula. It is situated 6,500 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Serpens.

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Here's a captivating image of a group of interacting galaxies called Arp 273. The spiral galaxies known as UGC 1810 make a rose-like shape above a companion galaxy, UGC 1813.

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