A New View On The Cosmos

In the February 25 Issue:

A new view on the cosmos

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These new images of distant galaxies come from the newly installed Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope. Clockwise from top left: NGC 6302, a butterfly-shaped nebula surrounding a dying star; a group of galaxies called Stephan's Quintet; a star-forming region in the Carina Nebula; a group of 100,000 stars residing in the crowded core of Omega Centauri, a giant globular cluster. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

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