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Official @ESA feed for #Hubble Space Telescope — the space-based observatory which has revolutionised modern astronomy. #BFFinSpace with @ESA_Webb

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Hubble, Webb, and a ghostly cat 👻🐈‍⬛

Hubble and @esa_webb have imaged the nearby Cat’s Head Nebula! The two telescopes offer complementary views of the shadowy form. 1/3

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Hubble’s visible-light view (seen first) shows the cat as a dark, elongated dust pillar, while Webb’s infrared-light imagery - captured by its #MIRI (second) and #NIRCam (third) - unveils many stars and other hidden details. 2/3

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Cosying up with the globular cluster Messier 30!

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However, something about M30 suggests it did not form within our galaxy after all…

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Lessons from a globular cluster 🧑‍🏫

Globular clusters like Messier 30 (M30) are ancient, roughly spherical clusters of stars.

Ones that formed within the Milky Way, preserving the original chemistry of our young galaxy, help astronomers understand its history. 1/2

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This area in the northwest region of the Iris Nebula seems clogged with cosmic dust. This is made up of tiny particles of solid matter, ten to a hundred times smaller than those of the dust grains we find at home.

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Our #HubbleTopImage features a blushing, dusty nebula 😳

The Iris Nebula is the perfect dust laboratory! Studying cosmic dust in detail helps identify the ingredients of the raw mixture that stars are made from. 1/2

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However, M30 is among the globular clusters that orbit in the direction opposite from the way our galaxy spins. This may mean that they did not form within our galaxy, but were captured by it in the distant past!

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Our ESA/Hubble Picture of the Month gives a lesson in galactic history!

This sparkling collection of stars, Messier 30 (M30), lies about 27,500 light-years away in the constellation Capricornus 🌊🐐
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It is a globular cluster: a roughly spherical cluster of tens of thousands to millions of stars. These clusters are ancient, with some almost as old as the Universe itself 👴 so they can help us understand the history of our galaxy. 2/3

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It is seen here from the perspective of Webb’s #MIRI (first), Hubble’s WFC3 (second), and Webb’s #NIRCam (third).

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🎶 Tonelabs – The Red North (https://t.co/WzPP3ChEQ4) 2/2

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Staring deep 👁️👁️ into a nearby nebula

Hubble and @esa_webb have teamed up to capture complementary views of a star-forming region known as the Cat’s Head Nebula 🐱 1/2

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In the 2026 ESA/Hubble and ESA/Webb calendar, the month of November features the planetary nebula NGC 6072 in the near-infrared. This shows outflows expanding at different angles from the dying star at the centre of the scene ☠️⭐

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Calling the Cats Head Nebula 🐈‍⬛ with Hubble and Webb!

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Hubble’s visible-light view shows the cat as a shadowy pillar of dust, while Webb’s infrared-light imagery reveals many stars ✨ and other hidden details.

Read more here: https://t.co/Dy1F9cDrlt

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🎶 Stellardrone - Twilight 2/2

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Hubble, Webb, and a ghostly cat 👻🐱

This eerie star-forming scene features the Cat’s Head Nebula! It is seen from the perspective of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (first), @ESAWebb 's #MIRI (second), and its #NIRCam (third). 1/2

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This powerful interaction has dragged many stars away from their home galaxies. These stars are now spread out, forming a tenuous luminous component in the galaxy group. Ultimately, astronomers believe that the stars in NGC 7174 will be redistributed into a giant '’island universe’, tens to hundreds of times as massive as our own Milky Way.

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Our #HubbleTopImage features stars adrift in the Southern Fish ⬇️🐠

About 100 million light-years away, in the constellation of Piscis Austrinus (the Southern Fish), three galaxies – the elliptical galaxies NGC 7173 and NGC 7176, and the mangled spiral galaxy NGC 7174 – are playing a game of gravitational give-and-take. 1/2

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In its mid-infrared view from #MIRI however, emission from warm dust and carbon-based molecules outlines intricate structures within the nebula. The blues and greens highlight emission that includes PAHs, carbon-based molecules excited by starlight.

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🆕 Just in time for Halloween, a ghostly nebula lurks within sight of Hubble & @esa_webb

The Cat’s Head Nebula 🐱 is a star-forming region located approximately 7,500 light-years from Earth. It is named for its resemblance to a cat sitting with its back towards Earth, its ‘head’ turned to the side. 1/4

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Webb’s near-infrared view, from its #NIRCam instrument, reveals a dense scattering of stars that appear blue and yellow. Even in infrared light, some stars are still enshrouded in dust to various degrees! 3/4