Hubble's Stellar Construction Zones

January 12-17, 2026
Hubble took us on a tour of star and planet-forming regions!

👁 Within a field of glittering multicolored stars, bluish clouds of gas edged in glowing red cluster at the top of the image and in a bubble-shaped clump to the mid-right. A single shining star throws diffraction spikes across the upper left of the image.

Enter Hubble’s Stellar Construction Zone from January 12-17! Follow along on social media for new images of developing stars and planet-forming disks, and learn more about how our universe develops.

Hubble's Stellar Construction Zones

New images added every day between January 12-17!

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👁 Shining blue stars are sprinkled throughout glowing clouds of orange, pink and bluish gas, alongside dark clouds of dust. A particularly bright star shines against the inky dark dust of the lower right quadrant.

Hubble Snaps Stellar Baby Pictures

Newly developing stars shrouded in thick dust get their first baby pictures in these images from Hubble.

👁 Misty, bluish-white nearly fills this image. A few scattered stars shine through the gas. To the bottom left, a dark cloud of dust interrupts the glowing, nebulous landscape.

Hubble Observes Ghostly Cloud Alive with Star Formation

While this eerie image may look ghostly, it’s actually full of new life.

👁 Side by side images of four protoplantetary disks in visible light., and four different protoplanetary disks in infrared light.

Hubble’s Album of Planet-forming Disks

This collection of Hubble images showcases the swirling masses of gas and dust that surround forming stars.

👁 A bright protostar is nestled within a cavern-like gap in a cloud of gas and dust to the left. To the right, the gas cloud fades away to show a area thick with glittering stars.

Hubble Observes Stars Flaring to Life in Orion

Just-forming stars, called protostars, dazzle a cloudy landscape in the Orion Molecular Cloud complex.

👁 Within a ghostly blue and orange cloud of gas and dust, several stars shine brightly. To the upper left is a protoplanetary disk, appearing as a bright point flanked on either side by fan-shaped shadows. To the center right, stars are nestled in a cavity in the gas and dust.

Hubble Nets a Menagerie of Young Stellar Objects

A collection of young stellar objects bejewels a cosmic panorama in the star-forming region NGC 1333.

👁 Narrow, knotted clouds of purple and green glowing gas are seen against a field of stars.

Hubble Spies Stellar Blast Setting Clouds Ablaze

This Hubble image captures a jet of gas from a forming star shooting across the dark expanse.

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👁 Hubble image of NGC 1977. Bright blue cloud with a reddish-orange jet (bottom, center). Far-right side and bottom right corner, reddish-orange cloud

A jet from a newly formed star flares into the shining depths of reflection nebula NGC 1977 in this Hubble image.

NASA, ESA, and J. Bally (University of Colorado at Boulder); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

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👁 Hubble view of an expanding halo of light around star V838 Monocerotis. Center of the ball-like cloud holds a bright star surrounded by red gas. The outer region of the "ball" is a tan color dotted with stars. Black background dotted with stars.

This image, obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on February 8, 2004, is of an expanding halo of light around a distant star, named V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon).

NASA, the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI) and ESA

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