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Star struck! Dazzling collection of Hubble Telescope photographs released this year captures countless swirling stars as they sparkle in space Via Daily Mail online

By C. J. Refsland on December 30, 2012 • ( 1 )

“Check out these pictures from the Hubble Telescope, look at this first one! Amazing, it appears to have an angel in the middle. Then there’s one that looks like an evil horse flying through the air. There are a few more than the ones I chose, to view the whole article, click on the source link at the bottom.”

The great eruption: Astronomers are watching a delayed broadcast of a spectacular outburst from the unstable, behemoth double-star system Eta Carinae, dubbed the 'Great Eruption'

Hot stars: Peering deep inside the hub of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a large, rare population of around 8,000 hot, bright stars

The Crow: Antennae Galaxies are a pair of distorted colliding spiral galaxies about 70 million light-years away, in the constellation of Corvus (The Crow)

Light-years away: About 300 million light-years away, only four of these five galaxies are actually locked in a cosmic dance of repeated close encounters

Wow: This composite image of a portion of the Tarantula Nebula's central cavity illustrates the profound effect new stars can have on their environment

Clusters: Astronomers have caught two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. The clusters are 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy to our Milky Way

Sparkling: Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have photographed a festive-looking nearby planetary nebula called NGC 5189

Hot gas: Herbig-Haro 110 is a geyser of hot gas from a newborn star that splashes up against and ricochets off the dense core of a cloud of molecular hydrogen