Hubble Space Telescope Photo Gallery

This image made by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows jets of gas heated to nearly 20,000 degrees Celsius traveling at more than 950,000 kilometres (59,000 miles) per hour streaming from they dying star NGC 6302, the “Butterfly Nebula” in the Milky Way galaxy. The star was once about five times the mass of the Sun. (NASA/ESA/Hubble SM4 ERO Team via AP)