ALT A tightly cropped Hubble view of a vast star-forming region known as the Trifid Nebula. The top left is bright blue. Brown and amber colors run from top right through the center in irregular, overlapping lines to the bottom-center. At bottom right, the view is almost black. Tiny, amber-colored stars appear throughout the scene. Toward the left there is a prominent brown shape that looks like a head with two horns. The left horn points left and is wavy. The right horn is triangular and points up. The brown dust continues, flowing down, as if along a back, and up toward the top right. A prominent line, about the same length as the left horn, appears below the middle of the body, and changes from orange to red. A small, separate semi-transparent pillar is left of the head. A few slightly larger, blue foreground stars with four diffraction spikes appear throughout.

ALT Thirty-five smiling Cal Poly students are seen inside the hollow base of a massive redwood tree during a Field Quarter trip in Northern California, illustrating the scale of the tree.

ALT A rich, cosmic landscape is split in two. On the right side, clouds of reddish-black dust billow. On the left, stars sparkle across a dark-blue background. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI; Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)