Photo of the most beautiful universe in 2009

Hundreds of stars glowing blue, wheel galaxies, butterfly-shaped nebulae are the most beautiful cosmic photos this year.

These images were posted by Telegraph during the year and voted the best in 2009. In the photo, the newborn stars in the blue constellation are called R136. They lie between the clouds of red and yellow dust in the Doradus nebula.Photo: NASA.

The upper part of the photo looks like cotton threads. It is the northwest region of the Iris nebula.Photo: NASA.

The cloud of dust and gas in a star-forming region named IC 1795 belongs to the constellation Cassiopeia. This star-making region is 6,000 light-years from Earth.Photo: NASA.

Cartwheel galaxy is shaped like a wheel. It is about 150,000 light-years across and rotates at 217 km / s. Cartwheel is about 500 million light years from Earth.Photo: NASA.

NGC 6302 - commonly known as the Butterfly Nebula - is located in the Milky Way. It is shaped like a pair of giant butterfly wings in the universe.

The speed of the Nebula's energy production is 100,000 times that of the sun. It is 5,000 light years from the earth.Photo: NASA.

Central area of ​​the Milky Way.Photo: NASA.

Hundreds of stars are forming in the Carina Nebula. This is one of the two nebulae that contains the largest and brightest stars in the Milky Way.

The photo shows a small area in the giant constellation Omega Centauri. Scientists think there are at least 10 million stars in the image.Photo: NASA.

Nebula NGC 6164 is made up of a star 40 times larger than the sun. But this star is only around 3-4 million years old.Photo: NASA.

This is the clearest picture of the process of star formation in the universe. The Hubble telescope captured this image as it headed for a spiral galaxy called M83.Photo: NASA.

NGC 6240 is a galaxy created after two galaxies hit each other.Photo: Reuters.

The Trifid Nebula, 5,500 light-years from Earth, is a giant "factory" for producing stars. It is located in the constellation Sagittarius (also known as the constellation Bow).Photo: Uninversal News.