After a much need 1 billion dollar refurbishment in May, the 19-year old Hubble space telescope has been made more powerful and able to peer even deeper into the cosmos. And last week, NASA shared the some breathtaking deep space photos taken by Hubble since the repair. Take a look at some of the galactic images after the jump.

An image taken by the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope shows a clash among members of a famous galaxy quintet reveals an assortment of stars across a wide color range, from young, blue stars to aging, red stars.

An image taken by the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope shows Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 6217.

This image shows the planetary nebula, catalogued as NGC 6302, but more popularly called the Bug Nebula or the Butterfly Nebula. NGC 6302 lies within our Milky Way galaxy, roughly 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. The glowing gas is the star’s outer layers, expelled over about 2,200 years.

An image taken by the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope shows Gravitational Lensing in Galaxy Cluster Abell 370.

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image creates a picture composed of gas and dust, the pillar resides in a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina.

See more images taken by Hubble at The Frame. You can also download higher resolution images from NASA.

[via A Welsh View]