The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged two newborn stars in the Orion Nebula, HOPS 150 and HOPS 153, about 1,300 light-years away, the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth. HOPS 150 is a binary of two young protostars orbiting each other, each ringed by a dusty disc from which it feeds. A dark cloud of gas and dust, over 2,000 times wider than the distance from Earth to the Sun, is falling onto them. Their infrared emission shows they are about halfway to becoming mature stars. A narrow, colourful jet streams across the image from HOPS 153.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.