This Hubble image shows Kohoutek 4-55, a planetary nebula about 4600 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. Planetary nebulae form when a red giant star has used up its fuel and sheds its outer layers of gas. Its exposed core heats up and emits ultraviolet light that ionises the surrounding gas, making it glow, with nitrogen shown in red and orange, hydrogen in green and oxygen in blue. Kohoutek 4-55 has a multi-layered shape, with a bright inner ring, a fainter outer ring and a broad halo of nitrogen. The data were taken just ten days before the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 was removed from Hubble in 2009, after 16 years of service. The camera had been installed in 1993 and was replaced by Wide Field Camera 3, so this picture is its final send-off.

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.