It's a starry, starry night in outer space! The stars are glittering red, white and blue in a spectacular view of Sagittarius, also known as The Archer, that was taken by the intrepid Hubble Space Telescope.

It's a starry, starry night! See a spectacular view of Sagittarius--glittering red, white and blue stars--in an image shot by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The blue stars, which can be seen scattered across the frame, are set against a distant backdrop of their red-hued cosmic companions. All the blue stars in this image most likely formed at the same time from the same collapsing molecular cloud.

The color of a star can reveal many of its secrets. Shades of red indicate a star much cooler than the sun that is either at the end of its life or much less massive. These lower-mass stars are called red dwarfs and are thought to be the most common type of star in the Milky Way. Similarly, brilliant blue hues indicate hot, young or massive stars--many times the mass of the sun.

A star's mass decides its fate. More massive stars burn brightly over a short lifespan, dying young after only tens of millions of years. Stars like the sun typically have more sedentary lifestyles and live longer, burning for approximately ten billion years. Smaller stars, on the other hand, live life in the slow lane and are predicted to exist for trillions of years, well beyond the current age of the universe.

Do you know what is in the dusty heart of the Milky Way? Hubble took a picture of it.