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A broad spiral galaxy seen directly face-on. It has two bright spiral arms that extend from a bar, which shines from the very center. Additional fainter arms branch off from these, studded with bright blue patches of star formation. Small, distant galaxies are dotted around it, on a dark background.

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Yellow and white stars in a star cluster float in front of a cloud of bue wispy dust and gas.

Hubble's Star Clusters

A collection of star clusters images from the Hubble Space Telescope

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Spirals of gas and dsut emenate from a central point in a spiral galaxy

Hubble's Galaxies

A collection of galaxy images from the Hubble Space Telescope

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Wispy, nebulous clouds extend from the lower-left of the image. At the top and right the dark background of space can be seen through the sparse nebula. Along the left and in the corner are many layers of brightly-colored gas and dark, obscuring dust. A cluster of small, bright blue stars in the same corner expands out across the image. Many much smaller stars cover the background.

Hubble's Nebulae

A collection of nebula images from the Hubble Space Telescope

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Thousands of galaxies float in a small section of space.

Hubble's Deep Fields

A collection of Deep Field images that look back in both space and time, capturing thousands of galaxies in various stages of evolution.

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Hubble's Solar System

The Hubble Space Telescope's view of the planets and other objects orbiting our Sun.

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Top: a distorted spiral galaxy. One of its spiral arms extends in a sweeping arc below the galaxy. Below this spiral is another edge-on galaxy extending from the lower left toward image center.

Hubble's Interacting Galaxies

Hubble's collection of images of galaxies reshaped by cosmic collisions and interactions.

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Hubble image of remote galaxy exhibiting gravitational lensing

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Witness an Einstein-predicted phenomenon that magnifies light from far-distant galaxies through the gaze of the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Hubble’s Universe

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A combintation of yellow, brown, red, and blue/violet colored gas intermixed with blue and yellow stars.

Arms swirl of new blue stars around a central region of older yellow stars in this galaxy image.

Bright blue aurora circle the top of Jupiter's north pole.

A colorful red, orange, and brown and dust cloud with a bright blue star cluster on the right side.

A swirling dense galaxy with thick dust clouds surrounds a central region of older yellow stars whose front half appears darker, resembling a black eye.

A cluster of yellow galaxies with hundreds of background galaxies. The image include arcs that are distorted images of background galaxies.

Two galaxies interacting that look like mice with tails.

A massive cluster of blue, red, yellow, and white stars.

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A dense spherical cluster of stars. The stars merge into a bright core in the center, and spread out to the edges gradually, giving way to an empty, dark background. Most of the stars are small points of light. A few stars with cross-shaped diffraction spikes appear larger and stand out in front. — The glittering, glitzy contents of the globular cluster NGC 6652 sparkle in this star-studded image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The core of the cluster is suffused with the pale blue light of countless stars, and a handful of particularly bright foreground stars are adorned with crisscrossing diffraction spikes. NGC 6652 lies in our own Milky Way galaxy in the constellation Sagittarius, just under 30,000 light-years from Earth and only 6,500 light-years from the galactic center.
ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Sarajedini, G. Piotto

Upper 2/3 holds a bright white and blue gas and dust-cloud ring around a central void or bubble. lower 1/3 holds blue and white — N44 is a complex nebula filled with glowing hydrogen gas, dark lanes of dust, massive stars, and many populations of stars of different ages. One of its most distinctive features, however, is the dark, starry gap called a “superbubble,” visible in this Hubble Space Telescope image in the upper central region. The hole is about 250 light-years wide and its presence is still something of a mystery. Stellar winds expelled by massive stars in the bubble's interior may have driven away the gas, but this is inconsistent with measured wind velocities in the bubble. Another possibility, since the nebula is filled with massive stars that would expire in titanic explosions, is that the expanding shells of old supernovae sculpted the cosmic cavern. Astronomers have found one supernova remnant in the vicinity of the superbubble and identified an approximately 5 million year difference in age between stars within and at the rim of the superbubble, indicating multiple, chain-reaction star-forming events. The deep blue area at about 5 o’clock around the superbubble is one of the hottest regions of the nebula and the area of the most intense star formation. N44 is an emission nebula, which means its gas has been energized, or ionized, by the radiation of nearby stars. As the ionized gas begins to cool from its higher-energy state to a lower-energy state, it emits energy in the form of light, causing the nebula to glow. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, N44 spans about 1,000 light-years and is about 170,000 light-years away from Earth. To zoom in to even more detail, download a full-sized, high-resolution, 288-megapixel image of this large mosaic created through multiple Hubble observations. Download the 153 MB TIF image here: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14018.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, V. Ksoll and D. Gouliermis (Universität Heidelberg), et al.; Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

Lower left: Bright-white sphere of stars that is more diffuse toward its edges. Band of brown streaks arcs from the sphere's lower left to upper right where a face-on barred spiral galaxy shines in the distance. Black background dotted with stars. — The lenticular galaxy NGC 5283 is the subject of this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC 5283 contains an active galactic nucleus, or AGN. An AGN is an extremely bright region at the heart of a galaxy where a supermassive black hole exists. When dust and gas fall into the black hole, the matter heats up and emits light across the electromagnetic spectrum. NGC 5283 is a Seyfert galaxy. About 10 percent of all galaxies are Seyfert galaxies, and they differ from other galaxies that contain AGNs because the galaxy itself is clearly visible. Other AGNs emit so much radiation that they outshine or make it impossible to observe the structure of their host galaxy! Hubble observed this galaxy as part of a survey for a dataset about nearby AGNs, which will serve as a resource for astronomers investigating AGN physics, black holes, host galaxy structure, and more.
NASA, ESA, A. Barth (University of California - Irvine), and M. Revalski (STScI); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

A cluster of stars in warm and cool colors. The whole view is filled with small stars, which become much denser and brighter around a core just right of center. Most of the stars are small, but some are larger with a round, brightly colored glow and four sharp diffraction spikes. Behind the stars, a dark background can be seen. — The teeming stars of the globular cluster NGC 6544 glisten in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. This cluster of tightly bound stars lies more than 8,000 light-years from Earth and is, like all globular clusters, a densely populated region of tens of thousands of stars.
This image of NGC 6544 combines data from two of Hubble’s instruments, the Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3, as well as two separate astronomical observations. The first observation was designed to find a visible counterpart to the radio pulsar discovered in NGC 6544. A pulsar is the rapidly spinning remnant of a dead star, emitting twin beams of electromagnetic radiation like a vast astronomical lighthouse. This pulsar rotates particularly quickly, and astronomers turned to Hubble to help determine how this object evolved in NGC 6544.
The second observation which contributed data to this image was also designed to find the visible counterparts of objects detected at other electromagnetic wavelengths. Instead of matching up sources to a pulsar, however, astronomers used Hubble to search for the counterparts of faint X-ray sources. Their observations could help explain how clusters like NGC 6544 change over time.
ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Lewin, F. R. Ferraro

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A spiral galaxy viewed tilted at a diagonal angle and toward the viewer. The core and the disk of the galaxy are different colors but are otherwise difficult to tell apart. The disc has wispy, ragged edges and many arcs of glowing, star-forming patches. A few distant galaxies are visible in the background around the spiral galaxy, as are several foreground stars.

Hubble Hunts Visible Light Sources of X-Rays

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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the dwarf galaxy IC 776. This swirling collection of new and old stars…

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A bright, white galactic core shines near the center of the image with a faint bar of stars extending from it, diagonally to the right. Faint, hazy spiral arms encircle the core, with several distant stars and bright blue foreground stars with diffraction spikes scattered throughout the image, all against black space.

Hubble Spots a Magnificent Barred Galaxy

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The magnificent central bar of NGC 2217 (also known as AM 0619-271) shines bright in the constellation of Canis Major (The Greater…

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A spiral galaxy, seen face-on to the viewer. The bright center of the galaxy is crossed by a glowing bar, and it is surrounded by tightly wound spiral arms, forming a circular shape with relatively clear edges. Faraway galaxies are visible around it, along with a few bright stars, on a dark background. One star to the right of the galaxy is very large and extremely bright with long diffraction spikes.

Hubble Captures a Bright Galactic and Stellar Duo

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This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features NGC 3783, a bright barred spiral galaxy about 130 million light-years from Earth…

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A spiral galaxy seen nearly face-on. The disk holds many tightly wound spiral arms. They contain small strands of reddish dust, near the center. On the left side, the disk features glowing patches of star formation. The whole right side, and part of the center, is obscured by a large cloud of dark grey gas which crosses the image.

Hubble Spots a Galaxy Hidden in a Dark Cloud

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The subject of this image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is the spiral galaxy IC 4633, located 100…

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A large spiral galaxy with a smaller neighboring galaxy. The spiral galaxy is wide and distorted, with colorful dust. Its companion lies close by, at the end of a spiral arm, to the lower left. A long, faint tail of stars reaches up from the right side of the spiral galaxy to the top of the image. Several small, distant galaxies are visible in the background, along with one bright star in the foreground.

Hubble Peers at Pair of Closely Interacting Galaxies

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This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that only includes two…

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A spherical collection of stars fills the image. The stars merge into a bright, bluish core at image center and form a sparse band around the core and out to the edges of the image. A few stars lie in front of the cluster, with visible diffraction spikes. The background is dark black.

Hubble Finds a Field of Stars

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This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a globular cluster called NGC 1651. Like another recent globular cluster…

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An astronaut on the end of the robotic arm opens an equipment door on Hubble. The solar array and the blue earth are in the background.

Earth in the background, Hubble in the foreground, and an astronaut at the bottom of Hubble.

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An astronaut poses for a picture through the back windows of the Space Shuttle.

The space Shuttle launches into a cloud,illuminating the cloud from the inside out, with a trail of smoke behind it.

The shuttle pilot at the pilot's station points at something on a laptop screen.

An astronaut on th end of the robotic arm with many tools attached to a workstation and a large blue earth in the background.

Three astronauts look through the roof windows and monitor Hubble.

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Image taken of the 1990 deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble, bright and silver, reflects the Earth below, on either side of Hubble there are two golden solar arrays. At the bottom of the picture you can see the body of the Space Shuttle Discovery as well as the grapple arm letting go of Hubble.

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Hubble Servicing Mission 1

Select images from Hubble’s first servicing mission, STS-61 (December 1993)

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Astronaut standing on the extended robotic arm. On the left there is Hubble, which the astronaut is touching as part of the repair.

Hubble Servicing Mission 2

A collection of images from Hubble’s second servicing mission, STS-82 (February 1997)

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An astronaut on the end of the robotic arm with numerous tools. The blue earth is in the background

Hubble Servicing Mission 3A

Images from Hubble’s third servicing mission, STS-103 (December 1999)

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Two astronauts float in the cargo bay in bright sunlight.

Hubble Servicing Mission 3B

Images from Hubble’s servicing mission STS-109 (March 2002)

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Two astronauts service the Hubble telescope. The one on the left is attached to a robotic arm. The one in the center waves to the camera.

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Images from Hubble’s fifth and most recent servicing mission, STS-125 (May 2009)servicing mission, STS-125 (May 2009)

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Black background holding an oval of light. The outer ring of the oval is orange-red. Moving inward the ring is more greenish-yellow. The center of the ring is bright blue with one small star at its center and another above and to the right of it.

M57, or the Ring Nebula, is a planetary nebula, the glowing remains of a sun-like star. The tiny white dot in the center of the nebula is the star’s hot core, called a white dwarf.

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Space Shuttle Discovery’s robotic arm deploys Hubble on April 25, 1990.

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