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Enjoy some of the iconic astronomical images captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during its more than 30 years in orbit.

N44 is a complex nebula filled with glowing hydrogen gas, dark lanes of dust, massive stars, and many populations of...

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

Backlit wisps along the Horsehead Nebula upper ridge are being illuminated by Sigma Orionis, a young five-star system just off...

Backlit wisps along the Horsehead Nebula upper ridge are being illuminated by Sigma Orionis, a young five-star system just off the top of this image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Long streamers of stars and gas appear as tails in this Hubble image of the gravitationally interacting galaxies NGC 4676,...

Two interacting galaxies centered in the image. The left galaxy is a spiral galaxy with its arms distorted and drawn out toward the left side of the image. The right galaxy has a long tail that extends to the upper-right corner of the image. Gas and dust also extends between the two galaxies.

Astronomers are using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras — stunning light shows in a planet’s atmosphere —...

The planet Jupiter is seen against black space. At the planet's northern pole, its aurorae are seen as a bright blue whirl of light.

In the center of this image, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, are two faint galaxies that seem to be...

The Flame Nebula, also called NGC 2024, is a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that lies about 1,400...

Image of a colorful blues and dark browns nebula with stars.

Astronomers combined ultraviolet images of Saturn's southern polar region with visible-light images of the planet and its rings to make...

Yellow, rust, and white bands visible on Saturn. The planet is tilted, such that its rings extend from upper-left to lower-right. A blue-white, glowing ring (the auroras) is visible at the bottom of the planet's sphere. All on a black background.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the glorious spiral galaxy NGC 5643, which is located roughly 40 million light-years...

A close-up of a spiral galaxy, seen face-on. Its center is a bright white point, surrounded by a large yellowish oval with thin lines of dust swirling in it. From the sides of the oval emerge two bright spiral arms which wind through the round disk of the galaxy, filled with shining pink spots where stars are forming and more dark reddish dust. Many stars are visible in the foreground, over and around the galaxy.

NASA Hubble Space Telescope captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten...

The Mystic Mountain is seen as a chaotic pillar of colorful gas and dust, narrowing toward the top of the image. The dust and gas is mostly yellow, brown, and orange, all jutting against a hazy purple and blue background with a few pink stars.

Hubble’s Spirograph In this classic Hubble image from 2000, the planetary nebula IC 418 glows like a multifaceted jewel with...

This Picture of the Week revisits the Veil Nebula, a popular subject for Hubble images! This object was featured in...

Another small portion of Caldwell 34 is highlighted in this Hubble image, made from observations taken in 1994 and 1997....

Bright yellow, red, and blue clouds of dust and gas form together near the bottom half of the image.

Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across a more complete spectrum...

Resembling the shape of a butterfly, two lobes of gas and dust stretch across a starry black background in shades of green and blue, growing paler toward where they meet.

The narrow galaxy elegantly curving around its spherical companion in this image is a fantastic example of a truly strange...

A black background dotted with galaxies. Image center holds a cluster of galaxies with a distinct arc nearly surrounding it.

In July 1994, 21 chunks of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which had broken apart a year earlier, slammed into Jupiter. The...

This Hubble telescope snapshot of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula, reveals that the object has an hourglass shape with an...

Two sets of rings in orange and gold stacked one above the other form the shape of a hourglass. At image center, where the two sets of rings overlap, is an area of white, green and black dust in a shape that is similar to the human eye.

This image shows just a portion of M55, the cluster as a whole appears spherical because the stars’ intense gravitational...

Field is filled with white stars, smattered with blue-white and reddish-orange stars. Stars are concentrated at the center of the image. All are on a black background.

Image released 11 Aug 2011. The "Necklace Nebula" is located 15,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagitta (the Arrow). In...

This shot from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of...

NASA Hubble peers into a small portion of the nebula near the star cluster NGC 2074. The region is a...

NASA Hubble peers into a small portion of the nebula near the star cluster NGC 2074. The region is a firestorm of raw stellar creation, perhaps triggered by a nearby supernova explosion. It lies about 170,000 light-years away near the Tarantula

Venus Cloud Tops Viewed by Hubble. This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, taken...

Venus Cloud Tops Viewed by Hubble. This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, taken on January 24 1995, when Venus was at a distance of 70.6 million miles 113.6 million kilometers from Earth.

Hubble Captures Best View of Mars Ever Obtained from Earth

Hubble Captures Best View of Mars Ever Obtained from Earth

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revisited the famous Pillars of Creation, revealing a sharper and wider view of the structures...

Three pillars of gas and dust rise from the bottom of the image. They are rusty-brown and black with golden highlights. A bright, hazy background of varying shades of blue and turquoise helps silhouette the darker pillars. Bright stars dot the background.

Observing in infrared light, Hubble pierced through the obscuring gas and dust of M16’s Pillars of Creation. This ethereal image...

Thousands of stars are seen behind and inside the dust and gas towers in an infrared view of M16

Saturn from Far and Near Hubble Space Telescope

Saturn from Far and Near Hubble Space Telescope

Several hundred never before seen galaxies are visible in this deepest-ever view of the universe, called the Hubble Deep Field,...

Hundreds of galaxies of all shapes and sizes shining against the dark background of space.

Caldwell 33 is part of an extensive supernova remnant known as the Veil Nebula (or the Cygnus Loop). Caldwell 33...

Wisps of red, yellow, blue and purple dust and gas dance all over the image. The blackness of space frames the image behind it.

This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of a concentration of stars within the globular cluster NGC 6752. Hidden among...

Hubble’s Contentious Constant Poster

Resembling an opulent diamond tapestry, this image from NASA Hubble Space Telescope shows a glittering star cluster that contains a...

Resembling an opulent diamond tapestry, this image from NASA Hubble Space Telescope shows a glittering star cluster that contains a collection of some of the brightest stars seen in our Milky Way galaxy called Trumpler 14.

In the center of this image from the Hubble Space Telescope, partially obscured by a dark cloud of dust, a...

In the center of this image from the Hubble Space Telescope, partially obscured by a dark cloud of dust, a newborn star shoots twin jets out into space as a sort of birth announcement to the universe.

A delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy. This image, taken by NASA Hubble Space Telescope, is a...

A delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy. This image, taken by NASA Hubble Space Telescope, is a very thin section of a supernova remnant caused by a stellar explosion that occurred more than 1,000 years ago.

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured for the first time snapshots of fledging white dwarf stars beginning their...

Stars in white and orange hues crowd the image, more concentrated toward the center.

Two blue-white, comma-shaped galaxies: at upper-right and lower-left of center. Streams of diffuse gas stretch between them. Areas of reddish-brown dust dot galaxy at left, less so on galaxy at right. Black background dotted with stars, distant galaxies.

The lenticular galaxy NGC 5283 is the subject of this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC 5283 contains an active...

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.

Black background. Image is filled with a spherical grouping of blue-white, orange, and red stars. The density of stars is greatest at the center of the sphere. Star numbers taper off toward the image's edges.

This image shows a composite view of the Crab nebula, an iconic supernova remnant in our Milky Way galaxy, as...

This image shows a composite view of the Crab nebula, an iconic supernova remnant in our Milky Way galaxy, as viewed by the Herschel Space Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope.

Bright-white galaxy stretching across the center of the frame from left to right. The galaxy's core is brightest at image center. Filaments of reddish-brown gas and dust follow the arc of the galaxy's curve. All on a black background dotted with stars.

Peering deep into M1, this spectacular Hubble image captures the nebula’s beating heart: the rapidly spinning pulsar at its core....

The core of the Crab Nebula - M1 showing ripples in the gas and dust.

A spiral galaxy. It is large in the center with a lot of detail visible. The core glows brightly and is surrounded by concentric rings of dark and light dust. The spiral arms are thick and puffy with grey dust and glowing blue areas of star formation. They wrap around the galaxy to form a ring. Part of the arm is drawn out into a dark thread above the galaxy, and dust from the arm trails off to the right.