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Hubble’s Galaxies

A collection of galaxy images from the Hubble Space Telescope.

This new image of IC 4271, also known as Arp 40, is a curious pair of spiral galaxies some 800...
Two, face-on spiral galaxies. the larger one is centered in the image. the smaller one is superimposed on the upper left side of the larger.
This image shows NGC 1023, one of the nearest, massive lenticular galaxies to Earth at about 36 million light-years away....
Large lens-like diffuse galaxy with bright core. a cloud of blue gas and stars on its lower left edge
This image captures the central region of the gigantic elliptical galaxy NGC 474. Located some 100 million light-years from Earth,...
Bright, white diffuse sphere with an extremely bright core. Diffuse shells of matter form layers around the core.
This image of the Hickson Compact Group 31 (HCG 31) of galaxies highlights streams of star-formation as four dwarf galaxies...
The stars, gas, and dust seem to form a blue, white, and purple knot-shaped bow above-right of center, with a small red-orange spiral in the background in the upper right. A bright white foreground star just left of center. Another smaller, purple-white spiral at the bottom center.
This image spotlights the giant elliptical galaxy UGC 10143 at the heart of galaxy cluster Abell 2147, about 486 million...
A field of galaxies. a large elliptical galaxy in the top left quadrant, with more distant galaxies visible through its fringes.
Spiral galaxy IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5, is located approximately 11 million light-years from Earth. This sparkling, face-on...
Pink, white spiral galaxy with dotted with red and blue stars, and a bright-white core, and reddish-brown dust lanes
Hubble has allowed astronomers to view galaxies of all shapes and sizes from nearly every angle. When a galaxy is...
Edge-on galaxy, with a distinctive dust lane, extending from upper right to middle-left of the image. distant galaxies dot the scene.
Caldwell 62/NGC 247 is also home to an object known as an ultraluminous X-ray source. Scientists have long debated the...
A haze of stars fills the top and upper right corner of NGC 247/Caldwell 62. The area is dotted with bright pinkish-red and blue gas clouds. The lower-left half of the image is black and dotted with one very bright star and a few dimmer ones.
Located in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin), around 50 million light-years from Earth, the galaxy NGC 4535 is truly...
Arms swirl of new blue stars around a central region of older yellow stars in this galaxy image.
This unusual lenticular galaxy, which is between a spiral and elliptical shape, has lost almost all the gas and dust...
The glowing orange-white center, which emits a bright white glow that lights up the space around it, is mostly obscured directly from sight by thick bands of brown dust and gas. Additional, thin wispy brown arms extend below it as well. Hundreds of stars are visible in the background, with a few white and red-orange ones appearing especially bright, and a few other galaxies appear as small, faint white smudges.
This image features NGC 4826 — a spiral galaxy located 17 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices...
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.
NGC 2336 is the quintessential galaxy — big, beautiful, and blue. The barred spiral galaxy stretches an immense 200,000 light-years...
A spiral galaxy with a glowing yellow-orange center, pink swirls near the center, and light blue-white spiral arms of stars swirling out in all directions. Many more reddish galaxies can be seen faintly in the background, appearing much smaller.
This image features NGC 7678 – a galaxy with one particularly prominent arm, located approximately 164 million light-years away in...
A white spiral galaxy with dotted with mostly white stars and a few red and blue ones mixed in, a bright-white core, and reddish-brown dust lanes. Two bright stars are visible in the foreground: a red star in the lower-right, and a white one on the far left.
The luminous heart of the galaxy Messier 61 dominates this image, framed by its winding spiral arms threaded with dark...
A close-in, face-on view of a spiral galaxy. It has two large arms that curve outward from the round, bright, central region to nearly the corners of the image. Channels of dark reddish dust that blocks light line the arms while bright pink, glowing points denote where stars are forming. Beyond its prominent spiral arms, the galaxy's oval disk is generally cloudy in form and speckled with stars. A black background is visible behind it.
This image features the spiral galaxy NGC 691, imaged in fantastic detail. This galaxy is a member of the NGC...
A top-down view of a spiral galaxy, showing its brightly-shining center, its broad spiral arms, and the faint halo around its disk, as well as distant galaxies and stars on a dark background. Blue clouds of gas speckled with small stars and thick strands of dark dust swirl around the galaxy’s disk.
This image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 5037 in the constellation of Virgo. First documented by William Herschel in 1785,...
The glowing yellow-white center, which emits a bright white glow, is partially obscured directly from sight by thick bands of brown dust and gas, which form a spiral shape around the center. Hundreds of stars are visible in the background, with a few white and red-orange ones appearing especially bright, and a few other galaxies appear as small, faint white smudges.
In the last century alone, galaxy NGC 6946 has experienced 10 observed supernovae, earning its nickname as the Fireworks Galaxy....
A sparkling galaxy with a bright, glowing core and diffuse spiral arms dotted with red-brown, pink, and blue-white patches of star formation.
Two enormous galaxies drift through the cosmic void in this striking image. The galaxy on the left is a lenticular...
A yellow-white elliptical galaxy resembling an oval-shaped blob lies in the upper-left corner. A white spiral galaxy with brown streaks is visible on the right, below center. A few bright orange-ish stars appear clustered close together, above-left of center. Numerous more stars and galaxies are visible in the background, smaller and fainter.
This image features the spiral galaxy Mrk (Markarian) 1337, which is roughly 120 million light-years away from Earth in the...
A bright yellow central bulge with two prominent blue-white spiral arms emerging from it, dotted with stars of various colors. Numerous stars and galaxies of different colors are visible in the background.
This image showcases an edge-on view of the majestic spiral galaxy UGC 11537. Hubble captured the tightly wound spiral arms...
Spiral galaxy with a yellowish center and thick arms of red-brown dust and white stars stretches from lower left to upper right of the image. Two bright foreground stars are also in the image.
This spectacular image captures the spiral galaxy NGC 105, which lies roughly 215 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces....
Spiral galaxy at center, with an edge-on galaxy at upper left (10 o'clock) that appears to be crashing into the spiral. bright-blue star to the upper right. many fainter galaxies in the background.
The lazily winding spiral arms of the spectacular galaxy NGC 976 fill the frame of this image. This spiral galaxy...
Bright white face-on spiral galaxy with arms of red-brown dust and patches of pale pink and blue star formation within its white starry arms. Many stars and galaxies of various colors appear scattered in the background.
The dwarf galaxy NGC 1705 is featured in this image. This diminutive galaxy lies in the southern constellation Pictor, and...
Bright-white star-filled center of the image/galaxy surrounded by billowing reddish clouds, distant galaxies are visible along the periphery of the galaxy
Hubble captured this spectacular image of the bright star-forming ring that surrounds the heart of the barred spiral galaxy NGC...
A white ring of stars surrounds the orangey center glow. Two reddish-brown arms of gas and dust emerge from opposite sides around the center. These arms become more bluish, with scattered trails of pink, at the ends.
This portrait shows a stunning view of the spiral galaxy NGC 4571, which lies approximately 60 million light-years from Earth...
A bright spiral galaxy with a large, luminous yellow-white core; trails of reddish-brown dust; blue and pink patches of star formation; and other galaxies faintly visible in the background.
Tendrils of dark dust can be seen threading across the heart of the spiral galaxy NGC 7172 in this image....
Bright galaxy seen from the side. It has a large central bulge of stars and reddish-brown dust cutting across it lengthwise.
The lazily winding spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 5921 snake across this image. This galaxy lies approximately 80 million...
Large spiral galaxy with a bar of stars bisecting the image from the upper left to the lower right.
The ultra-diffuse galaxy GAMA 526784 appears as a tenuous patch of light in this image. This wispy object resides in...
Cloud-like galaxy just left of center with many other galaxies filling the scene. Bright foreground stars at lower left and lower right.
This image of the heart of the nearby active galaxy IC 5063 reveals a mixture of bright rays and dark...
The background of the image appears a hazy red. The center of the galaxy appears to be directly surrounded by an electric-purple glow. Lines of black dust surround the galaxy's center and extend above it. There appears to be a faint black "X" extending above and below the center.
Pictured here is the captivating galaxy NGC 2525. Located nearly 70 million light-years from Earth, this galaxy is part of...
A purple-hued image of a spiral galaxy, with tendrils of swirling reddish-brown dust and a bright blue supernova in its lower-left quadrant
This snapshot reveals an unusual galaxy that researchers call a “see-through galaxy.” The giant cosmic cotton ball is so diffuse...
Diffuse, puffy galaxy with red giant stars and background galaxies.
Looking deep into the universe, Hubble catches a glimpse of the numerous arm-like structures that sweep around this barred spiral...
Bright spiral galaxy with reddish-brown arms of gas and blue and pink splotches of star formation against the black backdrop of space, with many more galaxies visible in the distant background.
This image features the spectacular galaxy NGC 2442, nicknamed the Meathook Galaxy due to its extremely asymmetrical and irregular shape....
A spiral galaxy that is partially cut off on the left side. Orange-brown dust swirls around a glowing core, and thick swirls of blue-white stars interlaced with red-brown dust swirls out from the center, off the left side of the image, up to the top, and then all the way down to the bottom. On the right half of the image, the black backdrop of space is dotted with stars and galaxies of various colors.
This image of the barred spiral galaxy known as NGC 4907 displays its beautiful spiral arms, wound loosely around its...
Bright spiral galaxy appearing above a bright star against the black background of space, scattered with many other distant galaxies.
A photogenic and favorite target for amateur astronomers, the full beauty of nearby spiral galaxy M83, also known as the...
Galaxy with soft purple arms and blue stars spiraling around its bright white center.
The blue and orange stars of the faint galaxy named NGC 2188 sparkle in this image. Although NGC 2188 appears...
A diagonal band of blue- and orange-hued stars in the galaxy against the black backdrop of space, which is scattered with hundreds more stars and galaxies.
The spiral pattern shown by the galaxy in this image is striking because of its delicate, feathery nature. These "flocculent"...
A galaxy with a large, yellow core shines against black space, surrounded by feathery, short spiral arms laced with dark brown dust and blue regions of star formation.
As beautiful as the surrounding space may be, the sparkling galaxy in the foreground of this image steals the show....
Sparkling-white galaxy of many stars, resembling a star cluster, against black backdrop of space, with many more distant stars and galaxies visible.
A notable feature of most spiral galaxies is the multitude of arching spiral arms that seemingly spin out from the...
Bright, vaguely bluish-white, spiral galaxy against a black backdrop of space filled with numerous distant stars and galaxies.
This majestic spiral galaxy, nicknamed "Rubin's Galaxy" after astronomer Vera Rubin, may be the largest known in the local universe....
Seen almost flat, the galaxy shines against black space dotted with distant stars and galaxies. It has a bright yellow core and pink and blue spiral arms surrounding it, laced with reddish-brown trails of dust.