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Hubble’s Galaxies

A collection of galaxy images from the Hubble Space Telescope.

This photogenic celestial object, the magnificent spiral galaxy M100, is seen here as observed with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3,...
A bright yellow core is visible near the right center of the image, surrounded by dark spiraling arms laced through with brown dust and bright blue regions of new stars.
The graceful, winding arms of the majestic spiral galaxy NGC 3147 appear like a grand spiral staircase sweeping through space...
Spiral galaxy seen face-on with a glowing golden core, bluish-white arms, and reddish-brown arms of gas and dust. The galaxy takes up almost the entire frame.
Galaxy NGC 6861 features a prominent disk of dark bands circling its center. These bands are a result of large...
A tilted, disk-shaped galaxy with a bright core and dark dust lanes against the black background of space.
Messier 110 (M110) also known as NGC 205, is a dwarf elliptical galaxy that is a satellite of the much...
Several faint stars crowd the image, with a larger white-blue galaxy core near the right side of the image.
Messier 89 (M89) is one of eight galaxies in the Virgo cluster of galaxies that the famous French astronomer Charles...
A hazy, yellow-white light shines near the top right, against black space dotted with faint, distant stars.
Located in the constellation Virgo, galaxy Messier 86 (M86) is situated near the heart of the large Virgo cluster of...
A bright, hazy point of white light shines near the top center of the image, against black space dotted with distant stars.
M59 is one of the largest elliptical galaxies in the Virgo galaxy cluster. However, it is still considerably less massive,...
A hazy white-yellow light shines in the top left corner of the image against black space, dotted with faint, distant stars.
Located approximately 47 million light-years away, Messier 88 (M88) is a spiral galaxy with well-defined and symmetrical arms located within...
This image shows a bright galaxy core at the top right, surrounded by spiral arms, all in grayscale.
This image shows a cosmic oddity, dwarf galaxy DDO 68. This ragged collection of stars and gas clouds is our...
A pale blue-white dwarf galaxy on the black backdrop of space, with many faraway galaxies of various types and colors visible in the background throughout. The galaxy itself resembles a fuzzy cloud of tightly packed stars.. Spread across the galaxy’s edges and near the core are several small, glowing purple-pink patches of gas where there is a concentration of very hot stars.
The disturbed spiral galaxy Messier 66 (M66) is located about 35 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation...
A spiral galaxy is viewed sideways, with the glowing core closer to the upper left of the image. It is surrounded by spiral arms laced through with dark dust and bright regions of star formation.
Dwarf galaxy NGC 1140 has an irregular form, much like the Large Magellanic Cloud — a small galaxy that orbits...
A dwarf galaxy with an irregular form, featuring bluish stars and red tendrils of gas and dust.
ESO 306-17 is a giant elliptical galaxy located in the southern constellation Columbia, the Dove. This immense swarm of stars,...
A hazy white light shines just above the center of the image, against black space dotted with faint, distant stars and galaxies. Several more white galaxies glow distantly in the bottom-left.
The striking face-on spiral galaxy NGC 6814 is located in the constellation Aquila. Its luminous nucleus and spectacular sweeping arms,...
Spiral galaxy with luminous arms, a glowing core, and dark dust streaking throughout the arms
The lenticular galaxy NGC 4993 is located about 130 million light-years from Earth. On August 17, 2017, the Laser Interferometer...
A galaxy in the center of the image glows bright white and is circled by a few trails of dark dust and gas. Many more stars and galaxies shine brightly in the background against the black backdrop of space.
Galaxy NGC 406 exhibits spiral arms that are mainly populated by young, massive, bluish stars and crossed by dark dust...
A bright glowing core, circled by reddish-brown dust. Blue-white arm of stars extend diagonally from the top-left to the bottom-right of the image, lined here and there with dark dust lines. Many more stars and galaxies dot the black background.
Spiral galaxy NGC 278 lies some 38 million light-years away in the northern constellation Cassiopeia. The galaxy is currently undergoing...
Pretty spiral galaxy in blues and gold, with dark lines of dust that are thicker around the outer edges of the galaxy.
This galaxy, known as NGC 2337, resides 25 million light-years away in the constellation of Lynx. NGC 2337 is an...
An irregular galaxy with a glowing center surrounded by young, hot blue stars.
NGC 4394 is the archetypal barred spiral galaxy, with bright spiral arms emerging from the ends of a bar that...
A barred spiral galaxy with spiral arms emerging from the ends of a bar that cuts through the galaxy. Its arms are made of white bands of stars and brown streaks of dust.
Lenticular galaxy PGC 83677, also known as LEDA 83677, is seen against the backdrop of many more distant galaxies in...
A glowing white galaxy shaped like a ring with a bar through it, just above-right of center. Directly to the left of it is a reddish spiral galaxy that looks much smaller due to its greater distance. Another galaxy appears as a small fuzzy patch just below-left of center. Numerous more galaxies of different shapes and colors are scattered throughout the black background.
The unusual galaxy NGC 4388, found in the constellation Virgo, is classified as a spiral, but shows some of the...
A nearly edge-on spiral galaxy. Its disk holds blue light from clusters of hot stars. Thick dark clouds of dust block the strong white light from galaxy’s center. A faint, glowing halo of gas surrounds the disk, fading into the black background of space.
NGC 2146 is classified as a barred spiral because of its shape, but the most distinctive feature is the dusty...
A galaxy is at the center in image with thick black dust and some reddish star regions popping through.
The Fornax dwarf galaxy, at a distance of only 460 light-years, is one of the Milky Way's nearest cosmic neighbors....
Against a black backdrop speckled with distant stars (and a few that are closer). The galaxy appears as a denser, fuzzy collection of stars near the center.
NGC 4639 is a beautiful example of a type of galaxy known as a barred spiral. It lies over 70...
A beautiful example of a type of galaxy known as a barred spiral, with a "bar" of stars running through the center and spirals emerging from either end.
ESO 99-4 is an irregular galaxy that is probably the remnant of a galactic merger. As seen in this image...
A field of stars, with dozens of them in the foreground (some blue, some reddish-white) and hundreds more in the background. Just above the center of the image is the galaxy, appearing as a smeary cloud of reddish brown dust, and white and pink swirls of stars.
NGC 3256 is an unusually shaped galaxy found in the southern constellation Vela that is evidently the result of a...
A pair of interacting galaxies with a large egg-like shape. Brown-red dust is mixed throughout the center, and two uneven light-blue “arms” extend down from the middle.
The richly textured spiral galaxy NGC 2082 is found about 60 million light-years away in the constellation of Dorado, the...
A spiral galaxy with a glowing yellow core, pinwheel arms of stars in pink and blue-white, and thinner swirls of dark dust. The galaxy is set against the black background of space, with hundreds of distant galaxies and stars.
Astronomers had long mistaken this faint object in Centaurus, NGC 5408, for a planetary nebula — an expelled cloud of...
A galaxy with messy, indefinable shape, with a center "stream" of different colored stars, mostly blue, pink, and red, with some pink dust on the right edge. Surrounding this center stream is a "cloud" of mostly red stars.
The beautiful face-on spiral galaxy, NGC 1376, lies over 180 million light-years from Earth in the direction of the southern...
A spiral galaxy with a glowing yellow core, pinwheel arms of stars in pink and blue-white, and thinner swirls of orange-brown dust. The galaxy is set against the black background of space, with dozens of distant galaxies and stars.
NGC 3259 is a bright, barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear. The galaxy is a...
A spiral galaxy with a glowing white core, swirling arms of white stars, and thinner lines of of red-brown dust. The galaxy is set against the black background of space, with dozens of distant galaxies and stars.
Peering into the depths of space, Hubble has imaged the nearby but faint dwarf galaxy ESO 540-030 appearing as a...
A black background field full of galaxies and stars, with one bright foreground star left of center. Just above-left of center, the galaxy appears as a fuzzy patch of stars.
NGC 3344 is a glorious spiral galaxy about half the size of the Milky Way that is located in the...
An off-center white spiral galaxy with streaks of brown dust, fringed by several nearby bright stars
This image shows NGC 5806, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo. Also visible in this image is the afterglow...
Luminous spiral galaxy with pink star-forming clusters, dark dusty strands and one pale yellow supernova.
These two very similar galaxies, named PGC 9074 and PGC 9071, are close enough to one another to be bound...
A pair of whitish spiral galaxies. The lower galaxy, just below-right of center, is oriented vertically and has thicker swirls of orange-brown dust. The upper galaxy, just above-right of center, is oriented diagonally and the ends of its spiral arms point more outward away from the center. Dozens more stars and galaxies dot the black background of space.
In this picture, among a crowd of face-on and edge-on spiral, elliptical, and irregular galaxies, lies NGC 4866, a lenticular...
Creamy pale galactic disk foreshortened and angled down to the right
Thousands of glittering specks — each individual stars — are resolved in this image of the dwarf galaxy ESO 540-31....
An asymmetrical blob of bluish stars on a black background speckled with golden galaxies.
The beautiful, petal-like shells of galaxy PGC 6240, set against a sky full of distant background galaxies, are captured here...
Bright, white diffuse sphere with an extremely bright core. Diffuse shells of matter form layers around the core. Hundreds more galaxies of different shapes and colors shine in the background.
This image shows NGC 1566, a beautiful galaxy located approximately 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Dorado (the...
A bright spiral galaxy with two pronounced arms of bright pink stars and dark reddish dust.
Galaxy MCG+07-33-027 is seen face-on in this image, and the galaxy’s spiral arms and the bright star-forming regions within them...
A whitish spiral starburst galaxy on the left and a orangish star in our own galaxy on the right
This image showcases the remarkable galaxy UGC 12591. Classified as an S0/Sa galaxy, UGC 12591 fits somewhere between a lenticular...
Wispy dark spirals outline the white center of a galaxy, with hundreds more stars and galaxies dotting the black background.
With a mass of about a hundredth that of the Milky Way, NGC 5949 is a relatively beefy example of...
An organized swirl of blue stars and brown dust streaks