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Hubble’s Galaxies

A collection of galaxy images from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Spiral galaxy NGC 634 lies approximately 250 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Triangulum. This gorgeous and...
Wispy dark spirals outline the white center of a galaxy, with hundreds more stars and galaxies dotting the black background.
The glowing object in this image is an elliptical galaxy called NGC 3923. NGC 3923 is an example of a...
A bright halo around a glowing white sphere on a black background
This spectacular edge-on galaxy, called ESO 243-49, is home to an intermediate-mass black hole that may have been stolen from...
A glowing white halo is shaped like a much larger version of the galaxy inside it, which appears as a flat, edge-on red-brown disk with a glowing white center. Dozens more stars and galaxies in the background.
This picture shows NGC 4696, the largest galaxy in the Centaurus Cluster. Dusty filaments surrounding the center of this huge,...
Red and black filaments of gas and dust surround a glowing white core, resembling a ring of flames. Hundreds of other stars and galaxies dot the black background.
At the center of this image is the elliptical galaxy NGC 3610. Uncharacteristically, the elliptical contains an embedded disk. This...
The soft white haze of light from the elliptical galaxy fills most of the image. At its core is a brighter, more defined disk.
In this image of NGC 7479, also known as Caldwell 44, the tightly wound arms of the spiral galaxy create...
A "barred spiral" galaxy is shaped like a backward S, with its arms of gas and dust made up of whites, pinks, red-browns, and pale blues. The center of the galaxy (the middle of the S) is a glowing white sphere.
The vast majority of galaxies are drawn together by the influence of gravity into immense sinuous filaments — thread-like formations...
Three local stars and a white spiral galaxy against black space, with hundreds more galaxies of various shapes, sizes, and colors in the background.
NGC 2683 is a spiral galaxy seen almost edge-on, giving it the shape of a classic science fiction spaceship. This...
Closeup image of spiral galaxy. Lots of bright stars are visible within the spiral arms of the galaxy. Nearer to the viewer however is a large, dark grouping of dust and gas.
The process of galaxy formation remains an open question in astronomy. To determine which formation model is correct (if any),...
Pretty face-on spiral galaxy with bright yellow core and thin arms of dark dust.
This image shows dwarf irregular galaxy Holmberg II (also known as Arp 268 and UGC 4305). The galaxy is dominated...
Near the center of the image, a reddish-pink ring-shaped cloud of gas. Above-right are three white foreground stars, and in the top-right corner, three more reddish-pink ring-clouds. Thousands of white stars and a few more red-pink clouds dot the background.
This image shows the central region of Messier 96 (M96), a spiral galaxy of about the same mass and size...
A spiral galaxy with dark dust on the front side and star formation on the back side.
This finely detailed image shows the beautiful barred spiral galaxy NGC 6384. Located in the constellation Ophiuchus and close to...
A spiral galaxy fills the entire image. It has a bright glowing white core with a "bar" running through the middle, with white and blue spiral arms of stars and swirls of red-brown dust.
NGC 1073 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus, the Whale. It is about 55 million light-years distant....
The spiral galaxy takes up the entire image. The yellow-orange bar forms a line just below center, with red-brown swirls of dust surrounding it. Blue-white swirling arms form arcs like parentheses around both ends of the "bars" .
This spectacular image shows the unusual barred spiral galaxy NGC 4921 glowing against the backdrop of more distant galaxies. NGC...
A thick white spiral galaxy, with thin arcs of black dust around the center. Hundred more galaxies of different shapes and colors fill the black background, and in the lower left corner is the edges of a white glow from an object out of the image frame.
This striking image shows galaxy NGC 4452, which appears to lie exactly edge-on as seen from Earth. This amazing object,...
The edge-on galaxy looks like a white "line" in space with a glowing white halo around it. Hundreds more galaxies and stars of different shapes and colors dot the black background.
UGC 6093 is a barred spiral galaxy. It has arms that swirl outward from a bar slicing through the galaxy's...
Pretty spiral galaxy with a yellow-white bar running through the glowing white center, with double-bars of stars filed with thick pink patches of stars. All set against a black background with dozens of other galaxies dotting the black background.
This striking cosmic whirl is the center portion of NGC 524, a lenticular galaxy. Lenticular galaxies are believed to be...
Thin lines of lace-like dark filaments spiral many times around a distant pale white blur
This is a detailed view of the remarkable galaxy NGC 1433. A barred spiral with a double ring structure, NGC...
Oblong spiral arms of reddish-brown dust streak outward from a central glowing bluish heart. The outer edges of the galaxy are white streaks of stars with patches of pinkish gas.
UGC 12158, or PG 69533, is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Perseus. It is thought by many...
The majestic galaxy right-of-center has a pinwheel shape made up of bright blue stars wound around a yellow-white hub of central stars. The hub has a slash of stars across it, called a bar. The galaxy is tilted face-on to our view from Earth. A slightly s-shaped white line across the bottom-right is an asteroid streaking across Hubble's view. It looks dashed because the image is a combination of several exposures of the asteroid flying by like a race car. Three foreground stars shine in the upper-left, lower-left, and above-right of the galaxy.
This image of the central region of spiral galaxy NGC 3521 is not out of focus. Instead, the galaxy itself...
Spiral galaxy has a soft, woolly appearance of its brownish spiral arms around the galaxies core, interspersed with blue-white and pink patches of stars.
The ghostly shells of stars within lenticular galaxy ESO 381-12 are set against a backdrop of distant galaxies in this...
Bright, white diffuse sphere with an extremely bright core. Diffuse shells of matter form layers around the core. A small blue-white spiral lies at the right edge of the image. Hundreds more galaxies of different shapes and colors shine in the background.
NGC 7049 is a lenticular galaxy (on the border between spiral and elliptical galaxies) found in the faint southern-hemisphere constellation...
A large lenticular galaxy. It appears as a glowing white center surrounded by numerous rings of dark reddish-brown dust. The background is black and dotted with dozens of stars and small galaxies of different colors and shapes.
This image shows the central section of galaxy Messier 94 (M94), which lies in the small northern constellation of Canes...
Large spiral galaxy with bright spot in the center; large arms spiraling around the center, the inner arms are dark brown gas while the outer arms are bluish stars and gas.
NGC 4762 is an edge-on galaxy in the constellation Virgo. It is at a distance of 60 million light-years and...
The edge-on galaxy looks like a white "line" in space with a glowing white halo around it, stretching across the entire image at a slight angle. Dozens more galaxies and stars of different shapes and colors dot the black background.
The picturesque barred spiral galaxy NGC 1015 resides at a distance of about 117 million light-years from our Milky Way...
A galaxy with a pale yellow core resembling a steering wheel. The other edges of the wheel are made of blue-white stars. Dozens more galaxies and stars shine faintly in the background, mostly red-orange.
ESO 137-001 is a barred spiral galaxy discovered in 2005 and located in the southern constellation Triangulum Australe. It is...
Right of center is a galaxy that looks like a white-and-blue swirl with several blue filaments that trail leftward. Its transparent white spiral arms rotate in a clockwise motion. Hundreds of stars of different colors are scattered throughout the image, some in the foreground, most in the background.
This is an image of the lenticular galaxy NGC 1277. The galaxy is found in the constellation Perseus and is...
Closeup of blurry galaxy with defined center. A few stars twinkle in the foreground, and dozens more in the distant background.
The brilliant, blue glow of young stars traces the graceful spiral arms of galaxy NGC 5584. Thin, dark dust lanes...
A large galaxy takes up the entirety of the image. The galaxy has a bright, pale orange core, and several large spiral arms extending out from that core, rotating clockwise. The arms are blue-white with many light blue speckles and clumps littering the arms. The background is also filled with a smattering of stars and galaxies in mostly orange and red shades..
This large, fuzzy-looking galaxy is so diffuse that astronomers call it a “see-through” galaxy because they can clearly see distant...
A diffuse white blur across the center of an image of a field of galaxies
Two colorful spiral galaxies share Hubble’s field of view in this striking double portrait. Both are approximately 55 million light-years...
Two spiral galaxies are viewed against black space. One is facing us, while the other is viewed edge-on.
Most galaxies are found in groups or clusters. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, for example, is part of group...
A tilted spiral galaxy fills the image, with a bright core surrounded by spiral arms laced through with dark dust and bright pink and blue star formation.
Galaxy NGC 2768 is located at a distance of about 65 million light-years and found in the constellation of Ursa...
The galaxy appears as a glowing white core, surrounded by a white glow that fades to a reddish at its outer edges. It's surrounded above and below with thin, dark red streaks of dust. Hundreds more galaxies faintly dot the background.
Assembled from a total of 7,398 exposures taken over 411 individual pointings of the telescope, this image of our nearest...
This sweeping bird's-eye view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) shows stars, lanes of dark dust and bright core. The central region is on the left.
The giant elliptical galaxy in the center of this image is the most massive and brightest member of the galaxy...
A field of hundreds of galaxies of different shapes, sizes, and colors against a black background. Near the center is a yellow-orange spherical glowing galaxy with a lensing effect around it.
Two very different galaxies are seen drifting through space together. The peculiar galaxy pair is called Arp 116. Arp 116...
One galaxy appears right at the center of the image as a bright, spherical white glow. The other is a blue-right spiral galaxy in the upper-right corner, with a thick dark streak of dust at its top right in particular. All set on a black background dotted with thousands of galaxies and stars.
Renowned astrophotographer Robert Gendler took science data from the Hubble Space Telescope archive and combined it with his own ground-based...
A bright yellow galaxy core, surrounded by spiral arms with pink and brown lanes of dust and bright regions of star formation.
The dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 is ablaze with young stars and gas clouds. Located around 10 million light-years away in...
Several bright white and pink clouds and blue-white stars bisect the image from lower left to upper right, , with two large, roughly circular cavities in the gas.
Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the large and unusual galaxy Centaurus A...
A thick streak of black-and-dark-brown dust runs diagonally across the image from the upper-left corner to the lower-right, with a glowing yellow-orange core in the top-left of the image. Pink patches of gas and stars are scattered throughout the dust, which is surrounded above and below by thick streaks of white stars that thin out in the upper-right and lower-left corners.
The majestic galaxy NGC 2841, located in the constellation Ursa Major, was discovered by William Herschel in 1788. Astronomers consider...
A spiral galaxy with a glowing yellow-orange core and a mixture of red and blue stars threaded throughout many lanes of dark brown dust.
The majestic face-on spiral galaxy NGC 4911 is located deep within the Coma Cluster of galaxies. This immense cluster is...
In the upper half of the image is a relatively-small spiral galaxy, with lanes of white stars, pink gas, and reddish-brown dust. A few other galaxies appear nearby as glowing white halos of different shapes. Hundreds more stars and galaxies are scattered throughout the image against the black backdrop of space.