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Hubble’s Galaxies

A collection of galaxy images from the Hubble Space Telescope.

This picture of NGC 4414 shows that the central regions of the galaxy, as is typical of most spirals, contain...
A spiral galaxy with a glowing white core and many arms of bright white stars, thickly laced with reddish-brown streams of dust. Set against a black background with a couple dozen more galaxies faintly visible in the background.
Galaxy NGC 7742 in the constellation Pegasus is by no means a run-of-the-mill spiral galaxy. Instead, the galaxy contains a...
A glowing orange-yellow galactic center is surrounded by two major "rings" of stars: a thick white ring close to the center, laced with pink gas and dark dust, and a much thinner outer ring of the same colors.
NGC 253, also commonly known as the Sculptor Galaxy or Caldwell 65 (C65), is a large, nearly edge-on spiral galaxy,...
The center of this giant spiral galaxy appears yellow, and is surrounded by a reddish-brown cloud of gas and dust. Arms farther from the center are a purplish-blue, dotted with dark clouds of gas.
The striking ring-like shape of the Cartwheel Galaxy, ESO 350-40, is a direct result of a smaller galaxy—possibly one of...
The large galaxy on the left has a swirling yellow core and a blue ring around it, with thin hazy stars and gas in between. On the right are two small galaxies, a yellow spiral above a blue blob.
A jet of electrons and other sub-atomic particles traveling at nearly the speed of light streams from galaxy Messier 87...
Bright, golden light in the upper-left corner. It diffuses out from the point gradually giving way to a darker background in the lower-right corner. Emanating from the bright point is a clumpy stream of white gas that stretches toward the lower-right corner.
This image of the grand-design spiral galaxy M100 was taken on December 31, 1993, after the installation of the Wide...
A bright orange core is visible near the right center of the image, surrounded by bright spiraling arms of stars in white, pink, purple, and blue, laced through with dark brown dust and bright pink regions of new stars.
Galaxy Messier 51 (M51, also designated NGC 5194) is nicknamed the Whirlpool because of its prominent swirling structure. Its two...
Large spiral galaxy as seen from the top. On the left, the large galaxy with its purple and blue arms spiraling around. To the right, a smaller whiter galaxy is connected to one of the arms of the larger galaxy.