Hubble’s UniverseYear after year, Hubble provides stunning images of the cosmos. This album provides just a taste of the most famous and intriguing images taken.Westerlund 2, a giant cluster of 3,000 stars, resides in a raucous stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29. The...Located in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin), around 50 million light-years from Earth, the galaxy NGC 4535 is truly...Astronomers are using the Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras — stunning light shows in a planet's atmosphere — on...In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope spent 10 straight days in a unique experiment, staring at a dark, seemingly empty...Merging Star Clusters in 30 Doradus This Hubble Space Telescope image captures two clusters full of massive stars that may...Eye in the Sky This image taken with the Hubble Space Telescope features NGC 4826 — a spiral galaxy located...Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across a more complete spectrum...This image of massive galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1-2403 was part of the Hubble Space Telescope's Frontier Fields project, which combined...The Mice This colliding pair of spiral galaxies is known as "The Mice" because of the long tails of stars...The scattered stars of the globular cluster NGC 6355 are strewn across this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. NGC...This 100 million-year-old globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and...NGC 2146 is classified as a barred spiral because of its shape, but the most distinctive feature is the dusty...Looming like a giant flying saucer in our outer solar system, Saturn puts on a show as the planet and...The composite picture is a seamless blend of ultra-sharp Hubble Space Telescope images combined with the wide view of the...This 100 million-year-old globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and...This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the central region of Messier 96 (M96), a spiral galaxy of about the same...This galaxy, called NGC 1569, sparkles with the light from millions of newly formed young stars. NGC 1569 is pumping...Ring galaxies arise from a collision in which one galaxy plunges directly through the disk of another one. Seen here...The hallmark of the Sombrero Galaxy, Messier 104 (M104), is a brilliant white, bulbous core encircled by thick dust lanes...Like a fireworks display, a young, glittering collection of stars looks like an aerial burst. The cluster of huge, hot...To the surprise of astronomers, galaxy NGC 4622 appears to be rotating in the opposite direction from what they expected....A jet of electrons and other sub-atomic particles traveling at nearly the speed of light streams from galaxy Messier 87...Eta Carinae may be about to explode. But no one knows when - it may be next year, it may...Elliptical galaxy NGC 4660 is one of a hundred galaxies imaged by Hubble that are members of the nearest large...The orange-red "cobwebs" in this Hubble image are dusty clouds of sooty carbon engulfing the dying star CW Leonis. They...Shreds of the colorful supernova remnant DEM L 190 seem to billow across the screen in this Hubble Space Telescope...The Hubble Space Telescope was used to observe Saturn on June 6, 2018, when Saturn was only approximately 1.36 billion...This peculiar Hubble Space Telescope portrait showcases NGC 1999, a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion. NGC 1999 is around...This Hubble Space Telescope composite image shows a ghostly "ring" of dark matter in the galaxy cluster ZwCl0024+1652. The ring-like...In July 1994, 21 chunks of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which had broken apart a year earlier, slammed into Jupiter. The...Mounded, luminous clouds of gas and dust glow in this Hubble Space Telescope image of a Herbig-Haro object known as...N44 is a complex nebula filled with glowing hydrogen gas, dark lanes of dust, massive stars, and many populations of...This Hubble Space Telescope image shows how young, energetic, massive stars illuminate and sculpt their birthplace with powerful winds and...The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the interacting galaxy pair Arp 273, popularly called the “Rose.” The larger...Thousands of sparkling young stars are nestled within the giant nebula NGC 3603. This stellar "jewel box" is one of...By using certain types of color filters, as in this Hubble Space Telescope image of Uranus, astronomers can extract more...A nebula in the constellation of Cassiopeia has flowing veils of gas and dust that have earned it the nickname...NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the galaxy cluster Abell 370 in visible and near-infrared light. Abell 370...As nuclear fusion engines, most stars live placid lives for hundreds of millions to billions of years. But near the...Astronomers used the Hubble Space telescope to revisit one of its most iconic subjects, the so-called "Pillars of Creation" in...
