Hubble Space Telescope

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Hubble acquired this image of the circumstellar disk around the star Vega using the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS).

A Hubble image of the circumstellar disk around Vega. The disk is perfectly circular, and at the center is a black spot blocking out the bright glow of a star. Closer to the center, the disk is white. Radial striations extend out from the center, giving a ripple effect to the disk like the end of a sausage casing. The outer edge of the circular disk is blue.

[left] A Hubble Space Telescope false-color view of a 100-billion-mile-wide disk of dust around the summer star Vega. Hubble detects...

A two-panel image split down the middle vertically. At the left is the Vega disk as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The disk is perfectly circular, and at the center is a black spot blocking out the bright glow of a star. Closer to the center, the disk is white. Radial striations extend out from the center, giving a ripple effect to the disk like the end of a sausage casing. The outer edge of the circular disk is blue. At the right, the Webb image of the disk is an orange colored, smooth, fuzzy halo. The inner disk is whiter toward the center, and there is darker lane between the inner disk and the more orange outer disk. The disk is also perfectly circular, with a black circle in the center blocking light from the star.

The Hubble View of spiral galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope’s ultraviolet- and visible-light view.

The Hubble View cut from two views of the same object shown side by side.. The Hubble observation is at left, and the Webb observation is at right. Both show an angled pair of spiral galaxies, IC 2163 at top left, and NGC 2207, at bottom right. IC 2163 is smaller than NGC 2207, and they appear to be overlapping at the center diagonal. In the Hubble image, the galaxies’ cores appear white at the center, and more orange overall. Both galaxies have bright blue spiral arms, and are interlaced with dark brown, irregular dust lanes. Tiny galaxies and a few foreground stars dot the black background of space. There are no data along the bottom left, top right, and bottom right corners. In the Webb image, the galaxies’ cores appear bright white, transitioning to spiral arms that are also bright white, but flecked with pink dots. Tiny galaxies and a few foreground stars dot the entire black background of space.

This star chart for M83 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M3 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Annotated star chart of Messier 3 for the southern hemisphere.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy IC 3225.

A spiral galaxy with a disk that glows visibly from the center. It has faint dust threaded through it. A spiral arm curves around the left edge of the disk and is noticeably denser with bright blue spots that hold hot and new stars. On the opposite side, the disk stretches out into a short tail where it covers a distant background galaxy. Other distant galaxies and some nearby stars are visible are also visible in this image.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the striking spiral galaxy Messier 90 (M90, also NGC 4569), located in the...

A spiral galaxy. It has a bright core with light spilling out. Its disk holds thick clumps of dark reddish dust, which swirls around the galaxy following its rotation. Brighter and hotter stars, shown in blue, speckle parts of the disk. A halo of faint gas wraps around the galaxy, extending beyond the edges of the image.

This is the first picture taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of a recent nova, the star system R Aquarii....

Black and white image of a bright-white cloud. It is orientated vertically and holds many bright knots and rays. Two black, ink-blot splotches sit vertically at image center

This video features five frames spanning from 2014 to 2023 of R Aquarii, a symbiotic binary star that lies approximately...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided a dramatic and colorful close-up look at one of the most rambunctious stars in...

A bright binary star surrounded by a colorful loops of nebula on the black background of space. One loop is vertical the other is horizontal across the center of the image.

A bright light at image center against a purple-black background. Ripples of gas radiate outward from the bright light. A disk of white light extends across the center of the image from left to right.

The sparkling scene depicted in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is of the spiral galaxy NGC 5248, located 42...

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.

In this image, two three-dimensional shapes (top) of Uranus are compared to the actual views of the planet from NASA's...

A four-panel image. The top two panels are diagrams of Uranus – spheres with gridlines going longitudinally and latitudinally. On the top left, the view from Hubble, the southern pole of the planet faces 3 o’clock. On the top right, the view from New Horizons, the southern pole faces 10 o’clock. The bottom left panel is Hubble’s actual view of Uranus – the planet is a light blue sphere, with a white circle covering the right half of the planet (the southern pole). The bottom right panel is the actual view of Uranus from New Horizons. The planet appears as a tiny whiteish dot.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (left) and NASA's New Horizon's spacecraft (right) image the planet Uranus.

A two panel image. The left panel is Hubble’s actual view of Uranus – the planet is a light blue sphere, with a white circle covering the right half of the planet (the southern pole). The right panel is the actual view of Uranus from New Horizons. The planet appears as a tiny whiteish dot.

Using Hubble Space Telescope data spanning approximately 90 days (between December 2023 and March 2024) when the giant planet Jupiter...

Eight Hubble images of the giant planet Jupiter spanning approximately 90 days between December 2023 and March 2024.

This time-lapse movie is assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations spanning approximately 90 days (between December 2023 and March 2024)...

Using Hubble Space Telescope data spanning approximately 90 days (between December 2023 and March 2024) when the giant planet Jupiter...

Eight Hubble images showing Jupiter's Great Red Spot as it changes over time from December 2023 to March 2024.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the galaxy, NGC 4694. Most galaxies fall into one of two basic types....

An oval-shaped galaxy seen tilted at an angle. It glows brightly at its core and radiates outward, dimming toward the edge of the oval. Reddish-brown, patchy dust spreads out from the core and covers much of the galaxy’s top half, as well as the outer edge, obscuring some of its light. Stars are visible around and in front of the galaxy.

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy IC 1954, located 45 million light-years from Earth...

A spiral galaxy seen tilted diagonally. It has two large, curling arms that extend from the center and wrap around. Thick strands of dark reddish dust follow behind these arms. The galaxy’s arms and disk are speckled with glowing patches of gas — some are blue in color, others are pink — illuminated by new stars. A faint glow surrounds the galaxy, which lies on a dark, nearly empty background.

A Hubble Space Telescope image of the giant galaxy M87 shows a 3,000-light-year-long jet of plasma blasting from the galaxy's...

A Hubble image of galaxy M87, which resembles a translucent, fuzzy white cotton ball. The brightness decreases gradually out in all directions from a bright white point of light at the center. A wavy blue-white jet of material extends from the point-like core outward to the upper right, about halfway across the galaxy. Stars speckle the background.

This is an artist's concept looking down into the core of the giant elliptical galaxy M87. A supermassive black hole...

An artist's concept looks down into the core of the galaxy M87, which is just left of center and appears as a large blue dot. A bright blue-white, narrow and linear jet of plasma transects the illustration from center left to upper right. It begins at the source of the jet, the galaxy’s black hole, which is surrounded by a blue spiral of material. At lower right is a red giant star that is far from the black hole and close to the viewer. A bridge of glowing gas links the star to a smaller white dwarf star companion immediately to its left. Engorged with infalling hydrogen from the red giant star, the smaller star exploded in a blue-white flash, which looks like numerous diffraction spikes emitted in all directions. Thousands of stars are in the background.

The nearby barred-spiral galaxy NGC 1068 serves as a proxy for helping astronomer understand the fireworks taking place at the...

Spiral galaxy NGC 1069 fills the image, a majestic spiral of glowing gas and dark dust with long, winding arms. A callout box points to the center of the galaxy. Within the callout box are glowing, red and orange clouds of hydrogen gas.

This composite image shows the distribution of dark matter, galaxies, and hot gas in the core of the merging galaxy...

Green, orange, blue and purple blobs of glowing light mingle with the shining galaxies in a massive cluster. Blue and green is concentrated in the middle and orange and purple is in splotches on the outskirts.

Through the phenomenon of gravitational lensing, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured three different moments in the explosion of a very...

The top box shows galaxy cluster Abell 370 with a callout box indicating the area where the lensed supernova images were found. The bottom box shows an expanded version of the callout box flanked by Hubble on the left and a galaxy on the right. Light path lines between the two, intersecting the image, show how the light from the supernova in the galaxy was split and bent by the gravitational lens.

This graphic shows the location of the infrared image from the Hubble Space Telescope in a wider view of the...

Left half of the image is the entire NGC 2174 nebula. A white square indicates the location of the Hubble infrared image at right. The nebula appears like an oval cloud ringed by rusty-brown gas and filled with glowing blue gas dotted with stars. Right half: Right half of the image: Infrared light shows a rusty-brown dust cloud dotted with a few bright stars. Hazy pillars of gas and dust rise up toward the right. A bluish-white glow fills the lower-right quadrant. The haze is more transparent as you move toward the upper right corner. Background is dotted with stars.

This graphic compares visible-light and infrared views of the same detailed area in the star-forming nebula NGC 2174 from the...

Left half of the image: Visible light shows a black to rusty-brown cloud outlined by illuminated, golden clouds. The nebula is sent against a glowing blue cloud dotted with stars. Right half of the image: Infrared light shows a dust cloud dotted with a few bright stars. Hazy pillars of gas and dust rise up toward the right. A bluish-white glow fills the lower-right quadrant. The haze is more transparent as you move toward the upper right corner. Background is dotted with stars.

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the galaxy NGC 1559.

A spiral galaxy, tilted at an angle, with irregularly-shaped arms. It appears large and close-up. The center glows in a yellowish color, while the disk around it is a bluer color, due to light from older and newer stars. Dark reddish threads of dust cover the galaxy, and there are many large, shining pink spots in the disc, where stars are forming.

This animation shows the motion of a white dwarf star passing in front of a distant background star. During the...

This Hubble image shows several blue, loop-shaped objects that actually are multiple images of the same galaxy. The gravitational lens...

Several bright elliptical and spiral galaxies cluster near the image's center, while many others dot the field of view. Elongated, blue ellipses around the central cluster are a distant, gravitationally lensed galaxy.

This star chart for Caldwell 65 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for Caldwell 56 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M74 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M110 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

star chart showing location in night sky of M110

This star chart for Caldwell 23 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M33 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M33 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M32 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M31 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Diagram illustrating the expansion of the universe which results in cosmological redshift, or light waves lengthening as they travel through space due to the expansion of the universe.

This star chart for Caldwell 63 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C63 above the constellation Aquarius, in the northwestern night sky in October at 10pm.

This star chart for Caldwell 22 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 22

This star chart for Caldwell 43 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for Caldwell 43 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for C2 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 2.

This star chart for M30 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M30 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M2 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A massive object in yellow is at the center of the image. A star is directly behind it on the left side of the image. The observer is located on the opposite side of the star on the far-right side of the image.

Galaxies, galaxies everywhere - as far as NASA's Hubble Space Telescope can see. This view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is...

A field of galaxies of various shapes, sizes, colors, and types against a black backgrouns.

This star chart for Caldwell 27 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 27

This star chart for Caldwell 57 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C57 between the constellations Sagittarius, Aquarius, and Aquila in the northern night sky in September at 10pm.

This star chart for Caldwell 55 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C55 in the lower-left corner of the constellation Aquarius, in the northern night sky in September at 10pm.

This star chart for Caldwell 20 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 20.

This star chart for M27 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M71 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M75 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

star chart showing location in night sky of M75

This star chart for M75 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M55 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A starchart that shows the location of M55 in the constellation Sagittarius above the northern horizon in September at 10 pm.

This star chart for M55 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A starchart that shows the location of M55 in the constellation Sagittarius above the southern horizon in September at 10 pm.

This star chart for M15 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M15 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

These Hubble images show a series of supernovae ― explosions that occur at the death of massive stars ― detected...

This image contains six boxes with Hubble pictures. The top three boxes show distant galaxies, which are small and somewhat blurry, and lack much detail. The bottom three boxes are the same galaxies, but with the bright point of a supernova explosion. An arrow points to the supernova in each galaxy.

This star chart for Caldwell 24 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 24

This star chart for Caldwell 67 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C67 next to the constellation Fornax on the right, in the northern night sky in December at 10pm.

This star chart for M77 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M45 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M45 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M57 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M22 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M20 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M16 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M16 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M11 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M8 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for Caldwell 86 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars, and the location of Caldwell 86.

Using the light from the quasar PKS 0405-123, located 7 billion to 8 billion light-years away, the Hubble's Cosmic Origins...

This star chart for Caldwell 78 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Star chart for Caldwell 78 showing the outlines of constellations and the location of C78.

This Hubble image features four of the thousands of galaxies found within the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. All of the...

A field of galaxies against a black background. Several distant galaxies are highlighted and numbered. Views of those galaxies are expanded on the right with their spectra extending further to the right of the images.

This star chart for M107 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Rings of brilliant blue stars encircle the bright, active core of this spiral galaxy, whose monster black hole is blasting...

Hubble image of the galaxy Markarian 817 at top. Spectragram of the galaxy Markarian 817 below the image.

This star chart for M92 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

The galaxy UGC 9391, contains two types of stars that astronomers use to calculate accurate distances to galaxies, a key...

Spiral galaxy UGC 9391 is shown sprinkled liberally with red circles where Cepheid variable stars have been found and a blue cross where a Type 1a supernovae was seen.

This star chart for M62 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

star chart showing location in night sky of M62

This star chart for M4 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

locator star chart for M4 - southern hemisphere

This star chart for M13 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo named NGC 5668. It is relatively...

A spiral galaxy, seen up close and face-on. It is colored yellow and glowing brightly at the oval-shaped center, showing older and cooler stars, and it becomes bluer out to the edge of the disc where the stars are younger and hotter. It has a number of somewhat patchy spiral arms curling around, with sparkling areas where stars form. The black background is visible in the corners.

Two absorption spectra. The top one shows the rainbow of colors in a spectrum with dark absorption lines at certain intervals. The bottom spectrum shows the same rainbow spectrum with the absorption lines shifted to the red end of the spectrum.

Original high-resolution image of the 1919 solar eclipse before the digital restoration. Funding for this project was provided Klaus Tschira...

A black and white image of the total solar eclipse of May 29, 1919 taken from Sobral, Brazil. A large prominence arches across the upper right quadrant of the Sun's limb. Spikes of the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, ring its darkened disk.

Eclipse instruments at Sobral, Brazil (1919) include a 4-inch telescope (left) and an astrograph (right), a telescope designed for astrophotography....

A sepia-toned photo of two telescopes in a shed.

Sir Arthur S. Eddington (1882-1944)

Black and white portrait of British astronomer, Sir Arthur S. Eddington.

British astronomer, Sir Frank Watson Dyson (1868 – 1939)

Black and white portrait of British Sir Astronomer Frank Watson Dyson. Taken between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920.

The Hubble image on the left shows the bright core of M84 surrounded by a dark band of gas and...

Left: A diffuse, white cloud that is vertically bisected by two dark dust lanes. A turquoise, vertical rectangle denotes the area that the spectrograph sampled. Right: A vertical zig-zag of colors that are green through the middle (top to bottom) and blue on the left and red on the right.

The STIS long-slit spectrograph of Supernova 1987A dissects its light, producing a detailed image of the ring in each of...

A graphic with a black background, showing images of the rings around Supernova 1987A. On the left, a wider angle shot shows rings around a bright point of light. On the right, closer looks at the rings are seen in red and green hues.

White dwarf stars have remarkable properties, yet they are very simple. These stripped cores of normal hydrogen-burning stars are about...

Three absorption spectra: the Sun, a white dwarf, and a blue giant. The white dwarf spectra has wide dark absorption lines.

White dwarf stars have remarkable properties, yet they are very simple. These stripped cores of normal hydrogen-burning stars are about...

The wispy, glowing, magenta structures in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image are the remains of a star 10 to...

Upper left: an image of a supernova remnant. It appears as a pinkish-purple cloud against a starry background. Right two-thirds of the image holds a spectrum that reveals lines of oxygen and carbon.

This star chart for Caldwells 60 & 61 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

the location of Caldwell 60 and 61 is shown against the backdrop of stars with the constellation outlined.

White dwarf stars have remarkable properties, yet they are very simple. These stripped cores of normal hydrogen-burning stars are about...

The wispy, glowing, magenta structures in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image are the remains of a star 10 to...

This is an artist's depiction of a pair of active black holes at the heart of two merging galaxies. They...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy IC 4709a located around 240 million light-years away in the...

A spiral galaxy with a bright-white core, a glowing disk thick with swirling patterns of dark dust, and a faint halo around the disk. It is on a black background with a few small, distant galaxies and some foreground stars around it.

On a black background, a large orange and white orb is surrounded by a diffuse, grainy, orange halo. The halo appears to have more material on its right side than its left.

These are far-ultraviolet Hubble images of Mars near its farthest point from the Sun, called aphelion, on December 31, 2017...

Split image of two panels stacked vertically. In the left corner of the top image is the label Mars Corona, Hubble Space Telescope. This label pertains to both panels. In the top panel, on a black background, an orange and white orb is surrounded by a small, diffuse, grainy, orange halo. The halo appears to have more material on its left side than its right. Under the orb is the label Aphelion: December 31, 2017. In the bottom panel, on a black background, a larger orange and white orb is also surrounded by a diffuse, grainy, orange halo. This halo is wider than the one in the top panel. The halo appears to have more material on its right side than its left. Under the orb is the label Perihelion: December 19, 2016. In both panels, white, polar ice caps and some surface features are visible.

These screenshots represent the above steps from left to right: Step 1; Step 2; Step 3; and Step 4.

An infrared light flight simulation through the Orion Nebula.

A visible light flight simulation through the Orion Nebula.

Simulated flight through the Orion Nebula. Video Thumbnail

This scientific visualization holds two simulated galaxies that appear to be merging. The galaxies are set against a black background with bright yellow-white centers that extend into blue-white disks. The two galaxies are at nearly right angles to each other--one nearly face on, the other nearly edge on.

A simulation of a globular cluster set against a black background.

An illustration of the cosmic web as displayed on a planetarium dome.

The left image is a ground-based Digital Sky Survey image. The rectangle on indicates the area of Messier 48 captured...

Left, square, Digital Sky Survey image: stars fill the field of view, with many blue-white stars near image center. Right, rectangular, Hubble image: a black background with a smattering of bright stars.

This Hubble Space Telescope image captures a portion of the open cluster, Messier 48 (NGC 2548).

A smattering of stars against a black background.

This star chart for M48 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Star chart showing the constellation outlines and the location of Messier 48.

This star chart for M48 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This image shows NASA's Hubble AR model on iOS devices in the default AR Mode (left) and in Object Mode...

This image shows NASA's Hubble AR model on Android devices in the default Object Mode (left) and in AR Mode...

A model of the Hubble Space Telescope, taken as a screenshot from NASA's "Eyes on the Solar System" web feature.

Screenshot of the Hubble model from NASA's "Eyes on the Solar System" web feature.

From left to right, these images represent Steps 1, 2, and 3 above.

The image on the left represents the "How to Use" step detailed above. The two images on the right relate...

From left to right: screenshots from the NASA App of 1) the HST Images section; 2) one example image from...

This star chart for M80 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Annotated star chart of Messier 80 for the southern hemisphere.

This star chart for M5 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Annotated star chart of Messier 5 for the southern hemisphere.

Hubble's Inside the Image: Cat's Eye Nebula thumbnail for the YouTube video.

This star chart for M104 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M64 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows M64 as seen from the Southern Hemisphere in the northern night sky in May at 10pm.

This star chart for M53 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows M53 as seen from the Southern Hemisphere in the northern night sky in May at 10pm.

This star chart for M87 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows M87 as seen from the Southern Hemisphere in the northern night sky in May at 10pm.

This star chart for M51 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows M51 as seen from the Southern Hemisphere in the northern night sky in May at 10pm.

This star chart for C32 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C32 as seen from the Southern Hemisphere in the northern night sky in May at 10pm.

This star chart for C52 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C52 as seen from the Southern Hemisphere in the northern night sky in May at 10pm

This star chart for Caldwell 60 & 61 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C60 and C61 as seen from the Southern Hemisphere in the northern night sky in mid April at 10pm

Light boxes displayed in Hubble's STOCC.

Framed colorful lighted galaxy images hanging along a tan wall.

This star chart for M96 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Annotated star chart for M96 in the southern hemisphere, facing the northern sky in April at 10 PM.

This star chart for M95 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Annotated star chart for M95 in the southern hemisphere, facing the northern sky in April at 10 PM.

This star chart for M66 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Annotated star chart for M66 in the southern hemisphere, facing the northern sky in April at 10 PM.

This star chart for M65 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Annotated star chart for M65 in the southern hemisphere, facing the northern sky in April at 10 PM.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope surveyed the actively forming and recently formed stars in ultraviolet light over three years. The result...

A large-scale vertical infographic, “ULLYSES: Hubble’s Ultraviolet Survey of Young Stars,” has six distinct sections and supporting text. The first two sections provide an overview of the program, which includes hundreds of actively forming and recently formed stars. Additional sections describe what can be learned about star formation and why these ultraviolet data will have lasting importance.

Stars are forming every moment, gobbling up gas and dust. Precisely how do stars form? How do they grow and...

These spectra show the presence of iron in two stars. The star in Sextans A, represented in purple, doesn’t contain...

Infographic with a chart window and two image windows.

These spectra reflect the intense winds of massive stars in N11 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, set off in teal,...

Hubble’s ULLYSES program observed the ultraviolet light stars emit – and spread that light into its component wavelengths, which are...

The Hubble Space Telescope undertook an extensive three-year program, known as the Ultraviolet Legacy Library of Young Stars as Essential...

This star chart for C100 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 100.

This star chart for Caldwell 107 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M83 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M80 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for Caldwell 66 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Star chart for Caldwell 66 in the southern hemisphere

This star chart for Caldwell 45 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Star chart that shows C45 between the constellations of Bootes and Virgo in the southern night sky in June at 10pm.

This star chart for Caldwell 89 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars, and the location of Caldwell 89

This star chart for M5 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M3 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Annotated star chart of Messier 3 for the northern hemisphere.

This inset image shows the location of Hubble's view within the Andromeda galaxy.

At the upper right, an image shows thousands of distant stars that crowd the view against black space. A rosy, bloomlike tendril of red nebulosity shines near the center-top. This image is connected with white lines to a lower-left view of the Andromeda galaxy, where it reaches to one of its upper spiral arms. Andromeda has a glowing, yellow core with spiral arms interlaced with dark dust and purplish star formation. White text at the top reads “M31”.

This inset image shows the location of Hubble's view within the Andromeda galaxy.

At the upper right, an image shows thousands of distant stars crowding the view against black space. Tendrils of red nebulosity bloom across the image. This image is connected with white lines to a lower-left view of the Andromeda galaxy, where it reaches to one of its upper spiral arms. Andromeda has a glowing, yellow core with spiral arms interlaced with dark dust and purplish star formation. White text at the top reads “M31”.

This inset image shows the location of NGC 261 within the Small Magellanic Cloud.

On the right, a large image of NGC 261 shows thousands of stars that fill black space, with a glowing, nebulous cloud of pink dominating most of the lower right half of the view. White lines connect this image to a wider view on the lower left, showing a diffuse, pinkish galaxy. White text above it reads “SMC - NGC 361”.

These two Hubble images of NGC 346 show the star cluster in visible and ultraviolet wavelengths of light.

Two images of NGC 346 side-by-side. The left image shows NGC 346 in visible light, with the cluster of white stars shining against blue nebulosity. The right image shows it in ultraviolet light, with a grouping of large, glowing, and purplish stars dominating the image’s center. Dark ridges of gas and dust are visible around them, with more background stars crowding the view. White text above both images reads “SMC - NGC 346”.

This inset image shows the location of NGC 346 within the Small Magellanic Cloud.

At the upper right, an image shows a grouping of large, glowing, and purplish stars dominating the image’s center. Dark ridges of gas and dust are visible around them, with more background stars crowding the view. This image is connected with white lines to a wider view to its lower left, showing a diffuse galaxy. White text above it reads “SMC - NGC 346”.

This inset image shows where N11 is located within the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The bottom half of the image shows N11. Glowing clouds of pink and red gas and dust fill the image, along with several stars – foreground stars shine with diffraction spikes, and more distant stars fill the background. Above it to the right, a smaller image shows a starry region of space with orange tendrils of gas and dust with a white rectangle designating the portion that shows N11. To its left, another small image shows a wide view of a diffuse galaxy with a white rectangle designating the portion that shows N11. To its left, white text reads “LMC - N11”.

The Hubble Space Telescope undertook an extensive three-year program, known as the Ultraviolet Legacy Library of Young Stars as Essential...

The Tucana Dwarf galaxy resides about 3 million light-years away, at the far edge of our Local Group of galaxies.

More closely concentrated near the center, several stars shine against black space along with a few distant galaxies.

NGC 261 is located within one of the Milky Way’s closest galactic companions, the Small Magellanic Cloud.

Thousands of stars fill the image against black space, with a glowing, nebulous cloud of pink dominating most of the lower right half of the view.

The Pegasus Dwarf spheroidal galaxy, also known as Andromeda VI, is one of at least 13 dwarf galaxies that orbit...

Several stars shine against black space. A few foreground stars with diffraction spikes throughout.

NGC 346 is nestled within the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy to our Milky Way.

A grouping of large, glowing, and purplish stars dominate the image’s center. Dark ridges of gas and dust are visible around them, with more background stars crowding the view.

This Hubble image shows a complex cluster of emission nebulae, nestled within the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Glowing clouds of pink and red gas and dust fill the image, along with several stars – foreground stars shine with diffraction spikes, and more distant stars fill the background.

The galaxy Leo A resides about 2.6 million light-years away.

A black background dotted with stars and distant galaxies. The distribution of stars increases toward image center, forming the loose oval shape of the irregular galaxy Leo A that stretches horizontally across the image. Three foreground stars shine brightly – one located at center-top, and two others in the lower-right quadrant of the image. Each holds four bright barbs (called diffraction spikes) that extend outward from the star.

Andromeda III is one of at least 13 dwarf satellite galaxies in orbit around the Andromeda galaxy, or Messier 31,...

Several stars fill the image, more closely concentrated near the center. Foreground stars with diffraction spikes shine throughout as well.

Clusters of stars set the interstellar medium ablaze in the Andromeda Galaxy about 2.5 million light-years away.

Thousands of distant stars crowd the view against black space. Tendrils of red nebulosity bloom across the image.

Scientists probed Andromeda’s spiral arms using Hubble to analyze the collection of stars buried in its cosmic bouquets.

Thousands of distant stars crowd the view against black space. A rosy, bloomlike tendril of red nebulosity shines near the center-top.

VV124, or UGC 4879, is an isolated dwarf galaxy that resides just beyond our own Local Group of galaxies some...

An oblong smudge of stars stretches diagonally across the image from upper-left to lower-right. It holds stars in blue, orange, yellow, and white. The highest concentration of stars is near the image center and toward the lower-right. This region also holds bright, light-blue clumps of stars. Star densities taper off in all directions as you move away from the core. A number of bright, distant galaxies dot the scene, with a few shining through UGC 4879.

Messier 33 is the third largest galaxy in our Local Group of galaxies.

Thousands of bright stars crowd the image, alongside bright pink and red regions of nebulosity.

This inset image shows Hubble's view of the center of galaxy M33.

At the right, an image shows thousands of bright stars, alongside bright pink and red regions of nebulosity. It’s connected via white lines to a wider image to its lower left, showing a spiral galaxy with reddish tendrils throughout its arms. Text up top reads “M33” in white.

Hubble's detailed view of a small portion of M67 showcases some of the open cluster's bright stars.

A scattering of white and reddish stars on a black background.

Galaxies and stars visible on the outskirts of open cluster Messier 44, also known as the Beehive Cluster or Praesepe.

Background galaxies and stars are sprinkled across a black background. Some of the distant galaxies are spirals.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the subtle glow of the galaxy named IC 3430, located 45 million light-years...

A relatively small, oval-shaped galaxy, tilted diagonally. Its center glows brightly and dims gradually to its edge. Its center also holds a few small, blue, glowing spots where stars are forming and dark wisps of dust that cross the galaxy. The image has a black background on which many background galaxies and foreground stars are visible.

A screenshot of Hubble's Cosmic Adventure game.

On 17 August 2017, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo Interferometer both detected gravitational waves from the...

A lenticular galaxy seen face on. To the upper left of the galaxy's core is a bright, yellow dot with a box around it. That is the kilonova. The bottom of the image holds three expanded views of the kilonova at different times.

A screenshot of Hubble's Cosmic Adventure game.

This star chart for Caldwell 53 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

C53 finder chart for mid-southern latitudes at 10:00 p.m. in April.

This star chart for Caldwell 40 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A finder chart for C40 for mid-southern latitudes, in the constellation Leo at 10:00 p.m. in April.

This star chart for Caldwell 48 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C48 to the upper-right of the constellation Cancer in the southern night sky at 10pm in March.

This star chart for M46 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Shows the location of M46 from mid-southern latitudes in the night sky, near the constellation Canis Major at 10pm in February.

This star chart for Caldwell 58 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Shows the location of C58 from mid-southern latitudes in the night sky, near the constellation Canis Major at 10pm in February.

This star chart for Caldwell 39 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Shows the location of C39 from mid-southern latitudes in the southern night sky, near the constellation Gemini, at 10pm in February.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image treats viewers to a wonderfully detailed snapshot of the spiral galaxy NGC 3430 that...

A spiral galaxy with three prominent arms wrapping around it. The galaxy holds plenty of extra gas and dark dust between the arms. There are shining blue points throughout the arms and some patches of gas out beyond the galaxy’s edge, where stars are forming. The center of the galaxy also shines brightly. It is on a dark background where some small orange dots mark distant galaxies.

Visitors at the Joint Base Andrews air show visit with the Hubble team and get to experience the Hubble mission...

Two women and a man standing at a table with a computer monitor and a digital interactive hubble space telescope speaking to people at an event.

May 2019 was the 10th anniversary of STS-125, the fifth and final Hubble servicing mission. The public joined the National...

Young girl taking handouts from a stand on a table with a woman and man speaking with other people at an event in a large room with lots of windows and a rocket booster hanging overhead.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 5238, located 14.5 million light-years from Earth in...

A dwarf irregular galaxy. It appears as a cloud of bluish gas, filled with point-like stars that spread beyond the edge of the gas. A few glowing red clouds sit near its center. Many other objects are visible around it: distant galaxies in the background, four-pointed stars in the foreground, and star clusters that are part of the galaxy appear as bright spots surrounded by more tiny stars.

Lacking spiral arms but boasting a galactic bulge and prominent disk, lenticular galaxies like Caldwell 53 are intermediates between the...

Black background dotted with stars. Image center holds an elliptical haze of white light. Along the horizontal axis of the ellipse is a band of brighter light. The center of the ellipse holds a small, bright sphere of light.

This image, showing a central part of Caldwell 72, is a composite of visible and infrared observations made by Hubble’s...

The center of the galaxy glows in a pinkish-white, and is tilted diagonally, going up-right and down-left. Black clouds of dust are visible around the center, and in the lower left corner, thick blue "clumps" of stars.

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.

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a field of stars in the galaxy’s outskirts. The galaxy’s center is out of...

Tens of thousands of stars fill this image as tiny dots, more concentrated in the upper left corner. Stars taper off as you move down and to the right.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image depicts the spiral galaxy NGC 3810. The galaxy was part of a 2023 Hubble...

A spiral galaxy with a shining core at its center and winding spiral arms that extend outward. A bright point in the galaxy, just below the core, is the Type Ia supernova, SN2022zut. A white circle marks the supernova.

Measuring the distance to truly remote objects like galaxies, quasars, and galaxy clusters is a crucial task in astrophysics, particularly...

A spiral galaxy seen almost face-on. Large spiral arms whirl out from its center, filling the scene. They glow faintly blue from the stars within, with some small bright patches of blue and pink marking areas of star formation. Thin filaments of dark reddish dust that block light overlay the stars. The galaxy’s center shines brightly white.

Hubble STOCC map.

Illustrated map layout with text, black outlines and colored numbers of the Hubble STOCC.

A team of astronomers analyzed observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope taken over a span of 18 years to measure...

A three-paneled image shows different perspectives of the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy. The first panel fill's the left half of the image. It is a Digitized Sky Survey image of the region. The upper-right and lower-right images are zoomed-in Hubble images of areas denoted by white boxes in the left-side image. Each of the images holds a field of distant galaxies and foreground stars on a inky-black background.

An international team of astronomers used more than 500 images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope – spanning two decades of...

This image includes three panels. The first image at left shows the globular cluster Omega Centauri, a collection of myriad stars colored red, white, and blue on the black background of space. The second image, middle, zooms in on details of the central region of this cluster, with a closer view of the individual stars. The third image, at right, zooms in further to show the location of the intermediate-mass black hole candidate in the cluster. A dark region is circled and labeled "likely location of black hole." A scale bar about one-sixth the width of the image is labeled "0.1 light-year."

This image shows the central region of the Omega Centauri globular cluster, where NASA's Hubble Space Telescope found strong evidence...

The central region of the globular star cluster Omega Centauri. It appears as a collection of myriad stars colored red, white, and blue on the black background of space.

An international team of astronomers has used more than 500 images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope – spanning two decades...

A Hubble image of the globular cluster Omega Centauri, a collection of myriad stars colored red, white, and blue on the black background of space.

It might appear featureless and unexciting at first glance, but NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations of this elliptical galaxy —...

The bright-white, diffuse glow of an elliptical galaxy sits at image center. The galaxy's core appears as an intense-white circle that gets more diffuse as you move outward from the core. A rusty-red, diffuse cloud is visible to the upper-left of the galaxy. It extends to the upper-left corner of the image, where it is very faint. Black background dotted with foreground stars and distant galaxies.

Graphic showing thumbnails of Hubble posters.

This scientific visualization explores the iconic Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16 or M16) using data from...

In the Hubble version of the model (left), the pillars feature dark brown opaque dust and bright yellow ionized gas...

Two visualizations using Hubble and Webb data. The left image is from visible-light data collected by Hubble. The right visualization is from infrared-light data collected by Webb.

Graphic showing thumbnails of Hubble posters.

This image is a mosaic of visible-light and infrared-light views of the same frame from the Pillars of Creation visualization....

Mosaic of the Pillars of Creation visualization model, composed of 4 rectangular strips oriented 45 degrees clockwise from vertical. Strips alternate between Hubble and Webb views of the visualization model, with each strip labeled: “Hubble” at lower right corners of first and third strips; “Webb” at upper left corners of the second and fourth strips. Webb strips have drop shadows that make it look like they are overlaid on top of larger Hubble image. Mosaic shows 3 vertical structures (pillars) of thick smoke-like material. Pillar edges are glowing, with thin wisps of material moving away into space. In Hubble strips, pillars are dark brown and opaque, on greenish blue background. In Webb strips, pillars are bright orange to brown with a distinct area of bright red at the top of middle pillar. A red star appears at the tip of a peak in the left pillar and the background is deep blue.

Hubble Poster 2024 - Westerlund 2

Hubble Poster 2024 - Veil Nebula

Hubble Poster 2024 - V838 Mon Light Echo

Hubble Poster 2024 - SNR 0454-67.2

Hubble Poster 2024 - Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841

Hubble Poster 2024 - Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300

Hubble Poster 2024 - NGC 1097

Hubble Poster 2024 - NGC 691

Hubble Poster 2024 - Photographs of the Universe from the Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble Poster 2024 - Cosmic Reef

Hubble Poster 2024 - Black Eye Galaxy

Hubble Poster 2024 - AG Carinae

Hubble Poster 2024 - Terzan 4

Hubble Poster 2024 - Ring Nebula M57

Hubble Poster 2024 - Omega Centauri

Hubble Poster 2024 - Stellar Demise: NGC 6302

Hubble Poster 2024 - Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 6217

Hubble Poster 2024 - NGC 2775

Hubble Poster 2024 - NGC 1866

Hubble Poster 2024 - Supernova Remnant N 49

Hubble Poster 2024 - A View of ‘Mystic Mountain’

Hubble Poster 2024 - Milky Way Bulge

Hubble Poster 2024 - Hubble Ultra Deep Field

Hubble Poster 2024 - Horsehead Nebula

Hubble Poster 2024 - Butterfly Nebula

Hubble Poster 2024 - Arp 273 – The Rose Galaxies

Hubble Poster 2024 - Abell 370

Hubble Poster 2024 - Star Birth in 30 Dorado

This star chart for M79 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This Southern Hemisphere star chart shows the location of Messier 79 in the northern part of night sky at 10pm in January.

This star chart for M78 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This Southern Hemisphere star chart shows the location of Messier 78 in the northern part of night sky at 10pm in January.

Hubble Poster 2024 - Our Galactic Center

Hubble Poster 2024 - Bubble Nebula

This star chart for M43 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This Southern Hemisphere star chart shows the location of Messier 43 in the northern part of night sky at 10pm in January.

This star chart for M42 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This Southern Hemisphere star chart shows the location of Messier 42 in the northern part of night sky at 10pm in January.

This star chart for M1 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This Southern Hemisphere star chart shows the location of Messier 1 in the northern part of night sky at 10pm in January.

This star chart for Caldwell 46 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This Northern Hemisphere star chart shows C46 just below the constellation Monocerotis in the southern part of night sky at 10pm in January.

This star chart for Caldwell 46 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This Southern Hemisphere star chart shows C46 just below the constellation Monocerotis in the northern part of night sky at 10pm in January.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image presents a visually striking collection of interstellar gas and dust. Named RCW 7, the...

Clouds of gas and dust with many stars. The clouds form a flat, blue background toward the bottom, and become thicker and smokier toward the top. Stars on one side light the nebula. A thick arc of gas and dust reaches around from the bottom-right corner of the image toward the top-left corner. It begins as a dark and obscuring cloud at bottom right and gradually becomes brightly lit by many stars at the upper left. Other large, foreground stars lie between the nebula and the viewer.

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope features the galaxy NGC 1546.

A galaxy against a black backdrop dotted with more distant galaxies and a few foreground stars. The galaxy is slightly tilted toward us, providing a good view of dark dust lanes from slightly above. They are backlit by the galaxy’s core. This dust appears rusty-brown. The core itself glows brightly in a yellowish light as brilliant-blue regions sparkle through the dust. Several background galaxies also are visible, including an edge-on spiral just to the left of NGC 1546.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster NGC 2005. It’s not an unusual globular cluster in and...

A globular cluster that looks like a very dense, ball-shaped collection of many shining stars in colors of white, yellow-orange, and blue. Some stars appear a bit larger and brighter than others, with the brightest having faint cross-shaped diffraction spikes. The cluster’s stars are scattered mostly uniformly, with their density increasing toward the cluster’s core where they merge into a strong, bright-white glow.

A Hubble Space Telescope image of the symbiotic star Mira HM Sge. Located 3,400 light-years away in the constellation Sagitta,...

At the center of the image is a bright white star with four prominent diffraction spikes. The star is surrounded by clumpy red nebulosity. A more translucent, red finger-shaped cloud of material points upward to the star's upper right. Hubble Space The black background of space is sprinkled with tiny red and white stars.

This artist’s concept shows the nova system HM Sagittae (HM Sge), where a white dwarf star is pulling material from...

An artist's concept of the binary star system HM Sge on the black background of space sprinkled with various sizes of red and white points of light. At the top of the image a blazing hot white disk surrounds a white dwarf star that is pulling a stream of material from its red giant companion, the glowing mottled ball at bottom right.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3059, which lies about 57 million light-years from...

A barred spiral galaxy seen face-on. Its many arms and distinct, glowing, bar-shaped core are easily visible. The galaxy’s arms hold bluish patches of older stars, pink patches where new stars are forming, and dark threads of dust. A few bright stars with cross-shaped diffraction spikes lie between us and the galaxy and are visible in the foreground.

This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the broad and sweeping spiral galaxy NGC 4731. It lies...

A close-in view of a barred spiral galaxy. The bright, glowing bar crosses the center of the galaxy, with spiral arms curving away from the bar’s ends and continuing out of view. Bright patches of light where stars are forming surround the bar, which also holds dark lines of dust. The galaxy’s clouds of gas spread out from its arms and bar, giving way to a dark background with some foreground stars and small, distant galaxies.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the jewel-bright spiral galaxy NGC 4689, which lies 54 million light-years from Earth...

A close-up view of a spiral galaxy fills most of the scene. It has a bright, glowing spot at its core, broad spiral arms that hold many dark threads of dust, and pink glowing spots across the disk that mark areas of star formation. A faint halo that bleeds into the dark background surrounds the galaxy’s disk.

Clouds of orange, yellow, and rusty-brown fill the scene. A bright pillar of gas and dust rises above a denser region of the cloud.

A multi-layered nebula that looks like it has a lion's mane surrounding it. A bright central star surrounded with overlapping rings of gas and dust.

Two interacting galaxies. A bridge of stars stretches between them, while a long tail of stars stretches beyond one of them.

On March 31, 2022, NASA scientists did a live broadcast about Hubble's discovery of Earendel — the farthest star ever...

On May 27, 2021, astronaut Megan McArthur spoke with us live from the International Space Station! She discussed her role...

Featured in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is a nearly edge-on view of the lenticular galaxy...

Lenticular galaxy NGC 4753 holds a bright-white core and surrounding, defined dust lanes around its nucleus that predominantly appear dark brown in color. A variety of faint stars fill the background of the image.

The celestial object showcased in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is the spiral galaxy UGC 9684, which...

A spiral galaxy in the center of a dark background, surrounded by a few distant galaxies and nearby stars. The galaxy stretches diagonally across the center of the frame — from lower left to upper right — and is slightly tilted toward the viewer. Its cloudy disk is threaded with dust and holds no clear arms. A bar of light extends across the disk from the glowing core. A faint halo of gas surrounds the disk.

Looking like a glittering cosmic geode, a trio of dazzling stars blaze from the hollowed-out cavity of a reflection nebula...

Three bright stars with diffraction spikes shine near the center-right of the image, illuminating nearby clouds that glow in pale blue. The clouds darken at the edges of the image, and are dotted with smaller stars, some also with diffraction spikes.

Sample Hand Held Hubble PVC Model

A black background is punctuated with distant stars and galaxies. One bright foreground star sits just to the right of image center. Slightly above and to the left of image center is a faint, bluish-green spiral.

Sample of the Hand Held Hubble Paper Model

Sample of the Hand Held Hubble Expert Model

The Hubble Space Telescope's latest image of the star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) reveals dramatic changes in the illumination of...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped this picture of Mars on October 28, 2005, within a day of its closest approach...

Rusty-red Mars is mottled with grey-brown regions in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres of the planet. Clouds are visible at the planet's North Pole, partially obscuring its north polar ice cap. The South Pole's ice cap is visible at the bottom of the image.

The NASA's Hubble Space Telescope celebrated its 32nd birthday with a stunning look at an unusual close-knit collection of five...

Five galaxies, two toward the upper right and top center, three clustered together in the lower right.

Bright, starry spiral arms surround an active galactic center in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy...

A massive spiral galaxy fills the image. A bright, yellow galactic core glows at the center, surrounded by spiral arms studded with pink stars and dark lanes of dust.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the dwarf galaxy IC 776. This swirling collection of new and old stars...

A spiral galaxy viewed tilted at a diagonal angle and toward the viewer. The core and the disk of the galaxy are different colors but are otherwise difficult to tell apart. The disc has wispy, ragged edges and many arcs of glowing, star-forming patches. A few distant galaxies are visible in the background around the spiral galaxy, as are several foreground stars.

Every star has a story to tell. Study a star and it will give you information about its composition, age...

A sea of stars in colors of white, blue, yellow, orange, and red.

The magnificent central bar of NGC 2217 (also known as AM 0619-271) shines bright in the constellation of Canis Major...

A bright, white galactic core shines near the center of the image with a faint bar of stars extending from it, diagonally to the right. Faint, hazy spiral arms encircle the core, with several distant stars and bright blue foreground stars with diffraction spikes scattered throughout the image, all against black space.

In celebration of the 34th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s legendary Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers took a snapshot of...

Taking up most of the image, is a multi-colored nebula in shades of blue, pink, yellow, orange, purple, and white. It appears as two translucent orbs attached by a white band.

In celebration of the 34th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s legendary Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers took a snapshot of...

Illustration of various space-based and ground-based telescopes.

This colorful composite image of the Crab Nebula was assembled by combining data from five telescopes spanning nearly the entire...

Filaments of pink, blue, purple, white, and yellow against a black backdrop dotted with stars.

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features NGC 3783, a bright barred spiral galaxy about 130 million light-years...

A spiral galaxy, seen face-on to the viewer. The bright center of the galaxy is crossed by a glowing bar, and it is surrounded by tightly wound spiral arms, forming a circular shape with relatively clear edges. Faraway galaxies are visible around it, along with a few bright stars, on a dark background. One star to the right of the galaxy is very large and extremely bright with long diffraction spikes.

The subject of this image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is the spiral galaxy IC 4633, located 100...

A spiral galaxy seen nearly face-on. The disk holds many tightly wound spiral arms. They contain small strands of reddish dust, near the center. On the left side, the disk features glowing patches of star formation. The whole right side, and part of the center, is obscured by a large cloud of dark grey gas which crosses the image.

This graph is based on Hubble Space Telescope archival data that was used to identify a largely unseen population of...

This graph plots the size of asteroids versus their abundance, based on a Hubble Space Telescope archival survey that found 1,701 mostly previously undetected asteroids lying between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The vertical axis lists number of objects from zero to 70. The horizontal axis lists size, from zero kilometers on the left, to 2 kilometers on the right. The graph slopes up such that the most abundant asteroids detected by Hubble in the survey are 0.5 kilometers across in size.

This Hubble Space Telescope image of the barred spiral galaxy UGC 12158 looks like someone took a white marking pen...

This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the barred spiral galaxy UGC 12158. The majestic galaxy 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 top is a Hubble image is of 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.

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that only includes two...

A large spiral galaxy with a smaller neighboring galaxy. The spiral galaxy is wide and distorted, with colorful dust. Its companion lies close by, at the end of a spiral arm, to the lower left. A long, faint tail of stars reaches up from the right side of the spiral galaxy to the top of the image. Several small, distant galaxies are visible in the background, along with one bright star in the foreground.

The class of 2024 NHFP Fellows are shown in this photo montage (top to bottom, left to right): The Hubble...

In celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, NASA's Great Observatories – the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space...

A colorful view of the Milky Way's center region. Colors of red, orange, yellow, blue, pink, and white are stars, clouds, and filaments against a dark backdrop.

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a globular cluster called NGC 1651. Like another recent globular cluster...

A spherical collection of stars fills the image. The stars merge into a bright, bluish core at image center and form a sparse band around the core and out to the edges of the image. A few stars lie in front of the cluster, with visible diffraction spikes. The background is dark black.

A colorful red, orange, and brown and dust cloud with a bright blue star cluster on the right side.

The ULLYSES program studied two types of young stars: super-hot, massive, blue stars and cooler, redder, less massive stars than...

Graphic in two, stacked parts. The top part shows a roughly circular, wreath-like area of red, orange, beige, brown, and green clouds with many wisps and filaments. In the center of this wreath-like structure is a dark cavity filled with hundreds of sparkling, blue stars. The stars are not evenly distributed, with more on the right half of the image. Some blue stars also appear on top of the surrounding, wispy clouds. The bottom part of the graphic shows a yellowish-white star encircled by concentric, cloudy rings of increasing size. These rings are yellowish-white closest to the star, and they become darker the farther out they go. The farthest rings from the star appear fiery orange, and then become translucent as they trail off into the black background.

An artist’s impression of the cosmic web. Gravity builds a vast cobweb-like structure of filaments tying galaxies and galaxy clusters...

Pinkish-purple filaments fill the screen. Areas where they are more dense are brighter and a bit yellow, while voids are black.

This e-book is part of a series called Hubble Focus, which presents some of Hubble's recent cosmic discoveries. Its cover,...

Cover image of the Hubble Focus: Dark Universe e-book. Black background with a galaxy cluster that is superimposed with a blue-white haze that indicates the location of dark matter. Top of the image holds the phrase, "Hubble Focus." The "o" in focus is Hubble as we look down the tube of the telescope.

Astronauts James H. Newman and Michael J. Massimino participate in the fourth extravehicular activity (EVA) of the STS-109 mission. The...

Hubble is framed by a blue and cloudy Earth as astronauts work on the telescope, one perched on the shuttle's robotic arm.

Astronaut John M. Grunsfeld, payload commander, works in tandem with astronaut Richard M. Linnehan, mission specialist, as the two devote...

Two astronauts, one positioned on the space shuttle's robotic arm, work on the Hubble Space Telescope. One astronaut peers into an open door on the telescope. The telescope's solar array is clearly visible to the right.

Astronaut Richard M. Linnehan, STS-109 mission specialist, anchored on the end of the Space Shuttle Columbia’s Remote Manipulator System (RMS)...

An astronaut works on a flat, square-shaped device (a folded solar array) against the white cloudy background of Earth.

Billows of smoke and steam flow over the launch pad as Space Shuttle Columbia leaps into space on mission STS-109....

The space shuttle Columbia lifts off into a dark sky, illuminated by the flame pouring from its engine, which reflects as well off the clouds of billowing smoke surrounding it.

Astronaut Steven L. Smith, payload commander, prepares to use a 35mm camera during the final spacewalk of the STS-103 mission....

A astronaut anchored to the robotic arm in front of Hubble holds up a camera device to take a picture. Another astronaut is visible working on Hubble behind him.

C. Michael Foale (left) and Claude Nicollier (partially obscured by the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) hover above Discovery's aft cargo...

Earth fills the background behind Hubble in its position in the space shuttle's cargo bay. Two astronauts work in the cargo bay, one partially obscured by the shuttle's robotic arm.

In this view, Steven L. Smith (bottom), STS-103 payload commander, and John M. Grunsfeld, mission specialist, are seen during an...

One astronaut is perched on the robotic arm and the other is gripping one of Hubble's handrails as they gaze into the wide open aft shroud doors.

Beginning the 96th mission of the STS program, the Space Shuttle Discovery clears the launch structure and rockets toward the...

The Space Shuttle Discovery launches among billowing smoke and flame from the engines at Kennedy Space Center.

Performing an extravehicular activity (EVA) during STS-82, Steven L. Smith is in the foreground and Mark C. Lee is on...

Two astronauts work on the Hubble telescope. One grips onto the telescope and the other is standing on the robotic arm.

Gregory J. Harbaugh (left) and Joseph R. Tanner (right) perform a Mobile Foot Restraint (MFR) exchange.

Two astronauts work on Hubble. The solar arrays are prominently visible. One astronaut is perched on the robotic arm.

Mark C. Lee, STS-82 payload commander, inside the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and Steven L. Smith, mission specialist, on the...

One astronaut perches on the robotic arm and another is only partially visible inside a dark open door on the Hubble Space Telescope. Both astronauts are seen from behind, with Hubble looming before them.

Space Shuttle Discovery launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 3:55:17 a.m. EST on February 11, 1997, to begin STS-82,...

Seen mostly in shadow with engines blazing white gouts of fire, Discovery rises into the dark sky.

A damaged solar array panel removed from the Hubble Space Telescope appears over northern Sudan. Kathryn C. Thornton, just out...

A solar panel, seen almost entirely in shadow, floats away against the backdrop of Earth.

An astronaut captured this view of Space Shuttle Endeavour's approach and capture of the Hubble Space Telescope during the first...

Hubble floats over a dark and cloudy Australia, oriented so the back of the telescope faces the viewer. A portion of the shuttle's robotic arm can be seen in the right corner, extending toward the telescope.

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the gauzy-looking celestial body UGC 5829, an irregular galaxy that lies...

An irregular galaxy with a large central body of dull-colored stars and distorted arms around it. Brightly glowing pink areas where stars are forming dot the arms, along with bluish gas that is brighter than the galactic core. Two large arms flank the left and right of the body, and smaller streams of stars emerge from the top. Other distant galaxies are visible on the edges of the image.

This artist's conception illustrates the brown dwarf named 2MASSJ22282889-431026. NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes observed the object to learn...

A dark, reddish-orange stripped world that looks somewhat like a dark Jupiter sits against a black background.

This is an artist's conception of the binary system 2M J044144 showing the primary brown dwarf that is estimated to...

Artist illustration: lower-left holds a reddish-orange brown dwarf with a disk of material around it. Upper-right corner holds another brown dwarf with no disk. Background is black and dotted with stars.

This is an artist's concept of a brown dwarf. This class of object is too large to be a planet...

This artist's concept shows a brown dwarf, an object more massive than a planet but smaller than a star. The dwarf is a cherry-red sphere. It has horizontal stripes of various shades of red that are cloud bands. In the dark background there are myriad stars that are inside our Milky Way galaxy.

The ground-based image (lower left) illustrates the area of the galaxy Hubble imaged (upper right). The European Southern Observatory (ESO)...

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.

Caldwell 62/NGC 247 is also home to an object known as an ultraluminous X-ray source. Scientists have long debated the...

Searching for visible-light counterparts to X-ray sources detected by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers used Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys...

On the left side of the image is a spiral galaxy, on the right the inset shows a zoom in with dark red stars and dust and gas.

Diagram of the Hubble Space Telescope

Photo of the Hubble Space Telescope

Diagram of the Hubble Space Telescope

Photo of the Hubble Space Telescope

Diagram of the Hubble Space Telescope

Photo of the Hubble Space Telescope

In this closer view, Hubble captured a bright jet from a newly forming star in this image of the Running...

Hubble image of NGC 1977. Bright blue cloud with a reddish-orange jet (bottom, center). Far-right side and bottom right corner, reddish-orange cloud

Hubble captured a bright jet from a newly forming star in this image of the Running Man Nebula (NGC 1977).

The visible-light scars of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's impact with Jupiter show darker and deeper layers of Jupiter's atmosphere. Hubble's ultraviolet...

Two images side by side of Jupiter, on the left side showing the planet with white, tan, green and brown swirls with 4 dark spots at the bottom that show the impact of the comets hitting and on the right side, the planet in purple and white swirls show 4 dark swirls at the bottom showing the impact of the comets hitting.

This red bubble is made of gas that is being shocked by the expanding blast wave from a supernova explosion....

Black background dotted with stars. A dark-red transparent bubble of gas looking like a ring. Stars are visible through the center of the ring.

This colorful creation was made by combining data from two of NASA's Great Observatories. Optical data of SNR 0509-67.5 and...

Black background dotted with stars. A dark-red transparent bubble of gas with blue and green looking like a ring. Stars are visible through the center of the ring.

As NASA's Cassini spacecraft hurtled its way toward a July 1, 2004 rendezvous with Saturn, the Hubble Space Telescope snapped...

Saturn and its rings. The planet appears as though it is tilted backward, appearing to reveal the underside of its rings. Overall Saturn is yellow with bands of red, yellowish-brown, light orange, pink, and blue.

This Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet image of Saturn was taken when the planet's rings were at a maximum tilt of...

Saturn, seen in purples, greens and blues, is surrounded by its bright yellow rings.

Dubbed “Mystic Mountain,” this is a region of the much more extensive Carina Nebula. In it, towers of cool hydrogen...

The Mystic Mountain is seen as a chaotic pillar of colorful gas and dust, narrowing toward the top of the image. The dust and gas is mostly yellow, brown, and orange, all jutting against a hazy purple and blue background with a few pink stars.

This near-infrared image shows a myriad of stars behind the gaseous veil of the nebula's background wall of hydrogen, laced...

This close-up shot of the centre of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) clearly shows the delicate structures formed when the...

M8, the Lagoon Nebula (Hubble image) that looks like colorful waves breaking.

This near-infrared view penetrates these clouds to uncover stars hidden within and behind the nebula.

A star studded view of space with a large star at the center with gas clouds surround it.

This Hubble Space Telescope composite of V and I filters shows the active galaxy 3C 348, also known as Hercules...

Black space with multiple galaxies visible, large white glowing supermassive black hole in the center and two bright stars on each side.

Spectacular jets powered by the gravitational energy of a supermassive black hole in the core of the elliptical galaxy Hercules...

Black space with multiple galaxies visible, large white glowing supermassive black hole in the center. two bright stars on each side, and two pink jets of gas streaming out of either side of the center star.

Hubble observed this pillar of gas and dust in the Carina Nebula in visible light in 2009 using its newly...

Entire image is filled with green, brown, rusty colors of the Carina Nebula. Chaotic groupings of this dust and gas with stars dispersed randomly throughout the image.

The infrared image reveals stars that are hidden in the visible-light image. A jet of material can be seen streaming...

The column of gas and dust is a dim, ghostly gray version of itself and mostly transparent. Stars can be seen through it and a cloudy jet of gas is visible emerging horizontally from within the column. The background is black space dotted with a myriad of stars.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows LEDA 42160, a galaxy about 52 million light-years from Earth in the constellation...

A distorted dwarf galaxy, obscured by dust and by bright outbursts caused by star formation, floats roughly in the center. Tendrils of gas stretch up from the plane of the galaxy. A few distant galaxies are visible in the background around it, many as little spirals, and also including a prominent elliptical galaxy. A bright star hangs above the galaxy in the foreground, marked by cross-shaped diffraction spikes.

Astronomers used the Hubble Space telescope to revisit one of its most iconic subjects, the so-called "Pillars of Creation" in...

Three giant pillars of rusty colored dust and gas with a blueish green background.

Observing in infrared light, Hubble pierced through the obscuring gas and dust of M16’s Pillars of Creation. This ethereal image...

Star-filled view with faint outlines of gas clouds.

Jets emerge from the cocoon of a newly forming star to blast across space, slicing through the gas and dust...

A dark cloud of gas and dust sits along the top half of the image. The cloud is illuminated by a bright-white star below it and just to the right of image center. Another bright object, looking like a bright, vertical disk bisected by a dark cloud, sits just to the right of the main cloud and above and to the right of the bright-white star. A jet of bright, turquoise light streams to the left and right from each side of the vertical disk-like object. A section of the jet, to the left, appears to be hidden behind the dark cloud, but emerges from the cloud left of image center. The background is black with rusty hues near the bright-white star.

A pair of storms: a deep red cyclone and a reddish anticyclone, appear to be next to each other at...

Image of Jupiter taken on January 6, 2024. This side of Jupiter is also banded in stripes of brownish orange, light gray, soft yellow, and shades of cream, with many large storms and small white clouds punctuating the planet. At upper right of center, a pair of storms appear next to each other: a deep-red, triangle-shaped cyclone and a reddish anticyclone. Toward the far-left edge of this view is Jupiter's tiny orange-colored moon Io.

Big enough to swallow Earth, the classic Great Red Spot stands out prominently in Jupiter's atmosphere. To its lower right,...

Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter taken on January 5, 2024. Jupiter is banded in stripes of brownish orange, light gray, soft yellow, and shades of cream, punctuated with many large storms and small white clouds. The largest storm, the Great Red Spot, is the most prominent feature in the left bottom third of this view. To its lower right is a smaller reddish anticyclone, Red Spot Jr.

An analog clock with a red second hand passes time. The Hubble Space Telescope swoops in from the right and time begins to move backward the "Present Day." Dates flash on the screen and the telescope moves to left side of the clock. The clock and dates stop at "13.4 billion years ago."

An analog clock with a red second hand passes time. The Hubble Space Telescope swoops in from the right and time begins to move backward. Dates flash on the screen and the telescope moves to left side of the clock. The clock and dates stop at "13.4 billion years ago."

The Hubble Space Telescope images used in this animated science visualization present a full rotation of the giant planet Jupiter....

The giant planet Jupiter, in all its banded glory, is revisited by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in these latest images,...

A side-by-side image showing both faces of Jupiter on the black background of space. At the top, left corner of the left-hand image is the label Jupiter. Centered at the bottom is the label "January 5, 2024." Jupiter is banded in stripes of brownish orange, light gray, soft yellow, and shades of cream, punctuated with many large storms and small white clouds. The largest storm, the Great Red Spot, is the most prominent feature in the left bottom third of this view. To its lower right is a smaller reddish anticyclone, Red Spot Jr. On the right-hand image, centered at the bottom is the label "January 6, 2024." This opposite side of Jupiter is also banded in stripes of brownish orange, light gray, soft yellow, and shades of cream, with many large storms and small white clouds punctuating the planet. At upper right of center, a pair of storms appear next to each other: a deep-red, triangle-shaped cyclone and a reddish anticyclone. Toward the far-left edge of this view is Jupiter's tiny orange-colored moon Io.

Blue and orange stars glitter across the image, interwoven with dark clouds of brown dust and bright, glowing regions of blue. A red rectangle near the upper-right corner holds white lettering that says, "New Image."

A box in the ground-based, ESO image of M108 (upper right) shows the location of Hubble’s view within the wider...

Lower half, Hubble image: Blue and orange stars glitter across the image, interwoven with dark clouds of brown dust and bright, glowing regions of blue. Upper-right, ESO image: A bright reddish-white nebula. A small box indicates the area of sky Hubble viewed.

Blue and orange stars glitter across the image, interwoven with dark clouds of brown dust and bright, glowing regions of blue.

The smaller, ground-based image (lower left) taken by the Digitized Sky Survey illustrates the small area of Messier 94 that...

Left, Digitized Sky Survey Image: A small, black and white image of a galaxy seen face on. The galaxy has a bright-white center with wide concentric rings that dim as you move outward from the galaxy's core. Right, Hubble image: Near the right side of the image, a pale pink galactic core shines with spiraling arms of dark dust extending out to the center of the image. Dark sky interspersed with distant galaxies and stars fills the left side of the image. A bright patch of reddish stars is near the center. A vertical blurred line down the image’s center represents a region where no Hubble data was taken.

A portion of spiral galaxy M94 shines in this Hubble view.

Near the right side of the image, a pale pink galactic core shines with spiraling arms of dark dust extending out to the center of the image. Dark sky interspersed with distant galaxies and stars fills the left side of the image. A bright patch of reddish stars is near the center. A vertical blurred line down the image’s center represents a region where no Hubble data was taken.

A bright yellow galaxy core shines, surrounded by spiraling arms laced through with dark dust and blue-white regions of new stars. A red box near the upper-right corner holds the phrase "New Image" in white letters.

At the center of these side-by-side images is a special class of star used as a milepost marker for measuring...

A horizontal, two-panel image of pixelated, black-and-white star fields. The left image label is: “Webb Near-IR.” It holds a few dozen points of light of varying brightness. At the center of the image, a circle marks one bright point. The right image label is: “Hubble Near-IR.” It holds more indistinct, blurry patches whose overall brightness is similar to the more defined regions in the left image. At center, a circle marks a light gray pixel.

This image of NGC 5468, a galaxy located about 130 million light-years from Earth, combines data from the Hubble and...

A spiral galaxy with a small bar of bright-white stars at its core. Two main spiral arms extend outward from each end of the bar. They appear to fork into multiple branches beyond the galaxy's core. The spiral arms have a lavender hue. Bright-white and bright-red stars dot the galaxy. Reddish-brown dust lanes line the inner curves of the spiral arms.

This illustration shows the three basic steps astronomers use to calculate how fast the universe expands over time, a value...

Illustration with black background. On the left side of the image is Earth and the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble is pointing toward the right. A cone of light purple light starts at Earth and stretches to the right side of the image. At intervals along the cone are objects astronomers use to calculate distances. The first are Cepheid variable stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way). Next are Cepheids and Type 1a Supernovas in galaxies. The cone next holds an illustration of how light is red-shifted due to the expansion of space. Finally, distant galaxies that host Type 1a supernovas mark the right side of the extended cone. Along the bottom of the illustration is a gauge in yellow that marks the distance of each object in light years: from Earth extending out to 1 billion light years.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows NGC 4423, a galaxy that lies about 55 million light-years away in the...

A broad spiral galaxy is seen edge-on, so that its spiral arms can’t be seen. Visible dust and stars trace the disk of the galaxy, surrounded by a glowing halo above and below. The color of the galaxy changes smoothly between the outer disk at the ends and the bulge in the center. A few bright stars surround the galaxy on a dark background.

M108 is one of the largest and brightest members of the Ursa Major cluster, which is part of the Virgo...

Bright stars scatter across the field of view, more closely concentrated at the lower right. Dark brown lanes of dust spread throughout the view.

Bright stars scatter across the field of view, more closely concentrated at the lower right. Dark brown lanes of dust spread throughout the view. The phrase, "new image" surrounded by a red box is near the upper-right corner of the image.

A box in the ground-based, Pan-STARRS image of M108 at left shows the location of Hubble’s view on the right.

Pan-STARRS Image (lower left): A bright, nearly horizontal galaxy seen edge on against a black background. A the white square indicates the area of the galaxy in the Hubble image. Hubble Image (upper right): Bright stars scatter across the field of view, more closely concentrated at the lower right. Dark brown lanes of dust spread throughout the view.

Screenshot of the "What is Hubble Observing" tool window. Black background with stars filling the window. Text indicating the target. A bright patch in the center of the window is the Crab Nebula. It appears as a jagged-edged bright cloud.

On Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at 15:19:12 UTC Hubble observed protoplanet candidate AB Aur b.

Screen shot of the "What is Hubble Observing?" tool. Black background with a bright-white, star like region at image center surrounded by a light blue cloud.

John Bahcall receives the Medal of Science from President Bill Clinton in 1998.

Astronomer John Bahcall (left) receives receives the Medal of Science from President Bill Clinton (right). The two are shaking hands.

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Black and white image. Two rows of dignitaries attending a meeting at NASA.

Photograph of John Bahcall, circa 1979-1980.

Astronomer John Bahcall sits at a desk facing toward the right. His head is turned toward the camera.

Illustration Title: "The Lost Universe" in yellow at the top of the page. A green, yellow, and beige dragon is wrapped around an illustration of the Hubble Space Telescope. The image background is in various shades of blue and black and depicts a dark forest with trees in black silhouette.

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This densely populated group of stars is the globular cluster NGC 1841, which is part of the Large Magellanic Cloud...

A cluster of stars. Most of the stars are very small and uniform in size, and they are notably bluish and cluster more densely together toward the center of the image. Some appear larger in the foreground. The stars give way to a dark background at the corners.

Hubble's detailed view of a small portion of M67 showcases some of the open cluster's bright stars.

Galaxies and stars visible on the outskirts of open cluster Messier 44, also known as the Beehive Cluster or Praesepe.

An illustration of a map. It is the color of parchment paper.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features IC 3476, a dwarf galaxy that lies about 54 million light-years from Earth...

A dwarf spiral galaxy. The center is not particularly bright and is covered by some dust, while the outer disc and halo wrap around as if swirling in water. Across the face of the galaxy, an arc of brightly glowing spots marks areas where new stars are forming. The galaxy is surrounded by tiny, distant galaxies on a dark background.

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is teeming with color and activity. It features a relatively close star-forming...

A nebula with stars. The center of the image from top-left to bottom-right glows brightly with the light of newly forming stars and is partially obscured by dark dust. Colored layers of gas and dust billow out across the rest of the image. Foreground stars with large diffraction spikes speckle the nebula.

This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope view shows the globular cluster NGC 2298, a sparkling collection of thousands of stars...

Thousands of bright stars shine against black space, more tightly condensed near the image’s center. The stars glint in shades of white, blue, and red, and diffraction spikes are visible around the foreground stars.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a densely packed field of stars laid upon a background of dust, gas,...

An irregular galaxy: a cloud of tiny, point-like stars on a dark background. The cloud is densest along a broad, curved band across the center of the image. It is colored a faint blue with glowing purplish patches, and the stars grow less dense out to the edges but don’t fully vanish. A few distant background galaxies appear among the stars as glowing spots.

Galaxy AM 1054-325 has been distorted into an S-shape from a normal pancake-like spiral shape by the gravitational pull of...

This is a picture of a galaxy with a peculiar S-shape. It has a bright milky-white core at the center. Twin arms of blue stars wrap around the core. One arm looks particularly stretched out due to the gravitational tidal pull of a neighboring galaxy. Bright, young, whitish star clusters are strung along the arm like a string of pearls. They formed as a result of the collision process.

Astrophysicist John Bahcall tirelessly pushed lawmakers for funding and support for the Hubble Space Telescope mission, while simultaneously contributing to...

John Bahcall looks at the camera in front of a bookshelf. He wears a light gray shirt, red tie, and glasses.

NGC 3384, visible in this image, has many of the characteristic features of so-called elliptical galaxies. Such galaxies glow diffusely,...

A black background dotted with galaxies. A bright galaxy is at image center. It looks like a diffuse ellipse that stretches from the lower-left corner to the upper-right corner, with a bright core at image center.

This is an artist's concept of the exoplanet GJ 9827d, the smallest exoplanet where water vapor has been detected in...

Occupying the upper half of this illustration is the foreground exoplanet, partly in shadow, with subtle blue and white atmospheric features along the crescent closest to the star. The planet appears above a red dwarf star, which is represented by a smaller reddish-white, mottled globe at the bottom left. Two other planets in this system are to the left and right of the red dwarf star. The second planet is slightly larger, but appears farther away, about midway between the star and the foreground exoplanet. It is in shadow, with only the crescent facing the star bathed in light. The planetary system is on a mostly black background speckled with hundreds of faint distant stars.

The narrow galaxy elegantly curving around its spherical companion in this image is a fantastic example of a truly strange...

A black background dotted with galaxies. Image center holds a cluster of galaxies with a distinct arc nearly surrounding it.

This interesting galaxy imaged by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is one of a group of galaxies called Luminous Red Galaxies....

Black background dotted with galaxies. A reddish galaxy at image center with a bluish-white ring curving almost completely around it.

One way Hubble finds planets thousands of light-years from Earth is by using a gravitational microlensing technique. Credit: NASA, ESA,...

The galaxy NGC 5427 shines in the large image from Hubble, with ground-based observations showing its companion galaxy NGC 5426....

The rightmost image in this inset graphic shows a massive spiral galaxy. To its left, white text reads “Arp 271” and a more zoomed-out image below shows two interacting spiral galaxies with a white box designating the portion that is the rightmost image.

The galaxy NGC 5427 shines in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. It’s part of the galaxy pair Arp...

A massive spiral galaxy fills the lower left of the image. Spiral arms full of dark brown dust and bright blue stars extend out from the yellow galactic core, all against black space dotted with more distant galaxies and stars.

UGC 3912 is classified as a spiral galaxy … but you wouldn’t know it from this detailed Hubble Space Telescope...

A scattered grouping of blue and violet stars shines near the lower half of the image. Distant galaxies fill the black background of space, and bright stars with diffraction spikes are visible throughout.

Arp 300 consists of two interacting galaxies, UGC 05028 (the smaller face-on spiral galaxy) and UGC 05029 (the larger face-on...

Near the top center of the image, a galaxy full of bright blue stars shines. To its lower left is a spiral galaxy, also full of blue stars and dark brown dust. Other distant galaxies and stars fill the black background of space.

Looking like a baseball lobbed into the depths of the universe, ESO 420-G013 is a face-on spiral galaxy and a...

A glowing, white galaxy shines at the center of the image, interlaced with dark brown dust. More distant galaxies and stars fill the black background of space.

A pair of small, interacting galaxies shine in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. The larger of the two...

The lower half of the image is filled with a large spiral galaxy that has a bright white bar of stars at its center. To its upper left, a smaller galaxy shines with bright blue stars. It has an irregular shape, appearing almost like a vertical bar of stars. The rest of the image shows black space interspersed with more distant galaxies and stars.

This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows ESO 185-IG013, a luminous blue compact galaxy (BCG). BCGs are nearby galaxies...

A bright, purplish galaxy glows at the image’s center, with blue stars interspersed and a blue-white haze extending outward, all against black space dotted with stars and distant galaxies.

This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a group of interacting galaxies known as LEDA 60847. LEDA 60847 is...

A glowing pink point of light with diffraction spikes is surrounded by dark dust and faint stars. Two yellowish points of light are visible above and below it, all against black space dotted with intermittent distant galaxies.

A barred spiral galaxy and a lenticular galaxy come together to create this interacting pair known as Arp 140. The...

Two side-by-side galaxies fill the image. The leftmost galaxy is a bright spiral galaxy bursting with blue stars. The rightmost is a lenticular galaxy, emitting a hazy glow. Distant stars and galaxies dot the background.

One of the galaxies from a galactic group known as Arp 295 is visible in this new NASA Hubble Space...

A galaxy laced through with dark brown dust is viewed edge-on, shining against black space dotted with more distant galaxies. The central galaxy has a hazy bridge of faint stars extending down through the bottom of the image.

This image features a relatively small galaxy known as UGC 5189A, which is located about 150 million light-years away in...

A galaxy that is flat and misshapen. Above and on its right side are plumes of shining gas and dust, while its center and left side are dimmer and patchier. A trail of dark, dim dust stretches from below the galaxy up and off to the left, where there are three more bright patches. The background around the galaxy is quite dark. It holds a few small background galaxies and one bright, foreground star.

This panchromatic view of galaxy cluster MACS0416 was created by combining infrared observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope with...

A field of galaxies on the black background of space. In the middle, stretching from left to right, is a collection of dozens of yellowish spiral and elliptical galaxies that form a foreground galaxy cluster. Among them are distorted linear features, which mostly appear to follow invisible concentric circles curving around the center of the image.

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This Hubble image includes the star Earendel, which is the farthest individual star ever detected.

A Hubble Space Telescope image of the host galaxy of an exceptionally powerful fast radio burst, FRB 20220610A. Hubble’s sensitivity...

Black background dotted with galaxies. A square box in the lower-right quadrant of the image denotes a callout that provides an expanded view of that region. The expanded box view (just left of image center) reveals the host galaxy of the Fast Radio Burst.

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This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features a richness of spiral galaxies: the large, prominent spiral galaxy on...

A collection of galaxies. On the right side a large spiral galaxy with swirling, twisted arms is flanked by a smaller, but still detailed, spiral behind its arm on the left, and a smaller spiral above it. On the left side is a fourth, round spiral galaxy seen face-on. Between them lies a single bright star. Several stars and distant galaxies dot the background.

This visualization shows the temperature forecast spanning 130 exoplanet-days, across sunrise, noon, sunset, and midnight for the exoplanet WASP-121 b,...

The Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 revealed the infrared afterglow (circled) of GRB 221009A and its host galaxy,...

A field filled with stars and galaxies against a black background. A small pinkish circle at image center denotes the host galaxy of a gamma-ray burst.

This visualization shows the weather patterns on the exoplanet WASP-121 b, also known as Tylos. This video has been slowed...

This is an artist's concept of the exoplanet WASP-121 b, also known as Tylos. The exoplanet's appearance is based on...

A large, yellow-white star fills the center of the frame. An orange, yellow, and reddish-brown striped planet sits on the lower left side of the frame.

A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies has been captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which has the unusual...

A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies, known as Arp 143, has fueled the unusual triangular-shaped star-formation frenzy as captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The interacting galaxy duo Arp 143 contains the distorted, star-forming spiral galaxy NGC 2445, at right, along with its less flashy companion, NGC 2444, at left. Their frenzied collision takes place against the tapestry of distant galaxies, of which some can be seen through the interacting pair.

NASA's James Webb and Hubble Space Telescope have provided one of the most colorful and comprehensive views of the universe...

This Hubble Space Telescope photo of Saturn was taken on October 22, 2023, when the ringed planet was approximately 850...

Colorful stripes in yellow, white, reddish-orange, pink, and green cover the planet. Saturn is tilted slightly toward us allowing the Sun to illuminate the top of its rings. The planet's shadow is cast toward the back and left of the planet. Saturn's moons Dione, and Enceladus are visible to its upper right, while its moon Mimas is just below and to the left of the planet's rings.

This Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse series of Saturn images (taken on October 22, 2023) resolves a phenomenon called ring spokes...

The billion stars in galaxy UGC 8091 resemble a sparkling snow globe in this festive Hubble Space Telescope image from...

A field of galaxies. UGC 8091 is at the top and center of the image. It appears as a haze of stars through which more distant galaxies are visible. Two, bright, pinkish-red nebulae are also visible.

This striking Hubble Space Telescope image shows the densely packed globular cluster known as NGC 2210, which is situated in...

A dense cluster of stars. It is brightest and most crowded in the center, where the stars are mostly a cool white color. Moving out towards the edges the stars become more spread out and reddish until a noticeable ‘edge’ to the cluster is reached. Beyond that edge there are still many stars, more disorganized and seen on a black background. Some stars appear to be in front of the cluster.

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NASA Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 undergoes testing at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Two men in white suits are in a clean room testing Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2.

This Hubble image features a massive cluster of brightly glowing galaxies, first identified as Abell 3192. Like all galaxy clusters,...

A cluster of galaxies, concentrated around what appear to be two large elliptical galaxies. The rest of the black background is covered in smaller galaxies of all shapes and sizes. In the top left and bottom right, beside the two large galaxies, some galaxies appear notably distorted into curves by gravity.

This pair of images of a single star, called Melnick 34, taken with the Hubble's Faint Object Camera, demonstrate that...

Two grey, black, and white images. Left: At image center is a star with a haze surrounding it. The haze holds brighter lines that appear to radial spread bisect the haze at regular intervals. Right: A bright star at image center.

Two mirrors. The mirror on the left reflects incoming light to a single, sharp, focal point. The mirror on the right focuses light to multiple points.

Hubble orbiting more than 300 miles above Earth.

Hubble, at top center, against the black background of space. Earth limb is visible in the lower-left corner.

Hubble orbiting more than 300 miles above Earth.

Hubble orbiting above Earth. Earth's blue sky and oceans along with its white clouds are the backdrop to Hubble/

Archival video of the June 27, 1990 NASA press conference outlining the problem with Hubble's primary mirror. Credit: NASA

Official astronaut portrait of Richard Covey

This star chart for Caldwell 69 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C69 in the upper portion of the constellation Scorpius, in the southern night sky in July at 10pm.

Sen. Barbara Mikulski displays a picture showing the difference between a star image taken before COSTAR’s installation and the same...

The crew poses for a traditional inflight portrait for the crew of the Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 1. In...

The astronauts of STS-61, the first servicing mission to Hubble, pose for an unofficial portrait while in orbit.

The Hubble Space Telescope has a “One-Gyro” contingency mode to continue science observations in the event of onboard hardware problems....

Our solar system has eight major planets, and nearly 200 moons. Though astronomers have to date found nearly 4,000 planets...

artist concept: A distant star off to the upper left. A large banded world is in the foreground. In front of it is a smaller, blue world.

Observatories including NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope found that the interstellar object named ‘Oumuamua gained an extra boost of speed, which...

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope view looking long ago and far away at a supernova that exploded over 10 billion...

Top image holds a field of galaxies. A small, white box in the lower/left of center region of the image outlines the area of sky viewed in the three bottom images. The bottom images are black and white and reveal the supernova in a distant galaxy.

This video shows the three appearances of the Refsdal supernova in the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223. Calculations showed that the...

This image composite shows the search for the supernova, nicknamed Refsdal, using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The image to...

Three images: One fills the left half of the image. It holds a closer view of the gravitationally lensed galaxy and the supernova. The two images on the right are black and white. The top one is from October 30, 2015, the bottom from December 15, 2015. Both left-side images are of the same field of view. The lensed supernova is only visible in the lower one.

This video series of photo illustrations shows the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy,...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has passed another milestone in its 21 years of exploration: the 10,000th refereed science paper has...

An illustration that holds a graph showing the growth of Hubble's scientific publications. The graph is color coded by publication type. Across the top of the image are covers of some of the scientific journals along with cover pages of some of the published papers.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope crossed another milestone in its space odyssey of exploration and discovery. On Monday, July 4, 2011...

An oval representing the sky. Red, yellow, blue, orange, green, and white dots represent Hubble observations.

These four images are among the first observations made by the new Wide Field Camera 3 aboard the upgraded NASA...

Top Left: two, lobed, white clouds expand from image center. They are edged by pink and reddish-pink clouds. Top Right: Galaxies. Bottom Left: A field of red, white, yellow, orange, and blue stars. Bottom Right: A greenish-blue background dotted with stars. A pillar of rusty-orang gas and dust rises from the bottom and extends across and toward the left of the image block.

Credit: NASA, ESA, J.-Y. Li (University of Maryland, College Park), and G. Bacon (STScI)

These four images are among the first observations made by the new Wide Field Camera 3 aboard the upgraded NASA...

Left: two, lobed, white clouds expand from image center. They are edged by pink and reddish-pink clouds. Next: Galaxies, Next: A field of red, white, yellow, orange, and blue stars. Right: A greenish-blue background dotted with stars. A pillar of rusty-orang gas and dust rises from the bottom and extends across and toward the left of the image block.

Illustration: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of...

Illustration: Bright orange-yellow star off of the page to the left. A small world orbits it. Hubble is on the right side, opposite the star and planet, pointing toward them. The bottom of the illustration holds a graph of the methane absorption.

This image features the spiral galaxy NGC 941, which lies about 55 million light-years from Earth. Hubble’s Advanced Camera for...

A spiral galaxy, seen face-on from Earth. The spiral arms of the galaxy are bright but not well defined, merging into a swirling disk with a faint halo of dimmer gas around it. The core glows brightly in a lighter color and has a bit of faint dust crossing it. Two redder, visually smaller galaxies and a bright star are prominent around the galaxy, with more tiny objects in the background.

A team of astronomers, led by Frederic Pont from the Geneva University Observatory in Switzerland, has detected for the first...

This animation is a composite of images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope that reveal Comet Holmes's bright core. The...

This composite image shows the galaxy cluster 1E 0657-556, also known as the "bullet cluster." This cluster was formed after...

Galaxies dot a black background with only one bright foreground star just above and to the right of image center. Swaths of purple and purple through the center of the galaxy cluster.

NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScI)

These Hubble Space Telescope images, taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys, reveal Pluto, its large moon Charon, and the...

Two images: Left May 15, 2005. A white circle at image center is Pluto. Charon is below Pluto and aqua in color color. The two dots to the upper right of Pluto are the suspected moons. Right: May 19, 2005. Charon is now above Pluto. The two suspected moons have also moved above Pluto.

This time-lapse sequence of 20 images reveals the dramatic effects from a collision between comet 9P/Tempel 1 and an 820-pound...

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) transitions back to its normal observing routine after a week of servicing and upgrading by...

Hubble orbits above Earth and its blue oceans and white clouds as a backdrop.

This is an artist's concept of the nearby exoplanet LTT 1445Ac, which is the size of Earth. The planet orbits...

The disk of a bright reddish-orange-white star is just above and to the right of image center. A small black world is passing in front of the star. A closer planet is in the lower-left corner. We see it as an illuminated crescent facing the star. Two reddish-orange stars are off to the right of the central star. All on a black background dotted with more distant stars.

Dissolve sequence of the four epochs (May-Dec. 2002) of the light echo of star V838 Mon. This star was the...

The movie shows dynamic rings, wisps and jets of matter and antimatter around the pulsar in the Crab Nebula as...

Jubilant astronomers unveiled humankind's most spectacular views of the universe, courtesy of the newly installed Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS)...

Four images. Left: The Omega Nebula is a colorful cloud that fills the screen. Next is the Cone Nebula that looks like a dark red pillar the top of which holds bright-white stars. The next image the Tadpole galaxy which is a spiral with a long tail. The far-right image is two interacting galaxies called, The Mice. They look like two, interacting bright blobs with long tails.

With the Space Shuttle Columbia in limited natural light, astronauts James H. Newman (out of frame) and Michael J. Massimino,...

The brightly lit limb of the Earth crosses the top of the image, while the rest of the Earth is dark. The space shuttle is at the bottom of the image with the cargo bay open. Hubble is perpendicular to the shuttle. An astronaut is on the robotic CANADARM to the right of Hubble.

A exoplanet and its yellow-white star. The planet is bottom-center of the image. It is striped with light and dark clouds. The star is above and to the right of the planet.

Planet formation is a hazardous process. These four snapshots, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, show dust disks around embryonic...

Four images of planetary disks in Orion. Upper-left looks like an upside down raindrop that is reddish with bright blobs of bright-green within. Upper-right is a pink, gaseous blob with a bright yellow spot within. Lower-left is a bright-yellow crescent with a dark core against a blue background. Lower-right image is a bright-yellow crescent with a long tail and a bright-white core against a black background.

This illustration depicts how astronomers detected vast filaments of invisible hydrogen by using the light of a distant quasar (core...

In this illustration, the upper-left corner holds a bright-white quasar. The lower-left corner holds an illustration of Earth's limb with Hubble orbiting above it. Between the quasar an Hubble are strands of reddish gas and dust.

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) orbits gracefully above the blue Earth in December 1999 at the conclusion of HST servicing...

Earth's limb fills the lower-left half of the image. Hubble is against the black background of space just above and to the right of center.

The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest view yet of the most famous of all planetary nebulae: the...

An beautifully colored ring of gas and dust. The ring is slightly elongated/egg-shaped. The center of the ring is blue with two stars visible inside of it (one directly in the center). Beyond the blue center are rings of color. First is green, then yellow, orange, and red.

The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a picture of a 400-km-high (250-mile-high) plume of gas and dust from a volcanic...

A mottled, reddish-orange sphere sits on a blue and light orange background. A plume of reddish-orange gas extends from the left side of Io.

Part of the Orion Nebula shown in visible light then in infrared light. Credit: NASA, STScI

The infrared vision of the Hubble Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) is providing a dramatic new...

Two images: The left side holds a colorful cloud in hues of green, pink, white, yellow, and light blue. The right side holds a bright yellow spot surrounded by clouds of yellow, reddish-orange, purple, and blue.

Steven L. Smith, STS-82 mission specialist, on the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm with the Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) after...

An astronaut on the end of the space shuttle's robotic CANADARM above the shuttle's cargo bay. He is holding Hubble's Faint Object Spectrograph, which looks like a large black box. Hubble is in the background.

The Hubble Space Telescope achieved its 100,000th exposure June 22 with a snapshot of a quasar that is about 9...

Black and white image. Two bright points of light, one at image center, the other slightly above and to the right. Top center of the image holds 2 galaxies together, at least one is a spiral. Other galaxies dot the scene.

The never-before-seen surface of the distant planet Pluto is resolved in these NASA Hubble Space Telescope pictures, taken with the...

This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows for the first time the inner region of a 200-billion mile diameter...

Top: Black and white image of the system. Bottom: False color image of the system.

Four global projections of the HST Titan data, separated in longitude by 90 degrees. Upper left: hemisphere facing Saturn. Upper...

Four reddish, white, yellow, and maroon globes.

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found seemingly conclusive evidence for a massive black hole in the center of...

Bright-orange cloud. A bright-yellow point at lower left, from which shoots out a jet of material toward the upper right.

A NASA Hubble Space Telescope "natural color" image of the material surrounding the star Eta Carinae, as imaged by the...

A double-lobed cloud of gas in yellow and pink hues veined with dark dust lanes surrounded by outflows of more reddish-orange-colored gas. Three stars below and to the right of the lobes.

A team of astronomers working with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope announced results today of a major step in the Key...

A grid of images, 4 columns and 4 rows. Each image holds clumps of bright-white and dots of green, blue, red, and yellow.

This low-angle view shows the launch of the STS-31 mission from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Official launch time was 8:33...

Looking up at the space shuttle Discovery as it climbs toward space.

A Hubble Space Telescope image of a giant disk of cold gas and dust fueling a possible black hole at...

A disk in orange-red, and yellow-white. A yellow white point at image center surrounded by a deep orange-red disk that is ringed by yellow-white and then more orange-red.

This is a Digitized Sky Survey image of the oldest star with a well-determined age in our galaxy. The ageing...

Black background filled with stars. A very bright one is at image center.

On March 11, 1991, the Wide Field/Planetary Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope observed Jupiter for the first time. This...

Only a quarter of the planet Jupiter is visible extending from the lower-right corner across the image. Colors of orange, rusty-red, and white bands.

This composite image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is of the starburst galaxy NGC 2146 showing the position of the...

A large galaxy fills the frame from the lower-left to the upper right. It appears as bright, pinkish spherical cloud bisected by dark, reddish brown dust lanes and dotted with areas of bright-pink. Below and to the right is a bright-white circle/dot.

An astronaut is training on how to install Hubble's Science Instrument Command and Data Handling Module prior to Servicing Mission...

A mock-up of the Hubble Space Telescope in an enormous tank of water. An astronaut, standing on a replica of the Space Shuttle's robotic Canadarm is practicing the installation of Hubble's Science Instrument Command and Data Handling Module. On the far left, a scuba diver works on another component.

Hubble's Science Instrument Command and Data Handling Module (SI C&DH) works with Hubble's data management Unit (DMU) to process, format,...

Four people in white suits and masks are in the Goddard Space Flight Center clean room. They are standing around a table that holds a large instrument package, Hubble's Science Instrument Command and Data Handling Module. The module holds several black boxes of varying sizes with bundled wires in tubes connecting them.

A annotated drawing of Hubble's optical assembly is in the center of the image. A series of images ring the optical assembly image. Beginning on the lower left, toward the top, and back down on the right side: the space shuttle launching, the space shuttle releasing its boosters, the space shuttle entering orbit, the space shuttle removing Hubble from the cargo bay, the space shuttle releasing Hubble, the space shuttle entering Earth's atmosphere, and then landing.

Until the 20th century, astronomers learned virtually all they knew about sources in the sky from only the tiny fraction...

Composite of multi-wavelength images of the active galaxy M82 from the three Great Observatories: Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-Ray Observatory,...

Top: Large composite image of M82 in colors of pink, red, green, white, yellow, and blue on a black background. Bottom: Three smaller image taken by Hubble (left), Chandra (center), and Spitzer (right).

A side-by-side comparison of the Crab Nebula as seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in optical light (left) and NASA's...

A side-by-side-comparison of the Crab Nebula as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in optical light (left) and the James Webb Space Telescope in infrared light (right). In both images, the oval nebula’s complex structure lies against a black background. On the nebula’s exterior, particularly at the top left and bottom left, lie curtains of glowing red and orange fluffy material. Interior to this outer shell lie large-scale loops of mottled filaments of yellow-white and green, studded with clumps and knots. In the Hubble image, the central interior of the nebula glows brightly, while the Webb image shows translucent thin ribbons of smoky white in the same area. Around and within the supernova remnant are many points of blue-white light in the Hubble image, and blue, red, and yellow light in the Webb image.

Four hundred years ago, sky watchers, including the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler, were startled by the sudden appearance of a...

Top: A spheroidal cloud. Its center holds colors of red and yellow with small areas of green and blue. Around the center is a ring of blue and green with a smattering of pink, purple, and white. Bottom, four small images (left to right): The first two are Chandra X-ray images in blue and green respectively. The third is a Hubble visible light image in yellow. The fourth is a Spitzer infrared image in red.

Four hundred years ago, sky watchers, including the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler, were startled by the sudden appearance of a...

A spheroidal cloud. Its center holds colors of red and yellow with small areas of green and blue. Around the center is a ring of blue and green with a smattering of pink, purple, and white.

This video uses NASA Hubble Space Telescope data to zoom in on Saturn's rings as we appear to fly over...

Hubble's exquisite optics, coupled with the high resolution of its Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), allow it to take breathtaking...

A zoomed-in view of Saturn's rings. The rings stretch from the upper-right to the lower-left. A portion of the planet's disk is visible in the upper-right corner. The rings appear in shades of white, beige, and grey. Saturn is a washed-out yellow with darker bands in muted tones of green, orange, and grey.

Approaching Saturn at an oblique angle to the Sun and from below the ecliptic plane, Cassini has a unique viewing...

Bright yellow Saturn. We see two-thirds of the planet. The left side of the image showcases the rings. The planet is right side of the image and is casting its shadow on the rings.

As NASA's Cassini spacecraft hurtled its way toward a July 1, 2004 rendezvous with Saturn, the Hubble Space Telescope snapped...

Two NASA Hubble Space Telescope views of Saturn. On the left is a full view of Saturn and its rings. The planet appears as though it is tilted backward, appearing to reveal the underside of its rings. Overall Saturn is yellow with bands of red, yellowish-brown, light orange, pink, and blue. On the right is a closer view of the rings and a small part of the planet.

As NASA's Cassini spacecraft hurtled its way toward a July 1, 2004 rendezvous with Saturn, the Hubble Space Telescope snapped...

This time-lapse sequence of 20 images, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, reveals the dramatic effects from a collision early...

Three images of Jupiter show the gas giant in three different types of light — infrared, visible, and ultraviolet. The...

Three images of Jupiter, from left to right: Infrared Jupiter holds bright yellow, deep red, orange and marron stripes. The Great Red Spot is a deep maroon. The middle image is in the visible light our eyes are sensitive to. It reveals horizontal stripes in muted tones of red and orange along with wide white bands. The Great Red Spot is deep orange with bands of dark red. The final image is in ultraviolet. Here Jupiter's cloud bands are in tones of blue, pink and purple. The Great Red Spot appears as a dark blue.

This vibrant Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 1566, sometimes informally referred to as the ‘Spanish Dancer...

A spiral galaxy centered in the image and face-on to the viewer. It has two spiral arms that each make a half-turn from start to finish. The arms resemble the shape of a comma. Lanes of dark dust follow the arms into the center and split into many strands that swirl around the glowing galactic core. Bright pink blooms along the arms show areas of new star formation.

Like the speed of an advancing race car driver, the winds in the outermost “lane” of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center planetary scientist, Dr. Amy Simon, tells us about Hubble's Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) project....

This image from the NASA Hubble Space Telescope shows the planet Jupiter in a color composite of ultraviolet wavelengths. Released...

The planet Jupiter with its familiar cloud bands seen in shades of pink, rusty red, blue, and purple. The Great Red Spot is a deep navy blue, surrounded by bands and swirls of pink, and light blue.

Dr. Brian Welch explains the discovery of Earendel while outlining how important Hubble is to exploring the mysteries of the...

Hubble's Senior Project Scientist, Dr. Jennifer Wiseman, explains gravitational lensing. Credit: NASA GSFC, Producer: James Leigh

The powerful gravity of a galaxy embedded in a massive cluster of galaxies in this Hubble Space Telescope image is...

A field of galaxies in white and gold on a black background. An expanded view of the gravitationally lensed supernova is just left of center.

This collage of Hubble images displays the breadth and depth of its more than 1.5 million observations. Hubble observes everything...

A colorful array of Hubble images. Rows and columns of images include the varied objects Hubble observes.

This striking image captures the interacting galaxy pair known as Arp-Madore 2339-661. The Arp-Madore catalog is a collection of peculiar...

Two spiral galaxies. Each glows brightly in the center, where a bar stretches from side to side. The upper one is rounder, and its arms form two thin rings. The lower galaxy is flatter and its arms make one outer ring; a dusty knot atop its upper arm marks out a third object. Gravity is pulling gas and dust together where the galaxies come close. A number of small galaxies surround them on a black background.

A unique composite image of comet Siding Spring as it made its never-before-seen close passage of a comet by Mars.

A comet with a tail streaking through space with small, orange Mars in the background along with many stars.

The thin blue bull's-eye patterns in these eight Hubble Space Telescope images appear like neon signs floating over reddish-white blobs....

Eight images (two rows, four in each row) of amorphous elliptical galaxies ringed by blue-white light.

Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) took this unprecedented image of the cosmos. Hubble peered straight through the center of...

Bright yellow-white galaxies fill the field of view. A few foreground stars dot the scene in the upper half of the image. Faint arcs of gravitationally lensed background galaxies.

Firing off a string of action snapshots like a sports photographer at a NASCAR race, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured...

Four panel images of Jupiter showing three of its moons passing by the planet, casting shadows over its surface.

This glittering image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the spiral galaxy IC 5332. The galaxy lies about 30...

A close-in view of a spiral galaxy. We see it face-on, showing its circular shape and tightly winding spiral arms. The galaxy glows brightly in the center and dims to cool colors toward the edge. Dark, faint filaments of dust and brightly glowing pink and orange bubbles of star formation mark the face of the galaxy.

This spectacular image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a region called G35.2-0.7N, which lies around 7,200 light-years from...

A nebula with stars. Dense clouds of dust and gas cover the left-hand side and a filament crosses the center horizontally. Billowing streams of gas and dust in various colors emerge from around the center. The very center of the image is permeated with glowing orange regions. Many blue stars with cross-shaped spikes lie in the foreground, and small point-like stars are visible beyond the clouds.

This is an artist's concept of one of brightest explosions ever seen in space. Called a Luminous Fast Blue Optical...

Illustration of one of brightest explosions ever seen in space. Called a Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient (LFBOT), it shines intensely in blue light. It appears as a bright white blob left of center where blue-white and red rays sprout out from it. Toward the right of the image there is a spiral galaxy. To the upper left is another whitish galaxy shaped like a cigar. The LFBOT doesn’t seem to be associated with either galaxy.

Crowds enjoy Hubble images and activities during a celebration of the anniversary of the telescope's Servicing MIssion 4 at the...

A girl selects Hubble images to take home from a table covered with Hubble activities. A large model of Hubble is visible in the background alongside other spacecraft exhibits at the National Air and Space Museum.

A child's Star Trek-themed board book features a Hubble image of the Tadpole Galaxy and its long tidal tail of...

A child's board book shows Hubble's image of the Tadpole Galaxy with a cartoon image of Star Trek's Enterprise flying away from them. On the right the text reads: "Would you like to continue the adventure and boldly go into SPACE?"

Just in time for the fall foliage season, this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features a glistening scene...

The background is filled with bright orange-red clouds of varying density. Towards the top-left, several large, pale blue stars with prominent cross-shaped spikes are scattered. A small, tadpole-shaped dark patch floats near one of these stars. More of the same dark, dense gas fills the lower-right, resembling black smoke. A bright yellow star and a smaller blue star shine in front of this.

Video Credits: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, ESA, STScI; Acknowledgment: NSF's NOIRLab, Akira Fujii , Jeff Hester , Davide De Martin...

Video Credit: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, ESA, STScI; Acknowledgment: NSF's NOIRLab, Akira Fujii , Jeff Hester , Davide De Martin...

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image (upper-right) includes ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light. The Webb image (lower-right) is in infrared....

Three images of the galaxy NGC 5068 on a black background. The Hubble image in ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light (upper-right) reveals the galaxy's bright-white central bar of stars and tendrils of its spiral arms in hues of pink and blue below. The Webb image in infrared (lower-right) reveals the bright-white central bar and orange details of the galaxy's inner spiral arms. The lower-left image is a wide-field image of NGC 5068 that holds boxes that outline the locations of the Hubble and Webb images.

NGC 685 takes center stage amid faintly twinkling stars on an inky black background. This galaxy is clearly a barred...

A face-on spiral galaxy with bright, blue-white spiral arms and dark, reddish-brown dust lanes. A bright-white bar of stars extends through the center of the galaxy. Small, more distant, reddish galaxies are visible in the background.

Bright blue spiral arms twist around the bright-white center of this starry galaxy. This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image...

A nearly face-on spiral galaxy with a bright-white core with two dark, orange-brown dust lanes swirling out from it. Those dust lanes extend into the galaxy’s spiral arms where bright, blue-white pockets of stars and hazy clouds define the spiral.

Patches of bright pink and wisps of dark red paint the foreground of this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image....

Splotches of bright-pink and blue-white fill the lower half of the image. A bright bar of white stars extends downward from top-center toward the left. Random areas of dusty clouds form dark streams against the bright backdrop.

It’s easy to get swept up in the swirling starry arms of this intermediate spiral galaxy, NGC 4654, in the...

A bright spiral galaxy fills the frame from the lower-right to the upper-left. The galaxy is tilted toward us and holds bright blue-white stars and reddish-brown dust lanes that showcase its spiral nature.

New and old stars alike twinkle in the dusty spiral arms of NGC 1087. Located 80 million light-years away in...

This nearly face-on spiral galaxy has bright blue-white and pink regions outlined by dark, rusty-brown dust lanes. A small, bright-white bar of stars stretches horizontally across the image’s center at the galaxy’s heart.

A striking orange and blue streak fills this new image from the NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble’s visible and infrared...

Black background dotted with galaxies. A large, nearly edge-on galaxy fills the right side of the frame. Its dusty, orangish-brown silhouette extends from center-bottom to the upper-right while its bright-white, lens-shaped glow extends above and below its dust lane.

This image taken using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) shows Arp 107, a celestial object...

A pair of merging galaxies. The galaxy on the left has a large, single spiral arm curving out from the core and around to below it, with very visible glowing dust and gas. The right galaxy has a bright core but only a bit of very faint material. A broad curtain of gas connects the two galaxies’ cores and hangs beneath them. A few small stars and galaxies are scattered around the black background.

An artist's conception of HD 209458 b, an exoplanet whose atmosphere is being torn off at more than 35,000 km/hour...

Even with its blurry vision, Hubble still provided valuable data to astronomers in the years before the first servicing mission....

Just left of image center is a pink spot. It is ringed by a yellow-green oval. To its left is a bright-blue spot, another sits to the far right edge.

These spectra show the chemical makeup of the atmospheres of four Earth-size planets orbiting within or near the habitable zone...

The mighty blue giant AG Carinae is one of the brightest stars in our Milky Way galaxy. It shines with...

Bright-white star surrounded by a pinkish and white shell of gas. Black background dotted with stars.

Hubble’s Faint Object Camera provided astronomers with a detailed view of this multi-imaged quasar, which is a classic example of...

Five bright points of blue-white light. The center point is the galaxy. The four other points are above, below, and left, and right of the center.

This extraordinary image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the galaxy cluster Abell 2813 (also known as ACO 2813)...

Black background is dotted with distant galaxies. Image center holds a cluster of galaxies, many of the appear to be large elliptical galaxies. Curved orange-yellow lines appear to cut through the galaxy cluster. These are more distant galaxies gravitationally lensed by the cluster.

Combined observations from NASA’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and Hubble’s WFC3 (Wide Field Camera 3) show spiral galaxy NGC 5584, which...

A large galaxy takes up the entirety of the image. The galaxy has a bright white core, and several large spiral arms extending out from that core, rotating clockwise. The arms are light blue with many pink speckles and clumps littering the arms. The background is also filled with a smattering of white and pink dots.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of spiral galaxy NCG 5728, which is also a Seyfert-type active galaxy.

In this image, NCG 5728 appears to be an elegant, luminous, barred spiral galaxy.

This stunning view of spiral galaxy M101, also known as the Pinwheel galaxy, was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The collision of galaxies NGC 2445 (right) and NGC 2444 fueled a frenzy of star birth that produced this unusual...

Two galaxies one right one on the left. right galaxy has a blue-white triangular star forming region surrounding it.

The collision of galaxies NGC 2445 (right) and NGC 2444 fueled a frenzy of star birth that produced this unusual...

he history of the universe is outlined in this infographic.

Big Bang Infographic showing the timeline of the history of the big bang and the formation of the building blocks of the universe. he history of the universe is outlined in this infographic. It starts with Inflation, then the first particles in 1 microsecond, followed by first nuclei (10 seconds); first light (300,000 years); first stars (200 million years); galaxies and dark matter (400 million years); dark energy (10 billion years); present (13.8 billion years). NASA

This simulation shows two spiral galaxies with material orbiting based on two different mass models. The one on the left...

Two purple spiral galaxies rotate side by side. All the stars in the left-hand galaxy rotate at the same angular rate, like an old-fashioned vinyl record on a turntable. The stars in the right-hand galaxy rotate at different rates, depending on how far out from the center they are, with the fastest rotation toward the center. The result is a little like twirling pasta around a fork, where there’s a build-up of pasta/stars at the center.

AG Carinae, imaged here by the Hubble Space Telescope, is a giant star on the verge of collapse.

A visualization flying into the nebula Gum 29 and the star cluster Westerlund 2 at its core.

This visualization provides a three-dimensional perspective on Hubble's image of the nebula Gum 29 with the star cluster Westerlund 2 at its core. The flight traverses the foreground stars and approaches the lower left rim of the nebula Gum 29. Passing through the wispy darker clouds on the near side, the journey reveals bright gas illuminated by the intense radiation of the newly formed stars of cluster Westerlund 2. Within the nebula, several pillars of dark, dense gas are being shaped by the energetic light and strong stellar winds from the brilliant cluster of thousands of stars. Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Bacon, L. Frattare, Z. Levay, and F. Summers (Viz3D Team, STScI), and J. Anderson (STScI)

This simulation shows a gravitational lens moving against a background field of galaxies. The object passing between the camera and...

This animated GIF illustrates how a gravitational lens would distort our view or background galaxies. The animation opens with an image of galaxies. Some of the galaxies are small yellow, white, or red glowing circles. Others are larger fuzzy smudges with some spiral structures. As the animation plays, a gravitational lens moves from the left to the right. As it does, the images of galaxies in the background are arced and warped around the lens. A large spiral galaxy in the middle even turns into a full donut-shape as the lens passes in front of it.

The swirls of the galaxy IC 1776 stand in splendid isolation in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope....

An irregularly-shaped spiral galaxy. Its spiral arms are difficult to distinguish. The edges are faint, and the core has a pale-yellow glow. It is dotted with small, wispy, blue regions where stars are forming. A few stars and small galaxies in warm colors are visible around it.

This colorful image of the globular star cluster Terzan 12 is a spectacular example of how dust in space affects...

The glittering globular cluster Terzan 12 -- a vast, tightly bound collection of stars -- fills the frame. Yellow, gold and blue stars fill the frame against a black background.

The colorful "zigzag" on the right is not the work of a flamboyant artist, but the signature of a supermassive...

A colorful zig-zag against black space fills the screen. The leftmost portion is blue, and the right is orange and red. The top and bottom of the zig-zag are green.

This diagram illustrates how Hubble Space Telescope spectral observations were used to study the chemical makeup of the Southern Crab...

Against a gray background, this graphic shows a Hubble image of the Crab Nebula at left. To the right, four repeated images in different colors (green, yellow, orange, and red) show the different present elements in the nebula. Beneath them, a horizontal row seen as a jagged rainbow-colored line represents its spectrum.

Grating from the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph, which STIS replaced. The GHRS operated for seven years.

A view of the Goddard High Resolution Spectrometer grating, which appears as a device with an elliptical cavity filled with rows in a rainbow of colors.

Rings of gas lit up and became visible when energy from Supernova 1987A crashed into them, revealing the final stages...

Three rings of glowing, pale red light shine in a row. The two leftmost rings are closer together.

This illustration shows the three basic steps astronomers use to calculate how fast the universe expands over time, a value...

A graphic titled "Three Steps to the Hubble Constant."

Astronomers study the pattern of light coming from a cosmic object like a star to figure out what elements it...

Four black rows with various rainbow-colored lines throughout represent four spectra. From top to bottom, they are labeled Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, and Iron.

A choir performs Eric Whitacre's Deep Field piece in Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York City.

A large choir performs beneath a screen showing an image of the Hubble Space Telescope. It is night and the lit buildings of New York City are visible in the background.

Students learn about Hubble discoveries from astronomer Norman Grogin of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

Middle-school children seated on the floor of a classroom point tablets toward a Hubble image of the Cat's Eye Nebula on a large screen in the front of the classroom. A Hubble scientist stands next to the screen discussing the image. The walls and nearby desks are covered with space and astronomy images.

American actor and comedian Josh Peck films a happy birthday message for the 30th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope...

Actor Josh Peck in a t-shirt and baseball hat points into a camera operated by producer Paul Morris while delivering a birthday message. Morris is in the foreground, behind the camera, and Peck is positioned in front of a large model of the Hubble Telescope.

Medal of Honor recipient Kyle White tours Hubble's Space Telescope Operations Control Center at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,...

Kyle White in a dark suit gazes through a lit display case at Hubble hardware. An image of one of Hubble's deep fields, filled with stars and galaxies, is the backdrop for the case.

The galaxy ESO 300-16 looms over this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy, which lies 28.7 million...

An irregular galaxy that resembles the shape of a cloud. It is made of many tiny stars all clumped together, surrounded in a diffuse light. In the central, brightest part there is a bubble of blue gas. The galaxy is surrounded by mostly very small and faint objects, though there are bright stars above and to the left of it, and a string of galaxies nearby.

Grating from the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph, which STIS replaced. The GHRS operated for seven years.

Astronomer Nancy Grace Roman sits in the control center of the Hubble Space Telescope, the telescope she helped usher into...

Nancy Grace Roman in a blue outfit and glasses smiles as she sits in a chair in the Hubble control room in front of desks full of computers with screens showing Hubble data.

Following a successful Servicing Mission 4, Senator Barbara Mikulski talks with Michael Prior, Hubble Space Telescope operations manager, while visiting...

Senator Barbara Mikulski gestures as she speaks with a member of the Hubble flight operations team. He sits at a long desk with another team member. The desk is covered with computers, keyboards, stacks of paper bound together with o-rings so it can be flipped through easily, and a small Hubble model. Other figures are visible in the background, including someone holding a boom mic to capture their interaction.

This visualization shows the fast-moving ionized clouds that continue to provide the Milky Way with material for star formation. Researchers...

A graphic outlining large-scale flows in the Milky Way halo

Using a spectrogram like this one created from the Hubble Space Telescope’s Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS), scientists determined what atoms...

Detected wavelengths of light correspond to different elements in the Southern Crab Nebula.

An image of the Southern Crab Nebula with a white superimposed arrow pointing to it labeled "Observed Target Object." Two lines extend down and out, leading to a horizontal line representing its spectrum. Below it, four repeated images of the Southern Crab Nebula are in green, yellow, orange, and red, from left to right. They are, respectively, labeled Oxygen, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, and Sulfur. Below that, white text reads "Detected wavelengths of light correspond to different elements in the Southern Crab Nebula."

The massive cluster Abell 3322 is featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in which the galaxy...

A cluster of elliptical galaxies, visible as a crowd of oval shapes, each glowing around a bright core. The elliptical galaxy that appears largest by far is in the center, with the other largest galaxies close to it. They are surrounded by a variety of more distant stars and galaxies, in many shapes and sizes but all much smaller, on a dark background.

This sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images chronicles the waxing and waning of the amount of cloud cover on Neptune....

Seven Hubble images of Neptune stretch across the top of the image. Neptune appears like a mottled, dark-blue orb with light-blue and white patches. Underneath the images of Neptune is a plot showing the level of ultra-violet light from the Sun.

This sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images chronicles the waxing and waning of the amount of cloud cover on Neptune....

A series of eight images of Neptune: four on the upper half of the image and four on the lower half of the image. The planet appears as a dark-blue sphere dotted with bright white patches.

Spectrum graph of a hot blue star

An image of a star cluster with a blue graph to its right representing its spectra. There is a black background with white text reading "Spectrum Graph of a Hot Blue Star."

Spectrum graph of a cool red star

The end of a Hubble gyro reveals the hair-thin wires known as flex leads. They carry data and electricity inside...

The end of a Hubble gyroscope that shows hair thin wires.

Spectrum graph of elliptical galaxy NGC 4697

An image of a bright elliptical galaxy against black space dotted with distant starts, with a blue graph to its right representing its spectrum. This is set against a black background with white text that reads "Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4697 Spectrum Graph."

Spectrum graph of galaxy M94

An image of a spiral galaxy with a blue graph to its right representing its spectra. There is a black background with white text reading "M94 Starburst Galaxy Spectrum Graph."

Elements emit unique patterns of wavelengths, and astronomers study that pattern of light coming from a cosmic object like a...

A graphic with a white background titled "Spectra Showing Different Elements" in teal font. Four spectra are shown, stacked two-by-two. These look like black rows with vertical rainbow streaks of light. They are labeled, from left to right and starting at the upper left: Carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and iron.

When light from a celestial object enters the telescope, it passes through a tiny slit in a metal plate to...

A graphic with a black background and white text across the top that reads "How a Spectroscope Works." A Hubble image of a star cluster is seen near the top, white a white circle labeled as a Target Object. Yellow arrows and a beam point down the image, with just the beam continuing downward through a gray bar. That beam hits a diagonal gray line representing the grating. A rainbow beam of light then extends from the grating, aimed diagonally upward to the right and into a detector, which is also seen in rainbow hues.

When white light hits a water droplet or a prism, the colors split into a rainbow.

A graphic with a white background shows a large, blue cartoon raindrop. A yellow semicircle in the upper left corner represents the sun, and a line linking it to the raindrop splinters into a rainbow ribbon that extends through the raindrop and arcs around to the lower left corner. At the top, text in black font reads "Making Rainbows From Raindrops."

The laser installation "From the Distant Past" by artist Tim Otto Roth projects across Venice’s Palazzo Franchetti. While the scanning...

A jagged green line of laser light, resembling an EKG, plays across the face of a yellow and white building on the Venice canals at night.

The hair-thin wire, known as a flex lead, facilitates the transfer of electricity and data inside the gyro. Its thickness...

The end of a Hubble gyro reveals the hair-thin wires known as flex leads. They carry data and electricity inside...

Swirls of gas and dust reside in this ethereal-looking region of star formation imaged by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found an answer to a long-standing puzzle by resolving giant but delicate filaments shaped by...

A galaxy with red filaments of gas protruding from it in multiple directions.

The Hubble Rate Gyro Assembly contains a gyroscope and all of its associated electronics.

A Hubble gyro in its metal container with a bundle of electronic wires and a connector extending outside the cylinder. The unit sits next to a yellow ruler to show it is approximately one half foot long. All are on a blue background.

The National Geographic has produced numerous books on Hubble and its images including this one that highlights the science and...

The cover of a national geographic book with Hubble's image of the Orion Nebula on it. The title reads "Hubble: Imaging Space and Time."

The lenticular galaxy NGC 6684 bathes this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in a pale light. Captured with...

A galaxy, large and occupying most of the view from the center. The whole galaxy is made of smooth, diffuse light. The galaxy is surrounded by a smoky gray halo. Many stars shine around the galaxy, on a black background.

Pictured is the Science Instrument Command and Data Handling (SI C&DH) unit that flew on Servicing Mission 4 in 2009,...

Man in a white clean room suit looking at Hubble instruments in black boxes with wires coming out of the sides.

People use telescopes to watch the night sky.

Dark blue starry night sky. People looking through a telescope and at the sky silhouetted against the starry backdrop.

The glittering, glitzy contents of the globular cluster NGC 6652 sparkle in this star-studded image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space...

A dense spherical cluster of stars. The stars merge into a bright core in the center, and spread out to the edges gradually, giving way to an empty, dark background. Most of the stars are small points of light. A few stars with cross-shaped diffraction spikes appear larger and stand out in front.

Hubble 25 - A Quarter Century of Discovery with the Hubble Space Telescope e-book

Hubble Focus - The Lives Of Stars e-book

Hubble Focus - Strange New Worlds e-book

Hubble Focus- Our Amazing Solar System e-book cover

Hubble Focus-Galaxies Through Space And Time

Hubble history book, Not Yet Imagined e-book cover

Hubble - An Overview Of The Space Telescope e-book cover

The ARTECHOUSE has taken Hubble images and created Hubble flythrough scenes as part of its exhibition, "Beyond the Light."

People sit and stand at an art exhibit in a dark room surrounded by extremely tall projected Hubble images.

A Hubble nebula image decorates a cell phone case.

Hubble nebula image on a cell phone case

Hubble's image of the Butterfly Nebula was featurned on the November 2014 cover of Sky and Telescope magazine.

The cover of Sky & Telescope magazine is filled with an image of the Butterfly Nebula

Nancy Grace Roman (third from the left) with President John F. Kennedy and the other recipients of the 2nd Annual...

A group of women receive an award from President John F. Kennedy in the White House.

Nancy Grace Roman talks with Homer Newall, NASA’s Associate Administrator of Science and Applications, at Kitt Peak National Observatory in...

Nancy Grace Roman and NASA's Associate Adminstrator for Science and Application stand in front of a model of Kitt Peak National Observatory and talk.

Nancy Grace Roman briefs Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin on celestial objects in Washington, D.C., 1965. Buzz Aldrin would go on to...

Nancy Grace Roman points on a sky map that is on a wall while Buzz Aldrin looks on.

Nancy Grace Roman stands with a group of scientists and engineers in 1964 in front of Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 1,...

A group of people in clean room suits stand next to a spacecraft in 1964.

Nancy Grace Roman stands next to a scale model of the Hubble Space Telescope outside the Hubble control center at...

Nancy Grace Roman stands next to a 1/5 scale model of the Hubble Space Telescope

Nancy Grace Roman uses the telescope at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, WI in 1948. Famous astronomers Edwin Hubble and...

A woman stands at the end of a very large telescope in 1948

Nancy Grace Roman as a young child. She attributed her love for space to her childhood, when she took walks...

A young girl standing next to a car in the late 1920's/early 1930's

On Discovery's middeck, the STS-31 crew poses for a traditional in-flight portrait. Loren J. Shriver, mission commander, is at lower...

The STS-31 crew poses for a photo in the crew cabin in front of a sign that says "HST IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS!"

Space Shuttle Atlantis touches down on Runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base in California, ending the STS-125 mission to...

The Shuttle landing - the back wheels touching down.

STS-125 Pilot Gregory C. Johnson works with the Portable In-Flight Landing Operations Trainer (PILOT) on the forward flight deck. PILOT...

The shuttle pilot at the pilot's station points at something on a laptop screen.

STS-125 crew members pose for a crew portrait in front of an American flag on Atlantis' middeck. From left to...

STS-125 crew poses in front of an American flag in the crew cabin of the shuttle.

STS-125 Mission Specialist 5 (MS5) Andrew Feustel (right) and MS3 John Grunsfeld look out an aft flight deck window during...

Two astronauts inside the flight deck monitor through the windows and communicate to the astronauts conducting a spacewalk.

STS-125 Mission Specialist 4 (MS4) Mike Massimino (left, inside Hubble) and MS1 Michael Good (center) work to remove and replace...

Two astronauts work on changing out Rate Sensor Units - boxes that hold two gyroscopes - in the aft shroud (bottom) of Hubble.

Space Shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member STS-125 crew head toward Earth orbit and rendezvous with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Liftoff...

The shuttle at the top of the tower during launch with flames shooting out its main engines and solid rocket motors.

On the Space Shuttle Columbia’s middeck, the crew members of the March, 2002, Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, STS-109, pose...

The STS-109 crew poses for a photo in front of an American flag in the crew cabin of the shuttle.

Astronauts James H. Newman and Michael J. Massimino participate in the fourth extravehicular activity (EVA) of the STS-109 mission. The...

Two astronauts removing an instrument from the bottom of Hubble.

Astronaut John M. Grunsfeld, STS-109 payload commander, participates in the third of five spacewalks to perform work on the Hubble...

An astronaut holds a specialized pair of pliers used to couple/decouple electrical connectors to a power control unit.

Astronauts John M. Grunsfeld, STS-109 payload commander, works in tandem with astronaut Richard M. Linnehan, mission specialist, as the two...

Two astronauts install a new solar panel on Hubble, one of them is unfolding it.

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST), in the grasp of the Space Shuttle Columbia's robotic arm, is captured by the STS-109...

Hubble, on the end of the robotic arm after it was captured in space, is lowered onto its berthing hardware in the cargo bay, with a colorful section of earth below.

The Space Shuttle Columbia passes through some predawn clouds as it soars into the sky to begin its 27th flight,...

The space Shuttle launches into a cloud,illuminating the cloud from the inside out, with a trail of smoke behind it.

Curtis L. Brown, STS-103 mission commander, poses on Discovery's flight deck. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST), visible through the windows...

An astronaut floats in front of the windows of the shuttle from inside the crew cabin. Hubble can be seen through the window.

These seven astronauts were assigned as crew members for NASA's third servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST): from...

A crew picture of the STS-103 crew in their orange launch suits standing in front of an image of a galaxy.

John M. Grunsfeld, positioned on a foot restraint on the end of Discovery's Remote Manipulator System (RMS), prepares to replace...

An astronaut on the end of the robotic arm opens an equipment door on Hubble. The solar array and the blue earth are in the background.

One of the STS-103 astronauts inside Discovery's cabin took this image of the full moon backdropped against the blackness of...

The earth on the left, the moon in the middle, and the top of Hubble on the right.

Scott J. Horowitz, STS-82 pilot, shows the hand-crafted thermal insulation blanket he fabricated to support a contingency task to cover...

An astronaut inside the cabin holds an insulating spacecraft blanket that they made.

Performing an extravehicular activity (EVA) during STS-82, Steven L. Smith is in the foreground and Mark C. Lee is on...

Gregory J. Harbaugh (left) and Joseph R. Tanner on the Remote Manipulator (RMS) arm are seen accessing a Fine Guidance...

Two astronauts work on removing a fine guidance sensor from a carrier in the Shuttle's cargo bay.

This wide-angle shot of the Hubble Space Telescope in the Space Shuttle Discovery’s cargo bay, backdropped against Australia, was taken...

The Hubble Space Telescope docked in the cargo bay of the shuttle with astronauts working on it. A portion of the blue earth can be seen behind it.

Steven L. Smith waves to his in-cabin Discovery crewmates while working during the third day of extravehicular activity (EVA) to...

An astronaut waves to the camera in the cargo bay of the space shuttle.

The STS-82 crew poses for a traditional in-flight portrait following completion of five spacewalks to service the Hubble Space Telescope...

A crew photo inside the shuttle's cabin with them holding a sign that says "MORE POWER"

Anchored to the Space Shuttle Endeavour's Remote Manipulator System arm, Jeffrey A. Hoffman works with the replacement Wide Field and...

Two astronauts remove an instrument from Hubble

Jeffrey A. Hoffman signals directions to European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Claude Nicollier, as Nicollier controls the Remote Manipulator System...

An astronaut on th end of the robotic arm with many tools attached to a workstation and a large blue earth in the background.

One of Endeavour's spacewalkers on STS-61 captured this view of Endeavour backdropped with the blackness of space and the Sun...

A photo of the Shuttle from above with a rayed sun effect in the background

With the Hubble Space Telescope berthed in Endeavour's cargo bay, crew members for the STS-61 mission pause for a crew...

The crew of Hubble servicing mission 1 floats for a team picture.

Kathryn C. Thornton lifts the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR) on STS-61 prior to its installation into the...

An astronaut on the robotic arm of the shuttle carries the COSTAR instrument for installation whil another works in the cargo bay.

Flight controllers Harry Black (left foreground) and Kevin McCluney (right foreground) monitor the televised activity of two spacewalkers during the...

The mission control room at Johnson Space Center is shown with flight controllers watching a Servicing Mission 1 spacewalk.

Astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman shows off the tools used in the five spacewalks of the first Hubble Space Telescope repair...

An astronaut floats in the space shuttle crew cabin with numerous tools.

On December 2, 1993, Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted off from Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida with...

The space shuttle roars off the launchpad.

STS-31 Pilot Charles F. Bolden is surrounded by extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) spacesuits in the airlock of the Earth-orbiting space...

An astronaut next to her spacesuit in the crew cabin of the shuttle.

STS-31 Pilot Charles F. Bolden is surrounded by extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) spacesuits in the airlock of the Earth-orbiting space...

An astronaut surrounded by space suits in the airlock.

A "fish-eye" lens captured this wide view of the aft flight deck of Space Shuttle Discovery while crew members were...

Three astronauts look through the roof windows and monitor Hubble.

Richard O. Covey mans the commander's station on Space Shuttle Endeavour during Flight Day 3 of the eleven-day STS-61 mission...

An astronaut at the commander station in the shuttle.

STS-125 Mission Specialist 2 (MS2) Megan McArthur poses for a photo on the shuttle aft flight deck during Flight Day...

An astronaut looks at the camera while at her station working the robotic arm.

STS-125 Mission Specialist 3 (MS3) John Grunsfeld (left), commander Scott Altman (center), and MS5 Andrew Feustel posing for a photo...

Three people in the airlock, the commander and two astronauts suited up for a spacewalk, pose for a picture.

Astronaut Scott Altman, STS-125 commander, works on the aft flight deck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis during Flight Day...

The commander of the mission on the flight deck communicates with the astronauts who are spacewalking.

Astronaut Gregory C. Johnson, STS-125 pilot, occupies the pilot's station on the flight deck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis...

The shuttle pilot is at his station on the flight deck.

Scott D. Altman, STS-109 mission commander, sleeps on the flight deck of the Space Shuttle Columbia.

An astronaut sleeps on the space shuttle

Duane G. Carey, STS-109 pilot, consults a reference manual on the flight deck of the Space Shuttle Columbia. Making his...

The pilot of the space shuttle poses for a photo while at the pilot's station.

Astronaut Nancy J. Currie, mission specialist, works the controls for Columbia's Remote Manipulator System (RMS) on the crew cabin's aft...

An astronaut floats on the flight deck, her feet anchored, as she works the controls for the robotic arm.

With his feet secured on a platform connected to the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) robotic arm of the Space Shuttle...

One astronauts hand some telescope hardware to another in the cargo bay.

Astronauts John M. Grunsfeld (right) and Richard M. Linnehan, STS-109 payload commander and mission specialist, respectively, are photographed near the...

Two astronauts float in the cargo bay in bright sunlight.

Scott J. Kelly, pilot, looks over a copy of the STS-103 flight plan on Discovery's aft flight deck. The photo...

An astronaut floats in the flight deck of the Shuttle and smiles for the camera.

Jean-Francois Clervoy, mission specialist representing the European Space Agency (ESA), uses a general purpose computer on Discovery's middeck during STS-103....

An astronaut in short sleeves and shorts works on a laptop in the crew cabin.

C. Michael Foale (left) and Claude Nicollier participate in the second of three STS-103 spacewalks to service the Hubble Space...

Two astronauts replacing hardware on the telescope.

Scott J. Horowtiz is seen at the pilot's station during the STS-82's second extravehicular activity (EVA), a spacewalk conducted by...

An astronaut on the flight deck of the space shuttle sitting in the pilot's chair.

Steven L. Smith, STS-82 mission specialist, is seen conducting setup activities during his extravehicular activity (EVA) on the Hubble Space...

A closeup of an astronaut floating in the cargo bay.

Steven A. Hawley, who spent many hours aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery controlling the Shuttle's Remote Manipulator System (RMS), watches...

An astronaut works the robotic arm from inside the crew cabin.

Gregory J. Harbaugh is seen at work on Hubble Space Telescope on the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) at night during...

An astronaut with many tools attached to a workstation in front of him.

Mark C. Lee unsuits after his extravehicular activity (EVA) on the Hubble Space Telescope's second servicing mission in February 1997.

An astronaut starts to unsuit in the crew compartment after a spacewalk.

Joseph R. Tanner, STS-82 mission specialist, is backdropped against Earth's limb and a sunburst effect in this 35-mm photo taken...

An astronaut with the earth and sun in the background.

Astronaut F. Story Musgrave moves about in Space Shuttle Endeavour's cargo bay during the deployment of the solar array panels...

An astronaut working in the cargo bay a very blue earth in the background.

Kenneth D. Bowersox mans the pilot's station on the Space Shuttle Endeavour during the 11-day STS-61 mission in December 1993...

An astronaut at the pilot position in the space shuttle.

Anchored on the end of the Space Shuttle Endeavour's Remote Manipulator System arm, Jeffrey A. Hoffman (foreground) prepares to install...

An astronaut on the robotic arm and an astronaut tethered to Hubble service the telescope.

STS-125 Mission Specialist 3 (MS3) John Grunsfeld, positioned on a foot restraint on the end of Atlantis' Remote Manipulator System...

An astronaut silhouetted against the earth with a second astronaut upside down near a cargo bay carrier.

Astronaut James H. Newman, mission specialist, moves about in the Space Shuttle Columbia's cargo bay while working in tandem with...

An astronaut floats in the cargo bay next to a gold carrier.

F. Story Musgrave (foreground) and Jeffrey A. Hoffman are pictured near the end of the first spacewalk, or extravehicular activity...

An astronaut on the robotic arm and one in the cargo bay of a Hubble mission

Astronaut Megan McArthur, STS-125 mission specialist, poses for a photo with astronaut Mike Massimino, mission specialist, as he looks through...

Two astronauts pose for a picture, one inside the crew cabin and one outside.

Steven L. Smith, STS-103 payload commander, waves to a crewmate located inside the Space Shuttle Discovery's cabin during the first...

An astronaut gives the thumbs up. while attached to the bottom of Hubble.

STS-125 Mission Specialist 1 (MS1) Michael Good, positioned on a foot restraint on the end of Space Shuttle Atlantis' Remote...

An astronaut is moved on the end of a shuttle robotic arm in the cargo bay with numerous tools attached while another works lower right. Hubble and the earth are in the background.

Orbiting Earth at an altitude of 356 nautical miles, perched atop a foot restraint on the Space Shuttle Endeavour's Remote...

Two astronauts on the end of the shuttle's robotic arm are raised to the top of Hubble. A full Hubble, and the gold cargo bay carriers are seen in front of earth.

STS-125 Mission Specialist 4 (MS4) Mike Massimino poses for a photo during the fourth session of extravehicular activity (EVA4).

An astronaut poses for a picture through the back windows of the Space Shuttle.

Steven L. Smith picks up a Power Ratchet Tool (PRT) as he prepares to join astronaut Mark C. Lee (not...

An astronaut with a power ratchet in one hand in front of Hubble. The shuttle cargo bay, gold carriers, and robotic arm are reflected in his visor.

Astronaut Kathryn C. Thornton grips a tool to perform servicing mission tasks on the Hubble Space Telescope during the fourth...

An astronaut at one of the gold covered cargo bay carriers with the earth and Hubble off to the right.

Astronaut Steven L. Smith, Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission 3A payload commander, retrieves a Pistol Grip Tool (PGT) power...

An astronaut on the end of the robotic arm with numerous tools. The blue earth is in the background

Kathryn C. Thornton, on the end of the Space Shuttle Endeavour's Remote Manipulator System arm, hovers over equipment associated with...

An astronaut on the end of the robotic arm with Hubble and the Earth behind her.

STS-125 MS3 Grunsfeld during EVA1

An astronaut getting his photo taken with the earth and the astronaut with the camera in the reflection of his visor.

STS-31 Mission Specialist (MS) Kathryn D. Sullivan monitors and advises ground controllers of the activity inside the Student Experiment (SE)...

AN astronaut with a video camera and a second astronaut assisting in the space shuttle.

Astronaut Steven L. Smith, payload commander, prepares to use a 35mm camera during the final spacewalk of the STS-103 mission....

One astronaut is at the bottom of Hubble while the other is on the end of the shuttle's robotic arm with a camera.

Anchored on the end of the Columbia's Remote Manipulator System (RMS) robotic arm, astronaut Michael J. Massimino, removes the old...

An astronaut at the end of the shuttle's robotic arm works with a solar array.

Astronauts John Grunsfeld (left) and Andrew Feustel, both STS-125 mission specialists, participate in the mission's fifth and final session of...

Two astronauts at the airlock on the shuttle with their helmet lights turned on.

Backdropped against planet Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope is shown sporting new and modified solar arrays stowed against its side....

Earth in the background, Hubble in the foreground, and an astronaut at the bottom of Hubble.

STS-125 Mission Specialist 5 (MS5) Andrew Feustel, positioned on the Manipulator Foot Restraint (MFR), moves the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)...

Two astronauts working on Hubble. One has an instrument (COSTAR) in his hands while the other is inside the bottom of the spacecraft.

Astronaut Michael J. Massimino, mission specialist, anchored on the end of the Space Shuttle Columbia's Remote Manipulator System (RMS) robotic...

Two astronauts installing new solar arrays and electronics on Hubble.

Engineers and controllers watch avidly as astronauts grapple the Hubble Space Telescope and attach it to the Space Shuttle Atlantis...

Hubble engineers in the control center watch the space shuttle grapple Hubble with its robotic arm.

Flight controllers at Goddard Space Flight Center's Space Telescope Operations Control Center monitor progress during the third spacewalk of Hubble's...

Hubble engineers in the control center watch on large screens the astronauts close the spacecraft's lower doors.

An enlarged version of the Servicing Mission 4 mission patch is flanked by screens showing the gloved hands of an...

People in the Hubble control center watch the third spacewalk of SM4 on large screen projectors.

A Lego model of the space shuttle and the Hubble Space Telescope rests atop a desk at the Goddard Space...

A LEGO model of the Shuttle, cargo bay carriers, and Hubble on a robotic arm sits next to the montiors in the Hubble control center.

Hubble team member Kevin Hartnett (right) works from Goddard Space Flight Center's Space Telescope Operations Control Center as the Space...

A flight operations lead checks off procedures in the control center.

The Space Shuttle Atlantis is visible on large screens in the Space Telescope Operations Control Center as it travels on...

A fully staffed Hubble control center room watches the launch of a shuttle on the large screens.

Members of the engineering team at Goddard Space Flight Center keep a careful eye on events during the launch of...

Two engineers talk in the Hubble control center waiting for the Shuttle to launch

Members of the flight operations and systems engineering team watch as the Space Shuttle Atlantis prepares for lift-off for its...

Hubble's Operations Support Room in the control center is fully staffed at consoles while the shuttle on the launch pad is on the big screens.

Sensor Analysis and Calibration (SAC) Engineer, Ed Kimmer, is seen in the foreground of this shot taken in the Space...

A person with a headphone and microphone on his head watches the mission on a screen in front of him.

A model of the Hubble Space Telescope sits on a flight controller’s desk at the Space Telescope Operations Control Center...

A Hubble model on a table at an engineers workstation in the control room.

Mike Prior and Bill Crabb conduct mission operations on May 17, 2009, during Servicing Mission 4 for the Hubble Space...

A servicing mission manager with a head set on at his workstation in the control room.

Hubble Servicing Mission 4 (SM4) Ground System Manager, Tony Foster, is photographed overseeing the configuration of, and monitoring the performance...

The ground system manager at his workstation in the control room

Kevin Hartnett, NASA's Science Operations Manager for the Hubble Space Telescope Project (right), and Pete Pataro, Flight Operations Team Lead,...

Two lead flight operations personnel watch the big screen in the control room.

Doug Grimes, a member of the flight ops team, works at his station on April 11, 2019, in the Hubble...

A Hubble flight controller looks down at written operations procedures while at his console.

Communications engineer Steve Sands talks with members of the flight operations team on April 11, 2019, in the Mission Operations...

An engineer discusses Hubble spacecraft communications with flight controllers in the Hubble control room.

Flight operations team members Bijal Patel and Phathom Donald take part in a discussion on commanding the Hubble Space Telescope...

Two flight controllers look over at someone talking in the control room for Hubble.

Flight Operations Manager Lynn Bassford observes from the back as Hubble Space Telescope mission operations team members conduct a test...

A woman looks on as four flight controllers command Hubble in the control center.

A model of the spacecraft sits in the corner of the Operations Support Room. In this room, located inside the...

A model of the Hubble Space Telescope in the control center

Hubble Space Telescope electrical system engineer Stan Kroll monitors a test of new procedures for the spacecraft on April 16,...

A man types on a laptop in the Hubble control center

Hubble Space Telescope engineers are gathered in the Operations Support Room as Systems Manager Morgan Van Arsdall points to a...

Eight people look at the data on a large screen in the Hubble operations area and discuss a test that is being conducted.

Hubble engineers James Manns (front), Colleen Townsley (center), and Stan Kroll (back) monitor a test of new procedures for the...

Two people sitting and one standing while monitoring a spacecraft procedure test in the operations area of Hubble.

Systems engineer Joe Stock sits at his workstation in the Operations Support Room of Hubble’s control center and monitors a...

A man is pensive monitoring a Hubble operations test in the control center while looking at data on a monitor.

The Vehicle Electrical System Test (VEST) facility combines an exact duplicate of the Hubble Space Telescope's electrical system, which was...

Four people study a rack of equipment in the Hubble simulator area.

The Vehicle Electrical System Test facility combines an exact duplicate of the Hubble Space Telescope's electrical system, which was designed...

A man sitting on a stool looks at a rack of equipment in the Hubble simulator area.

Chief System Engineer for Flight Larry Dunham (left) and Mojtaba Abedin, pointing control systems engineer (right), look at data returned...

Two engineers talk about the stability of the pointing system while looking at and pointing to data on a monitor.

Chief System Engineer for Flight Larry Dunham points at Hubble Space Telescope data as Systems Manager Morgan Van Arsdall and...

Three people discuss operations in the Hubble control center while looking at spacecraft data.

Chief Systems Engineer for Flight Larry Dunham (second from left), has a discussion with the team responsible for ensuring that...

Four people standing discuss the pointing stability of Hubble as another person sits at a console in the Hubble control center.

On June 16, 2020, Justin Germany (front) and Larry Stake (back) of the Flight Operations Team command the Hubble Space...

A man in a mask during the pandemic performs Hubble operations in the control center in front of computer monitors.

Larry Stake, a member of the Flight Operations Team, scrutinizes data while helping test a new way of pointing the...

A man scratches his head in thought while holding a land line phone receiver in one hand and analyzing data on a screen in the Hubble control center.

Systems Manager Morgan Van Arsdall oversees a test on a critical adjustment in the way the Hubble Space Telescope points...

A woman studies the data on a monitor in a low lit Hubble operations room.

During a complex switch to the Hubble Space Telescope's backup hardware on July 15, 2021, NASA Operation Manager (NOM) Dave...

A man talks on a cell phone while looking at data on a monitor in an Hubble operations area.

Senior system engineers discuss a “memory dump” of the Hubble Space Telescope's main computer, in which the contents of the...

A group discusses operations in the Hubble control center while one man loos at data on a monitor.

System engineer Mojtaba Abedin monitors Hubble Space Telecope's pointing control system, used to turn and steady Hubble, to make sure...

A man sits pensive looking at monitors in a Hubble operations room.

On July 15, 2021, the Hubble operations team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center began a complicated switch to backup...

A operations room for Hubble with people looking at monitors.

Prior to installation, technicians inspect the primary mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope.

Engineers in clean room suits inspect Hubble's primary mirror as you see their reflection in it.

In this photograph, engineers and technicians prepare the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WF/PC) for installation at...

The Wide Field Planetray Camera is being lowered on a crane for installation in a clean room surrounded by engineers.

This photograph shows engineers inspecting the Hubble Space Telescope's primary mirror at the Perkin-Elmer Corporation's large optics fabrication facility. After...

Two engineers inspect the primary mirror of Hubble.

This photograph shows the Hubble Space Telescope's primary mirror being polished at the Perkin-Elmer Corporation's large optics fabrication facility. After...

The Hubble Space Telescope primary maairror is being polished with a person overlooking it.

This photograph shows the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) installed in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery for...

Hubble in the cargo bay of the space shuttle before launch

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is pictured in the Vertical Processing Facility (VPF) support fixture during final testing and verification...

Engineers in cleanroom suits gather around the top of Hubble.

Engineers and technicians conduct a fit check of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) solar array flight article in a clean...

Engineers in cleanroom suits gather around the solar array attached to Hubble at multiple heights.

Preliminary Grinding Of Space Telescope Primary Mirror (2.4 meters) At Perkin Elmer's F-25 Facility, March 1979. This photograph shows the...

A machine is grinding the primary mirror of Hubble while a person looks on.

This image illustrates the Hubble Space Telescope's Optical Telescope Assembly (OTA). One of the spacecraft's three major elements, the OTA...

This image illustrates the overall Hubble Space Telescope (HST) configuration. Hubble is the product of a partnership between NASA, the...

An exploded diagram of Hubble and its components.

This is an artist's concept of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Hubble is the product of a partnership between NASA,...

Drawing of the Hubble Space Telescope flying over the earth with the space shuttle in the background.

The Hubble Space Telescope is intergrated into the STS-31 Orbiter Discovery cargo bay at KSC before launch.

The Hubble telescope sits in the cargo bay of the shuttle.

A STS-125 crew member aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis captured this still image of the Hubble Space Telescope as the...

Hubble orbiting above Earth. Hubble is at the center of the image against a black background. Earth's limb covers the bottom, right third of the image.

A STS-125 crewmember aboard the space shuttle Atlantis captured this still image of the Hubble Space Telescope as the two...

Hubble Space Telescope against the blackness of space

An STS-125 crew member aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis captured this still image of the Hubble Space Telescope as the...

The Space Shuttle Atlantis' Remote Manipulator System robotic arm lifts the Hubble Space Telescope from the cargo bay and is...

An STS-125 crew member aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis snapped a still photo of the Hubble Space Telescope following grapple of...

An STS-125 crew member captured this view of the Hubble Space Telescope as Space Shuttle Atlantis approached it on May...

Looking westward, one of the STS-109 crew members photographed the newly serviced and upgraded Hubble Space Telescope (HST) as it...

Backdropped by the horizon of Earth and the blackness of space, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) floats gracefully after the...

Hubble Space Telescope in space with Earth in the background.

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) transitions back to its normal observing routine after a week of servicing and upgrading by...

The Hubble Space Telescope, sporting new rigid solar arrays and other new hardware, separates from the Space Shuttle Columbia. The...

Hubble Space Telescope in space with the curve of Earth and the blackness of space in the background.

The Hubble Space Telescope, sporting new rigid solar arrays and other new hardware, begins its separation from the Space Shuttle...

This photograph of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was taken with a digital still camera aimed through an overhead shuttle window...

Astronaut Michael J. Massimino, mission specialist, anchored on the end of the Space Shuttle Columbia's Remote Manipulator System (RMS) robotic...

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST), with its normal routine temporarily interrupted, is berthed in the cargo bay of the Space...

The Hubble Space Telescope is seen in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Columbia during STS-109 in 2002. Each...

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST), backdropped against Earth's limb while in the grasp of the Space Shuttle Columbia's robotic arm,...

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST), in the grasp of the Space Shuttle Columbia's robotic arm, is captured by the STS-109...

The Hubble Space Telescope is visible against the black of space, primarily because its bright metallic disk-shaped base and the...

The Hubble Space Telescope is backdropped against the black of space as the Space Shuttle Columbia, with a crew of...

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) floats gracefully above the blue Earth in December 1999 at the conclusion of HST servicing...

Astronauts Steven L. Smith and John M. Grunsfeld, appear as small figures in this wide-angle photograph taken during an extravehicular...

The Sun reflects off the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) as it is held above the Space Shuttle Discovery's cargo bay...

Moments after the release of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) by Discovery's Remote Manipulator System (RMS) at the conclusion of...

This is the first of a series of four images recorded from close range as the astronauts aboard the Space...

This wide-angle shot of the Hubble Space Telescope in the Space Shuttle Discovery’s cargo bay, backdropped against Australia, was taken...

In the Space Shuttle Discovery's cargo bay, the Hubble Space Telescope is backdropped against Earth's limb and atmosphere following its...

The Hubble Space Telescope returns to orbit as an improved telescope after its second servicing mission in February 1997.

Hubble space telescope orbits above a blue Earth with white clouds.

The first close-up look at the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) since 1993 was provided by an STS-82 electronic still camera...

A broad spiral galaxy seen directly face-on. It has two bright spiral arms that extend from a bar, which shines from the very center. Additional fainter arms branch off from these, studded with bright blue patches of star formation. Small, distant galaxies are dotted around it, on a dark background.

The Hubble Space Telescope begins its separation from the Space Shuttle Endeavour following a week and a half berthed in...

Orbiting Earth at an altitude of 356 nautical miles, perched atop a foot restraint on the Space Shuttle Endeavour's Remote...

The Hubble Space Telescope is pictured in Space Shuttle Endeavour's cargo bay following its capture and berthing early in the...

Backdropped against the blackness of space, the Space Shuttle Endeavour nears the Hubble Space Telescope. With the aid of the...

This illustration depicts the design features of the Hubble Space Telescope's Support Systems Module (SSM). The SSM is one of...

This photograph shows the Hubble Space Telescope being deployed on April 25, 1990. The photograph was taken by the IMAX...

Ready for transportation to the Kennedy Space Center, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is pictured onboard the strongback dolly at...

This photo shows the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) being transferred from the Vertical Assembly Test Area (VATA) to the High...

This is a view of a solar cell blanket deployed on a water table during the solar array deployment test....

This photograph shows the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) flight article assembly with multilayer insulation, high-gain antenna, and solar arrays in...

This illustration shows the Hubble Space Telescope's major configuration elements. The spacecraft has three interacting systems: the Support System Module...

Prior to installation, technicians inspect the primary mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The first in a series of...

This photograph shows the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) being assembled in the clean room of the Lockheed Missile Space Company....

This photograph shows the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) being assembled in the clean room of the Lockheed Missile and Space...

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) transitions back to its normal observing routine after a week of servicing and upgrading by...

The top portion of the Hubble Space Telescope is backdropped against dark space, just after the Space Shuttle Columbia used...

Hubbles 7th anniversary was commemorated by the National Geographic Society in its April 1997 magazine.

Cover of National Geographic Magazine with a Hubble image of the Hourglass Nebula on it. Title reads: Hubble's Eye on the Universe.

Mounded, luminous clouds of gas and dust glow in this Hubble Space Telescope image of a Herbig-Haro object known as...

In July 1994, 21 chunks of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which had broken apart a year earlier, slammed into Jupiter. The...

This Hubble Space Telescope composite image shows a ghostly "ring" of dark matter in the galaxy cluster ZwCl0024+1652. The ring-like...

This peculiar Hubble Space Telescope portrait showcases NGC 1999, a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion. NGC 1999 is around...

The Hubble Space Telescope was used to observe Saturn on June 6, 2018, when Saturn was only approximately 1.36 billion...

Shreds of the colorful supernova remnant DEM L 190 seem to billow across the screen in this Hubble Space Telescope...

The orange-red "cobwebs" in this Hubble image are dusty clouds of sooty carbon engulfing the dying star CW Leonis. They...

Elliptical galaxy NGC 4660 is one of a hundred galaxies imaged by Hubble that are members of the nearest large...

A bright-white elliptical galaxy extends from the lower-left to the upper-right of the image. Its core is at image center and shines bright-white.

A jet of electrons and other sub-atomic particles traveling at nearly the speed of light streams from galaxy Messier 87...

To the surprise of astronomers, galaxy NGC 4622 appears to be rotating in the opposite direction from what they expected....

A large, face-on galaxy. It has a bright-white center with yellowish spiral arms. The spiral arm form concentric circles near the galaxy's core and curve outward further away from the galaxy.

This image of Caldwell 69 includes ultraviolet, visible, and infrared observations taken in 2019 and 2020 by Hubble’s Wide Field...

Like a fireworks display, a young, glittering collection of stars looks like an aerial burst. The cluster of huge, hot...

The hallmark of the Sombrero Galaxy, Messier 104 (M104), is a brilliant white, bulbous core encircled by thick dust lanes...

Ring galaxies arise from a collision in which one galaxy plunges directly through the disk of another one. Seen here...

Two spiral galaxies are seen passing by each other like majestic ships in the night in this Hubble Space Telescope...

Garden-variety stars like the Sun live fairly placid lives in their galactic neighborhoods, steadily churning out heat and light for...

On January 24, 2015, the Hubble Space Telescope captured a rare look at three of Jupiter's largest moons, Europa, Callisto,...

Hubble captured this close-up of stars in Caldwell 86 using the Advanced Camera for Surveys in 2005. These observations helped...

This Hubble image, taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, shows both the spindly, spidery filaments of gas...

Assembled from a total of 7,398 exposures taken over 411 individual pointings of the telescope, this image of our nearest...

Resembling a nightmarish beast rearing its head from a crimson sea, this monstrous object is actually an innocuous pillar of...

Resembling an interstellar Frisbee, the dark feature in these two Hubble images is a protoplanetary disk of dust seen edge-on...

From ground-based telescopes, the so-called "ant nebula" (Menzel 3, or Mz 3) resembles the head and thorax of a garden-variety...

Saturn's comparatively paper-thin rings are tilted edge on to Earth every 15 years. Because the orbits of Saturn's major satellites...

This Hubble Space Telescope image offers a close-up look at a nearby example of galactic cannibalism: a massive black hole...

These delicate wisps of gas make up an object known as SNR B0519-69.0, or SNR 0519 for short. The thin,...

Terzan 1 is not a new target for Hubble — an image of the cluster was released back in 2015,...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this infrared-light portrait of a roiling region of star birth located 6,400 light-years away. The...

Lower -left quadrant is filled with rusty-brown dust cloud dotted with a few bright stars. Hazy pillars of gas and dust rise up toward the right. A bluish-white glow fills the lower-right quadrant. The haze is more transparent as you move toward the upper right corner. Background is dotted with stars.

The Antennae galaxies, a merging pair of galaxies located about 62 million light-years from Earth, are shown in this image...

This galaxy, called NGC 1569, sparkles with the light from millions of newly formed young stars. NGC 1569 is pumping...

A bright red galaxy shines near the top of the image in shades of pink and white.

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the central region of Messier 96 (M96), a spiral galaxy of about the same...

A spiral galaxy with dark dust on the front side and star formation on the back side.

Now you see them, now you don't. Three views of the same supernova appear in the 2016 image on the...

The scattered stars of the globular cluster NGC 6355 are strewn across this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. NGC...

A massive cluster of blue, red, yellow, and white stars.

The composite picture is a seamless blend of ultra-sharp Hubble Space Telescope images combined with the wide view of the...

Looming like a giant flying saucer in our outer solar system, Saturn puts on a show as the planet and...

Five images of Saturn from lower left to upper right with each image showing Saturn and its rings tilted at different amounts.

NGC 2146 is classified as a barred spiral because of its shape, but the most distinctive feature is the dusty...

A Galaxy is center in image with thick black dust and some redish star regionsCredit: popping through.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the...

Galaxies dot a black sky. a faint red arc holds three dots. the two outer dots are a lensed star cluster, the center dot is the farthest known star, dubbed Earendel.

NGC 2336 is the quintessential galaxy — big, beautiful, and blue — and it is captured here by the NASA/ESA...

The Hubble image on the left shows the bright core of M84 surrounded by a dark band of gas and...

Two images next to each other. On the left is a bright light in black and white, and on the right is a wavelength of light, blue green, yellow, orange, and red, representing the spectrographic view.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a grouping of galaxies engaged in a slow dance of destruction that will last for...

Group of galaxies bunching together with distant galaxies far away in the background.

This odd-looking galaxy with the long streamer of stars appears to be racing through space like a runaway pinwheel firework,...

At the top left of the image, a white spiral galaxy is seen with a long blue tail going diagonal down to the bottom right. In the background there are many distant galaxies.

This Hubble Space Telescope portrait of Stephan's Quintet, also known as Hickson Compact Group 92, seems to show a group...

The Hubble Legacy Field represents the largest, most comprehensive "history book" of galaxies in the universe. The image, a combination...

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.

This Hubble Space Telescope snapshot of the dynamic blue-green planet Neptune reveals a monstrous dark storm (top center) and the...

Sphere of Neptune seen. Dark blue circle with two small dark spots on the Northern portion.

This beautiful image features the globular star cluster M75. Discovered in 1780 by Pierre Méchain, M75 was also observed by...

Large globular cluster of countless stars. The center is extremely bright and white due to the amount of 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.

The Hubble Space Telescope photographed this peculiar system of galaxies known as Arp 194. This interacting group contains several galaxies,...

Large galaxy at the top of the image, spiraling in, at the bottom a smaller galaxy is there, the two galaxies are almost linked by a bright blue line of stars and gas.

The Hubble Space Telescope snapped this picture of Mars on October 28, 2005, within a day of its closest approach...

Full shot of Mars. Rusty red, you can see many of the ground features of the planet, with dust coming from the north.

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope snapshot reveals what looks like an uncanny pair of glowing eyes staring in our direction....

Two galaxies, each has a bright-white core. Their cores are very close together. They are surrounded by light blue gas, dust, and stars that form a ring around the cores.

This image of the central region of spiral galaxy NGC 3521 is not out of focus. Instead, the galaxy itself...

Large spiral of dust and gas orbiting bright white center of this galaxy image. The spiral is dusty and dark brown with dark blue interspersed.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the iridescent interior of one of the most active galaxies in our local...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of an enormous bubble being blown into space by a super-hot, massive star....

Large blue bubble in the center of the image with tufts of yellow/orange clouds of dust and gas in the top left of the image, and a bit at the top of the blue bubble. Random purple stars are seen speckled at random throughout the image.

A head-on collision between two galaxies fueled the unusual triangular-shaped star-birthing frenzy, as captured this Hubble Space Telescope image. The...

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows rich detail in a pair of star clusters 166,000 light-years away in the Large...

Large cluster of stars globbing together. The image itself has an orange hue to the point that every star is either orange, white orange, or deep red. Brighter in the center of the image.

In the center of this image, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, are two faint galaxies that seem to be...

Like lifting a giant veil, the near-infrared vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope uncovers this dazzling view deep inside the...

Intertwined wisps of light purple clouds of dust and gas envelope the entire image. Countless orange stars pepper the image.

This spectacular image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures the spiral galaxy NGC 105, which lies roughly 215 million light-years...

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the spiral galaxy NGC 105, which lies roughly 215 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. While it looks like NGC 105 is plunging edge-on into a collision with a neighbouring galaxy, this is just the result of the chance alignment of the two objects in the night sky. NGC 105’s elongated neighbour is actually far more distant and remains relatively unknown to astronomers. These misleading conjunctions occur frequently in astronomy — for example, the stars in constellations are at vastly different distances from Earth, and only appear to form patterns thanks to the chance alignment of their component stars. The Wide Field Camera 3 observations in this image are from a vast collection of Hubble measurements examining nearby galaxies which contain two fascinating astronomical phenomena — Cepheid variables and cataclysmic supernova explosions. Whilst these two phenomena may appear to be unrelated — one is a peculiar class of pulsating stars and the other is the explosion caused by the catastrophic final throes of a massive star’s life — they are both used by astronomers for a very particular purpose: measuring the vast distances to astronomical objects. Both Cepheids and supernovae have very predictable luminosities, meaning that astronomers can tell precisely how bright they are. By measuring how bright they appear when observed from Earth, these “standard candles” can provide reliable distance measurements. NGC 105 contains both supernovae and Cepheid variables, giving astronomers a valuable opportunity to calibrate the two distance measurement techniques against one another. Astronomers recently carefully analysed the distances to a sample of galaxies including NGC 105 to measure how fast the Universe is expanding — a value known as the Hubble constant. Their results don’t agree with the predictions of the most widely-accepted cosmological model, and their analysis shows that there is only a 1-in-a-million chance that this discrepancy was caused by measurement errors. This discrepancy between galaxy measurements and cosmological predictions has been a long-standing source of consternation for astronomers, and these recent findings provide persuasive new evidence that something is either wrong or lacking in our standard model of cosmology.

Asteroid P/2010 A2 puzzled astronomers in 2010 with its comet-like tail. The object appeared so unusual in ground-based telescope images...

Looking like an apparition rising from whitecaps of interstellar foam, the iconic Horsehead Nebula has graced astronomy books ever since...

Large, dark red cloud of dust and gas surrounded by grey wisps of smoke and gas. Many stars in the black background of space.

This Hubble Space Telescope image captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being...

Large orange, yellow, and red clouds of dust and gas. Called Mystic Mountain because they appear as if they're giant mountainous pillars of gas with a blue background.

This is an image of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula located about 8,000 light-years away, taken with the Wide Field...

Two sets of rings in orange and gold stacked one above the other form the shape of a hourglass. At image center, where the two sets of rings overlap, is an area of white, green and black dust in a shape that is similar to the human eye.

This Hubble Space Telescope image, taken in 1994, shows several blue, loop-shaped objects that actually are multiple images of the...

Spots of light that are galaxies in this image. Some of the galaxies appear to be stretched due to gravitational lensing. Three very bright orange spots of light near the center in a row.

The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission nebula called NGC 6357, located about 8,000 light-years from...

This dramatic image offers a peek inside a cavern of roiling dust and gas where thousands of stars are forming....

Large clouds of dust and gas in pinks, purples, on the outside with brighter yellows and whites nearer to the center. Bright white stars in the center of the image.

In this unusual image, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures a rare view of the celestial equivalent of a geode —...

Not only is the Cat's Eye Nebula, formally cataloged NGC 6543, one of the first planetary nebulae to be discovered,...

Purple and soft yellow dust and gas surrounding bright white star in the center of the image. Lots of bubbles of dust interweave each other.

This Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet image of Saturn was taken when the planet's rings were at a maximum tilt of...

A nearly perfect ring of hot, blue stars pinwheels about the yellow nucleus of an unusual galaxy known as Hoag's...

Peering deep into M1, this spectacular Hubble image captures the nebula’s beating heart: the rapidly spinning pulsar at its core....

While many other images of the famous Crab Nebula nebula have focused on the filaments in the outer part of the nebula, this image shows the very heart of the Crab Nebula including the central neutron star — it is the rightmost of the two bright stars near the centre of this image. The rapid motion of the material nearest to the central star is revealed by the subtle rainbow of colours in this time-lapse image, the rainbow effect being due to the movement of material over the time between one image and another.

The Crab Nebula is an expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese astronomers recorded this violent event...

Bright green, orange, and yellow tendrils intertwined within this egg shaped nebula.

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.

"Starry Night," Vincent van Gogh's famous painting, is renowned for its bold whorls of light sweeping across a raging night...

Large red star in the center of the image surrounded by brown dust and gas swirling around it unevenly.

Looking like a glittering swarm of buzzing bees, the stars of globular cluster NGC 6440 shine brightly in this Hubble...

Large grouping of stars, uncountable stars forming together in a giant cluster.

In celebration of the 29th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers used Hubble to capture this...

M82 or the Cigar galaxy, shines brightly at infrared wavelengths and is remarkable for its star formation activity. The Cigar...

A colorful assortment of 100,000 stars resides in the crowded core of Omega Centauri, a giant globular cluster. This is...

NGC 1300 is considered by many as a prototypical barred spiral galaxy. Barred spirals differ from normal spiral galaxies in...

This close-up, visible-light view by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals previously unseen details of the Ring Nebula. The object is...

Glowing like a multi-faceted jewel, the planetary nebula IC 418 lies about 2,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of...

Colorful oval shaped nebula with orange gas on the outside as the color gets more and more purple the more you move to the inside. A bright white/purple star sits at the center.

Galaxies come in a range of shapes and sizes, and astronomers use this fact to classify them based on their...

Two dramatically different faces of the Red Planet appear in these comparison images showing how a global dust storm engulfed...

Two different shots of rusty Mars next to each other. On the left you can see Mars and lots of defining surface features. Dark mountains, large blank plains, white caps on the North and South poles. On the right image, Mars is totally covered in dust and you can barely make out any of those features.

Galaxy NGC 6861 features a prominent disk of dark bands circling its center. These bands are a result of large...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this close-up view of an electric-blue aurora eerily glowing one-half billion miles away on the...

Blue glowing lines encircle one of the poles of Jupiter.

Renowned astrophotographer Robert Gendler took science data from the Hubble Space Telescope archive and combined it with his own ground-based...

This mottled landscape showing the impact crater Tycho is among the most violent-looking places on our Moon. This image, taken...

The Hubble Space Telescope provided astronomers with extraordinary views of Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3, a fragile comet that was rapidly disintegrating...

Resembling the fury of a raging sea, this image actually shows a bubbly ocean of glowing hydrogen gas and small...

This 100 million-year-old globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and...

Yellow and white stars in a star cluster float in front of a cloud of bue wispy dust and gas.

The spiral pattern shown by the galaxy in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope is striking because of its...

The Hubble Extreme Deep Field (XDF) combines 10 years of Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken of a small patch of...

Soon after Hubble first began sending images from space, scientists discovered that the telescope's primary mirror had a flaw called...

a side by side comparison of galaxy m100 before and after the fix for Hubble's spherical aberation was installed.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope caught the eerie, wispy tendrils of a dark interstellar cloud being destroyed by the passage of...

Wisps of dark green dust at the bottom left of the image as a bright star is shining its light from the top right of the image.

The star AG Carinae is surrounded by an expanding shell of gas and dust. The nebula is about five light-years...

M2-9 is a striking example of a "butterfly" or a bipolar planetary nebula. Another more revealing name might be the...

Bright white star in the center of the image, with two bright blueish green plumes of dust and gas on either side moving away from the center star.

The muted red tones of the globular cluster Liller 1 are partially obscured in this Hubble Space Telescope image by...

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field consists of a rich tapestry of around 10,000 galaxies of all sizes, shapes, and ages....

This 100 million-year-old globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and...

Thousands of red, white, yellow, and blue stars in a star cluster that is in front of a reddish orange cloud of gas and dust.

Observing in infrared light, Hubble pierced through the obscuring gas and dust of M16’s Pillars of Creation. This ethereal image...

This image shows the pillars as seen in infrared light, allowing it to pierce through obscuring dust and gas and unveil a more unfamiliar — but just as amazing — view of the pillars. In this ethereal view the entire frame is peppered with bright stars and baby stars are revealed being formed within the pillars themselves. The ghostly outlines of the pillars seem much more delicate, and are silhouetted against an eerie blue haze. Hubble also captured the pillars in visible light.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled in stunning detail a small section of the expanding remains of a massive star...

The Mice This colliding pair of spiral galaxies is known as "The Mice" because of the long tails of stars...

Two galaxies interacting that look like mice with tails.

This artist's illustration shows a planet (dark silhouette) passing in front of the red dwarf star AU Microscopii. The planet...

This illustration shows the ball of a red dwarf star. It is mottled with dark spots and finger-like filamentary outbursts. In front is a much smaller black circle representing the silhouette of a planet passing in front of the star. The red dwarf's furious activity is causing the planet's atmosphere to escape into space. This appears as wispy blue filaments along the planet’s straight horizontal orbital path. The star is colored a rich red because it is cooler than our Sun.

Astronomers used the Hubble Space telescope to revisit one of its most iconic subjects, the so-called "Pillars of Creation" in...

This image of massive galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1-2403 was part of the Hubble Space Telescope's Frontier Fields project, which combined...

A cluster of yellow galaxies with hundreds of background galaxies. The image include arcs that are distorted images of background galaxies.

As nuclear fusion engines, most stars live placid lives for hundreds of millions to billions of years. But near the...

Bright blue cloud of dust and gas with bits of purple gas surrounding it the large glob of gas in the center.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the galaxy cluster Abell 370 in visible and near-infrared light. Abell 370...

Large grouping of galaxies warped around what appears to be a giant lens. Each galaxy appears as a glob of light.

Eye in the Sky This image taken with the Hubble Space Telescope features NGC 4826 — a spiral galaxy located...

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.

This is one of the largest panoramic images ever taken with Hubble's cameras. It is a 50-light-year-wide view of the...

A nebula in the constellation of Cassiopeia has flowing veils of gas and dust that have earned it the nickname...

Merging Star Clusters in 30 Doradus This Hubble Space Telescope image captures two clusters full of massive stars that may...

By using certain types of color filters, as in this Hubble Space Telescope image of Uranus, astronomers can extract more...

Image of blue Uranus, with three purple marks in it. Surrounding Uranus is a ring.

Thousands of sparkling young stars are nestled within the giant nebula NGC 3603. This stellar "jewel box" is one of...

Large cluster of stars in the center of the image, surrounded by red dust and gas.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the interacting galaxy pair Arp 273, popularly called the “Rose.” The larger...

Spiral galaxy at the top of the image with a smaller galaxy being pulled in from the bottom.

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows how young, energetic, massive stars illuminate and sculpt their birthplace with powerful winds and...

A large, red, nebula of dust and gas at the top right portion of the image with a small blue bubble at the bottom left.

In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope spent 10 straight days in a unique experiment, staring at a dark, seemingly empty...

Thousands of galaxies float in a small section of space.

N44 is a complex nebula filled with glowing hydrogen gas, dark lanes of dust, massive stars, and many populations of...

Nebula image of bright blue, purple dust surrounded by stars of all sorts of colors. At the top of the image, a large nebula with swirls and clouds of dust and gas is present, at the bottom of the image, a smaller nebula with bright white stars.

Astronomers are using the Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras — stunning light shows in a planet's atmosphere — on...

Bright blue aurora circle the top of Jupiter's north pole.

This is the last complete image of the asteroid Dimorphos, as seen by NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) impactor...

Image of boulders on the surface of the asteroid Dimorphos as seen by DART prior to impact.

Image of the asteroid Dimorphos, with compass arrows, scale bar, and color key for reference. The north and east compass...

Against a black background, the image of the asteroid Dimorphos, with compass arrows, scale bar, and color key for reference. The bright white object at lower left is Dimorphos. It has a blue dust tail extending diagonally to the upper right. A cluster of blue dots (marked by white circles) surrounds the asteroid. These are boulders that were knocked off the asteroid when, on September 26, 2022, NASA deliberately slammed the half-ton DART impactor spacecraft into the asteroid as a test of what it would take to deflect some future asteroid from hitting Earth. Hubble photographed the slow-moving boulders with the Wide Field Camera 3 in December 2022. The color results from assigning a blue hue to the monochromatic (grayscale) image.

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.

Westerlund 2, a giant cluster of 3,000 stars, resides in a raucous stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29. The...

A combintation of yellow, brown, red, and blue/violet colored gas intermixed with blue and yellow stars.

Filmed with the IMAX® 3D Cargo Bay Camera, astronaut John Grunsfeld, positioned on a foot restraint on the end of...

An astonaut works on the Hubble Space Telescope above the Earth as seen from a fish eye camera.

Seven-time Academy-Award® nominee Leonardo DiCaprio records narration for the IMAX® 3D space film, Hubble 3D.

Leonardo Dicaprio in a sound room recording the narration for a Hubble movie.

The IMAX short film, "Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time," transforms images and data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope into...

An audience in a theater watches a large format film showing galaxies.

The end of a Sun-like star's life was once thought to be simple: the star gracefully casts off a shell...

A nebula with gas that is expelled left and right of a star and appears as exhausts from two jet engines.

A scarf based on a Hubble nebula image and a t-shirt with an image of the spacecraft are two examples...

A woman's scarf based on a Hubble nebula image and a t-shirt with the spacecraft on it.

Not Yet Imagined documents Hubble history from the telescope’s launch through its first 30 years, focusing on the interactions between...

The cover and inside jacket of a Hubble history book named Not Yet Imagined"

A laser installation by artist Tim Otto Roth on Venice’s Palazzo Franchetti. While the scanning green laser might appear abstract,...

A Hubble Space Telescope view of a small portion of the Orion Nebula reveals five young stars. Four of the...

The view is filled with wisps of clouds in colors of white, grey, brown, and black. Protoplanetary disks appear as dark or bright points surrounded by denser white clouds. Center of the image holds a bright protoplanetary disk that is larger than the others.

Hubble Space Telescope astronomers, studying the northern hemisphere field from the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), have measured the...

An image of space with thousands of galaxies with an insert that is blown up of the farthest galaxy ever detected.

NASA Visitor Relations Specialists Holley Argus (seated, l) and Nick Middleton talk with visitors at INFINITY Science Center during the...

Two women standing and talking to two NASA employees sitting at an exhibit table.

NASA representative Maurice Henderson (r) talks with guests on Feb. 11 during opening weekend of the Hubble Traveling Exhibit at...

One man talking to another man about the Hubble traveling exhibit and both men are standing

The interactive Hubble Traveling Exhibit features sections that highlight different aspects of Hubble, including a station showcasing the spacecraft’s equipment...

A young boy inserting his handing into plastic tubes into a mechanical box that simulates hubbles equipment

A visitor looks at a Hubble Sky Map on Feb. 11 at INFINITY Science Center. The map is part of...

a women looking at a digital display of the Hubble Sky Map on Feb. 11 at INFINITY Science Center

A guest reads about NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope during a walkthrough of the Hubble Traveling Exhibit at INFINITY Science Center...

As part of the Hubble Traveling Exhibit, the tunnel is a path that surrounds visitors with a series of images...

Visitors walk through the Hubble Traveling Exhibit at the INFINITY Science Center.

Queen Elizabeth II is presented with a framed photograph of the Hubble Space Telescope by Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and...

Queen Elizabeth of England, wearing a yellow coat and yellow hat with pink flowers and seated next to Prince Phillip in a dark suit, is presented with a framed Hubble image featuring photographs of a cosmic object and the telescope by Sen. Barbara Mikulski and Rep. Steny Hoyer.

A child uses a VR headset to explore a 3-D Hubble image at the DC mall during the celebration of...

A girl wears a VR headset and holds VR controlers in her hands at a crowded outdoor event with Hubble images on a table in front of her.

An irregular galaxy that appears like a triangle-shaped patch of tiny stars. It is densest in the center and along one edge, growing faint out to the opposite corner. A bright star, with two sets of long spikes, is between the viewer and the galaxy.

In November 2011, bright green waves of laser light rippled across the Hayden Planetarium sphere in the American Museum of...

A jagged, EKG-like spectra line from the Hubble Space Telescope is projected onto a large sphere seen through a windowed wall at Hayden Planetarium

Hubble Space Telescope imagery adorns a hat.

A bucket hat printed with stars and nebulae

These composite images from several observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal a pair of newly discovered rings encircling the...

Newly Discovered Moons and Rings of Uranus (Annotated). Two images of Uranus on its side, with its rings and planets orbits shown vertically. Uranus is an aqua sphere with white areas near the poles.

This image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows five moons orbiting the distant, icy dwarf planet Pluto. The green...

Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, are at image center appearing as a large and small white dot. Hydra, Nix, and P4 (a very small white dot that has a green circle around it) are to the left of Pluto and Charon. P4 is to the right of Pluto and Charon.

This view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is the deepest visible-light image of the cosmos. Called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field,...

10,000 galaxies in a single image, appearing as small swirls and dots of light.

Eight impacts from Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 are visible in this Hubble Space Telescope image from Jupiter taken in 1994. The...

String of impact scars in the clouds of Jupiter

The eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, was assembled by combining 10 years of NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken of...

These towering tendrils of cosmic dust and gas sit at the heart of M16, or the Eagle Nebula.

Beautiful massive columns of dust and stars in deep space.

"The Hubble Space Telescope: Twenty Years at the Frontier of Science" exhibition at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed...

Hubble images are suspended between stone arches and hanging over classical marble busts at an art museum. A Hubble model is displayed among the statues.

Astronomer Adam Riess receives his medal at the 2011 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.

Astronomer Adam Riess shakes hands with an official at the Nobel Prize ceremony as he receives his medal.

"Mapping the Cosmos: Images from the Hubble Space Telescope," brings together over 20 Hubble images as part of the Walters...

Hubble images are mounted on the wall over sculptures and between classical pillars at the Walters Art Musuem.

This image shows the sky around the ultra diffuse galaxies NGC 1052-DF4 and NGC 1052-DF2. It was created from images forming...

New data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides further evidence for tidal disruption in the galaxy NGC 1052-DF4

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows one possible orbit (dashed ellipse) of the 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet HD 106906 b. This remote...

This hubble space telescope image shows the environment around double star hd 106906.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has photographed Saturn, left, and Mars, right, near their closest approaches to Earth in June and...

The first anniversary image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope displays star birth like it’s never been seen before, full...

Red dual opposing jets coming from young stars fill the darker top half of the image, while a glowing pale-yellow, cave-like structure is bottom center, tilted toward two o’clock, with a bright star at its center. See extended description for more.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known...

distant galaxies appear as bright glowing spots in this Webb telescope image, with some smeared by gravitational lensing; foreground stars appear bright with six-pointed diffraction spikes, owing to the shape of Webb's mirrors

Full Buck Super Moon + Cocoa Beach Fireworks = magical

NASA's Curious Universe logo.

NASA's Curious Universe logo

An illustration of an astronaut helmet features with NASA's Curious Universe written across it. The background shows a grid in blue hues. Pink, wavy illustrations are across the lower half of the image.

Hubble's launch and deployment in April 1990 marked the most significant advance in astronomy since Galileo's telescope. Thanks to five...

A spiral galaxy, a fuzzy oval tilted diagonally and partially towards the viewer. The center glows in warm colors, and has two prominent spiral arms around it, with bright points of star formation. The galaxy appears centrally in a field of small stars and galaxies on a dark background.

The gaseous knots are enormous. Each head is at least twice the size of our solar system and each tail...

The lower-left, two-thirds of the image is a deep blue. The upper-third holds gas pinkish-orange gas and dust. Radiating into the blue from the upper right are greenish blobs that look like comets.

These two images, taken 11 hours apart with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, reveal two nearly opposite sides of Mars. Hubble...

Two images of rusty-red Mars, one of each hemisphere. Each shows its icy-white south polar cap.

This spectacular colour panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual...

This region of the Orion Nebula is seen as a colorful, bright region of gas and dust, mostly in shades of green, yellow, orange and brown. It's brightest toward the center and darkens at the image edges.

Like a 4th of July fireworks display, a young, glittering collection of stars looks like an aerial burst. The cluster...

A cluster of stars fills the center of the image against a black background. A "U" of purple clouds rings the bottom and sides of the image, nesting the star cluster. A bright-red star is in the upper right corner.

Appearing like a winged fairy-tale creature poised on a pedestal, this object is actually a billowing tower of cold gas...

A tower of dark gas and dust rises from the bottom of the image. The tower is thinner at the bottom and becomes wider in the upper half of the image. Two colors dominate the image's background. The lower two-thirds is a rusty orange, and the upper-third is light blue.

In this detailed view from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the so-called Cat's Eye Nebula looks like the penetrating eye...

Image center holds a spirograph of interconnected rings in light blue, pink, purple, reddish-pink, to light orange. The center of the image is a point of light. A ring of dark purple surrounds it and a ring of light blue surrounds that. The ring colors get lighter as you move outward.

This Hubble Space Telescope view shows one of the most dynamic and intricately detailed star-forming regions in space, located 210,000...

Upper left half of the image is filled with bright-pink clouds dotted with stars. A lobe of the pink clouds extends below the cloud toward the lower-right corner. Lower right half of the image is black and dotted with stars.

A delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy. A contrail from an alien spaceship? A jet from a...

A black background dotted with stars is bisected from the lower-left corner to the upper-right corner by a slightly twisted strand of red gas and dust.

To celebrate its 24th year in orbit, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has released this beautiful new image of part...

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the Serpens Nebula, a stellar nursery about 1300 light-years away. Within the nebula, in...

Dark clouds fill the scene. They are outlined by bright rusty-orange, and blue-white clouds of gas. Stars dot the scene.

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the diverse collection of galaxies in the cluster Abell S0740 that is...

The field is filled with galaxies. One large elliptical galaxy is in the upper-left quadrant, just left of center. A large spiral galaxy is on its side near the right corner.

This new image of the supernova remnant SN 1987A was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in January 2017...

Black background filled with stars. Bright-red clouds fill the upper half of the image. Supernova 1987a is at image center. It is a bright point of light surrounded by a bright, pink-white ring. two red rings circle the central ring and form a figure eight. Two bright stars appear like diamonds. One along the upper ring, and the other along the lower red rings.

The Hubble Space Telescope took this stunning portrait of the Red Planet on March 30, 1997, just as it was...

Rusty-red Mars with a haze of white clouds and a white north polar cap.

On the left, an image of Jupiter is seen against black space. On the right, a close-up view of Jupiter's surface is seen.

upper left: Jupiter, upper right: Saturn, lower left: Uranus, lower right: Neptune

In this Hubble Space Telescope composite image taken in April 2013, the sun-approaching Comet ISON floats against a seemingly infinite...

Black background dotted with stars and galaxies. The bright-white comet is in the upper right quadrant of the image, just to the upper right of center. Its tail is pointing toward the lower left corner.

The Hubble telescope captured an image of an unusual edge-on galaxy, revealing remarkable details of its warped dusty disk and...

A bright ball of stars at image center. Along the equator of the ball is a warped disk of dust that appears like a dark, gentle wave across the ball of stars. Black background with a smattering of stars.

This image of a pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273 was released to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the...

Top: a distorted spiral galaxy. One of its spiral arms extends in a sweeping arc below the galaxy. Below this spiral is another edge-on galaxy extending from the lower left toward image center.

This illustration depicts the gaseous halo of the Andromeda galaxy if it could be seen with the naked eye. At...

Bottom half of image: black silhouette of the landscape. Above the silhouette is a star-filled sky against a bluish-grey background. Right half of the sky is glowing purple-pink.

This animation displays the rotation of comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) shortly after its pass by the Sun. The two images...

Animated gif of Comet Neowise. Bright-white spot at image center on a black background. Grey clouds of gas surround the comet at center and change shape through the video.

Operations Manager Dave Haskins (front) and Chief System Engineer for Flight Larry Dunham monitor a test of new procedures for...

Two men discuss an activity surrounded by computer monitors in the Hubble operations room

July 15, 2021 - NASA Begins Switch to Backup Spacecraft Hardware Today, NASA began a switch to backup spacecraft hardware...

Three people discussing spacecraft operations in the control room for the Hubble Space Telescope.

System engineering manager Dan Smith discusses preparations for returning the Hubble Space Telescope spacecraft control to its main computer. The...

A row of people talking at a console of computers in the Hubble Space Telescope Operations Support Room

Screen shot from the interactive, virtual Hubble application.

Hubble floating over the earth in an interactive virtual application

Hubble Space Telescope 360-degree virtual tour.

A Youtube 360 degree video with the opening screen for the Hubble Space Telescope tour.

Hubble's history in an interactive timeline.

This image shows a screenshot of the Hubble History Timeline, displaying an image of the Crab Nebula's pulsar alongside descriptive text.

Hubble’s Pointing Control System relies upon Fine Guidance Sensors to accurately measure the position of guide stars and thereby detect...

The front of a standard NASA fact sheet that focuses on Hubble's fine guidance sensors.

The Hubble Space Telescope encountered a local group of photobombers while capturing this breathtaking image of a galaxy cluster known...

Curves and s-shaped lines seen on an image of a galaxy cluster.

Hubble's 30th anniversary image of the Cosmic Reef is seen here on the front of a NASA lithograph.

The front of a "lithograph" that contains a picture of a nebula framed. Lithos are two sided files with an image on the front and explanatory text on the back.

The image captures a frame of the sonification of NGC 1569 - the converting of Hubble image data to sound.

A bright red galaxy shines near the top of the image, with a line horizontally stretching and jutting across the image to signify a sonification being played.

In this Inside the Image series video, Dr. Brian Welch explains the discovery of the farthest star every imaged by...

Scientist sits and points to a screen with a Hubble image while he discusses the science.

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST), with its normal routine temporarily interrupted, is berthed in the cargo bay of the Space...

The Hubble Space Telescope is seen washed in gold hues from the sun, against black space and the curve of the Earth behind it.

This is the first direct image of a star other than the Sun, made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Called...

This image has three panels: one on the right, taking up about half the image, and two stacked on the left. In the upper left is a Hubble image of Betelgeuse. The star looks like a glowing ball of yellow light with a bright yellow circle in the center that fades outward to a dark orange. The outer edges appear hazy. Below the image of Betelgeuse are three scale bars. The first shows the size of the star as seen in the Hubble image above. Below that is a scale bar showing the size of Earth’s orbit, which is about a 15% the length of the star’s size. Finally, the last scale bar shows the orbit of Jupiter, which is about 70% as long as the star’s size. The panel on the right shows a black background with many stars of different sizes dotted around the image. The stars of Orion are called out with light white lines drawn between the major stars. An arrow points to one star at the upper left, the location of Betelgeuse.

The first slide of the Hubble Astronaut trivia game.

A title slide that says "astronaut Fun Facts"

A galaxy, large and occupying most of the view from the center. The whole galaxy is made of smooth, diffuse light. In the center it is brighter and bluer, fading to a pale gray halo that is faint and see-through. The light forms an arm on one side that curls around the top. A couple threads of dark dust cross the center. Many stars shine around the galaxy, on a black background.

NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand; Sonification: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)

Credits: NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand; Sonification: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)

NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand; Sonification: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI; Sonification: NASA/CXC/SAO/K. Arcand, M. Russo & A. Santaguida

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Sonification: NASA/CXC/SAO/K. Arcand, M. Russo & A. Santaguida

NASA/Hubble; Sonification: SYSTEM Sounds (Matt Russo, Andrew Santaguida)

NASA/ESA/G. Piotto; Processing: Gladys Kober; Sonification: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)

NASA, ESA, H. Teplitz and M. Rafelski (IPAC/Caltech), A. Koekemoer (STScI), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), and Z. Levay (STScI);...

NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand; Sonification: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida

NASA, Andrew Fruchter and the ERO Team (Sylvia Baggett [STScI], Richard Hook [ST-ECF], Zoltan Levay [STScI]);Sonification: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo,...

NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team; Sonification: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)

NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Sonification: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)

NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: Ray A. Lucas (STScI/AURA); Sonification: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)

NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and A. Aloisi (STScI/ESA); Sonification: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)

X-ray (Chandra): NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical (Hubble): NASA/ESA/STScI; Radio (ALMA): ESO/NAOJ/NRAO; Sonification: NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand, SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)

Image: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: P. Knezek (WIYN); Sonification: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)

NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain); Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble); Sonification: SYSTEM Sounds...

NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-Hubble/Europe Collaboration; Acknowledgment: H. Bond (STScI and Pennsylvania State University); Sonification: SYSTEM Sounds...

NASA, ESA, H.E. Bond (STScI) and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA);Sonification: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)

Astronaut Mike Massimino works to remove and replace Hubble’s Rate Sensor Units, which contain the telescope’s gyroscopes, during Servicing Mission...

Astronaut Mike Massimino inside one of Hubble's instrument bays (left of center). Instrument Specialists, Michael Good (center) is standing on the Manipulator Foot Restraint, which is connected to the Shuttle Remote Manipulator System/Canadarm Latching End Effector. The Canadarm is white and extends from the upper right corner to the bottom center.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has explored the universe since the early 1990s, gathering visible, near-ultraviolet, and near-infrared imagery and spectra....

Kathryn C. Thornton lifts the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR) on STS-61 prior to its installation into the...

An astronaut on the end of the Shuttle's robotic arm moves COSTAR toward Hubble for installtion.

Astronauts Steven L. Smith and John M. Grunsfeld, appear as small figures in this wide-angle photograph taken during an extravehicular...

Two astronauts work inside the bottom of Hubble while flying over the earth.

Official astronaut portrait of Kathy Thornton.

Official astronaut portrait of Kathryn Thornton.

Official astronaut portrait of Joe Tanner.

Official astronaut portrait of Steven Smith.

Official astronaut portrait of Loren Shriver.

Official portrait of ESA astronaut Claude Nicollier.

Official astronaut portrait of Claude Nicollier.

Official astronaut portrait of James Newman.

Official astronaut portrait of F Story Musgrave.

Official astronaut portrait of Story Musgrave.

Official astronaut portrait of Michael Massimino.

Official astronaut portrait of Richard Linnehan.

Official astronaut portrait of Mark Lee.

Official astronaut portrait of Scott Kelly.

Official astronaut portrait of Gregory Johnson.

Official astronaut portrait of Scott Horowitz.

Official astronaut portrait of Jeffrey Hoffman.

Official astronaut portrait of Steven Hawley.

Official astronaut portrait of Gregory Harbaugh.

Official astronaut portrait of Michael Good.

Official astronaut portrait of C. Michael Foale.

Official astronaut portrait of Michael Foale.

Official astronaut portrait of Andrew Feustel.

Official astronaut portrait of Richard Covey

Official portrait of ESA astronaut Jean-Francois Clervoy.

Official astronaut portrait of Jean-Francois Clervoy.

Official astronaut portrait of Duane Carey.

Official astronaut portrait of Curtis Brown.

Astronaut Curtis Brown's official portrait.

Official astronaut portrait of Kenneth Bowersox.

Astronaut Kenneth Bowersox, in his official portrait, holding a model of the space shuttle Discovery.

Official astronaut portrait of Nancy Currie.

This Hubble Space Telescope view of galaxy NGC 7457, was taken on August 17, 1990 with the Wide Field and...

A black and white image with two sections. The left shows a white dot surrounded by an dimmer oval haze of light. The right shows a bright hazy white oval of light, brighter and more solid in the middle and becoming fuzzy as it progresses outward.

Astronomer Lyman Spitzer envisioned a future for space exploration that deepened humanity’s curiosity about the cosmos. A visionary behind the...

The teeming stars of the globular cluster NGC 6544 glisten in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This...

A cluster of stars in warm and cool colors. The whole view is filled with small stars, which become much denser and brighter around a core just right of center. Most of the stars are small, but some are larger with a round, brightly colored glow and four sharp diffraction spikes. Behind the stars, a dark background can be seen.

Ella peers through a telescope at the star party, held the night before crowds come to watch the total solar...

After sunset, with oranges and pinks in the darkening sky, a young person appears in silhouette, looking through a telescope, pointed toward right. A group of adults, also in silhouette, are visible in the background.

Several hundred never before seen galaxies are visible in this deepest-ever view of the universe, called the Hubble Deep Field,...

The image is filled with galaxies of various shapes and sizes. Their colors include red, orange, yellow, white, and blue.

Lower half of Jupiter. Cloud bands of rusty-orange, dull yellow, white, and brown. Swirling ovals and turbulent waves of clouds bound by the bands. Yellow-orange moon, Io, just right of center. It casts its shadow toward the planet's left limb.

2 views: Uranus, on its side, colored cyan with pinkish-gray limb. Left 2014: faint, pinkish bands run nearly vertically, white cloud splotches dot right half. Right 2022: faint, pink ring almost face on, large area of white covers planet's right side.

2 Jupiter views. Left Nov 2022: rusty-orange, yellow, and cream cloud bands with whitish ovals. Io is right of center, casting black shadow to far left. Right Jan 2023: Great Red Spot is prominent. Ganymede is gray orb crossing Jupiter’s face.

This graphic shows how microlensing was used to measure the mass of a white dwarf star. The dwarf, called LAWD...

Black background with stars. Image center: blue-white star (LAWD 37) surrounded by horizontal rectangle that indicates the area highlighted in an inset box. Inset box illustrates the path of LAWD 37 and the position of the background star relative to it.

This artist's illustration shows how the gravity of a foreground white dwarf star warps space and bends the light of...

Illustration center: blue-white star (white dwarf) rests on a grid representing the fabric of spacetime. Lower right of white dwarf: illustration of Hubble. Above white dwarf: the actual and observed position of the gravitationally lensed star.

These three Hubble images capture the breakup of the asteroid Dimorphos when it was deliberately hit by NASA's 1,200-pound Double...

Top (+1.9 hours): bright-white core surrounded by blue cloud. Ejecta Cone rising vertically. Middle (+1.7 days): Blue cloud extended at 2 and 7 o'clock. Ejecta cone curving to the right. Bottom (+11.9 days): double tail formed to the right of bright core.

This Hubble image is from October 8, 2022, 11.9 days after impact. A double tail formed to the right of...

Small white dot left of center. An irregularly-shaped blue haze surrounds it. A long blue tail trails off to the right.

This movie captures the breakup of the asteroid Dimorphos when it was deliberately hit by NASA's 1,200-pound Double Asteroid Redirection...

Since their discovery by NASA's Voyager mission in the 1980s, temporary "spoke" features across Saturn's rings have fascinated scientists, yet...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observation time devoted to Saturn each year, thanks to the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL)...

This is a composite image showing the Saturn Lyman-alpha bulge, and emission from hydrogen which is a persistent and unexpected...

Blue, tilted, oblate sphere that is striped with dark blue, light blue, and white bands that run from the upper left of the sphere to the lower right.

The class of 2023 NHFP Fellows are shown in this photo montage (left to right, top to bottom): The Einstein...

Honeycomb of with each cell holding the smiling face of one of the 24 NASA Hubble 2023 Postdoctoral Fellows.

A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of a pair of quasars that existed when the universe was just 3 billion years...

A Hubble photograph of two, closely spaced, white objects, one above and to the left of the other. Each is surrounded by a diffuse orange ring with small orange rays. Black background with very faint brownish orange splotches.

This artist's concept shows the brilliant glare of two quasars residing in the cores of two galaxies that are in...

Artist concept: Two merging galaxies have a light blue glow overlaid by brownish-gold clouds set against a black, deep-space field. Two quasars are closely spaced, white objects at the merger's center: one above and to the right of the other.

This Hubble Space Telescope archival photo captures a curious linear feature that is so unusual it was first dismissed as...

Hubble image of black, deep-space field with white, yellow, and reddish galaxies. Image center: small, white-bordered, boxed area that contains one, long, thin, diagonal streak of whitish-blue stars. Two galaxies also reside within the box.

There’s an invisible monster on the loose! It’s barreling through intergalactic space fast enough to travel from Earth to the...

This animation begins with a Hubble Space Telescope photo of the huge elliptical galaxy M87. It then fades to a...

NASA is celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope’s 33rd birthday with an ethereal image of a nearby star-forming region, NGC 1333....

Comparison images from the Hubble Space Telescope, taken several years apart, have uncovered two eerie shadows moving counterclockwise across a...

Two frames: 2016 (left), 2021 (right). Both hold reddish-white inner ring with dark center and broader, fuzzier, and fainter reddish outer ring. Left: shadow at 11:00 o'clock labeled A. Right: two shadows at 11:00 o'clock and 7:00 o'clock, labeled B & C.

This artist's concept is based on Hubble Space Telescope images of gas-and-dust disks around the young star TW Hydrae. Hubble...

Artist's concept: 3 concentric rings of dust and gas. At center: a glowing sphere. Reddish-colored rings inclined to each other due to gravity of unseen planets warping the disk, casting shadows across the outermost ring at 11 o'clock and 12 o'clock.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center; Lead Producer: Paul Morris; Computer Representation of the Stellar Motions in the Core of M4:...

Two blue-white, comma-shaped galaxies: at upper-right and lower-left of center. Streams of diffuse gas stretch between them. Areas of reddish-brown dust dot galaxy at left, less so on galaxy at right. Black background dotted with stars, distant galaxies.

The lenticular galaxy NGC 5283 is the subject of this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC 5283 contains an active...

Lower left: Bright-white sphere of stars that is more diffuse toward its edges. Band of brown streaks arcs from the sphere's lower left to upper right where a face-on barred spiral galaxy shines in the distance. Black background dotted with stars.

This Hubble image looks at of one of NGC 4395's spiral arms. The image uses data from Hubble's Wide Field...

A patriotic groups of red, white, and blue stars, gas, and dust fills the scene on a black background. Groups of stars and gas are denser at image center. One lone yellow star shines toward the lower right.

The larger Hubble image shows the central region of NGC 4395 along with a smaller Digital Sky Survey inset image,...

Bright white, pink, and blue stars and gas, concentrated in the lower left of the frame. Black background. Lower Left: small image of NGC 4395 that shows the location of larger Hubble image.

This Hubble image shows the central region of NGC 4395. The image uses data from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3.

Bright white, pink, and blue stars and gas, concentrated in the lower left of the frame. They spiral outward from the lower-left corner. Black background.

A collection of oval-shaped, elliptical galaxies. The largest has two neighboring bright spots in the core. It and two others look like galaxy clusters, with surrounding smaller galaxies. On the left edge of the image are two bright stars with four long spikes, and on the right edge is a small ring-shaped galaxy. Smaller stars and galaxies are spread evenly across the dark background.

A spiral galaxy. Its spiral arms are studded with many pink spots, especially around the top of the galaxy. One arm is sticking out below the galaxy. From it and around the bottom of the galaxy, faint gas streams away, while little gas is visible above the galaxy. The galaxy is quite small in the center of a dark background, where a few smaller galaxies of various shapes and sizes hang.

A cluster of large galaxies, surrounded by various stars and smaller galaxies on a dark background. The central cluster is mostly made of bright elliptical galaxies that are surrounded by a warm glow. Close to the cluster core is the stretched, distorted arc of a galaxy, gravitationally lensed by the cluster.

A spiral galaxy. It is large in the center with a lot of detail visible. The core glows brightly and is surrounded by concentric rings of dark and light dust. The spiral arms are thick and puffy with grey dust and glowing blue areas of star formation. They wrap around the galaxy to form a ring. Part of the arm is drawn out into a dark thread above the galaxy, and dust from the arm trails off to the right.

A galaxy fills up most of the frame from the right. It is fuzzy and diffuse but made up of numerous tiny stars. In the core, the stars merge into a glowing bar shape. The gas and stars in the galaxy vary between warm and cool colors. They are spread over a large area, the colors mixing like clouds. The glow of the galaxy fades into a black background, with a few stars and small, distant galaxies.

A spiral galaxy that is tilted partially toward us. Its inner disc is bright and colorful, with bluish and reddish spots of star formation throughout the arms. An outer disc of pale, dim dust surrounds it. It has many arms, which are being pulled away from the disc, down and to the right. They stretch into long, faint trails that cross the image. The background is dark and mostly empty, with three bright stars.

Astronomers are using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras — stunning light shows in a planet’s atmosphere —...

The planet Jupiter is seen against black space. At the planet's northern pole, its aurorae are seen as a bright blue whirl of light.

Bright-white galaxy stretching across the center of the frame from left to right. The galaxy's core is brightest at image center. Filaments of reddish-brown gas and dust follow the arc of the galaxy's curve. All on a black background dotted with stars.

A large spiral galaxy. It has many narrow arms that are tightly-twisted in the center, but at the ends they point out in different directions. The galaxy’s core glows brightly, while its disc is mostly faint, but with bright blue spots throughout the arms. A few smaller spiral galaxies at varying angles are visible in front, and it is surrounded by other tiny stars and galaxies, on a black background.

A spiral galaxy in the center is tilted almost edge-on. The bright core and spiral arms can just be seen from the top. A slight glow surrounds it. Below, strands made of bright blue patches trail down like tentacles. On the left it is just touched by a second, faint and dim galaxy. The background is very dark, with only a few other stars and tiny galaxies visible.

A spiral galaxy. It has two almost-straight arms coming from the left and right of the core that meet a starry ring around the galaxy’s edge. The ring is bluish in color, and the core is golden and shining. A faint halo of light also surrounds the galaxy. There is one bright star with many diffraction spikes, and a few small stars all around on a black background.

A thin spiral galaxy is seen edge-on in the lower right. Its bulge and arms are very bright, mixing reddish and bluish light. Patchy blue trails extend below it, resembling tentacles, made from star-forming regions. Six small, reddish elliptical galaxies are scattered around. A very large elliptical galaxy with two cores sits by the top of the frame.

A wide band of bluish light extends from the center of the image to the right side. It is speckled with many tiny stars, and a few small, bright red bubbles of gas, identifying it as a galaxy. The background is black, and has small galaxies and stars spread around. Most are too small to distinguish, except for two oval-shaped galaxies, each having a hazy glow around a bright center.

A spiral galaxy. It is irregularly-shaped and its spiral arms are difficult to distinguish. The edges are faint and the core has a pale glow. It is dotted with small, wispy, pink regions where stars are forming. A few stars and small galaxies in warm colors are visible around it.

Wispy, nebulous clouds extend from the lower-left of the image. At the top and right the dark background of space can be seen through the sparse nebula. Along the left and in the corner are many layers of brightly-colored gas and dark, obscuring dust. A cluster of small, bright blue stars in the same corner expands out across the image. Many much smaller stars cover the background.

A black, mostly empty field with a variety of stars and galaxies spread across it. Most are very small. A couple of galaxies and stars are larger with visible details. In the centre is a relatively small, irregularly-shaped galaxy; it is formed of many very small stars and a few slightly larger, bright stars, all surrounded by a very faint glow that marks the borders of the galaxy.

Three galaxies stand together just right of centre. They are close enough that they appear to be merging into one. Their shapes are distorted, with strands of gas and dust running between them. Each is emitting a lot of light. Further to the left is an unconnected, dimmer spiral galaxy. The background is dark, with a few smaller, dim and faint galaxies and a couple of stars.

This is an artist’s impression of a Kuiper Belt object (KBO), located on the outer rim of our solar system...

This picture shows a comparison of images of the same region of the sky obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope...

This star chart for M109 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Black background with stars and the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor outlined. Looking north in May at 10pm.

At around 60 million light-years from Earth, the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365 is captured beautifully in this image...

The Hubble Space Telescope Project's outreach team leads the dissemination of Hubble info to the world via outreach events, world...

Ten outreach team members standing and sitting posing in front of a scaled model of the Hubble Space Telescope.

This spectacular image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the trailing arms of NGC 2276, a spiral galaxy 120...

Spirals of gas and dsut emenate from a central point in a spiral galaxy

This star chart for M12 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Locator sky chart for Messier 12. Black background with stars and constellation outlines. Constellations include Ophiuchus (top center) and Scorpius (bottom center).

This star chart for M7 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A starchart that shows the location of M7 in the constellation Scorpius above the southern horizon in August at 10 pm.

The smaller, ground-based image (lower left) taken by the European Southern Observatory, illustrates the small area of Messier 7 that...

Lower left: small image, faint stars on a black background. Larger blue-white stars dot the scene but are concentrated at image center. Right side: A black background is filled with small, reddish-orange stars and scattered with larger blue-white stars.

Visible right next to the stinger of the scorpion in the constellation Scorpius, Messier 7 is an easy naked-eye target...

A black background is filled with small, reddish-orange stars. Larger blue-white stars are scattered across the image, with a slightly higher concentration at upper left.

Though fragile comet nuclei have been seen falling apart as they near the Sun, nothing like the slow breakup of...

Two large and one smaller bright, blue-white dots surrounded with a blue cloud.

Hubble Space Telescope Solar Array, Secondary Deployment test. View Of Blanket Deployed On Water Table-(MIX FILE)

Engineers and technicians prepare the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera instrument for installation into the telescope at...

A group of white-clad and helmeted workers are seen from above as they work on Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera in a clean room.

Technicians inspect Hubble’s primary mirror prior to its installation in the telescope.

Technicians in blue suits and masks cluster around and are reflected in Hubble’s primary mirror while they inspect it.

Hubble is assembled in the clean room of the Lockheed Missile Space Company. The Optical Telescope Assembly (OTA), which contains...

A white-garbed worker wearing a helmet climbs a ladder to reach a portion of the Hubble Space Telescope under assembly in a clean room.

Technicians peer into the interior of the Hubble Space Telescope, under construction in the clean room of the Lockheed Missile...

A partially constructed Hubble telescope is surrounded by scaffolding in a clean room. Technicians peer into a dark square opening at its base.

Backlit wisps along the Horsehead Nebula upper ridge are being illuminated by Sigma Orionis, a young five-star system just off...

Hubble’s Spirograph In this classic Hubble image from 2000, the planetary nebula IC 418 glows like a multifaceted jewel with...

This Hubble telescope snapshot of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula, reveals that the object has an hourglass shape with an...

Image released 11 Aug 2011. The "Necklace Nebula" is located 15,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagitta (the Arrow). In...

This is a color Hubble Space Telescope (HST) heritage image of supernova remnant N49, a neighboring galaxy, that was taken...

This image shows a composite view of the Crab nebula, an iconic supernova remnant in our Milky Way galaxy, as...

This shot from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of...

NASA Hubble Space Telescope captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten...

NASA Hubble peers into a small portion of the nebula near the star cluster NGC 2074. The region is a...

Venus Cloud Tops Viewed by Hubble. This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, taken...

Hubble Captures Best View of Mars Ever Obtained from Earth

Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - Full Disk

Saturn from Far and Near Hubble Space Telescope

Several hundred never before seen galaxies are visible in this deepest-ever view of the universe, called the Hubble Deep Field,...

Hundreds of galaxies of all shapes and sizes shining against the dark background of space.

This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of a concentration of stars within the globular cluster NGC 6752. Hidden among...

Resembling an opulent diamond tapestry, this image from NASA Hubble Space Telescope shows a glittering star cluster that contains a...

In the center of this image from the Hubble Space Telescope, partially obscured by a dark cloud of dust, a...

A delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy. This image, taken by NASA Hubble Space Telescope, is a...

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured for the first time snapshots of fledging white dwarf stars beginning their...

Stars in white and orange hues crowd the image, more concentrated toward the center.

Morphologies, masses, and structures - oh, my! This beautiful clump of glowing gas, dark dust and glittering stars is the...

This Picture of the Week revisits the Veil Nebula, a popular subject for Hubble images! This object was featured in...

Colorful wisps of dust and gas appear diagonally from lower left to upper right ot the image, set against the black backdrop of space.

This 1986 artist's concept depicts Hubble in space after being deployed by the space shuttle.

Illustration of Hubble being deployed in space from a space shuttle orbiting Earth.

Jeffrey A. Hoffman is reflected in the helmet visor of F. Story Musgrave as Hoffman photographs the veteran astronaut during...

Astronaut in a white space suit in space taking a selfie with Hubble in the photo.

Hubble captured this stunning view of spiral galaxy Messier 101 (M101), which is also called the Pinwheel Galaxy.

Looking like a pinwheel, this face-on spiral galaxy holds a bright-white core at image center. Arms curve outward from the core. They hold dark dust lanes and bright star-forming regions. All on a black background dotted with stars.

Astronauts James H. Newman and Michael J. Massimino participate in the fourth extravehicular activity (EVA) of the STS-109 mission. The...

Two astronauts in white space suits in the space shuttle bay replacing instruments on Hubble in space

The jellyfish galaxy JW39 hangs serenely in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

This is a temperature map of exoplanet WASP-43b. The gas giant planet orbits very close to its parent star with...

Top two-thirds of the image holds a bright-light-yellow star at center. Around the star is the oval orbit of the planet. Points along the orbit indicate the planet's location and temperature measurements. The bottom third of the image holds four spheres, close-ups of the individual temperature maps.

Hubble’s sensitivity to ultraviolet light reveals radiation from super-heated gas falling onto a world called PDS 70b. The glare of...

Blue background. Center of image is a disk blocking the light of a star. Below and just to the left of the disk, at about seven o'clock, is a bright white point. This is PDS 70b.

The image illustrates a perfect case of sequential star formation in a nearby galaxy where new star birth is being...

Field is filled with a rusty-orange cloud. To the right of the image, along the top edge, are several smaller dark clouds of interstellar dust with odd and intriguing shapes. They are silhouetted against the glowing interstellar gas. Several of these dark clouds are bright-rimmed because they are illuminated and are being evaporated by radiation from neighboring hot stars.

Colorful nebulae are signposts of star formation. Those beautiful clouds shine by the light of enormous young stars within them....

Left: This Hubble image of the asteroid Vesta was taken in May 1996 when the asteroid was 110 million miles...

Upper left: a mottled grey and white spheroid. Center: Vesta's crater is revealed in colors of red, yellow, green, blue, and white. Right: a mottled spheroid, darker than the one at left, in grey, white, and black.

VESTA (RIGHT) To prepare for the Dawn spacecraft's visit to Vesta, astronomers used Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 to...

Left: mottled spheroid in colors of white, grey, and tan. Left: mottled spheroid mainly bluish-grey and white with a slight some tan areas.

Though fragile comet nuclei have been seen falling apart as they near the Sun, nothing like the slow breakup of...

Black background. Five bright, blue-white dots clustered near the image center. Three are exactly at image center, one is above and to the left of center, the final one is below and to the right of center. The dots are surrounded by a blue haze.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on...

Light blue, fuzzy, X-shape at center left. The X has a tail of light blue material that trails off to the upper right. All on a black background.

An Asteroid That Split in Two 5,000 Years Ago Is Spouting a Comet Tail Astronomers categorize the minor bodies in...

Five, rectangular images stacked on top of each other. Each image holds two bright-white points surrounded by blue gas with a blue tail.

HST in orbit shot 2

Left is the Hubble Space Telescope. Right is the James Webb Space Telescope. Title text is white and says, "Hubble vs. Webb". Background image is Hubble's view of Mystic Mountain, star-forming pillars and Herbig-Haro Objects with Jets in the vast Carina Nebula. The background image is faded and shaded light blue.

Illustration of the Hubble Space Telescope (left) and the James Webb Space Telescope (right) on a grey background.

Screenshot of the "Name That Nebula" game.

An astronaut stands in front of a background of a nebula against a deep field of galaxies. The words "Name That Nebula" hovers above.

A screen displays the text "Select Your Birth Date" with the option to choose a month and day and submit.

Overall size comparison of Webb and Hubble.

Illustration of the Webb space telescope on the left and the Hubble space telescope on the right.

Cluster NGC 3532 is near the Carina Nebula, a vast star-forming region shown in this Hubble Space Telescope composite image.

STS-125 Mission Specialist 3 (MS3) John Grunsfeld, positioned on the Shuttle Remote Manipulator System (SRMS) Manipulator Foot Restraint (MFR), and...

Two astronauts in white space suits tethered on a robotic arm servicing the Hubble Space Telescope in space.

Two tools developed for on-orbit repair: the fastener capture plate for the STIS repair and the mini power tool with...

Mini power tool being used to fasten a capture plate.

STS-125 Mission Specialist 4 (MS4) Mike Massimino smiles for a photo during the mission's fourth session of extravehicular activity (EVA4)....

Astronaut in a white space suit smiling in a selfie with a crewmate, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Earth in the background.

Astronaut Richard M. (Rick) Linnehan, mission specialist, waves to crewmates inside the Space Shuttle Columbia's crew cabin as he participates...

Astronaut in white space suit waving to the camera outside of the Hubble Space Telescope floating in space.

One of the solar panels of the Hubble Space Telescope is pictured 350 miles above Pacific Ocean clouds southwest of...

Gold solar array in foreground and Earth in the background.

Steven L. Smith, STS-103 payload commander, waves to a crewmate located inside the Space Shuttle Discovery's cabin during the first...

Astronaut in a white space suit tethered to the Hubble Space Telescope floating in space.

This image shows the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) being berthed in Discovery's payload bay on Dec. 21, 1999. The photo...

View from out of a shuttle window of the Hubble Space Telescope in space with the Earth in the background.

The NICMOS instrument onboard Hubble.

This is a diagram of the NICMOS instrument.

Astronaut Steve Smith carefully removes STIS from the protective enclosure that carried it into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.

Astronaut in a white space suit on EVA in space removing a black box from the shuttle bay.

Backdropped against the aft end of Discovery's cargo bay, Mark C. Lee, STS-82 payload commander, sets up equipment during the...

Astronaut in a white space suit in space doing maintenance on the Hubble Space Telescope with the shuttle Discovery's cargo bay door open.

In this April 25, 1990, photograph taken by the crew of the STS-31 space shuttle mission, the Hubble Space Telescope...

Hubble Space Telescope being deployed in space from the the shuttle Discovery's cargo bay, the Earth in the background.

STS-125 Mission Specialist 1 (MS1) Michael Good, positioned on a foot restraint on the end of Space Shuttle Atlantis' Remote...

Two astronauts in white space suits on an EVA working to maintain the Hubble Space Telescope.

With his feet secured on a platform connected to the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) robotic arm of the Space Shuttle...

Two astronauts in white suits on an EVA replacing instruments on the Hubble space telescope.

Steven L. Smith waves to his in-cabin Discovery crewmates while working during the third day of extravehicular activity (EVA) to...

Astronaut on an EVA in a white space suit waving while working on the Hubble space telescope.

Astronaut John Grunsfeld works to replace Hubble’s Support Systems Module Equipment Section Bay 3 battery.

Astronaut in a white suit on a white mechanical arm replacing equipment

This artist's concept is based on Hubble Space Telescope images of gas-and-dust disks around the young star TW Hydrae. Hubble...

Detailed images of the nearby star Beta Pictoris, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, confirm the existence of not one...

Annotated image. Dark sphere at center. At the equator of the sphere, a line of orangish-pink extends from both sides of the planet. A fainter line also extends from both sides of the planet. It is inclined slightly to the planet's equator.

This atlas features 30 proplyds, or protoplanetary discs, that were recently discovered in the majestic Orion Nebula. Using the wide...

Thirty proplyds in a 6 by 5 grid. Each one is unique. Some look like tadpoles, others like bright points in a cloudy disk.

The “Antennae Galaxies,” NGC 4038 and 4039, are spiral galaxies in the process of merging. The bright knots in the...

Hubble Discovers Moon Orbiting Dwarf Planet Makemake Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center; Producer: Katrina Jackson

Without warning, a mystery object struck Jupiter on July 19, 2009, leaving a dark bruise the size of the Pacific...

The orange and yellow clouds of a close-up view of Jupiter fill the image. A dark marron elongated oval reveals the site of an asteroid impact.

Astronomers combined ultraviolet images of Saturn's southern polar region with visible-light images of the planet and its rings to make...

Yellow, rust, and white bands visible on Saturn. The planet is tilted, such that its rings extend from upper-left to lower-right. A blue-white, glowing ring (the auroras) is visible at the bottom of the planet's sphere. All on a black background.

Hubble directly images possible plumes on Europa. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center; Producer: Katrina Jackson

A gush of light unleashed by the explosive death of a star is the gift that keeps on giving. The...

Animated gif of a white star brightening at center of the image. The light pulse expands outward in rings of gas and dust that are illuminated. Background is bluish-grey and filled with stars. Dark brown clouds seem to be in the foreground.

A gush of light unleashed by the explosive death of a star is the gift that keeps on giving. The...

In January 2002, a red supergiant star named V838 Monocerotis expanded very quickly, heating the surrounding interstellar dust to extreme,...

The densely packed globular cluster NGC 6325 glistens in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This concentrated group...

A dense cluster of bright stars. The core of the cluster is to the left and has a distinct group of blue stars. Surrounding the core are a multitude of stars in warmer colors. These stars are very numerous near the core and become more sparse, as well as more small and distant, out to the sides of the image. A few larger stars also stand in the foreground near the edges of the image.]

This is the most detailed view to date of the entire surface of the dwarf planet Pluto, as constructed from...

Three views of Pluto. Three mottled circles in colors of yellow, grey, rusty-orange, and black.

Portrait of astronomer Alan Stern, Principal Investigator, NASA's New Horizons Mission

Portrait of astronomer Alan Stern in a black suit set against a blue background

Hubble in space, two golden solar arrays on either side with the blackness of space behind it.

This photo, taken during Servicing Mission 3B, shows one of Hubble’s two high-gain antennas (black dish near center) in the...

Hubble space telescope orbiting the Earth focusing on the black high-gain antenna

One of Hubble's Fine Guidance Sensors is being exchanged by astronaut Gregory J. Harbaugh during the Servicing Mission 2. Gregory...

Astronauts holding equipment with Hubble behind them in space.

This is an image of a technician holding the ACS WFP CCD.

This image was recorded from close range as the astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery prepared to capture the Hubble...

Hubble space telescope floating in space

This image illustrates the overall Hubble Space Telescope (HST) configuration. Hubble is the product of a partnership between NASA, the...

Illustrated diagram of the Hubble Space Telescope with labeling of instruments and components of the telescope.

A small, dense cloud of gas and dust called CB 130-3 blots out the center of this image from the...

The image shows an irregularly-shaped bright orange object composed of dense gas and dust, which appears darker and more compact at the centre. This dense cloud, called CB 130-3, is outlined by thinner gas and dust in light shades of blue. The background shows a multitude of bright stars against a black background.

Two decades ago, astronomers spotted one of the brightest exploding stars in more than 400 years. Since that first sighting,...

A string of pinkish pearls surrounds an exploded star. Black background dotted with stars. Two bright stars, with diffraction spikes, at lower left and upper right of the ring.

Official astronaut portrait of Megan McArthur.

Photo of astronaut Megan McArthur in her orange spacesuit. American flag is behind her.

Charles Bolden Astronaut Photo

Photo of astronaut Charles Bolden in his orange spacesuit. American flag is behind him.

Scott Altman Astronaut Photo

Photo of astronaut Scott Altman in his orange spacesuit. American flag is behind him.

Thomas Akers Photo in spacesuit

Photo of astronaut Thomas Akers in his spacesuit. American flag is behind him.

Astronaut Andrew Feustel, positioned on the Manipulator Foot Restraint, moves the Hubble Space Telescope Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement...

Two Hubble astronauts working during Servicing Mission 4. One of the astronauts is carrying a large silver box, about the size of a telephone booth. He is standing on the long robotic CANADARM, to his left there is another astronaut, sideways and working inside Hubble, which has two giant bay doors open at the bottom.

John M. Grunsfeld, STS-109 payload commander, works in tandem with Richard M. Linnehan, mission specialist, as the two devote their...

Two astronauts working on Hubble while in space. One astronaut is on the left, holding on to the lower handrail of Hubble. The astronaut on the right is standing on top of the CANADARM, a long robotic arm, he works on the center bottom of Hubble. In the distance behind Hubble, the blue Earth is visible with wisps of white clouds.

Astronaut Claude Nicollier, mission specialist from the European Space Agency (ESA), works at a storage enclosure, using one of the...

An astronaut holding the Pistol Grip Tool, which looks like an electric screwdriver. The astronaut's face is visible through his visor, he is smiling. He stands next to a large gold box with a bit of the Shuttle visible behind him.

Mark C. Lee (top with red stripe), payload commander, on the end of the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm, performs...

Astronaut standing on the extended robotic arm. On the left there is Hubble, which the astronaut is touching as part of the repair.

Kathryn C. Thornton, on the end of the Space Shuttle Endeavour's Remote Manipulator System arm, hovers over equipment for servicing...

Astronaut floating with the blue Earth in the background. Hubble and one of its solar arrays is visible, as is the space shuttle at the bottom of the image.

Hubble Deployment from the 1990 Discovery Mission. Imax Image.

Image taken of the 1990 deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble, bright and silver, reflects the Earth below, on either side of Hubble there are two golden solar arrays. At the bottom of the picture you can see the body of the Space Shuttle Discovery as well as the grapple arm letting go of Hubble.

Hubble STS-31 Crew Patch for the 1990 Deployment mission aboard Discovery.

Hubble Crew patch. Oval patch with "Shriver, Bolden, Hawley, McCandless, Sullivan" written on the border. These are the names of the astronauts on the mission. Inside the patch we see the Shuttle swooping in front of a black background, with Hubble in the image as well.

Hubble Servicing Mission 1 (SM1) Patch from the 1993 mission.

Hubble Servicing Mission One Mission Patch. Circular patch with a red border with the words "Hubble Space Telescope" on the top, and "Industry, NASA, ESA, Universities" at the bottom. The inner portion of the patch is blue with stars, and it shows the Shuttle swooping from the Earth, capturing Hubble, with big bold "HST Servicing Mission" written.

This visualization zooms into the Orion Nebula and then flies through a 3D model using both visible light (Hubble Space...

These seven astronauts took a break from training to pose for the STS-125 crew portrait. From the left are astronauts...

Seven astronauts--six men and one woman--stand in a line in orange astronaut suits, a few of them holding their helmets, with an image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field in the background.

Seven astronauts take a break from training for the STS-109 mission to pose for the traditional pre-flight crew portrait. From...

Seven astronauts in orange space suits stand in a line. The dusty arm of a spiral galaxy disc hovers above their heads in the backdrop.

The crew assigned to the STS-82 mission included (seated front left to right) Kenneth D. Bowersox, commander; Steven A. Hawley,...

Seven astronauts wear blue T-shirts and white pants; four men stand in the back row, and three sit at at able in the front row. On the far left is a US flag, and on the right is a model of Hubble.

These seven astronauts were assigned as crew members for NASA's third servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST): from...

Seven astronauts in orange space suits stand in a line. A spiral galaxy hovers above their heads in the backdrop.

Astronaut Richard O. Covey, mission commander, is standing at left, with astronaut Kenneth D. Bowersox, pilot, seated at left. The...

Seven astronauts wear blue T-shirts: three men standing in the back row, and three men and one woman sitting at the table in the front row. On either side of them are US and ESA flags, and models of the space shuttle and the Hubble telescope.

The five astronaut crew members for the STS-31 mission chose a busy night sky scene as a background for their...

Five astronauts--four men and one woman--stand in a line in front of a starry backdrop, all wearing light blue T-shirts and white pants.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has snapped the best ever image of the Antennae Galaxies. Hubble has released images of...

Comma shaped curved cloud of gases in bright white edged with bright-pink star forming regions, and threaded with rusty-brown tendrils of dust at center and throughout the comma shaped merger. All set against the black of deep space.

The Hubble traveling exhibit includes a section on the new James Webb Space Telescope. Launched at the end of 2021,...

A scaled spacecraft model and explanatory panels on display describing the James Webb Space Telescope

A visitor uses the interactive skymap station in the Hubble traveling exhibit to select an object on the night sky...

An interactive skymap that allows visitors to select an item on the night sky and see the image that Hubble took of it.

The Hubble traveling exhibit includes a station to learn about the different wavelengths of light, A visitor puts their hand...

An interactive exhibit where a visitor puts their hand under a camera and they see it on the screen in ultraviolet, visible, and infrared light.

The Telescope section of the Hubble traveling exhibit illustrates how the telescope is designed and includes interactive stations to help...

A section of the Hubble traveling exhibit that discusses how the telescope works and how it is powered.

The Servicing mission station of the Hubble traveling exhibit provides an overview of each of the five missions that astronauts...

The HST servicing mission station highlighting each mission and the tools used by the astronauts

The Universe station of the HST traveling exhibit discusses the Universe over time and explains the Hubble Legacy Field image.

A large panel discussing the Universe over time and the key points of the Hubble Legacy Field image.

The front of the Universe station of the HST traveling exhibit contains an 11 foot by 6 foot back lit...

An 11 foot by 6 foot backlit image of the Hubble Legacy Field

The Galaxy station of the HST traveling exhibit discusses galaxies types, collisions, and the specific detail seen in the Whirlpool...

A large panel discussing galaxies and the key points of the Whirlpool Galaxy

The Stars station of the HST traveling exhibit discusses how stars are born and die.

A large panel discussing the life cycle of stars and the key highlights of the Eagle Nebula image.

The front side of the Planets exhibit is a 11 foot by 6 foot collage of Hubble images of the...

An 11 foot by 6 foot backlit image of a collage of planets

The backside of the HST traveling exhibit center piece explains how Hubble's images are sharper because the telescope is above...

The backside of the HST traveling exhibit is shown that explains why scientists want a telescope above the blurring affects of Earth's atmosphere.

Visitors at the INFINITY Science Center walkthrough the Hubble traveling exhibit tunnel looking at more than three decades o images...

People walking through a tunnel of images at the entry way to the HST traveling exhibit.

A Science on a Sphere sits above the main centerpiece of the exhibit with four projectors that synchronously display images...

A 3-foot sphere is illuminatedabove the centerpiece station with the earth projected onto it.

The Introcution panel, far right, provides an overview of the Hubble mission and credits for the exhibit.

An interaction panel and tunne of Hubble images at the entryway of the Hubble traveling exhibit

This panorama view of the Hubble traveling exhibit shows the main science stations with the centerpiece that shows that contains...

A panorama view of the Hubble traveling exhibit with its center piece model and four science stations.

The Planet station of the Hubble traveling exhibit discusses the formation of our solar system and displays the many solar...

The Hubble Traveling Exhibit station that tells the story of our solar system and its planets is on display at a science center

The center piece of the traveling exhibit contains explanatory panels of the history of the mission, a spacecraft model, and...

The center piece of the Hubble traveling exhibit can be seen with its spacecraft model and illuminated sphere of the earth.

Maurice Henderson of the Hubble Space Telescope Project explains the wavelengths of light that the telescope observes with a traveling...

A HUbbe Team member explains the wavelengths of light to visitors at an interactive light station that is part of the Hubble traveling exhibit.

The HST Traveling Exhibit on display at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, PA

The HST Traveling Exhibit layout and stations as seen from a balcony.

The Hubble traveling exhibit is being installed at the Aerospace Museum of California

A birds eye view of a team of technicians putting together the Hubble traveling exhibit.

The standard layout for the Hubble Traveling Exhibit is a square layout that can be reconfigured for a different floor...

An engineering diagram of the traveling exhibit layer out in the standard square formation, as seen from the top down

The interactive Hubble Traveling Exhibit features sections that highlight different aspects of Hubble, including a station showcasing the spacecraft’s equipment...

A visitor center guest stands with his hands in two tubes, one with thermal insulation and one without, to understand how temperature is controlled on the spacecraft

The Hubble communications team engages the public with Hubble’s discoveries through augmented reality, holograms, and other technology at an airshow...

Hubble control center, engineering, and simulation hardware include hundreds of computers that all require maintenance and system administration.

A man examines a shelf of computer hardware.

Millions of lines of code make up the ground system for the Hubble Space Telescope, known as the Control Center...

A person sits in dim lighting with their back to the camera, facing two computer monitors displaying data from Hubble.

Technical status meetings are held monthly with staff and management to discuss the performance of the Observatory and any issues...

In the background in a conference room, a man presents two charts on the screen at the front of the room for the meeting. In the foreground, men and women sit at a conference table with their laptops, listening to the man present.

Astronaut Andrew Feustel (left), STS-125 mission specialist, navigates near the Hubble Space Telescope on the end of the Remote Manipulator...

Two astronauts service the Hubble telescope. The one on the left is attached to a robotic arm. The one in the center waves to the camera.

Approximately 10,000 galaxies fill a small area of sky called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Created through the collaboration of...

Field is filled with galaxies in colors of white, yellow, blue-white, and red; all on a black background.

Astronauts John M. Grunsfeld (right) and Richard M. Linnehan, STS-109 payload commander and mission specialist, respectively, are photographed near the...

Two astronauts stand in a space shuttle cargo bay with Hubble behind them. The Earth, as seen from above in space, is in the background.

Astronaut Scott D. Altman, STS-109 mission commander, photographed in a T-38 trainer jet, prepares for a flight at Ellington Field...

Astronaut Scott Altman sits in the cockpit of a plane, shooting a thumbs-up to the camera.

These seven astronauts took a break from training to pose for the STS-125 crew portrait. From the left are astronauts...

At Hubble’s third servicing mission (SM 3A), C. Michael Foale (left) and Claude Nicollier (right) work in Discovery's cargo bay...

A close-up view of two astronauts servicing Hubble, one tethered to the telescope on the left and one attached to a robotic arm in the center. The ground below on Earth takes up the entire background.

Perched on the end of the RMS, astronaut Andrew Feustel, mission specialist, performs work on the Hubble Space Telescope during...

Using a robotic arm, an astronaut does maintenance work on Hubble. In the top third of the picture, Earth is seen in the background.

During Hubble’s fourth servicing mission (SM 3B), astronaut Richard M. Linnehan, anchored on the end of the Space Shuttle Columbia’s...

An astronaut attached to a robotic arm prepares to re-open Hubble's folded-up solar panel "wings. The Earth below takes up most of the background.

This wide-angle shot of the Hubble Space Telescope in the Space Shuttle Discovery’s cargo bay, backdropped against Australia, was taken...

Two astronauts service Hubble in the cargo bay of a space shuttle. The Earth is in the background of the upper half of the picture.

Steven L. Smith (right) and John M. Grunsfeld (left) use the RMS robotic arm to perform servicing tasks on the...

Two astronauts, attached to a robotic arm, service Hubble above the Earth, which takes up the whole background.

On the fifth and final servicing mission (SM 4), astronauts John Grunsfeld (back) and Andrew Feustel (front) work to remove...

Two astronauts servicing Hubble using a robotic arm. Clouds above Earth's surface behind the telescope create the background.

Astronaut F. Story Musgrave, anchored on the end of the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm, prepares to be elevated to...

Two astronauts service Hubble, one standing in the space shuttle cargo bay and one attached to a robotic arm, with the Earth in the background in the upper half of the picture.

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On June 16, 2020, Justin Germany (front) and Larry Stake (back) of the Flight Operations Team command the Hubble Space...

Man at computer desk with many screens working on Hubble

A model of the Hubble Space Telescope docked with a space shuttle is displayed in the Space Telescope Operations Control...

Astronauts, with the assistance of Hubble engineers, practice the replacement of a Rate Sensor Unit, a device that holds two...

Six people in white clean suits work on the underside of a replica of Hubble.

Image Processor Gladys Kober

Mission Engineer Phathom Donald

woman and a man sitting at a desk with multiple computer monitors, the woman is pointing at a monitor

Mission Engineer Phathom Donald

Software Developer Lori Yates

System Engineer Hannah Daelemans

July 15, 2021 - NASA Begins Switch to Backup Spacecraft Hardware Today, NASA began a switch to backup spacecraft hardware...

A man and a woman standing in the Hubble control center both look concerned regarding the process of switching to backup spacecraft hardware.

Deputy Operations Manager Morgan Van Arsdall

woman sitting at a computer desk in front of a bank of computer monitors, a phone and a keyboard

Deputy Operations Manager Morgan Van Arsdall

Former Hubble Senior Scientist David Leckrone.

David Leckrone standing in front of a picture of the Hubble Space Telescope

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the distribution of dark matter in the center of the giant galaxy cluster...

Yellow and white colored galaxies litter the frame. Blue, blue-white, and white clouds denote the distribution of dark matter, which is concentrated just to the left of center.

Abell 1689 is an immense cluster of galaxies located 2.2 billion light-years away. Astronomers map the cluster's dark matter by...

A cluster of galaxies fills the frame. A purple glow around the largest concentrations of galaxies indicates the distribution of dark matter.

Hubble in space, orbiting above the blue earth.

Image of Hubble seen floating above the Earth in orbit. Under Hubble, the blue colored landmass is visible through the clouds. On the upper half of the image, the darkness of space is seen.

The narrow galaxy elegantly curving around its spherical companion in this image is a fantastic example of a truly strange...

Hubble image of an "Einstein Ring." In this image we see dozens and dozens of bright points of light, all of which are galaxies. In the middle however, we see a stretched out ring of light which almost makes an entire circle, or ring. In the middle of the ring there are more points of light clustered together.

NGC 2683 is a spiral galaxy seen almost edge-on

Closeup image of spiral galaxy. Viewed at a high angle, meaning that this is mostly a side view of the galaxy, we can see lots of bright stars within the spiral arms of the galaxy. Nearer to the viewer however is a large, dark grouping of dust and gas.

Image of Hubble from SM3B. Hubble orbiting above a very dark blue ocean.

Image of Hubble, bright and silver from the reflection of the sun is seen orbiting above a very dark blue ocean.

Hubble solar array deployment from the 1990 Deployment mission aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.

A closeup view of one of Hubble's golden solar arrays. At the very bottom of the image the grappling arm is visible, with Hubble hidden away in the background behind the solar array.

Hubble floating above Earth. This image was taken after Hubble was released at the end of Servicing Mission 4, in...

Image of Hubble seen floating above the Earth in orbit. Under Hubble, the sandy colored landmass is visible through wisps of clouds. On the upper half of the image, the darkness of space is seen.

Space Shuttle Discovery Closeup image.

Closeup image of the Space Shuttle Discovery. In this image you can only see its powerful black engines, while on the right wing the American Flag is present along with the words "Discovery" under it. The left wing is mostly cut off from the image, but you can see half of the blue NASA Meatball. Behind the spacecraft you can just make out the blue Earth below.

Hubble science team member Adam Riess and fellow astronomers won the Nobel Prize in Physics from the Royal Swedish Academy...

A circular, gold Nobel Prize Medal sits against a black background.

The three Fine Guidance Sensors are part of Hubble’s Pointing Control System, which also includes gyroscopes (gyros) and reaction wheels.

Simple illustration showing Hubble, deep purple. The purpose of the illustration is to show the viewer where Hubble's reaction wheels are (the middle of the spacecraft.) As well as its Gyros and Fine Guidance Sensors. (Closer to the bottom) The image also shows where Hubble's mirrors are, shown here in bright blue.

Astronaut Michael Good holds a battery module during the removal and replacement of Hubble Space Telescope batteries during Servicing Mission...

Image shows the side of an astronaut in his space suit in space. He is changing out batteries on the side of the Hubble Space Telescope. The picture is bright, both astronaut and Hubble were in the sun when this was taken. The astronaut's pistol grip tool, which looks like an electric screwdriver, rests at his side.

Animation of Hubble speeding past the camera, far above Earth.

Animated image of the Hubble Space Telescope, moments before it will fly by the viewer. Under Hubble you can see the Earth, dark blue from an Ocean, with a large green body of land to the left.

Astronauts John Grunsfeld (positioned on end of the space shuttle Atlantis’ robotic arm) and Andrew Feustel work together to remove...

2 astronauts in their spacesuits are seen floating near the side of Hubble. Hubble, bright silver, from its reflection of the sun is many times larger than the two astronauts. On the right of the image the CANADARM is seen.

Held by the space shuttle Discovery’s robotic arm, Hubble hovers over Earth during its deployment in April 1990. In this...

The Hubble Telescope in space gripped by the space shuttle's robotic arm.

Engineers in bunny suits closely inspect the giant mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope.

Engineers in full-body bunny suits closely inspect the giant mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope.

Light Path of the Hubble Space Telescope

Side view of a cutout of Hubble. This illustration shows the light path for Hubble. A distant celestial object's light will go down Hubble's tube, reflect off of the primary mirror, bounce onto the secondary mirror, and then into the science instruments.

Scientists around the world have submitted proposals to use time on Hubble. Darker blue indicates a higher number of proposals.

A world map with countries colored in shades of blue and beige. The United States is the darkest blue.

astronauts are seen receiving instruction from Hubble project personnel on various spacecraft subsystems.

Astronauts standing around the VEST, in their full-body bunny suits. astronauts are seen receiving instruction from Hubble project personnel on various spacecraft subsystems.

The Vehicle Electrical System Test (VEST) facility.

Image of the VEST (The Vehicle Electrical System Test facility) A Large silver piece of equipment with some of the doors open. Inside those doors are dozens of wires and engineering equipment.

Hubble's Skymap puts the night sky at your fingertips any time of day. Roam the Milky Way to find a...

Faint band of stars, gas, and dust stretches from left to right across the frame. This band is a representation of our galaxy as seen from space, edge-on. Colorful icons representing the types of objects Hubble has observed litter the frame: blue stars, orange spiral for galaxies, pink clouds for nebulae, yellow swirling top for exotic objects, and a green circle for exoplanets.

Image showing the data pipeline from Hubble to Earth.

Image showing the data flow from Hubble. Using lines from one subject to the other, this image informs the viewer of how the data from Hubble gets down to Earth. Light from a distant celestial object hits Hubble's mirror and is recorded, Hubble sends that Data to a tracking and data relay satellite, the data is sent down to a Ground Station in White Sands, New Mexico, before finally being sent to Goddard Space Flight Center and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland.

NASAFACTS .pdf file going over the Hubble Space Telescope's Missions Operations.

Screenshot of .pdf of "NASAFACTS" document, titled "Hubble Space Telescope - Mission Operations" The document has lots of text going over the mission, this is a thumbnail, when clicking it the .pdf will open.

View of Hubble's "Space Telescope Operations Control Center" Also known as the STOCC. This is the thumbnail for the 360...

360 image of Hubble's "Space Telescope Operations Control Center" The image is stretched because it is designed for 360 degree viewing. The image shows many desks within the control center with data on their screens.

This image showcases both the visible-light and the infrared-light visualizations of the Orion Nebula. This view from the movie sequence...

An undulating cloudscape of orange, yellow, green, red, pink, and purple gas clouds fill the bottom three-quarters of the image. A bright-white star sits withing the clouds just below image center. Above that star, the gas cloud thins out and a cluster of bright blue-white stars is visible through the mist. Top quarter of the image is black with scattered stars and a rusty-orange-band of clouds at upper right.

"Starry Night", Vincent van Gogh's famous painting, is renowned for its bold whorls of light sweeping across a raging night...

Hubble view of an expanding halo of light around star V838 Monocerotis. Center of the ball-like cloud holds a bright star surrounded by red gas. The outer region of the "ball" is a tan color dotted with stars. Black background dotted with stars.

Chief System Engineer for Flight Larry Dunham points at Hubble Space Telescope data as Systems Manager Morgan Van Arsdall and...

A woman (Morgan Van Arsdall) and two men (Larry Dunham and Joe Stock) are gathered around computers in the Operations Control Center, with more computers and staff in the background.

Astronaut Kathryn C. Thornton grips a tool to perform servicing mission tasks on the Hubble Space Telescope during the fourth...

Astronaut Kathryn C. Thornton, center, grips a tool to perform servicing mission tasks on Hubble, left, with the Earth in the background on the right.

Astronaut F. Story Musgrave is reflected in the shiny surface of the Hubble Space Telescope as he works with a...

Astronaut Story Musgrave conducts an EVA at the Hubble Space Telescope, left, with the Earth in the background on the top half of the screen.

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Engineers, scientists and operations personnel monitor Hubble from the Operations Support Room during Servicing Mission 4 in 2009, the final...

Photograph of a group of engineers sitting in front of their computers inside of the "Space Telescope Operations Control Center." This image was taken during Hubble's Servicing Mission 4, which is on the screen in the front of the room.

Flight operations team members Phathom Donald and Bijal Patel discuss commanding the Hubble Space Telescope in the Mission Operations Room....

A photograph of a man and woman sitting in Hubble's "Space Telescope Operations Control Center" also called the STOCC. They are sitting next to each other, with many computer screens with data and information from the spacecraft.

Hubble’s role in the movie Gravity.

A screenshot of an artist illustration from the movie gravity of the hubble space telescope exiting a space shuttle orbiting the earth with an astronaut floating to the right

Approximately 10,000 galaxies fill a small area of sky called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Created through the collaboration of...

The Flame Nebula, also called NGC 2024, is a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that lies about 1,400...

Image of a colorful blues and dark browns nebula with stars.

This composite image of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant, was assembled by combining data from five telescopes spanning nearly...

A cloud of yellow, pink, blue, and green with white filaments.

Clouds of pink, purple and white fill the scene. The lower right corner holds rusty-brown, dark clouds. These clouds billow out along the top and bottom of the image in an elongated "C." Bright stars dot the scene.

Hubble's view of NGC 3982.

Face-on spiral galaxy NGC 3982. Bright-white core surrounded by spiral arms. Areas of reddish-pink star formation regions dot the spiral arms which appear like a light-bluish haze. Dark rusty-brown dust lanes follow the curves of the spiral arms.

M82 lies 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Fermi’s LAT and the ground-based VERITAS observatory have detected...

A bluish streak of light extends from the lower left to the upper right, with threads of reddish dust and gas seen throughout, all against a black backdrop of space.

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has explored the universe since the early 1990s, gathering visible, near-ultraviolet, and near-infrared imagery and spectra....

Hubble floats against a black background of space with the curve of Earth visible below it in this astronaut photo.

An STS-125 crew member aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis captured this still image of the Hubble Space Telescope as the...

Lacking spiral arms but boasting a galactic bulge and prominent disk, lenticular galaxies like Caldwell 53 are intermediates between the...

Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 captured this image in ultraviolet and visible light showing 100,000 stars in the core of...

A field of stars in colors of red, blue, yellow, white, and orange.

Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across a more complete spectrum...

Resembling the shape of a butterfly, two lobes of gas and dust stretch across a starry black background in shades of green and blue, growing paler toward where they meet.

This star chart for Caldwell 5 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 5.

Caldwell 100 (also called Collinder 249) is a loose collection of stars, known as an open cluster, that’s embedded within...

A rusty-orange background is dotted with dark clouds. One large, dark cloud at upper right, two medium-sized dark clouds at the bottom; one left, the other right, of center. The upper left corner is blacked-out in a step pattern.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope orbits Earth at a speed of roughly 17,000 miles per hour. It takes Hubble about 95...

Pictured above is the Hubble team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, as of Hubble’s 33rd year...

Photo of the Hubble team standing on stage at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Space Shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member STS-125 crew launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for the final servicing mission to...

A few young stars shine through dense clouds of gas and dust in the Orion Nebula’s Trapezium embedded cluster, 1,500...

Left: rusty-orange, white, and light green billowing cloud with several bright-white ringed with pink stars at its center. Right: Blue-white cloud with several bright-white stars at its center. Orange-yellow cloud glows top right.

Some of our galaxy’s most massive, luminous stars burn 8,000 light-years away in the open cluster Trumpler 14.

Bright-white stars fill the center of the image. They are backlit by a blue cloud of gas and dust. Right side of the image holds a rusty-red cloud with dark dust lanes.

Thousands upon thousands of stars illuminate this breathtaking image of star cluster Liller 1, imaged with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera...

Bright, reddish-gold spherical swarm of stars fills the center of the image. Even brighter blue-white foreground stars dot the entire scene.

These opaque, dark knots of gas and dust called "Bok globules" are absorbing light in the center of the nearby...

Glowing reddish gas is speckled with bright-white stars. In the foreground is a dark, vertically extended cloud of gas and dust that blocks the light of objects behind it. The largest part of the dark cloud (Bok Globule) extends from image center to bottom. Tenuous clouds extend vertically above the main globule toward the image top.

Filaments of gas and dust left behind by an exploded star make up the Crab Nebula. The remains of the...

The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth’s...

Black background. At image center is a colorful ring of gas and dust. The ring is a deep red along the outside. Moving inward toward the center of the ring, the colors change from red, to orange, to yellow, to pinkish-white, to a light blue sphere in the center.

The star V380 Orionis shines on the cloud of material left over from its formation, here seen as the NGC...

Faint, wispy clouds glow from the light of a central, pale star. A hole in the clouds, roughly in the shape of a keyhole, shows black space.

The Orion Nebula is a picture book of star formation, from the massive, young stars shaping the nebula to the...

Bright cloud of pink, white, orange, and yellow with dark dust lanes.

Approximately 10,000 galaxies fill a small area of sky called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. This is the deepest image...

A myriad of colorful galaxies, in all shapes, sizes, and forms, dot the image.

The dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 4214 resides about 10 million light-years away. The galaxy's relative proximity, combined with the wide...

bright white and pink clouds and blue-white stars bisect the image from lower left to upper right

The Whirlpool Galaxy is a spiral galaxy located 31 million light-years away. Also known as M51, it highlights the attributes...

a large, face-on spiral galaxy fills the image. It's bright core is surrounded by pinkish-red dusty spiral arms

The eXtreme Deep Field.

These four candidate galaxies might have emitted their light when the universe was just 750 million years old. The bottom...

Four rows represent and five columns. Each column represents a Hubble filter. Each row is a different redshift. The images in each cell are black and white representing the intensity of the light gathered by Hubble's instruments.

This photo of a portion of the Hubble Deep Field South captures galaxies in both visible and infrared light. The...

The field is dotted with galaxies of various sizes, shapes, and colors

Light from far-distant objects must cross unimaginably vast expanses of space over millions to billions of years to reach us....

Image Title: Evolution of Galaxies Left-center: Hubble peers through a cone of galaxies that extend off to the upper-right corner where a bright light represents the Big Bang. Near Hubble the galaxies appear as we see them today. As we move further through the cone, the galaxies become more misshapen, diffuse, and redder.

The image shows a central portion of the Hubble Deep Field, created from exposures taken in 1995. The Hubble Deep...

One of Hubble’s most iconic images is of this portion of the Eagle Nebula (M16). Dubbed the “Pillars of Creation,”...

Three dark brown pillars of dust and gas jut out against a greenish background.

Long streamers of stars and gas appear as tails in this Hubble image of the gravitationally interacting galaxies NGC 4676,...

Two interacting galaxies centered in the image. The left galaxy is a spiral galaxy with its arms distorted and drawn out toward the left side of the image. The right galaxy has a long tail that extends to the upper-right corner of the image. Gas and dust also extends between the two galaxies.

Astronomers classify galaxy NGC 1300 as a barred spiral because its arms do not swirl into the center but instead...

Image center holds the an oval of stars that mark the galaxy's center. Arms extend toward the upper-left and lower right of the central bulge of stars. Extending beyond the ends of each of these arms is are long curving tails that swirl above and below the galaxy.

Looking like a broad-brimmed Mexican hat, the “Sombrero” galaxy, M104, is a spiral galaxy seen nearly edge-on.

A bright hazy, oblate ball of stars fills the scene. Its core is bright white. Around the equator is a disk of bright stars and dark dust. The dust lane is prominent and bisects the sphere of stars.

Hubble’s view of Pluto provided NASA’s New Horizons mission with the best available information for planning its rendezvous with the...

Hubble surface brightness (albedo) observations of Pluto, mapped over spheres. Three spheres holding Hubble's albedo observations of Pluto. A grid representing the longitude and latitude of the planet is superimposed on the sphere over the Hubble observations.

Hubble discovered Pluto’s four small moons, Nix, Hydra, Styx, and Kerberos. This is a composite of two images of the...

Pluto and its large moon, Charon, are at image center. White ovals indicate the orbits of each of the small moons Hubble discovered. Bright, blue-white blobs, and points of light are the individual moons.

Images of asteroid P/2013 P5 revealed its unique dust trails radiating in multiple directions and changing in appearance with time.

Left: Bright, blue-white asteroid at top with a tail extending toward the center bottom. Right: Bright, blue-white asteroid at top with a fainter tail extending to the center-left.

An odd, X-shaped debris field trailing dusty streamers is likely the remnants of an asteroid collision. Scientists think that a...

Hubble observations of possible asteroid collision remnants. Streak of blue-white light that begins at lower-left with an X-shape, and extends with a long tail to the upper right. Lower right holds a close-up of the "X."

A sample of the faintest and farthest galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field shows that they were irregularly shaped...

Faint, distant galaxies, observed by Hubble. They are arranged on four columns and seven rows. Most appear as red splotches. A few of the images also hold regions of yellow, blue, and or green pixels.

Hubble’s Ultra Deep Field is one of the most distant looks into space ever. The cumulative exposure time needed to...

The field of view is filled with galaxies in all shapes, sizes, colors, and galaxy types. All against a black backdrop.

In 1994, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 broke into 21 large pieces that rained down upon the thick clouds of Jupiter. Shown...

Four images of Jupiter, from bottom to top: 1) Jupiter with a puff of bright light near its limb. 2) The deep maroon scar of the impact is visible against the stripes of Jupiter's clouds. 3) The impact scar is larger with two distinct regions. 4) The impact scar is becoming more diffuse.

Two views from Hubble of the massive galaxy cluster Cl 0024+17 (ZwCl 0024+1652) are shown. To the left is the...

two Hubble images of galaxy cluster Cl 0024+17 (ZwCl 0024+1652), with right image shaded to illustrate dark matter

This animation shows Fomalhaut b’s movement over time.

Animation of Hubble Fomalhaut observations. The animation shows a yellow-red blob of material moving through the field of view.

Observations with Hubble not only helped confirm that the center of the elliptical galaxy M87 harbors a black hole 2.6...

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.

(Left) This Hubble image shows the bright core at the center of galaxy M84, surrounded by a vertical dark band...

These Hubble images show disks of dust that fuel black holes at the centers of the galaxies NGC 4261 (left)...

Two images. Left: A yellow-orange, and reddish disk (looking like a doughnut) surrounded by broader white and rust colored disk. Right: A nearly edge-on rusty-colored disk the far side appearing more white.

Combining images with data from Hubble’s spectrographs, researchers have peered into the center of many galaxies and established the existence...

Four quadrants. The upper two hold images of the galaxies NGC 3377 (left) and NGC 3379 (right). The bottom left quadrant holds and image of the galaxy NGC 4486B. The lower-right quadrant shows an expanded view of NGC 4486B's center. Each image holds a bright-yellow core surrounded by more diffuse a yellow, then orange, and later red glow.

Hubble has given astronomers the most detailed picture to date of a large, edge-on, gas-and-dust disk encircling the 20-million-year-old star...

Two images, both hold a black center with blue-white lobes on either side. Top is from 1997, bottom from 2012.

This Hubble image (left) and graphic (right) show a gap in a protoplanetary disk of dust and gas whirling around...

TW Hydrae Hubble observation (left) and illustration (right). Left: pinkish disk that is black at its center, a lighter pink around the center. A darker pink ring midway through the disk. Right: illustration outlining features in the observation.

This series of observations by Hubble documents changes in a powerful jet called Herbig-Haro 34 (HH 34) located in the...

Glowing, clumpy streams of material moving left and right. Left side of the image is a small blue-white cloud slowly moving further to the left. Extending from the blue cloud is a strand of clumpy orange gas moving toward the right.

The glowing, clumpy streams of material shown moving left and right in this Hubble image are the signposts of star...

Glowing, clumpy streams of material moving left and right. Left side of the image is a bright-blue cloud slowly moving further to the left. Extending from the blue cloud is a tenuous strand of material moving toward the right. It appears to connect to a bright-white cloud at far right. This white cloud is also moving further to the right

Dubbed “Mystic Mountain,” this is a region of the much more extensive Carina Nebula. In it, towers of cool hydrogen...

The Mystic Mountain is a chaotic, colorful pillar of gas and dust stretching up and narrowing toward the top of the image. The pillar is seen in mostly brown, yellow, and orange hues, jutting against a hazy blue and purple background dotted with a few pink stars.

An illustration of how the SN 1987A rings are oriented toward Earth.

Two red rings overlap and bisect a center yellow ring that surrounds a bright-white point of light. As the animation progresses, the rings are viewed from the side revealing how they expanded outward from the central star.

Hubble has revealed the astounding variety and amazing complexity of planetary nebulas.

collage of Hubble views of planetary nebulas

Certain supernovas have a characteristic maximum brightness that can be used to calculate their distances from Earth. Refining celestial distances...

A portion of the Hubble Deep Field. Two observations of the same part of the sky. 1995 reels a bright star that is no longer there in the 2002 observation. This animated gif cycles between the two images making the supernova appear to blink on and off.

Astronomers use cyclical changes in the brightness of Cepheid stars to determine astronomical distances. The arrow points to a Cepheid...

Ground-based image of the Andromeda Galaxy stretches from lower left to upper right. A white arrow points to the location of the Hubble observations. Above the galaxy are four boxes containing Hubble images of the variable star at different luminosities.

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2014 image is a composite of separate exposures taken by the telescope from 2002 to...

A dark greenish-blue background that is lighter on the left side than it is on the right. Rising up from the bottom-center of the image is a golden-orange pillar of gas and dust. Stars dot the background.

Hubble's view of the Lagoon Nebula.

Bright nebula with dark clouds of gas extending from center

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revisited the famous Pillars of Creation, revealing a sharper and wider view of the structures...

Three pillars of gas and dust rise from the bottom of the image. They are rusty-brown and black with golden highlights. A bright, hazy background of varying shades of blue and turquoise helps silhouette the darker pillars. Bright stars dot the background.

The light we can see with our eyes is part of a range of radiation known as the electromagnetic spectrum....

HST Electromagnetic Spectrum - horizontal

This star chart for M99 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

The mysterious star PTF 10fqs appears at the tip of the arrow in this Hubble image of M99.

An image of spiraling galaxy arms full of bright blue new stars, with a white arrow pointing to the star PTF 10fqs.

This image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a detailed view of the spiral arms on one side...

The bright blue spiraling arms of a galaxy are seen against black space, with a yellowish core visible near the top of the image.

This star chart for M98 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

star chart showing location in night sky of M98

This image of M98 was taken in 1995 with Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2.

A bright yellow galaxy core shines, surrounded by spiral arms laced through with dark dust and bluish regions of star formation. A black stair step region near the upper left shows an area without Hubble data.

This star chart for M96 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

In this infrared and visible-light image from Hubble, the spiral galaxy M96 resembles a giant maelstrom of glowing gas, rippled...

A spiral galaxy against black space. The galaxy's bright, yellow core is surrounded by spiraling arms laced with dark brown dust and pink and purple bursts of star formation.

This star chart for M95 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

star chart showing location in night sky of M95

This Hubble observation reveals a section of Messier 95 featuring its central bar of stars in the upper left and...

Near the top left, a bright galaxy core shines, surrounded by spiral arms with dark dust and purple-white regions of star formation.

This star chart for M94 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This image shows the galaxy Messier 94, which lies in the small northern constellation of the Hunting Dogs, about 16...

A bright yellow galaxy core shines, surrounded by spiraling arms laced through with dark dust and blue-white regions of new stars.

This star chart for M92 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This striking NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a glittering bauble named Messier 92. By exploring the composition of globular...

A bright cluster of stars, more concentrated at the center.

This star chart for M91 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This image is composed of Hubble observations taken in visible and infrared light by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera...

This image shows a portion of the galaxy M91, with some of the bright core visible at the top of the image, surrounded by spiral arms.

This image of M91 combines ultraviolet, visible, and infrared wavelengths. It was taken by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 as...

A bright yellow galaxy core shines, surrounded by spiral arms laced through with dark dust and bright blue regions of new stars.

This star chart for M90 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

star chart showing location in night sky of M90

This Hubble observation was taken in infrared, ultraviolet and visible light with the telescope’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2....

A purple-white galaxy core is seen near the top left of the image, surrounded by spiral arms laced through with dark dust and purple regions of star formation.

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the globular cluster Messier 9. Hubble’s image resolves stars right into...

This star chart for M89 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

star chart showing location in night sky of M89

M89 contains approximately 100 billion stars and well over 2,000 globular clusters.

A hazy, yellow-white light shines near the top right, against black space dotted with faint, distant stars.

Located approximately 47 million light-years away, M88 is a spiral galaxy with well-defined and symmetrical arms.

A bright galaxy core shines at the center of the image, surrounded by large spiral arms laced through with dark dust and bright blue regions of star formation.

This star chart for M88 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

star chart showing location in night sky of M88

This ground-based image shows the entirety of galaxy M88 while the white outline indicates the section captured by Hubble’s Wide...

At the lower left, an image of the galaxy M88 is seen with a pulled out inset of the galaxy's core and surrounding spiral arms.

This Hubble observation was taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 using a single visible-light filter. With Hubble,...

This image shows a bright galaxy core at the top right, surrounded by spiral arms, all in grayscale.

This star chart for M87 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Streaming out from the center of M87 like a cosmic searchlight is one of nature’s most amazing phenomena: a black-hole-powered...

This close-up image shows a jet of material ejecting down and to the lower left corner from a bright, orange-ish galaxy core.

This Hubble image of M87 is a composite of individual observations in visible and infrared light. Its most striking features...

A bright, yellowish galaxy core shines near the center, with a faint jet of material ejecting toward the right.

This star chart for M86 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

star chart showing location in night sky of M86

This Hubble observation of M86 was taken in near-infrared and visible light using the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2...

A bright, hazy point of white light shines near the top center of the image, against black space dotted with distant stars.

This star chart for M85 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This moody image shows a galaxy named Messier 85, captured in all its delicate, hazy glory by the NASA/ESA Hubble...

Diffuse oval haze against black background. Stars and distant galaxies shine through it. Just above image center the haze gets brighter and denser toward the bright-white core of the galaxy. Top, just left of center is a bright foreground star.

This star chart for M84 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

The Hubble image on the left shows the bright core of M84 surrounded by a dark band of gas and...

Two images side by side. On the left, the bright galaxy core of M84 glows. On the right, a colorful, jagged line represents a spectrograph plot.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the galaxy Messier 84 — also known as NGC 4374 — an object...

A hazy, yellow-white galactic core shines against black space, with a couple ribbons of dark dust in front of it.

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This Hubble image provides a close-up view of the myriad stars near M83’s core, the bright, whitish region at far...

Several stars near the core of the galaxy M83 are seen in this image, in dark pink blooms of star birth and bright blue pockets of star formation.

This beautiful Hubble image captures hundreds of thousands of individual stars, thousands of star clusters and hundreds of supernova remnants...

A large spiral galaxy stretches across the image, with a bright core surrounded by large spiral arms laced through with dark dust and purple and pink regions of star formation.

This star chart for M82 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This Hubble image is the most detailed view of M82’s core ever captured. It isolates the light from glowing gas...

A bright glowing region in pale green and purple stretches across the image, laced through with dark brown lanes of dust and black space along the top and bottom.

M82 or the Cigar galaxy, shines brightly at infrared wavelengths and is remarkable for its star formation activity.

A white band of stars that cuts across a black background, from the lower left to the upper right, is the galaxy M82. Reddish brown gas and dust overlays the galaxy concentrated in the center of the image and fanning out above and below the white band of the galaxy. Black background is dotted with stars.

This star chart for M81 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This stunning Hubble image was assembled using observations in visible and infrared light. The galaxy’s spiral arms, which wind all...

A bright spiral galaxy with a large, yellow core, with small spiral arms surrounding it.

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A giant sphere of stars in colors of white, yellow, yellow-orange

In this image of M80, observations in ultraviolet, visible, and infrared wavelengths of light are featured. This data helped scientists...

Image center holds a dense sphere of stars in colors of red, orange, yellow, white, and blue. The stars are densely packed at image center and taper out toward the image's edges. They are on a black background.

These Hubble images provide two diverse views of the heart of the Lagoon Nebula. A visible-light image at left shows...

visible light (left) and infrared light (right) views of the Lagoon Nebula

This stunning Hubble image maps the chemical elements in a small region of the Lagoon Nebula known as the Hourglass....

Hubble view of Hourglass region of Lagoon Nebula that look like giant 'twisters'

This close-up shot of the centre of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) clearly shows the delicate structures formed when the...

This star chart for M79 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

star chart showing location in night sky of M79

It's beginning to look a lot like the holiday season in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a blizzard...

A cluster or white and orange stars, more densely concentrated at the center.

This star chart for M78 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A box in the ground-based infrared image of M78 at left shows the location of Hubble’s close-up infrared view on...

Two images of M78 are seen. On the left, a ground-based view shows a starry region of space with orange-ish glowing regions of gas and dust. On the right, a "pulled out" inset image shows a close-up of the nebula, mostly blue in the upper left diagonal half, and mostly brown and yellow in the lower right diagonal.

This colorful image features a small part of M78, a reflection nebula located in the constellation Orion.

A hazy, cloudy region mostly in blue in the upper left diagonal half of the image, and mostly brown and yellow near the lower right diagonal.

This star chart for M77 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This ultraviolet image from Hubble probes the bright, active core of M77. Brightness fluctuations in this region imply that an...

A close-up view of the galactic core, seen in bright orange, yellow, and red tones.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this vivid image of spiral galaxy Messier 77 — a galaxy in the...

A bright spiral galaxy with a yellow core shines at the center, surrounded by spiral arms laced through with dark dust and pink regions of star formation.

This star chart for M76 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

M76 is located in the constellation Perseus and is approximately 2,500 light-years away from Earth.

A hazy cloud of pale green covers the center of the image, against black space dotted with reddish stars. A stair step region of black at the lower right shows where there is no Hubble data.

M75 is the most centrally concentrated globular cluster in Messier’s catalog, with the majority of its stars located in a...

A bright cluster of white and orange stars, concentrated more densely at the center.

This star chart for M74 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This Hubble image of M74 is a composite of exposures taken in 2003 and 2005 at visible and infrared wavelengths....

A large spiral galaxy fills the image. Its bright, yellow core is near the upper left, surrounded by big spiral arms laced through with dark dust and purple and pink regions of star formation.

This star chart for M72 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

As the first in the new weekly series of spectacular images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the Hubble Picture...

A cluster of white stars, loosely concentrated toward the center.

This star chart for M71 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This Hubble image of M71 was created from images taken with the Wide Field Channel of the Advanced Camera for...

Several stars shine against black space.

This star chart for M70 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the brilliance of the compact centre of Messier 70, a...

A cluster of bright stars, concentrated at the center.

This star chart for M69 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This dazzling image shows the globular cluster Messier 69, or M 69 for short, as viewed through the NASA/ESA Hubble...

This star chart for M68 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope offers this delightful view of the crowded stellar encampment called Messier 68, a spherical, star-filled...

A bright cluster of white stars, more concentrated near the center.

This star chart for M66 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Showing a large portion of M66, this Hubble photo is a composite of images obtained at visible and infrared wavelengths....

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.

This star chart for M65 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

The 1st of March 1780 was a particularly productive night for Charles Messier. Combing the constellation of Leo for additions...

A spiral galaxy with a bright core fills the image, surrounded by faint spiral arms laced through with dark dust. A black rectangle is at the upper left, showing a portion where there is no Hubble data.

This star chart for M64 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

In order to penetrate the dust clouds swirling around the center of M64, Hubble observed it at infrared wavelengths. The...

A bright galaxy core shines near the lower center of the image, surrounded by hazy, dusty spiral arms.

Easily identified by the spectacular band of absorbing dust partially obscuring its bright nucleus, M64, or the Black Eye galaxy,...

A spiral galaxy fills the image. Dark spiral arms dotted with brown dust and pinkish bursts of stars surround a bright core.

This star chart for M63 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

The arrangement of the spiral arms in the galaxy Messier 63, seen here in a new image from the NASA/ESA...

A spiral galaxy with a glowing yellow center. Its spiral arms are full of dark reddish-brown lanes of dust and faint purple stars.

This star chart for M62 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

The globular star cluster M62 is one of the closest clusters to the center of our galaxy. It has a...

A sparkling cluster of yellow and white stars, primarily concentrated near the upper right.

This star chart for M61 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This Hubble image of M61’s center is comprised of observations taken in visible, infrared and ultraviolet light. It is the...

Spiral galaxy seen from above. Bright central core is white due to the light from so many stars, on the outer edge of the galaxy the arms spread out, with light blue and purple dust and gas, peppered with stars.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this image of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 61, also known as NGC 4303....

This star chart for M60 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

The Virgo cluster is a collection of more than 1,300 galaxies, including the elliptical galaxy M60. Unlike spiral galaxies, elliptical...

A hazy white-yellow light shines in the center of the image against black space, dotted with faint, distant stars. In the top right of the image is a spiral galaxy with many arms as seen from overhead. It is light blue.

This star chart for M59 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

star chart showing location in night sky of M59

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.

This star chart for M58 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

star chart showing location in night sky of M58

Discovered in 1779 by Charles Messier, M58 was one of the first galaxies recognized to have a spiral shape and...

This star chart for M57 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

M57, or the Ring Nebula, is a planetary nebula, the glowing remains of a sun-like star. The tiny white dot...

Black background holding an oval of light. The outer ring of the oval is orange-red. Moving inward the ring is more greenish-yellow. The center of the ring is bright blue with one small star at its center and another above and to the right of it.

This star chart for M56 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the globular cluster Messier 56 (also known as M...

Large galaxy that's globular in shape, the closer to the center you get the brighter and whiter the image due to the amount of stars. Stars are everywhere in this image, of all sorts of colors.

This star chart for M54 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This beautiful visible and infrared Hubble image shows what could be just another globular cluster, but this dense group of...

This star chart for M53 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Thousands and thousands of brilliant stars make up the globular cluster Messier 53, captured with crystal clarity in this image...

This star chart for M51 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

The graceful, winding arms of the majestic spiral galaxy M51 appear like a grand spiral staircase sweeping through space. They...

A spiral galaxy seen from overhead, with its two major arms spiraling out from its bright white core. At the end of the arm on the right is another bright white blob, this is a second galaxy. The arms are bluish and purple, peppered with countless stars.

The globular cluster Messier 5, shown here in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, is one of the oldest belonging...

Hubble view of M5, a collection of thousands of stars of different colors.

This star chart for M49 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This Hubble image of M49 was created using observations at infrared wavelengths. There is an X-ray source at the core...

A blurred/soft elliptical galaxy of stars at the center.

This star chart for M46 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Star Map illustrating the position of M46 against the background stars/constellations

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image showcases the planetary nebula NGC 2438, which is located in front of the open...

right side of image: circular nebula with reddish-white star at center, turquoise interior with hazy, cloudy yellow-orange and red rings around the center

In this image, which combines visible and infrared observations, Hubble has captured the eerie, wispy tendrils of an interstellar cloud...

Lower left is an interstellar cloud in Pleiades of wispy tendrils of white/gray dust and gas. Rays of iight from a star in the upper right are visible.

This star chart for M43 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This Hubble image, assembled from observations at visible and infrared wavelengths of light, shows several of the brilliant, hot, young...

A brownish cloud of gas with several bright stars scattered throughout and a few pockets of dense gas/dust.

Separated from the Orion Nebula (M42) by only a dark lane of dust, M43 was recognized as a distinct nebula...

Purple, red, brown and similar color gas with a bright star in the middle.

This star chart for M42 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Resembling an interstellar Frisbee, the dark feature in these two Hubble images is a protoplanetary disk of dust seen edge-on...

Two seprate images of protoplanetary disks of dark black gas surround a newborn star in Orion Nebula

Appearing like glistening precious stones, M42’s Trapezium cluster, named for the trapezoidal arrangement of its central massive stars, is seen...

Bright stars at the center that form a trapezium.

This stunning Hubble image offers the sharpest view of the Orion Nebula ever obtained. Created using 520 different Hubble exposures...

An intense cloud of red, purple, brown and similar color gas that is the Orion Nebula that includes pockets of starbirth.

In order to capture M4’s oldest white dwarfs, Hubble took many snapshots of the cluster in infrared, visible and ultraviolet...

This sparkling picture taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the centre of globular cluster M 4. The power...

Hubble view of M4, a colorful ball of thousands of stars

This star chart for M32 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This image of a large part of M32 was created from ultraviolet observations with Hubble and provides evidence that the...

A bluish image of the core and surrounding of a companion galaxy to Andromeda. The color is due to the image being taken in ultraviolet light.

This ground-based image from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) shows elliptical galaxy M32, with the white outline highlighting the portion...

M32 inset showing the portion of that galaxy thatwas imaged by Hubble.

This image of a portion of the elliptical galaxy M32 was captured by the Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS),...

thousands of stars can be seen in the corner of a galaxy that is void of gas and dust.

This star chart for M31 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This image from Hubble spans 7,900 light-years and reveals M31’s crowded central region. The bright area to the right of...

The central core of M31 which is filled with yellowish stars

Hubble’s M31 mosaic image, taken by the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) program, is shown in context with a ground-based...

M31 mosaic, inset in ground-based image to show what part of the galaxy Hubble has imaged.

This brilliant image of Messier 30 (M30), taken by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), is composed of exposures in...

Thousands of mostly white and yellowish stars in a globular cluster.

This image of M3’s core was constructed using Hubble observations in visible and infrared light.

Hubble view of M3 - a ball of thousands of stars.

This globular cluster, M28, is most notable for being the first of its kind known to contain a millisecond pulsar:...

The central portion of a galaxy cluster with thousands of stars that tapers off the further from the center you get.

This star chart for M27 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

An aging star's last hurrah is creating a flurry of glowing knots of gas that appear to be streaking through...

Cluds of dust and gas in shads of blue, yellow and dark brown that make up a protion of the Dumbbell Nebula

This star chart for M22 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This image shows the center of the globular cluster Messier 22, also known as M22, as observed by the NASA/ESA...

The center of globular cluster M22 with its thousands of stars.

This star chart for M20 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This Hubble image reveals a star-forming cloud of gas and dust in M20 being torn apart by radiation from a...

star-forming cloud of gas and dust with a rounded hump that includes two skinny towers of gas and dust that resemble the head of an insect with its antennas.

This eerie Hubble image features the center of the Trifid Nebula and the three wing-like bands of thick dust for...

Red and brown gas and dust with several bright stars at the center. The image is a set of rectangles mosaiced together.

This Hubble image of Messier 2’s core was created using observations taken at visible and infrared wavelengths. M2 contains over...

A Hubble image of a ball of thousands of stars

This star chart for M19 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This Hubble image of M19 was created using observations of both visible and ultraviolet light. The image’s stair-step appearance results...

A portion of a globular cluster with thousands of stars with a stair step look due to the detector that was used to take the image.

This image of M19 includes Hubble observations taken in ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared wavelengths of light. A small gap in...

The field is filled with orange, red, yellow, blue, and white stars. They appear as a spherical, dense mass that tapers out toward the edges of the image on a black background.

This star chart for M17 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This Hubble image captures a small region within M17. This hotbed of star formation is colored according to the chemical...

A diagonal cliff of yellows and brown dust and gas in front of a more etherial cloud of blue and green gas.

Illuminated by ultraviolet radiation from young, massive stars on the right side of this photograph, M17, also known as the...

The edge of a gas cloud with many colors of gas mixed throughout.

This star chart for M16 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This haunting spire, captured by Hubble in visible and infrared light, is composed of cold gas and dust within M16....

Hubble view of a brownish spire of gas and dust within M16, against a background of mostly red and some blue gas.

Observing in infrared light, Hubble pierced through the obscuring gas and dust of M16’s Pillars of Creation. This ethereal image...

Thousands of stars are seen behind and inside the dust and gas towers in an infrared view of M16

This Hubble image of M15 provides a wider view of the cluster. The glowing blue blob toward the bottom left...

This cluster of stars is known as Messier 15, and is located some 35,000 light-years away in the constellation of...

A dense globular cluster of thousands of stars.

This star chart for M14 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This image of M14 was assembled using both infrared and visible-light observations from Hubble. Its stair-step appearance results from the...

A view of a globular cluster of thousands of stars taken in infrared and visible light by Hubble.

This image of M14 includes observations taken in ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared wavelengths of light. Astronomers used this data to...

This star chart for M13 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Because globular clusters like M12 have such high concentrations of stars, they often contain binary star systems — systems of...

A globular cluster of thousands of white, blue, and larger yellow stars.

This star chart for M110 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

M110 is an elliptical galaxy, which means that it has a smooth and nearly featureless structure. Elliptical galaxies do not...

Several faint stars crowd the image, with a larger white-blue galaxy core near the right side of the image.

This star chart for M11 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Unlike the many globular clusters Hubble has imaged, open clusters are groups of stars that are only loosely bound by...

An open cluster of stars, with many small stars in the background and several larger white and yellow in the foreground.

This star chart for M108 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

star chart showing location in night sky of M108

M108 is one of the largest and brightest members of the Ursa Major cluster, as well as part of the...

A grayscale image of a galaxy core surrounded by spiral arms laced through with dark dust. A black stair-step shaped region designates where there is no Hubble data.

This star chart for M107 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a crowd of stars that looks rather like a stadium darkened before a...

A bright cluster of white and yellow stars against black space.

This star chart for M106 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This magnificent view of the spiral galaxy M106 was assembled from Hubble exposures and ground-based images taken by the amateur...

A bright yellow galaxy core, surrounded by spiral arms with pink and brown lanes of dust and bright regions of star formation.

This star chart for M105 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Hubble peered into the core of M105 (also known as NGC 3379) and measured the motions of stars swirling around...

A bright, yellow-orange galaxy core shines, veering into red hues at the corners of the image.

This Hubble image of M105 was taken in near-infrared and visible light. Like most elliptical galaxies it appears rather featureless...

A hazy white-yellow light shines against black space, dotted with faint, distant stars.

This star chart for M104 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M102 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Hubble’s sharp vision reveals a crisp dust lane dividing M102, also known as the Spindle galaxy, into two halves.

A galaxy is seen edge-on, with a dark lane of dust obscuring it surrounded by a hazy white glow, all against a black background.

Hubble captured this stunning view of spiral galaxy Messier 101 (M101), which is also called the Pinwheel Galaxy.

This star chart for M100 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This Hubble image of a region of M100 shows a type of pulsating star called a Cepheid variable. These stars...

Grayscale image of a spiral galaxy, with pulled out images designating Cepheid variable stars.

M100 is a stunning example of a grand-design spiral galaxy.

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.

This time-lapse movie of M1 was created from a series of 10 Hubble exposures. It reveals wave-like rings expanding outward...

Time-lapse observations of M1 from Hubble exposures

Peering deep into M1, this spectacular Hubble image captures the nebula’s beating heart: the rapidly spinning pulsar at its core....

The core of the Crab Nebula - M1 showing ripples in the gas and dust.

The Crab Nebula is an expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese astronomers recorded this violent event...

The Hubble Space Telescope is equipped to take images in various wavelengths of light in order to provide more insight...

Hubble images of Eagle Nebula's Pillars of Creation

This star chart for Caldwell 99 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars, and the location of Caldwell 99.

A wide-field, ground-based image of Caldwell 99 (the Coalsack Nebula) in the lower left shows the location of the protoplanetary...

To the left is an ESO image of dark nebulous gas and stars that pinpoints the location of the Hubble image on the right. To the right is the Hubble image.

This stunning image captures a small region on the edge of the inky Coalsack Nebula, or Caldwell 99. Caldwell 99...

A handful of bright stars amidst and around a blue misty blob of glowing gas.

This star chart for Caldwell 96 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars, and the location of Caldwell 96.

The image in the upper right, taken with a single infrared filter by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), shows...

A cluster of blue stars with two bright yellow stars near the top of the image is to the left. A callout box on a section of that image points to a larger image at the right of several very bright large stars.

Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) captured the image in the upper right, showing stars in Caldwell 96 (NGC 2516),...

To the left is a cluster of blue stars against a black background. Two bright orange stars are near the top of the image. A callout box at the edge of the cluster shows the location of the Hubble image (shown at the right), which features scattered stars including several large bright ones.

The image of Caldwell 96 (NGC 2516) at top is a ground-based image of the open cluster from the Digitized...

The first image shows a more distant image of the cluster, filled with blue stars. The next two images show Hubble closeups of some of the individual stars.

This image captures some of the shimmering stars in the outskirts of the open cluster Caldwell 96. Also known as...

Scattered white and reddish stars on a black background, with the largest and brightest stars to the left and right of the image.

This star chart for Caldwell 94 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars, and the location of Caldwell 94.

This series of images “zooms” into the Hubble image of the Jewel Box cluster (Caldwell 94). A box in each...

A series of 5 images in blocks that "zoom in" until they end in the Hubble image of Caldwell 94. They start with an image of distant gas, dust and stars and each exhibits progressively more detail until the Hubble image displays large, individual white and reddish stars.

This Hubble image features stars at the center of Caldwell 94, an open cluster that is only about 16 million...

Several bright white stars with x-shaped spikes of light are located to the left of the image. A few more, inclucing some reddish stars, are at the edge of the image to the right. Smaller scattered stars are in the background against black space.

This star chart for Caldwell 93 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars, and the location of Caldwell 93.

This composite image shows the location of the accidentally discovered dwarf galaxy named Bedin 1, which lies far behind globular...

On the bottom is an image of a compact spherical cluster of white stars, so thickly assembled near its center that it becomes imposssible to distinguish between them. A small box in that calls out the next image, to the right, a Hubble closeup of some of the stars that shows many white and blue stars against a black bacgkground. Another callout box in that shows a closeup of stars in the Hubble image. This image, to the top left, shows multiple bluish and reddish stars.

Caldwell 93 is a glimmering globular cluster of over 100,000 stars, all united by gravity. The cluster holds its stellar...

A collection of many white stars against the black background of space. They are more concentrated in the center of the cluster.

This star chart for Caldwell 92 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars, and the location of Caldwell 92.

Hubble revealed never-before-seen details in this part of the Carina Nebula, dubbed the “Keyhole Nebula,” when its Wide Field and...

Most of the image is filled with a large, glowing gold and pink to reddish-brown cloud of gas against a hazy white-gray background with scattered pinkish stars.

Hubble observed this pillar of gas and dust in the Carina Nebula in both visible light (top) and infrared light...

The top image shows an opaque column of gold and brown glowing gas and dust rising against a blue-green background of gas-filled space with scattered pinkish stars. The bottom image shows the same image, but many more stars are visible. The column of gas and dust is a dim, ghostly gray version of itself and mostly transparent. Stars can be seen through it and a cloudy jet of gas is visible emerging horizontally from within the column. The background is black space dotted with a myriad of stars.

Astronomers targeted Caldwell 92 to create one of the largest panoramic images ever taken with Hubble’s cameras, generating a stunning...

A tumultuous landscape of gas and dust, filled with bright glowing clouds, knots of darker gas, and stars.

This star chart for Caldwell 90 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars, and the location of Caldwell 90.

Caldwell 90 was formed in the late stages of the evolution of a Sun-like star. This Hubble image was taken...

A cloud of white-gray gas with a star at its center, with a scattering of small red stars around it.

This star chart for Caldwell 9 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 9

The ground-based image of the Cave Nebula (Caldwell 9 or Sh2-155) in the lower left shows the small portion of...

On the left side of the image there is a picture featuring red dust and gas from a ground based image. On the right is the Hubble image, blue dust surrounding stars.

Also called the Cave Nebula, Caldwell 9 is an area where new stars are forming.

Large blue cloud of dust and gas forms a border around a grouping of yellow stars.

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The Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) image in the lower left shows the star cluster Caldwell 89 (NGC 6087) as seen...

This collection of stars captured in infrared light by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 is part of Caldwell 89, also...

This black and white image is dominated by a single large, bright star with x-shaped beams of light emanating from it across the image. Other, smaller stars are visible around it.

This star chart for Caldwell 87 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars, and the location of Caldwell 87

This image of the globular star cluster Caldwell 87 (or NGC 1261) combines observations made by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera...

A spherical cluster of bright white, red, and blue stars.

This star chart for Caldwell 86 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Hubble captured this close-up of stars in Caldwell 86 using the Advanced Camera for Surveys in 2005. These observations helped...

Dazzling, bright, white stars, some of which display cross-shaped spikes of light.

Caldwell 86 is one of the nearest globular clusters to Earth. Its closeness, combined with Hubble’s sharp vision, allowed astronomers...

A cluster of bright blue, red and white stars against the black background of space.

This star chart for Caldwell 84 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars, and the location of Caldwell 84.

This image features the nearly spherical globular star cluster Caldwell 84. It is a composite of observations taken in visible...

The nearly spherical globular star cluster Caldwell 84 is dense and thick with stars. Whiter stars appear near the center and blue and red stars farther out.

This star chart for Caldwell 83 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars, and the location of C 83

A ground-based image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), in the upper right, includes an outline that shows the region...

A ground-based image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), in the upper right, shows the entire long, edge-on galaxy and includes an outline that shows the region near the center of Caldwell 83 observed by Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. To the left is the Hubble image, showing dark dust lanes scattered with white and red stars.

Caldwell 83, or NGC 4945, is a barred spiral galaxy (like our Milky Way) that appears edge-on. This composite image...

Dark lanes of dust and gas are scattered with red and white stars. The image has the step-shape format caused by the WFPC2 camera.

This star chart for Caldwell 82 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars, and the location of C82.

This image provides context for Hubble’s observation of Caldwell 82 (NGC 6193). The image on the left is a ground-based...

On the left is a ground-based image from a telescope at the European Southern Observatory (ESO), showing clouds of reddish gas and dark dust with a bright but indistinct haze of stars at their center. On the right is Hubble's image of several bright whitish stars surrounded to dimmer red stars.

This open star cluster, Caldwell 82 (or NGC 6193), is host to about 30 stars.

Several very bright whitish stars are clustered together, with a number of smaller and dimmer red stars around them.

This star chart for Caldwell 81 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars and the location of C81.

This Hubble image of C81 uses just two Advanced Camera for Surveys filters in visible and infrared light.

A grouping of mostly blue and white stars with two bright red stars to the right.

Caldwell 81, or NGC 6352, is a loose globular star cluster located roughly 20,000 light-years from Earth and located in...

A cluster of bright blue and yellow stars against the black background of space. A single bright red star is to the far right.

This star chart for Caldwell 80 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars and the location of 80.

Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 captured this image in ultraviolet and visible light showing 100,000 stars in the core of...

A field shows closely packed yellow, blue and red stars against the black background of space.

This Hubble image, which includes ultraviolet and visible light captured by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 in 1997,...

A stair-shaped image of C80 caused by design of WFPC2 shows a section of the cluster thick with yellow, white and the occasional blue star.

This Hubble image shows off 2 million members of the biggest and brightest ball of stars in our galaxy. Caldwell...

A compact spherical cluster of so many stars that their light blurs together.

This star chart for Caldwell 79 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars and the location of C79.

A Hubble image of stars at the center of the glittering globular cluster Caldwell 79 combines visible and ultraviolet observations...

A field of large bright yellow stars and smaller blue and white stars.

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This image of globular star cluster Caldwell 78, also known as NGC 6541, is a composite of observations taken in...

A bright, compact, spherical cluster of stars in colors of white, blue and red.

This star chart for Caldwell 77 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars and the location of C77.

The infrared image in the lower right, taken by Hubble’s Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), shows the bright...

An image in the lower right shows the bright core of Centaurus A, a bright white region, surounded by red patches immediately to the upper left and lower right of the core. On the left, a white square in the Wide Field shows a Hubble image of the center of Centaurus A, a bright yellow glowing region filled with dark dust lanes.

The Hubble image (on the right), showing dust and stars near the center of Centaurus A, is a combination of...

Upper-left corner: a ground-based image of the galaxy looks like a bright-white ball of stars with a dark dust lane through its middle. A box outlines the area Hubble image. The rest of the image holds Hubble's view. A dusty streak stretches from the upper-right corner to the lower left. A background yellow-orange glow cuts through the dust.

Caldwell 77, also cataloged as NGC 5128 and commonly called Centaurus A, is a peculiar elliptical galaxy that consists of...

C77 is a mixture of prominent dark dust lanes and bright yellow glowing areas sprinkled with red groupings of stars.

This star chart for Caldwell 76 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

In the upper right is a ground-based image of Caldwell 76 (NGC 6231) from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS). An...

In the upper right is a ground-based image of Caldwell 76 (NGC 6231) from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), showing a cluster of many stars. In the left is a Hubble closeup of some of its stars, which are variously bright and blue-white and red.

This image of Caldwell 76, also known as NGC 6231. combines observations taken at ultraviolet, visible, and infrared wavelengths by...

Several bright stars in colors of blue-white and red against the black background of space.

This star chart for Caldwell 74 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C74 next to the constellation Vela at the top, in the southern night sky in March at 10pm.

Also known as the "Eight-Burst Nebula", C74 is a striking example of a planetary nebula, an expanding cloud of gas...

A bright star shines at the center of a rainbow-colored "bubble" spreading outward from it. The inner oval around the star is a turquoise color, which has a yellow ring around it, which then turns to orange, and has red wisps at the outer edges.

This star chart for Caldwell 73 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C73 to the right of the constellation Columba, in the southern night sky in January at 10pm.

Caldwell 73 is a densely-packed globular cluster of stars. Unlike the stars in many known globular clusters, which are about...

This is a globular cluster, a sphere of tens of thousands of stars. Most of them are a whitish color, but there are many bright red, yellow, and blue stars mixed in. The stars are more concentrated in the center of the sphere. As you move farther from the center, there are fewer stars.

This star chart for Caldwell 72 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C72 between the constellations Phoenix (below) and Sculptor (above), in the southern night sky in October at 10pm.

The mosaic at the bottom captures countless stars in an outer portion of the disk of Caldwell 72 (NGC 55)....

This is a mosaic-like inset of C72, with a high concentration of stars on the left (the center of the galaxy) fading out to be thinner on the right (the galactic edge).

At top right, a ground-based image of Caldwell 72 (NGC 55) from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) includes an outline...

This is an inset image of C72 near the galactic center. The most notable feature is a "chunk" of bright blue stars on the lower left of the inset.

At lower left, a ground-based image of Caldwell 72 (NGC 55) from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) includes a box...

The image of C72's galactic center is shown to be inset from a flat spiral galaxy.

This image, showing a central part of Caldwell 72, is a composite of visible and infrared observations made by Hubble’s...

This star chart for Caldwell 71 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C71 in the constellation Puppis, in the southern night sky in February at 10pm.

The ground-based image in the upper right, from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), provides a wide view of the star...

Two different Hubble images of C71 are shown side-by-side, with a ground-based observatory's more zoomed-out image in the upper right.

Caldwell 71 is an open cluster, a loosely bound collections of stars. However, it is relatively compact and strikingly spherical,...

Several very bright stars are scattered throughout the field of view, with many fainter ones behind them. Of the four brightest stars, two have a reddish-orange hue, one is reddish-white, and one is bluish-white.

This star chart for Caldwell 70 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C70 above the constellation Phoenix and to the left of Sculptor, in the southern night sky in November at 10pm.

What appear as individual grains of sand on a beach in the image obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are...

The very center of the galaxy glows bright white. All around it, the white stars of its spiral arms resemble grains of sand. There are scattered dark tufts of dust and gas scattered throughout.

This star chart for Caldwell 7 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 7

Supernova hunters may be familiar with Caldwell 7 as the galaxy hosted a supernova in 2004.

Large grouping of stars within a galaxy center, surrounded by light blue dust and gas

This star chart for Caldwell 69 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C69 in the lower portion of the constellation Scorpius, in the southern night sky in July at 10pm.

Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across a more complete spectrum...

Two lobes of gas and dust expand outward from the center toward the lower left and upper right of the image. The center of each lobe is lavender, ringed by orange, and then a teal green. The nebula is on a black background dotted with stars.

This close-up image showing details in one lobe of Caldwell 69 was taken by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera...

Two lobes of gas and dust expand outward from the center toward the lower left and upper right of the image. Most of the image is filled by the lower lobe. The center of each lobe is bright-white ringed by a orange-yellow and then a rusty, orange-brown. The nebula is on a black background.

Hubble captured this image of Caldwell 69 on July 27, 2009 with its Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) in ultraviolet...

Two lobes of gas and dust expand outward from the center toward the lower left and upper right of the image. The center of each lobe is bright-white ringed by a rose-pink and then a rusty, orange-brown. The nebula is on a black background dotted with stars.

This star chart for Caldwell 68 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C68 in the top of the constellation Corona Australis, and below Sagittarius, in the southern night sky in August at 10pm.

Caldwell 68 is a hazy reflection nebula, a star-forming cloud of gas and dust that glows with the energy emitted...

Two bright stars shine a distance away from each other, looking like eyes. An orangey haze emanates around and between them.

This star chart for Caldwell 67 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C67 next to the constellation Fornax on the right, in the southern night sky in December at 10pm.

Caldwell 67 is a Seyfert galaxy. Lurking at the very center of the galaxy, a supermassive black hole 100 million...

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 star chart for Caldwell 66 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C66 between the constellations of Scorpius and Hydra, and below Virgo, in the southern night sky in June at 10pm.

Caldwell 66 is one of the oldest, most remote globular clusters in our galaxy. Most globular clusters reside on the...

Bright-white spherical cluster of stars in the upper left corner. Stars taper off down and out to the right of the cluster against a black background. Reddish-orange stars dot the scene.

This star chart for Caldwell 65 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C65 above the constellation Sculptor, in the southern night sky in November at 10pm.

NGC 253 is a large, almost edge-on spiral galaxy, and is one of the nearest galaxies beyond our local neighborhood...

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.

A close-up view from Hubble shows that NGC 253 is ablaze with the light from thousands of young, blue stars....

In this wide-field image, the center of the galaxy is on the left, surrounded by dark clouds of gas, which make several "rings" of spiral arms around the center that extend farther and farther out to the right, filled with white stars in between.

This star chart for Caldwell 63 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C63 below the constellation Aquarius, in the southern night sky in October at 10pm.

Gases collide near the dying star that produced the Helix Nebula. Astronomers have dubbed the dark, tadpole-like objects in the...

The lower left corner of gas and dust is a bright orangish-yellow. Streams of gas resembling tadpoles flow up and to the right from this cloud, which fades into a pink-yellow, then to a green-blue, and then into blue.

Comet-like tendrils cluster along the inner rim of the nebula’s reddish outer gas ring. This composite picture is a seamless...

This zoomed-in image of the Helix nebula seems to make a rainbow outwards from the star. It's blue at the center, fading to white, then yellow, then orange, and finally red at the outer edges.

This image shows a fine web of filamentary "bicycle-spoke" features embedded in the colorful red and blue ring of gas....

This nebula resembles an eye, with the "pupil" immediately around the star appearing a light blue, the "iris" fading into a mixture of blue, orange, and red with a yellow-orange ring around it, and the sclera appearing bright red-orange.

This star chart for Caldwell 62 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C62 below the constellation Cetus on the right, in the southern night sky in November at 10pm.

This ultraviolet image, taken by NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) spacecraft, shows the "hole" in Caldwell 62 along with a...

This ultraviolet image of C62 shows an icy blue-and-white galactic disk, arranged vertically.

A ground-based image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in the lower left shows the galaxy Caldwell 62 (NGC 247)....

This inset image shows that Hubble's image of C62 is one portion of a larger spiral galaxy, taken by a ground-based observatory, which appears as a glowing white disk scattered with large spheres of pink.

This Hubble image shows the central region of a spiral galaxy known as Caldwell 62. Its nucleus is visible here...

The galaxy's nucleus is visible here as a bright, whitish patch, surrounded by a mixture of bluish-white stars and blackish clouds of gas and dust.

This star chart for Caldwell 60 & 61 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C60 and C61 as seen from the Northern Hemisphere in the southern night sky in mid April at 10pm.

A ground-based telescopic view on the left shows the long tails of the Antennae galaxies. On the right, a natural-color...

Left: black and white, wide-field view of two galaxies colliding. Right: Hubble image of the two galaxy cores, intertwined. The cores are bright yellow-orange. Sweeping around the cores are bright bluish-purple areas of star formation. Rusty-brown clouds and filaments give them a knotted appearance.

This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of...

Two galaxies merge, a larger one at the top of the image and a smaller one below it. Both galaxies glow with a yellowish center, have rings of pink and bluish-white stars around them, and are connected by a large cloud of dust, brown, red, and pink.

This star chart for Caldwell 6 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 6.

This closer view of billowing clouds of gas around the dying star at the center of the Cat’s Eye Nebula...

Bright red clouds of dust and gas surround a bright white star in the center of the image.

Caldwell 6 is also known as NGC 6543, but is commonly called the Cat’s Eye Nebula.

Large clouds of white dust and gas surrounding a bright white star in the center.

Planetary Nebula Caldwell 59, also known as the Ghost of Jupiter. A notable feature of the nebula is the presence...

A blue star shining at the center of the nebula is surrounded by a thick white bubble, which turns pale orange at the outer edges. It has a small red "flare" outside this bubble at either pole, and a thick spherical layer of blue around the whole structure.

This star chart for Caldwell 58 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C58 to the left of the constellation Canis Major, in the southern night sky in February at 10pm.

Taken by the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), the ground-based image of Caldwell 58 (NGC 2360) in the lower left shows...

Caroline's Cluster is shown as an inset image from a Digitized Sky Survey ground-based image of C58, which has a much thicker concentration of stars.

Caldwell 58 is an open cluster — a group of stars loosely bound together by gravity. Astronomers used Hubble to...

Several very bright stars are scattered throughout the field of view, with many fainter ones behind them. Most of the brightest stars are bluish-white, while the rest have a reddish-orange hue, and some slightly-less-bright stars are deep red.

This star chart for Caldwell 57 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C57 above the constellation Sagittarius, in the southern night sky in September at 10pm.

This Hubble image, taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, shows another huge star-forming region in Caldwell 57,...

A greenish-yellow spherical glowing gas cloud, which becomes a dark pinkish-red at the edges.

This Hubble image zooms in to a stellar nursery within Caldwell 57 called Hubble-V. The image combines observations taken by...

This pinkish-red glowing gas cloud resembles curling flames from a campfire. A faint tail of gas trailing off the top of the cloud sits opposite a dense cluster of bright white and yellow stars at the bottom.

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a field of stars in the galaxy’s outskirts. The galaxy’s center is out of...

This star chart for Caldwell 56 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C56 in the lower-right of the constellation Cetus, in the southern night sky in November at 10pm.

The ground-based image of Caldwell 56 (NGC 246) from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), in the lower right, shows the...

This image indicates that the zoomed-in image of C56 was inset from another image from a ground-based telescope, which shows the whole blue bubble structure around the white dwarf star.

This image of the planetary nebula Caldwell 56 was captured by Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. It provides...

Near the center of the image is a bright orange star, and in the upper left, are two reddish-pink stars near each other. The entire image is filled by a turquoise, cloud-like "bubble".

This star chart for Caldwell 55 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C55 in the upper-right corner of the constellation Aquarius, in the southern night sky in September at 10pm.

NGC 7009 has a bright central star at the center of a dark cavity bounded by a football-shaped rim of...

A bright pink central star is surrounded by a football-shaped rim of dense blue and red gas. The cavity and its rim are trapped inside smoothly-distributed greenish material in the shape of a barrel and comprised of the star's former outer layers. At larger distances, and lying along the long axis of the nebula, a pair of red "ansae", or "handles" appears. Each ansa is joined to the tips of the cavity by a long greenish jet of material.

This star chart for Caldwell 53 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C53 below the constellation Sextans, in the southern night sky in April at 10pm.

This star chart for Caldwell 52 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C52 next to the constellation Virgo on the right, in the southern night sky in May at 10pm.

Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) image of Caldwell 52 (NGC 4697) appears at the bottom. Hubble also observed the...

The bottom picture displays the entire galaxy, while the top right picture observes its center. The top left picture also observes the center, but in infrared light.

Caldwell 52 is the most prominent member of a collection of galaxies known as the NGC 4697 Group. Slightly larger...

An elliptical galaxy emits a bright white glow that surrounds it like a halo.

This star chart for Caldwell 51 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C51 in the southern night sky, above the constellation Cetus, at 10pm in November.

This context image shows two regions of Caldwell 51 (IC 1613) imaged by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). The...

This infrared image of an outer region of Caldwell 51 includes some even more distant background galaxies. It was captured...

Thousands of dots of varying colors, each one its own star in the galaxy C51, cover the black background of space. There are also several disks of spiral galaxies, and blue stars that seem to make streaks or trails across the image.

Caldwell 51, also known as IC 1613, is located just 2.3 million light-years from Earth. Despite its relative proximity, Caldwell...

Tens of thousands of tiny dots of varying colors, each one its own star in C51, look like dust against the black backdrop of space. A few larger objects like reddish disks of spiral galaxies can be seen.

Searching for visible-light counterparts to X-ray sources detected by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers used Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys...

Though bright, this spiral galaxy is very difficult to find in the crowded sky area near the Milky Way's disk.

Bright central region with many bright, white stars creating a glowing section of dust and gas. Around that center there are darker clouds of dark orange with stars.

This star chart for Caldwell 48 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C48 to the bottom-left of the constellation Cancer in the southern night sky at 10pm in March.

The spiral pattern shown by the galaxy in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is striking because of its delicate,...

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.

This star chart for Caldwell 47 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C47 below the constellation Delphinus in the southern night sky in September at 10pm.

This bright spray of stars is a globular cluster, which is a large ball of (typically) a few hundred thousand...

This is a globular cluster, a sphere of tens of thousands of stars. Most of them are a whitish color, and more concentrated in the center of the sphere. As you move farther from the center, there are fewer stars.

This star chart for Caldwell 46 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart shows C46 just above the constellation Monocerotis in the southern night sky at 10pm in February.

This fan-shaped cloud of gas and dust shines by the light of a bright star at the bottom end of...

This nebula is shaped like a fan, with the star glowing white in the bottom left. Trailing upwards away from it, like a veil, the gas and dust is bluish-white closest to the star, then turns to a light blue farther away, and then to a deep turquoise at the ends, which are on the top right.

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This image of Caldwell 45, captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, provides a larger view, showing more of the...

This spiral galaxy is shaped like a hurricane, with a glowing white spherical center. The arms of gas and dust closest to the center are orange, red, brown, and pale yellow in color. Farther away from the center, the arms are layers of brown and blue.

Hubble captured reddish-pink clouds of star-forming regions in this spiral galaxy. C45 is notable for the ring structure around its...

This spiral galaxy is shaped like a hurricane, with a glowing white spherical center. The arms of gas and dust closest to the center are orange, brown, and pale yellow in color. Farther away from the center, the arms are pink scattered with red, and surrounded by blue stars.

This star chart for Caldwell 44 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C44 next to the constellation Pegasus in the southern night sky in October at 10pm.

Shaped like a backward "S," Caldwell 44 emits a jet of radiation in radio wavelengths that bends in the opposite...

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.

This image of Caldwell 43 is a combination of visible and infrared observations captured by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys...

The pinkish-brown disk of a spiral galaxy, viewed from head-on and looking like a straight line, stretches across the picture. The center of the galaxy is glowing white and looks spherical, and a white glow radiates outward from it, encompassing the whole galactic disk.

This star chart for Caldwell 42 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This annotated star chart shows C42 in the southern night sky near the constellation Delphinus in September at 10pm.

NGC 7006 resides in the outskirts of the Milky Way. This roughly spherical region of our galaxy is made up...

A ground-based image of Caldwell 40 (NGC 3626) from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) appears in the upper left. A...

Features three different images of Caldwell 40: one in infrared on the right, one taken with a ground-based telescope in the upper left, and one in multiple wave lengths on the lower left.

This view of Caldwell 40 is a single image captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 through one infrared filter....

A spiral galaxy has a pale yellow glow around it, and is bright white at the center. It resembles an eye.

This structure is a densely packed region of stars that encompasses the heart of a spiral galaxy. Most galactic bulges...

A spiral galaxy has a glowing white center and wispy arms of gas that are reddish-brown at the thickest parts and whitish-pink for the smaller arms. The galaxy is surrounded by a bluish-white glow.

This star chart for Caldwell 4 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 4.

Also called the Iris Nebula, or NGC 7023, Caldwell 4 is of particular interest to astronomers.

Large cloud of dark purple dust and gas with a few orange stars peppered throughout.

This star chart for Caldwell 39 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Shows the location of C39 from mid-northern latitudes in the southern night sky, near the constellation Gemini, at 10pm in February.

This composite image of Caldwell 39 (NGC 2392) contains X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in purple, showing the...

At the center of the image is the dying star. It's surrounded by a white, pink, and orange wispy "cloud" of gas. Farther away, more gas and dust creates an orange-and-yellow circular "ring" around the center. There is a faint blue glow behind this object.

This stellar relic was first spied by William Herschel in 1787. The fuzzy outer region is a disk of material...

At the center of the image is the dying star. It's surrounded by a white-and-orange wispy "cloud" of gas. Farther away, more gas and dust creates an orange-and-yellow circular "ring" around the center.

This star chart for Caldwell 38 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 38

A ground-based image from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) in the upper left includes outlines that show the regions of...

At the top left of the image is a ground based image of Galaxy C38. It is viewed nearly edge on, so it appears to be just a spear of light with a thicker center due to the core. On the top right is a Hubble image showing a close up view of the arm of the galaxy, blue and white and purple dust enmeshed with countless stars. And at the bottom is the other Hubble image of the galaxy, with its dark thin arms due to the angle it is facing us, and a bright white core in the center.

This spear of stars and dust, imaged in visible and infrared light with the Advanced Camera for Surveys, is a...

A small section of the outer arm of a galaxy viewed almost edge on. Lots of dust and gas intermixed with stars.

Caldwell 38 is nicknamed the Needle galaxy, because in most telescopes it looks as thin and sharp as a pin....

Thin side view of a galaxy, surrounded by dark plumes of gas and dust, blocking most of the stars on the outer edges. But in the center, a bright white light which is the core of the galaxy.

This star chart for Caldwell 36 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 36

Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) also captured a large area of Caldwell 36 (NGC 4559) in visible and infrared...

At the bottom left of the image is a picture from a ground based telescope of a galaxy on its side. There is an inset image from Hubble showing a much closer and more detailed view of one of the outer arms of that same galaxy. Blue stars and lots of gas and dust.

At top center, a ground-based image of Caldwell 36 (NGC 4559) from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) includes colored boxes...

This beautiful Hubble image captures the core and some of the spiral arms of the galaxy Caldwell 36. Also known...

Large spiral galaxy, countless stars surround the bright center core of the galaxy in the middle of the image. The arms of the galaxy are dusty red clouds of gas enmeshed by blue stars throughout.

This star chart for Caldwell 35 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 35

While looking at this image, you have unwittingly become an intergalactic time traveler! Caldwell 35, also known as NGC 4889,...

Large, egg shaped, white galaxy in the center, surrounded by stars and dust, other galaxies behind the center one peppered throughout.

This star chart for Caldwell 34 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 34

The background image shows Caldwell 34 as observed by a ground-based telescope. The inset is a close-up taken by Hubble.

Large pink cloud of dust and gas which form the cygnus loop, in the center a bright white star along with an inset image showing a closer up view taken by Hubble.

Another small portion of Caldwell 34 is highlighted in this Hubble image, made from observations taken in 1994 and 1997....

Bright yellow, red, and blue clouds of dust and gas form together near the bottom half of the image.

This image shows a small section of the Veil Nebula, as it was observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope....

A colorful rainbow chain of gas and dust stretches across the image from the lower left corner to the upper right.

This star chart for Caldwell 33 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 33

This Hubble image focuses on a tiny tendril in Caldwell 33, the Eastern Veil Nebula. By comparing this Hubble image...

A delicate tendril of blue dust and gas extends across the image

This ground-based image shows Caldwell 33, with two Hubble close-ups as insets.

Ground based image shows giant pink cloud of dust and gas with two Hubble images showing the closer up view.

This image, taken with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, shows another small part of Caldwell 33. The colors...

Wisps of red, yellow, blue and purple dust and gas dance all over the image. The blackness of space frames the image behind it.

Caldwell 33 is part of an extensive supernova remnant known as the Veil Nebula (or the Cygnus Loop). Caldwell 33...

This star chart for Caldwell 32 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 32

This stream of stars embedded in cosmic clouds is part of Caldwell 32, also cataloged as NGC 4631 and commonly...

Long thin side view of a galaxy. On the left side, a larger part of it, closer to the central core. Lots of gas and dust surrounding countless stars. The stars softly stretch out to the right of the image.

This star chart for Caldwell 30 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 30

A white circle shows the location of supernova SN 2014C observed in Caldwell 30.

45 degree angle view of a spiral galaxy. Lots of dark purple and blue dust and gas orbits the bright yellow center. Near the center, on the distant arm of the galaxy, a small white circle shows where a supernova occured.

The majestic spiral galaxy Caldwell 30, also cataloged as NGC 7331, is often touted as an analog to our own...

45 degree angle view of a spiral galaxy. Lots of dark purple and blue dust and gas orbits the bright yellow center.

This star chart for Caldwell 3 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 3.

The image in the upper right is a ground-based image of Caldwell 3 from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2),...

On the left of the image is the Hubble shot of C3 with the dust and stars of blue and white.

This barred spiral galaxy was first spotted by British astronomer William Herschel in April 1793 in the constellation Draco.

Large grouping of bright white, blue and red stars. Lightly colored blue dust surrounds the stars.

This star chart for Caldwell 29 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 29

Caldwell 29, also known as NGC 5005, is a spiral galaxy that likely harbors a supermassive black hole at its...

45 degree view of a spiral galaxy. Dark blue dust and gas covers up most of its millions of stars, but the core, center of the image, is bright white.

This star chart for Caldwell 27 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

The black-and-white inset is a ground-based image that displays nearly the full nebula, which spans roughly 16 by 25 light-years....

colorful streams of yellow, blue, and green gas and dust extend from the lower left to the center right. At the bottom right is a black and white image from a ground based telescope.

Commonly called the Crescent Nebula, Caldwell 27 looks more like a prehistoric dinosaur egg. Hubble’s vibrantly colored image zooms in...

colorful streams of yellow, blue, and green gas and dust extend from the lower left to the center right.

This star chart for Caldwell 26 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 26

Also called NGC 4244 and the Silver Needle Galaxy, Caldwell 23 is part of the same galactic super cluster as...

Long thin galaxy view, nearly from the side but tilted a bit toward the viewer. Lots of white stars throughout, but they get thicker and brighter near the center.

This star chart for Caldwell 25 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 25

Dubbed "the Intergalactic Wanderer,” Caldwell 25 is different from the Milky Way's other globular clusters.

Huge grouping of countless stars, in colors red, blue, white, yellow. The closer to the center of the image, the brighter, and whiter it gets.

This star chart for Caldwell 24 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This close-up view of the center of Caldwell 24, combining visible and infrared observations taken by Hubble’s Wide Field and...

Large glob of white light in the upper left of the image. Surrounded by dark dust and gas.

The tendrils that reach out beyond the elliptical galaxy Caldwell 24, also called C24, are the only visible-light manifestation of...

Large glob of stars surrounded by dark rusty red gas and dust. Huge bright stars surround the bright galaxy in the center.

This star chart for Caldwell 23 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Sir Patrick Moore, creator of the Caldwell catalog, once said that Caldwell 23 looks like “two fried eggs clapped back...

Thin line of stars and dust and gas, the side view of a galaxy. This galaxy is diagonal across the image, with the blackness of space behind it.

This star chart for Caldwell 22 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This image was taken using Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 in 2000. Astronomers compared this image to earlier...

Light blue dust and gas forms an egg shaped shell surrounding a bright white star in the center. There is an outer shell as well, also light blue, with some pink on the edges.

This star chart for Caldwell 21 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 21

Discovered in 1788 by astronomer William Herschel, Caldwell 21 is dwarf irregular galaxy bursting with forming stars.

Large grouping of stars and bluish dust and gas. Near the center the stars create a bright white light. Galaxy is a amorphous blob.

This star chart for Caldwell 20 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

The Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) ground-based image of Caldwell 20 (NGC 7000) in the upper right captures a wide view...

While the spiral feature in the upper portion of this Hubble image may resemble the arm of a galaxy or...

Large bright star at the top left of the image, surrounded by dark dust and gas. Stars pepper the image in the bottom right.

This image of Caldwell 2 (C2) was taken in 1995 as part of a survey of nearby planetary nebulae. Astronomers...

Red cloud of dust with a bright white star in the center of it. Lots of reddish and orangish stars in the background.

This star chart for Caldwell 18 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 18

The ground-based image of Caldwell 18 (NGC 185) in the top left is from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) and...

The ground-based image of Caldwell 18 (NGC 185) from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), shown in the bottom left, includes...

Caldwell 18 is a nearby galaxy in the local group with an active galactic nucleus.

Bright grouping of countless stars, getting brighter and brighter as you move to the center of the egg shaped galaxy.

This star chart for Caldwell 17 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 17

In the ground-based Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) image at upper right, a blue outline shows another area of Caldwell 17...

On the top right, a full ground based image of a distant galaxy, bright white in the center surrounded by clouds of dust and gas. Bottom left of the image is the Hubble shot of the same area, much closer with stars spotting the black background.

In the upper right, a ground-based image from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) shows Caldwell 17 (NGC 147). A white...

Also known as NGC 147, Caldwell 17 is a dwarf galaxy in our local group of galaxies.

Countless points of light, each of them a star, brought together in this image of a giant galaxy.

This star chart for Caldwell 15 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 15

A blinking remnant star, called a white dwarf, sits at the heart of this colorful nebula.

Bright green dust and gas surrounds an inner shell of tightly wound dust and gas, in the center of it all is a bright purple star.

A ground-based image from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) in the upper left shows Caldwell 14, the Double Cluster in...

Top left of the image shows a ground based shot of Caldwell 14. Countless stars. To the right is a shot from Hubble of an inset area. Blue stars with a black background.

These two bright star clusters appear side by side in the northern sky.

Bright blue stars pepper the dark black sky

This star chart for Caldwell 12 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 12

This infrared image of Caldwell 12’s core was captured by Hubble’s Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer. The red clouds...

Closeup shot of bright white core of galaxy. Surrounded by red dust and gas.

Astronomers have used Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) to study a...

Different shots of the same galaxy, from ground based telescopes, which show the entirety of its spiral, to closer up shots from Hubble, featuring dust and gas.

This star chart for Caldwell 11 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 11

Hubble captured this image of Caldwell 11’s central star and one edge of the nebula’s “bubble” with the telescope’s original...

On the top left of the image, light blue dust and gas surrounds a purple star. At the bottom right, delicate filaments of dust.

Better known as the Bubble Nebula, Caldwell 11 is a colorful region of gas and dust that stretches 6 light-years

A bubble of blueish gas expands in the lower center of the image. Gas and dust in yellow, green, and brown hues fills the rest of the image.

This star chart for Caldwell 109 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars, and the location of Caldwell 109.

Caldwell 109 resembles a phantom snowball. The glowing shroud of gas was shed by its central star in a final...

A grayish oval nebula with a star at its center. Four red stars are located near the top of the nebula.

This star chart for Caldwell 108 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars, and the location of Caldwell 108.

The ground-based image of Caldwell 108 (NGC 4372) on the left, from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), contains an outline...

To the right is a ground-based image of Caldwell 108. To the right is the Hubble image of Caldwell 108. The image shows where the Hubble image is located within the ground-based image.

This image of Caldwell 108 has a dark line bisecting the image in two. This line is called a "chip...

Scattered blue and white stars against a black background. A black line runs horizontally through the image.

A ground-based image of Caldwell 107 (NGC 6101), taken by the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), appears at lower left. A...

To the left is a ground-based image of spherical globular cluster Caldwell 107. A callout box to the right shows the Hubble image with its location in the cluster pinpointed.

This image of the globular cluster Caldwell 107, or NGC 6101, combines observations taken in visible, infrared, and ultraviolet light...

A grouping of blue and reddish stars against the black background of space.

This star chart for Caldwell 106 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 106.

These two Hubble pictures show the same group of stars in Caldwell 106 (47 Tucanae) imaged with the Faint Object...

Left: dark red to black background with bright-red gas clumps dotted with yellow stars. Right: red background dotted with yellow stars

This star chart for Caldwell 105 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 105.

This swarm of stars is Caldwell 105, a densely packed stellar collection known as a globular cluster. These compact clutches...

Black background littered with stars. Slightly denser number of stars at center that taper off toward the image's edge. A few bright stars with diffraction spikes and an orangish halo.

This star chart for Caldwell 104 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Caldwell 104, also cataloged as NGC 362, is a globular star cluster located about 27,000 light-years away. Among the earliest...

A spherical mass of stars fills the scene. Bright-white stars are concentrated at image center. They taper off as you move toward the image's edge. Yellow and blue-white stars dot the region beyond the core.

This star chart for Caldwell 103 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 103.

This Hubble image, taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, shows both the spindly, spidery filaments of gas...

Orange-white and bluish-white stars litter the black background. Light blue cloud wisps and thicker white clouds across the bottom half of the image.

In the most active starburst region in the local universe lies a cluster of brilliant, massive stars, known to astronomers...

Clouds of dark and light pink, and green fill the scene. Upper-left half of the image is pink, while the lower right half is more green. Lower-right corner holds the star cluster Hodge 301.

Astronomers created this infrared mosaic of the Tarantula Nebula (Caldwell 103) using exposures from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys and...

Clouds of pink, white, brown, and grey fill the scene. Bright pinkish-white cloud fills the upper-left quadrant of the image. A few large, yellow stars and many, small white stars dot the scene.

This star chart for Caldwell 101 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 101.

Caldwell 101 has a spiral shape. It stretches far beyond the edges of this Hubble view, more than 200,000 light-years...

A large spiral galaxy fills the frame. A bright core of stars, just left of center. Dust-filled spiral arms wrap around toward the top, right, and bottom of the image.

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This star chart for Caldwell 1 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 1.

Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) captured images of stars in other parts of Caldwell 1 (NGC 188)....

Three images of Caldwell 1. Upper-left is a wide-field image that shows the locations of the other two Hubble images. Bottom-left and bottom-right are Hubble images of a scattering of stars against a black backdrop. Stars in left image are bluish. Stars in right image are reddish.

An image in the lower left, taken with the 0.9-meter telescope at Arizona’s Kitt Peak National Observatory, provides a full...

Two images of Caldwell 1. Lower left is a wide-field image that shows the location of the Hubble image. Right two-thirds is the Hubble image, which shows a scattering of stars against a black backdrop.

Stars with four diffraction spikes dot the scene against a black backdrop.

The text Hubble Trivia is seen in white letters against a background of black space dotted with distant, orange galaxies.

Abell 370 is a massive galaxy cluster whose immense gravity distorts and magnifies the light of galaxies behind it. Hubble...

Countless galaxies in orange, white, light blue, and yellow fill the screen against a black background. Faint arcs appear to curve around the image's center.

The Hubble Extreme Deep Field contains 5,500 galaxies, including some that go back as far as 13.2 billion years in...

The field of view is filled with galaxies in all shapes and sizes. Colors range from red to blue and those in between.

NGC 3147 is a spiral galaxy 130 million light-years away from Earth. Hubble’s clear view of the cosmos enables it...

Spiral galaxy NGC 3147 with a glowing golden core and bluish arms seen face-on.

A Hubble Space Telescope image of the starburst galaxy NGC 2146 showing the position of the supernova SN 2018zd (large...

A bright galaxy seen from the side, a dark dust lane cuts through the middle. A bright point is below and to the right of the galaxy.

blue background, central star's light blocked, bright spot (PSD 70b) next to the star at 7 o'clock

The TRAPPIST-1 system contains a total of seven planets, all around the size of Earth. Three of them — TRAPPIST-1e,...

Image of Jupiter taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Planetary Camera. Eight impact sites are visible. From left to right...

The planet Jupiter's southern hemisphere is dotted with dark smudges where comet segments struck the planet. The impact sites are roughly in line.

A NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a spiral-shaped disk of hot gas in the core of active galaxy M87....

A Hubble Space Telescope image of a giant disk of cold gas and dust fueling a possible black hole at...

Supernova 1987A

A bright circle in the center of a broken, oval ring.

Melnick 34 as imaged by the first Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC-1). The advantages of working in space above...

Grey, black, and white image. At image center is a star with a haze surrounding it. The haze holds brighter lines that appear to radial spread bisect the haze at regular intervals.

Even accounting for the aberration in Hubble's mirror, the space telescope's image (right) offers more clarity than what was generally...

Two black and white images. Left is ground based image, the right is a Hubble image.

Black and white image of Sputnik 1 with a man standing on the left working on the satellite.

The Hubble Space Telescope's primary mirror is polished at the Perkin-Elmer Corporation's large optics fabrication facility during the telescope's development.

Hubble's mirror being polished by a large device with an engineer standing by.

During Servicing Mission 3B in March 2002, astronauts Michael Massimino (left) and James Newman (right) replaced one of Hubble’s four...

Two spacewalking astronauts, one standing attached to the space shuttle's robotic arm, work on the Hubble Space Telescope in the shuttle's cargo bay.

Hubble Traveling Exhibit at the INFINITY Science Center in Pearlington, MS

View of from within the entry tunnel of the Hubble exhibit. Illuminated Hubble images of galaxies and stars overhead, individual objects along the walls. Hubble Space Telescope model at the end of of the tunnel. Large illuminated Eagle Nebula image beyond.

These images of the Eagle Nebula demonstrate Hubble’s ability to capture stunning images in both visible (left) and infrared (right)...

Eagle Nebula showing visible and infrared views side by side.

This photograph of the Hubble Space Telescope was taken by the space shuttle Atlantis’ robotic arm during Servicing Mission 4.

Astronaut Kathryn Thornton works on Hubble during Servicing Mission 1.

An astronaut in a space suit grips a tool while working on Hubble. The curve of Earth is visible in the background to the right.

Prior to installation, technicians inspect the primary mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope.

Technicians in blue suits, face masks, and head coverings look into Hubble's large primary mirror on a stand in a laboratory. They are reflected in the highly polished mirror.

Astronauts Steven L. Smith and John M. Grunsfeld replace gyroscopes during Servicing Mission 3A in December 1999.

Image of Hubble over Earth, being serviced by astronauts

This drawing shows an overview of the space shuttle.

This concept drawing from 1980 shows the original design features of Hubble and its Support Systems Module, which includes the...

A diagram of the Hubble Space Telescope with parts labeled.

The first servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope saw astronauts install a set of specialized lenses to correct the...

Hubble telescope undergoing astronaut repairs on first servicing mission

The STIS long-slit spectrograph of Supernova 1987A dissects its light, producing a detailed image of the ring in each of...

Hubble views of Supernova 1987A from WFPC2 (left) and STIS instruments

A STIS spectrum (right) of galaxy M84’s nucleus (highlighted left) reveals rapid star motions at the galaxy’s center, indicative of...

Hubble observations of M84 by WFPC2 (left) and STIS instruments

Astronaut Joseph Tanner stows one of Hubble’s original Fine Guidance Sensors for return to Earth during Servicing Mission 2.

Astronaut Joseph Tanner working on the Hubble Space Telescope.

Hubble's Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) instrument.

A worker in a white suit stands next to the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph.

Astronauts James H. Newman (on the remote manipulator system robotic arm) and Michael J. Massimino install ACS during Servicing Mission...

Astronaut Andrew Feustel transports the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 back to the space shuttle for return to Earth...

Astronaut Andrew Feustel with Hubble and WFC3

Hubble’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) captured a spectrum (right) of material ejected by a pair of massive stars called...

Hubble observations of Eta Carinae. Left is a colorful image of the double-lobed nebula with a line indicating where the spectrum was taken. Right is the spectrum extending out from Eta Carinae.

Cutaway diagram of the Hubble Space Telescope

Astronauts took this photograph of the Hubble Space Telescope during the final space shuttle servicing mission to the observatory in...

Photograph of the Hubble Space Telescope over Earth.

Panorama view of monitors in the Space Telescope Operations Control Center.

This shows a sonification soundwave against an image of a galaxy cluster.

An opaque column of gold and brown glowing gas and dust rising against a blue-green background of gas-filled space with scattered pinkish stars.

Hubble: An Overview of the Space Telescope - Download PDF

Hubble Space Telescope Overview e-book cover

This e-book is part of a series called Hubble Focus, which presents some of Hubble's recent cosmic discoveries. Its cover,...

Upper left: "Hubble Focus" opening of the telescope is the "O" Center: bright-white star, Center Bottom: Orange-red planet with cloud bands, Center: small, bright-white star and very small red-orange dwarf star

Title at top left: Hubble Focus with the "o" in focus being represented by the opening of the telescope. Image center holds a bright-white star. Below the star is the book's title, "Strange New Worlds." Below that at bottom center, is a an orangish planet lit like a crescent by the star above. The planet holds vertical cloud stripes in rust and yellow.

Whale sharks have unique spot patterns on their skin that can be used to identify specific individuals.

A white-spotted whale shark swims in a blue ocean.

A breast biopsy system using Hubble detector technology offers less invasive procedures.

Two medical workers in white coats work at an imaging machine. A patient in a hospital gown lies on a platform on top of the machine.

Changes in the Rate of Expansion over Time

In this illustration super-Earth Kepler-138 d is in the foreground. To the left, the planet Kepler-138 c, and in the...

Upper right: a blue world with white, linear clouds illuminated as a crescent by a distant star to the lower left of the planet. Two other distant planets are visible, one passing in front of the star, the other to the lower left of the star.

Two galaxies merge (Panel 1), funneling a large amount of gas into the central region. The gas compresses, sparking a...

A three panel illustration. Panel 1: Two spiral galaxies merging. Panel 2: A bright flare. Panel 3: An elliptical galaxy.

This diagram shows how astronomers observed a distant gas giant planet around OGLE-2005-BLG-169 using microlensing.

Multiple-panel diagram of star allignment and lensing: A foreground star and planet drift in front of a more distant background star; the foreground system magnifies the light of the background star via gravitational lensing, as does the planet; the angular separtion between the stars grows more offset as the foreground star drifts by; Hubble observations taken after the lensing event distinguishes the offset between the two stars and observes an elongated, blended image of the stars. These observations and others taken by Keck show the star positions on the sky are separating at a rate predicted by the planetary light-curve model and determine mass and distance to the foreground star and planet.

These images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot were made using data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini...

Various images of jupiter's great red spot

In this illustration, the position of a dark, absorbing cloud of material is located high above the supermassive black hole...

An illustration of an accretion disk around a supermassive black hole.

Astronomers have gotten creative in trying to trace the elusive cosmic web, the large-scale backbone of the cosmos. Researchers turned...

Illustration: Purple filaments fill the view against a black background. They represent the growth of slime mold.

Saturn is by far the solar system’s most photogenic planet, and in this latest Hubble Space Telescope snapshot it is...

Saturn on a black background. The planet's rings are tilted at a slight angle downward toward Earth.

This detailed view highlights the star Earendel's position along a ripple in space-time (dotted line) that magnifies it and makes...

background galaxies, a faint, red arc holds 3 bright dots, the center one is Earendel

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a detailed image of the tiny galaxy HIPASS J1131–31, nicknamed the "Peekaboo Galaxy," despite its...

Black background peppered with blue-white stars and distant rusty-orange-red galaxies. Image Center: bright star with gaseous, blue, elongated, amorphous mass peppered with white stars just to the right. A box expands the for detailed view.

Tiny galaxy HIPASS J1131–31 peeks out from behind the glare of star TYC 7215-199-1, a Milky Way star positioned between...

Black background peppered with blue-white stars and distant rusty-orange-red galaxies. center of image: bright star that holds a gaseous, blue, elongated, amorphous mass peppered with white stars just to the right of the star.

These six Hubble snapshots show how galaxies similar in mass to our Milky Way evolved over time. Milky Way-like galaxies...

Six Hubble snapshots, each showing a galaxy captured at a different redshift/time period. The time periods are 11.3 billion years ago (z=2.8); 10.9 billion years (z=2.4); 10.3 billion years (z+2.0); 8.9 billion years (z=1.3); 6.1 billion years (z=.65) and 3.1 billion years (z=.26). The galaxies start out small and indistinct and gain size and definition, becoming spiral galxies as we get closer to our current time.

'Oumuamua was too small to appear as anything more than a point of light, even in the largest telescopes. But...

This is an artist's illustration of the super-hot exoplanet WASP-79b, located 780 light-years away. The planet orbits precariously close to...

Illustration of exoplanet WASP-79b and its parent star

Bright, frosty polar caps, and clouds above a vivid, rust-colored landscape reveal Mars as a dynamic seasonal planet in this...

The planet Mars has an orange hue, splotched with dark brown areas of prominent features. A blue-white haze curves around the edges of the planet, particularly to the left in this image. A particularly bright spot of white clouds are visible to the right.

Hubble's new Mars image indicating major features on the face of the planet.

Mars image with major features (clouds, ice caps, poles, craters) indicated

Hubble Space Telescope photo of Mars taken when the planet was 50 million miles from Earth on May 12, 2016.

The disk of Mars is set against a black background. The planet is rusty-orange with darker grey areas. Bright-white clouds are visible along the left side of the sphere, and at the poles. An even brighter white patch is visible at the equator of the right limb.

This image of spiral galaxy NGC 6946 (Caldwell 12) is one of a dozen previously unreleased images in the new...

Large spiral galaxy with bright white center, surrounded by countless blue, white, and purple stars. Light blue dust and gas surrounds it.

These galaxies are selected from a Hubble Space Telescope program to measure the expansion rate of the universe, called the...

diagram depicting means of measuring Hubble constant

This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the planets' diameters,...

Artist's concept of TRAPPIST-1 planetary system. At left is a sliver of the star TRAPP!IS-1. To its are artists concepts of each of the seven known planets.

Researchers found likely Eta twins in four galaxies by comparing the infrared and optical brightness of each candidate source. Infrared...

A series of heavily pixelated black and white images of Eta Carinae-like stars, highlighted with boxes and crosshairs. The top five images are from Spitzer and the bottom five images are from Hubble. The images show warm dust surounding the stars

The nearby spiral galaxy M83 is currently the only one known to host two potential Eta Carinae twins. This composite...

A spiral galaxy with callout boxes highlighting the location of Eta Carinae "twins." Images on the bottom zoom into the twin stars.

Eta Carinae's great eruption in the 1840s created the billowing Homunculus Nebula, imaged here by Hubble, and transformed the binary...

A double-lobed cloud of gas in yellow and pink hues veined with dark dust lanes surrounded by outflows of more orange-colored gas.

An expanding veil of gas and dust, shrouds the unstable star Eta Carinae.

A gray, double-lobed cloud of gas, veined with lanes of dark dust, is in the center of a fiery red-orange nebula.

Here are images of six different galaxy clusters taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (blue) and Chandra X-ray Observatory (pink)...

Six panels of images of galaxy clusters. Each cluster has a pink and blue glow that maps the distribution of stars and dark matter (blue) and the presence of X-ray emission from impacted gas (pink).

This artist's illustration shows two Earth-sized planets, TRAPPIST-1b and TRAPPIST-1c, passing in front of their parent red dwarf star, which...

This artist's illustration shows two Earth-sized planets (TRAPPIST-1b and TRAPPIST-1c) passing in front of their parent star.

This illustration shows the atmosphere of exoplanet wasp-33b.

This is a set of images from a NASA Hubble Space Telescope visible-light survey of the architecture of debris systems...

Five panel images of debris disks. Black dots obscure the stars at their centers to better reveal the debris. Two are round disks and the rest are seen at a tilt, edge on. The debris has the appearance of radiating from the stars with thin but visible rays.

On Aug. 17, 2017, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory detected gravitational waves from a neutron star collision. Within 12 hours,...

Hubble observations of neutron star collision in NGC 4993

The images above show -- before and after filtering -- comet C/2013 A1, also known as Siding Spring, as captured...

Comet c/2013 a1 as seen by nasa's hubble space telescope

A glittering tapestry of young stars flares to life in these detailed close-up NASA Hubble Space Telescope photos of star...

Four images focusing in on areas of Westerlund 2. Each image features bright stars and fantastic sculptures of gas and dust in shades of pale blue and orange.

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as...

illustration of merging galaxies in night sky with rocky landscape silhouette in foreground

Images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope over a span of 20 years, shows how...

An image of Jupiter, with three inset images showing its Great Red Spot growing smaller between 1995 and 2014.

Long ago and far across the universe, an enormous burst of gamma rays unleashed more energy in a half-second than...

This image shows the glow from a kilonova caused by the merger of two neutron stars.

What was happening in the universe 12 billion years ago? The universe was smaller and so crowded that galaxies collided...

A multii-panel image of 10 quasars, which resemble blurry, star-like objects.

This artist's concept shows "The Behemoth," an enormous comet-like cloud of hydrogen bleeding off of a warm, Neptune-sized planet just...

A tiny planet is nestled inside the head of a swooping comet-like tail of gas and dust. It faces its star.

NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of Ganymede's auroral belts (colored blue in this illustration) are overlaid on a Galileo orbiter...

Hubble telescope image of Ganymede auroral belts (mapped with blue-white splotches) are imposed over a grayish Galileo orbiter image of Ganymede. Pink dotted lines indicate the paths of the belts across the moon's surface.

This view of a massive cluster of galaxies unveils a very cluttered-looking universe filled with galaxies near and far. Some...

Massive cluster of galaxies with a gravitational lensing distortion effect.

This illustration shows the three steps astronomers used to measure the universe's expansion rate to an unprecedented accuracy, reducing the...

Artist's illustration of the three steps to the new Hubble constant

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows one of the galaxies in the survey to refine the measurement for how fast...

A sparkling galaxy with a bright, glowing core and patchy spiral arms dotted with pale blue star formation.

This illustration offers a plausible scenario for how vagabond stars exploded as supernovae outside the cozy confines of galaxies.1) A...

An illustration of how stars may explode as supernovae outside the confines of galaxies, shown in six numbered panels.

These Hubble Space Telescope images show elliptical galaxies with dark, wispy dust lanes, the signature of a recent galaxy merger....

Hubble images of galaxies NGC 2768 and NGC 4589 with the locations of supernovae 2000ds and 2005cz marked, respectively.

The two inset images show before-and-after images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of Supernova 2012Z in the spiral galaxy...

A blue-white spiral galaxy with pinkish-brown arms of gas and dust, showing two inset images comparing a supernova in 2005-2006 and 2013.

This illustration shows the scale and comparative brightness of Pluto’s small satellites. The surface craters are for illustration only and...

The immense halo of gas enveloping the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest massive galactic neighbor, is about six times larger and...

This diagram illustrates where Hubble viewed quasars and where it did not detect the Andromeda halo. It shows how scientists determined the size of the halo of the Andromeda galaxy. Because the gas in the halo is dark, the team measured it by using the light from quasars, the very distant bright cores of active galaxies powered by black holes. They observed the quasars' light as it traveled through the intervening gas. The halo's gas absorbed some of that light and made the quasar appear darker in a very small wavelength range. By measuring the tiny dip in brightness at that specific range, scientists could tell how much gas is between us and each quasar. Some quasars showed no dip in brightness, and this helped define the size of the halo.

Top: Actual Hubble observations of gas density in the central portion of two galaxies. Bottom: Computer simulations of knots of...

Hubble observations of gas density compared to computer simulations

Hiding among these thousands of galaxies are faint dwarf galaxies residing in the early universe, between 2 and 6 billion...

By applying a technique called spatial scanning to an age-old method for gauging distances called astronomical parallax, scientists now can...

The image shows the galaxy's location within a hefty cluster of galaxies called MACS J1149.6+2223. Arrows (inset) point to the...

A galaxy field with a callout box zooming into an elliptical galaxy. Four bright yellow dots, the multiple images of the supernovae, are indicated with arrows.

The day side of the planet, called WASP-12b, eats light rather than reflects it into space. The exoplanet, which is...

Upper left, black planet. Lower right half of image holds a bright yellow star with orange-red prominences.

This long-exposure image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744 is the deepest ever made of...

This new multiwavelength image of the Crab Nebula combines X-ray light from the Chandra X-ray Observatory (in blue) with visible...

A massive cluster of galaxies, called SpARCS1049+56, can be seen in this multi-wavelength view from NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space...

This illustration represents the best evidence to date that the direct collapse of a gas cloud produced supermassive black holes...

On the left of this image is an illustration of an orange and red swirling disk with a black spot in its center, inside a hazy blue cloud of gas. On the right are two images: An x-ray image showing two hazy blue spots, and an optical image showing multiple bright orange objects.

The TRAPPIST-1 star, an ultra-cool dwarf, has seven Earth-size planets orbiting it. This artist's concept appeared on the cover of...

This is a Hubble Space Telescope view of a very massive cluster of galaxies, MACS J0416.1-2403, located roughly 4 billion...

Hubble image of a lensing galaxy cluster, showing a vast number of galaxies mostly concentrated in the center of the image on a north-south axis. Streaks in the image are lensed galaxies much further away than the cluster. An inset image of a blurry red object indicates the location of the faintest galaxy.

Eta Carinae's great eruption in the 1840s created the billowing Homunculus Nebula, imaged here by Hubble. Now about a light-year...

The double-lobed unstable star Eta Carina looks like two clouds of gas and dust in shades of pin, orange and brown mushrooming outwards from a bright center.

In this supercomputer simulation, the stars of Eta Carinae are shown as black dots. Lighter colors indicate greater densities in...

An animated gif shows a yellow circle with a black dot in its center on an orange background. The cicle appears to be emanating a greenish material. A red, comet-like object with a black dot at its head spirals in toward the center of the yellow circle.

Seen in blue light emitted by doubly ionized iron atoms (4,659 angstroms), these images of Eta Carinae were captured by...

An animated gif shows black and white shifting blobs that change in both size and shape.

This is a Hubble image of the most massive cluster of galaxies ever seen to exist when the universe was...

A massive galaxy cluster full of galaxies of all shapes and sizes, which seem to be surrounded by a bright blue haze.

Diagram showing Uranus in the center and the paths of its rings and moons around the planet.

This image shows an artist’s impression of the ten hot Jupiter exoplanets. From top left to to lower left these...

Artist's impression of the ten hot Jupiter exoplanets. Two rows of exoplanet illustrations. There are 5 planets of varying sizes, colors, and atmospheric features in each row.

This image shows an artist's impression of the ten hot Jupiter exoplanets studied by astronomer David Sing and his colleagues...

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NGC 604 is an enormous star-forming nebula in one of M33’s spiral arms. Spanning almost 1,500 light-years, NGC 604 is...

A star-forming nebula NGC 604 with red, white, and olive green gas and stars.

Hubble’s mosaic image of M33 is overlaid upon a ground-based image of the galaxy. The full Hubble mosaic is represented...

a ground based image of a galaxy, overlaid by

This gigantic image of the Triangulum Galaxy — also known as Messier 33 — is a composite of about 54...

A galaxy image with little structure but a clear central region of yellowish stars and an exterior of dust and blue star formation.

This graphic plots exoplanets based on their size and distance from their star. Each dot represents an exoplanet. Planets the...

The brilliant tapestry of young stars flaring to life resembles a glittering fireworks display in this Hubble Space Telescope image....

This chart plots the excursion of a pair of auroral belts on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. Their motion provides insight into...

This new portrait of Jupiter was produced from observations made using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

The movement of Jupiter’s clouds can be seen by comparing the first map to the second one. Zooming in on...

Hubble maps of Jupiter's Great Red Spot.

In Jupiter’s North Equatorial Belt, scientists spotted a rare wave that had been seen there only once before. It is...

This annotated, infrared image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the scale of the galactic core. The galaxy's nucleus (marked)...

Four annotated images showing scale of the galactic core on top of each other.

The Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) project is an observing program of the Hubble Space Telescope. OPAL makes yearly observations...

Hubble image left to right: Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, Neptune

Turning its 2.4-metre eye to the Tarantula Nebula, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken this close-up of the outskirts...

wispy blue and aqua clouds, shot through with dark filaments and cut with blazing stars

The stars in the globular star cluster Messier 79 look a lot like a blizzard in a snow globe in...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled in stunning detail a small section of the Veil Nebula - expanding remains of...

A small section of the Veil Nebula, seen as intricate filaments of pink, purple, green, and yellow gas against black space and dotted with stars.

Hubble observations pinpoint planet PDS 70b. A coronagraph on Hubble’s camera blocks out the glare of the central star for...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope caught the first clear image of a forming planet, PDS 70b, around a...

This illustration of the newly forming exoplanet PDS 70b shows how material may be falling onto the giant world as...

Like many of the most famous objects in the sky, globular cluster Messier 10 was of little interest to its...

a coarse sprinkling of stars cut with bright slashes of red and blue against the black velvet of space

This Hubble mosaic of the spiral galaxy M83, the Southern Pinwheel, lies 15 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra....

This Hubble image shows the central region of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The young and dense...

Resembling an opulent diamond tapestry, this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows a glittering star cluster that contains a...

A glittering star cluster surrounded by blue and purple gas, with pink and reddish-brown gas along the edges.

Icarus, whose official name is MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1, is one of the farthest individual stars ever seen. It...

image of stars and galaxies with two insets

Hubble uncovered extremely faint and hot white dwarfs. This is a sample of 4 out of the 70 brightest white...

Sample of 4 out of the 70 brightest white dwarfs spied by Hubble in the Milky Way's bulge

Small section of Hubble's view of the dense collection of stars crammed together in the galactic bulge. The region surveyed...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the glow of new stars in these small, ancient galaxies, called Pisces A and...

Side-by-side view of dwarf galaxies Pisces A and Pisces B, two galaxies that look like a "sprinkle" of stars.

Pisces B has spent most of its existence in the Local Void, a region of the universe sparsely populated with...

This galaxy looks like a "sprinkle" of blue stars, with spiral galaxies shown below it and to the left and right.

These two multiple-exposure images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show Kuiper Belt objects, or KBOs, against a background of stars...

Astronomers previously studied the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) in visible and near-infrared light in a series of images captured...

Composite image showing about 10,000 galaxies of different distances from Earth, shapes, sizes, and colors in the visible and near infrared light spectrum.

Hubble spectroscopically confirms farthest galaxy to date.

Chart showing Hubble spectroscopically confirming farthest galaxy to date

By pushing NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to its limits, an international team of astronomers has shattered the cosmic distance record...

Hubble survey field containing tens of thousands of galaxies including one seen 13.4 billion years in the past

This Hubble mosaic of 414 photographs of the M31, or the Andromeda galaxy. On the bottom left is an enlargement...

This image is split into multiple parts. Across the top is an image of a portion of the Andromeda Galaxy, with the core partly visible to the left and continuing off the image. A portion of the galaxy's spiral arms are to the right. The location of the star clusters is highlighted with a callout box on the arms. On the bottom left, the locations of star clusters are marked in the callout box. On the bottom right, the clusters themselves are imaged and the stars visible in bright blue and red.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope photographed a 100,000-light-year-long structure that looks like a string of pearls twisted into a corkscrew shape...

A cluster of reddish-white galaxies. An inset image provides a closer look at one of them, which is being gravitationally lensed.

Hubble image of a reddish-orange stellar jet against the bright blue nebula.

Hubble imaged a small section of the Running Man Nebula, which lies close to the famed Orion Nebula and is...

lower left: bright blue nebula with wisps of purple around its edges, right side: Hubble image of a reddish-orange jet against the bright blue nebula.

A jet from a newly formed star flares into the shining depths of reflection nebula NGC 1977 in this Hubble...

Hubble captured a bright jet from a newly forming star in this image of the Running Man Nebula (NGC 1977)....

Hubble observations have taken advantage of gravitational lensing to reveal the largest sample of the faintest and earliest known galaxies...

Large sample galaxies of different sizes and shapes, experiencing a "lens"-like distortion.

The farthest cosmic lens yet found, a massive elliptical galaxy, is shown in the inset image at left. the galaxy...

Two inset images showing how one galaxy in a cluster is being gravitationally lensed.

The shimmering colors visible in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image show off the remarkable complexity of the Twin Jet...

A double-lobed nebula with lobes extending east to west in shimmering colors of green, red and blue. Ripples and waves are visible in the lobes. A bright white light emanates fron the center of the nebula, between the two lobes, where the binary star system is located.

This is an artist's concept of the fireworks that accompany the birth of a star. The young stellar object is...

Artist's concept of a disk of gas and dust around a forming star, with a jet of material blasting north and south from the center of the disk.

This celestial lightsaber does not lie in a galaxy far, far away, but rather inside our home galaxy, the Milky...

An orange and blue jet of material slashes diagonally through caverns of orange and gray colored gas and dust.

Galaxy cluster Abell 370 contains several hundred galaxies tied together by the mutual pull of gravity. It is located approximately...

A galaxy cluster that is lensing more distant galaxies into arcs. Curved S-shaped trails of asteroids.

This Hubble photo of a random patch of sky is part of a survey called Frontier Fields. It contains thousands...

star field with galaxies and scratch marks

Hubble's Cosmic Origins Spectrograph can measure how the light from distant background objects is affected as it passes through the...

Shows how the light from distant background objects is affected as it passes through the cloud

This diagram shows the 100-million-year-long trajectory of the Smith Cloud as it arcs out of the plane of our Milky...

Trajectory of the Smith Cloud as it arcs out of the plane of our Milky Way galaxy and then returns like a boomerang

Massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster, takes on a ghostly look where total starlight has been artificially colored...

A vast cluster of shining galaxies in a multitude of sizes and shapes surrounded by a soft, blue, encompassing glow.

Nzinga Tull, Hubble systems anomaly response manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, works in the control...

This collection of 36 images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope features galaxies that are all hosts to both Cepheid variables...

A grid of 36 galaxy images, 4 rows of 9 images each.

This is an artist's illustration of the planet KELT-20b which orbits a blue-white star. The giant planet is so close...

Bright blue-white star fills the lower left side of the image, an orangish planet sits nearby just right of the image center

Two lobes of gas fan outward from a center point. One to the upper-right corner, the other to the lower-left corner. The cloud is bright, pinkish-white at the center getting darker toward the edges where it is a dark, pinkish-orange.

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered surprising new clues about a hefty, rapidly aging star, shown in this...

A disk of blue-gray dust swirls around a bright blue central point of light, against a dark field of stars

This illustration shows the seething hot planet Kepler-13Ab that circles very close to its host star, Kepler-13A. On the nighttime...

A large planet with it's sun and a distant star.

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the massive galaxy cluster MACS J1206. Embedded within the cluster are the distorted images...

distant swirls of galaxies against the black backdrop of space

This July 1994 Hubble image shows an impact site where one of the fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with...

Hubble image shows comet impact site on Jupiter

The 21 fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on a collision course with Jupiter are seen in this panoramic image captured...

21 blazing fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, seen as dark red glints of light against black space.

A colorful image resembling a cosmic version of an undersea world teeming with stars is being released to commemorate the...

Hubble image of giant red nebula and smaller blue neighbor nebula (NGC 2014 and NGC 2020)

This ancient stellar jewelry box, a globular cluster called NGC 6397, glitters with the light from hundreds of thousands of...

clustered sprinkle of multi-colored stars

This new Hubble Space Telescope image confirms the presence of a dark vortex in the atmosphere of Neptune. The full...

Annotated image showing Neptune's dark vortex

Taken on May 26, 2016, this Hubble picture of Neptune confirms the presence of a dark vortex in the atmosphere.

A hazy, dark blue sphere against black space.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a crowd of stars that looks rather like a stadium darkened before a...

The 2012 image (bottom) is the most detailed picture to date of a large, edge-on, gas-and-dust disk encircling the 20-million...

Two images (1997 on the top and 2012 on the bottom) of an edge on dust disk, colored blue-white and emanating from a central point. The central star is blocked from view by a black splotch. The 1997 view looks very slightly different than the 2012 view.

This illustration depicts a binary black hole found in the center of the nearest quasar to Earth, Markarian 231.

Artist's concept of two black holes orbiting each other within the dark center of a quasar. A flaring, white disk of gas surrounds the objects.

This artist's illustration shows a gas giant planet circling a pair of red dwarf stars in the system OGLE-2007-BLG-349, located...

Artist concept of a gas giant planet circling a pair of red dwarf stars in the system OGLE-2007-BLG-349. The pair of red dwarf stars is in the upper right. A large blue world is at lower-left.

These Hubble Space Telescope images reveal a set of bizarre, greenish looping, spiral, and braided shapes around eight active galaxies....

tiled images of stars with green wisps of gas around them

This sequence of artist's illustrations shows how a black hole can devour a bypassing star. 1. A normal star passes...

1) upper left: yellow-white star at left of frame, black hole at center right 2) upper right: stream of star gas swirls around and into a black hole 3) lower left: rusty-orange disk forms around a black hole 4) lower right: disk is enlarged, star is gone

A pullout of the central region of dwarf starburst galaxy Henize 2-10 traces an outflow, or bridge of hot gas...

dwarf galaxy with bright, blue stars, red and amber gas clouds, no visible spiral arms. callout at lower right zooms in on the galaxy's center, glowing amber gas and bright new stars

Hubble maps velocity and composition of mysterious lobes expanding from our galaxy.

A figure-eight shape which is red on the left, white in the middle and blue on the right is centered in the core of the Milky Way. A diagonal line cuts across the upper part of the figure eight and ends in a star that indicates the distant quasar; our Sun is on the opposite end of the line. An inset graph with dips and peaks shows the measurement of expansion velocity using the red, white and blue colors on the illustration.

Only about 100 miles in diameter, the tiny dot above the dwarf planet Makemake seen in this Hubble image is...

Hubble's view of Makemake. Bright-white Pluto is at the center of the image. An arrow points to a small white dot just above the planet.

This artist's concept shows the distant dwarf planet Makemake and its newly discovered moon. Makemake and its moon, nicknamed MK...

This illustration shows a dim, reddish sphere against black space, with light from a star above it cast across its surface. A smaller sphere, a moon, is visible at the lower right of the bigger sphere.

This is an illustration of a planet that is four times the mass of Jupiter and orbits 5 billion miles...

Illustration of a planet that is four times the mass of jupiter and orbits 5 billion miles from a brown dwarf companion object

This is an illustration of a close-up look at a black hole drifting through our Milky Way galaxy. The black...

Stars and black, pink, and bluish-purple clouds of gas and dust swirl into a black hole at image center.

This graphic illustrates how a faraway quasar's light is altered by a massive foreground galaxy and by tiny dark matter...

graphic showing a quasar's light, warped to appear like four quasars to Hubble because of a massive galaxy in between

Each of these Hubble Space Telescope snapshots reveals four distorted images of a background quasar and its host galaxy surrounding...

bright quasar "dots" against black backgrounds of space

This four-panel graphic illustrates how the binary-star system V Hydrae is launching balls of plasma into space. Panel 1 shows...

four part graphic showing illustrations of stellar activity

This time-lapse movie, assembled from Hubble Space Telescope images, shows a narrow, well-defined jet of dust sweeping around with the...

narrow, well-defined jet of dust sweeping around with the rotation of Comet 252P/LINEAR like a spinning lawn sprinkler

Astronomers are using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras — stunning light shows in a planet's atmosphere — on...

Jupiter with its rusty-orange, red, white, yellow, and tan horizontal cloud bands on a black background. The red spot is located in the lower-right quadrant of the image near image center. At the top of the planet is a swirl of light blue light.

This Hubble Space Telescope image of the giant, petulant star Eta Carinae is yielding new surprises. Telescopes such as Hubble...

This image shows an exploding star. Two prominent lobes of white material expand outward from the center, surrounded by blue, pink, and red gas and dust against black space.

In celebration of the 31st anniversary of the launching of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers aimed the renowned observatory at...

This diagram reveals the proposed structure of a gas-and-dust disk surrounding the nearby, young star TW Hydrae.The illustration shows an...

graphic showing stellar disk in blue at a steep angle

These images, taken a year apart by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, reveal a shadow moving counterclockwise around a gas-and-dust disk...

four part graphic showing orange disks against a black background

Through a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, three different moments in a far-off supernova explosion were captured in a single snapshot...

One large panel and four smaller panels with the label “Galaxy Cluster Abell 370.” The image is a field of many dozens of white, yellow, red, and blue galaxies of various sizes and shapes.

Remote supernova Magnified by massive galaxy cluster MACSJ1720 as seen by Hubble.

Remote supernova magnified by massive galaxy cluster macsj1720, with two inset images providing a closer look

This illustration reveals how the gravity of a white dwarf star warps space and bends the light of a distant...

graphic with hubble, two stars and light paths

Looks can be deceiving. In this Hubble Space Telescope image, the white dwarf star Stein 2051B and the smaller star...

This time-lapse movie, made from eight Hubble images, shows the apparent motion of the white dwarf star Stein 2051 B...

animation of a white dwarf's motion through space

This Hubble Space Telescope image represents a portion of the Hubble Legacy Field, one of the widest views of the...

portion of the Hubble Legacy Field, one of the widest views of the universe ever made

This hubble image captures caldwell 78 (or ngc 6541), a globular star cluster roughly 22,000 light-years from earth.

Two galaxies merge (Panel 1), funneling a large amount of gas into the central region. The gas compresses, sparking a...

Panel 1: Two spiral galaxies merging; panel 2: Bright orange flare; panel 3: A dim ellipitical galaxy in orange

Hubble's powerful sensitivity and resolution captures a soft blue haze, called intracluster light, among innumerable galaxies in the Abell S1063...

This diagram simulates what astronomers, studying Hubble Space Telescope observations, taken over several years, consider evidence for the first-ever detection...

Hubble observations and data simulation of Fomalhaut star system. L

This illustration shows a white dwarf star siphoning off debris from shattered objects in a planetary system. The Hubble Space...

Bright white dwarf star at center of the image, a disk of dust and rocks encircles it, black chunks of rock in the foreground and off to the right swirl into the white dwarf star at center

This illustration depicts the three giant planets orbiting the Sun-like star Kepler 51 as compared to some of the planets...

Size comparison of planets in our solar system with planets in Kepler 51 system. Three large Kepler 51 planets in the top row. Images of Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter for comparison in the bottom row.

This illustration depicts the Sun-like star Kepler 51 and three giant planets that NASA's Kepler space telescope discovered in 2012–2014....

Illustration of a pinkish planet against a black background. Planet is in the foreground at lower left, its yellow star is some distance away at upper left. Two other planets, one blue the other yellow, are off to the right. Stars dot the background.

Each of these Hubble Space Telescope snapshots reveals four distorted images of a background quasar surrounding the central core of...

four images of quasars, each appearing duplicated due to effects of gravitational lensing

This time-lapse video, assembled from a set of Hubble Space Telescope photos, reveals two asteroids orbiting each other that have...

Animation of a binary asteroid with a shifting tail. White asteroid is at image center and is rotating. A blue tail extends away from the asteroid and is rotating counterclockwise from the right to upper-left of the image.

Artist's concept of hot jupiters shows a beige, hazy planet surrounded by a blue halo of atmosphere. A callout box shows clouds drifting above the planet's surface in a blue band.

Hot Jupiters, exoplanets around the same size as Jupiter that orbit very closely to their stars, often have cloud or...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced an incredibly detailed image of a pair of overlapping galaxies called NGC 3314....

Two edge-on, spiral galaxies appear to be at right angles to each other. One extending from the lower left to the upper right. The other has distinct spiral arms and dust lanes and extends from just left of center to the lower right. Black background dotted with stars.

This computer-simulated image shows a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy. The black region in the center...

Computer simulation of a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy. Center is a black circle. Surrounding the black circle are arcs of red, blue, orange, and white. Further out from the circle are blotches of red, blue, orange, and white representing celestial objects.

The two images at top reveal debris disks around young stars uncovered in archival images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space...

This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the farthest spectroscopically confirmed galaxy observed to date (inset). It was identified...

An inset showing a bright blue blob, which is the farthest spectroscopically observed galaxy found to date, accompanies an image of the CANDELS field of galaxies with a white arrow indicating where the galaxy is located.

Hubble Space Telescope images of spiral galaxies NGC 4302 (left) and NGC 4298 (right) in visible and infrared light.

Two spiral galaxies are viewed against black space. One is facing us, while the other is viewed edge-on.

Black space with multiple galaxies visible, large white glowing supermassive black hole in the center. two bright stars on each...

Spectacular jets powered by the gravitational energy of a super massive black hole in the core of the elliptical galaxy Hercules A.

Galaxy cluster Abell 370 contains several hundred galaxies tied together by the mutual pull of gravity. Photographed in a combination...

A packed field of galaxies and curved blue streaks and arcs. Bright blue-white foreground star at bottom right.

This time-lapse movie of the Crab Nebula, made from NASA Hubble Space Telescope observations, reveals wave-like structures expanding outward from...

moving black and white image of supernova like ripples in pond

This Hubble image of MyCn18 has found its way onto album covers, video games, and movies.

Multiple orange rings of light form a figure eight around an eye-shaped greenish center.

Astronauts Jeffrey Hoffman and Story Musgrave install the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) on the Hubble Space Telescope,...

Camera installation by shuttle astronauts

M1, the Crab Nebula, is the remnant of a stellar explosion that was seen in the year 1054 AD. The...

An oval of colorful tendrils of gas and dust stretching from lower-left to upper right. Ova's outer ring is rusty-red tendrils, followed by a yellow/lime-green ring of tendrils. Oval's center is bright turquoise with white tendrils bisecting it. All set on a black background.

The famous Pillars of Creation, revealing a sharper and wider view of the structures in this visible-light image. Astronomers combined...

The famous Pillars of Creation revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope in high definition. Multiple pillars of brown gas and dust with potential stars in protruding fingertips, with a background of green and blue gas.

A horizontal view of the launch of the STS-31 mission April 24, 1990. Onboard space shuttle Discovery are the crew...

Clouds of steam and smoke billow as the Space Shuttle Discovery launches into blue skies, with Hubble aboard. the fire of the engines is reflected in a body of water in the foreground.

All of the power for the Hubble Space Telescope runs through its “heart,” the Power Control Unit. It has 36...

An image of Hubble's Power Control Unit shows many wires and connectors.

Hubble team members at the Goddard Space Flight Center pose with Astronaut Mike Massimino and the handrail mock-up used during...

The Hubble Rate Gyro Assembly contains a gyroscope and all of its associated electronics.

Photo of a rate sensor assembly which houses a gyroscope for the Hubble.

Engineers at Goddard's Space Telescope Operations Control Center monitor the Hubble Space Telescope around the clock.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has passed another milestone in its 21 years of exploration: the 10,000th refereed science paper has...

This is a composite photo, assembled from separate images of Jupiter and comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, as imaged by the NASA/ESA...

One of Jupiter's moons transits it and casts a shadow on Jupiter's atmosphere. The compilation of images as the comet approaches the planet from the bottom of the image forms a "trail".

Hubble orbiting above earth

Dave Skillman (left) and John Decker (right) work on building a Tinkertoy model of the Hubble Space Telescope's high-gain antenna...

Engineers build a Tinkertoy model of the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990

Hubble floats against the black background of space with the curve of the Earth below it.

Sunlight reflects off of the space shuttle Endeavour's aft windows and the shiny Hubble Space Telescope prior to its deployment...

Hubble tethered to space shuttle Endeavour in orbit over the Earth

Prior to installation, technicians inspect the primary mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble was launched April 24, 1990, aboard...

Soon after Hubble first began sending images from space, scientists discovered that the telescope's primary mirror had a flaw called...

This two-pane image shows a spiral galaxy that appears blurry on the left, with cloudy arms and a hazy center. A much clearer image of the same spiral galaxy is in the panel on the right, showing a defined core and more distinct arms.

Hubble space telescope orbits above a blue Earth with white clouds.

During the test of a new pointing mode on June 16, 2020, systems engineer Steve Sands serves as the test...

During the pandemic, only Steve and Morgan (pictured above) occupy the room while the engineers monitor from home.

This official NASA photograph shows former astronaut Dr. Kathy Sullivan.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is turning 25 this year. The observatory has transformed our understanding of our solar system and...

Hubble Space Telescope positioned over Earth with blue oceans and clouds in the background.

The Hubble Telescope as seen from NASA Space Shuttle STS-125 in May 2009. The Hubble Space Telescope was reborn with...

Geoff Brumfiel, science correspondent for NPR interviewing Dr. Jennifer Wiseman at the Hubble Master Control Center about managing day-to-day operations...

Dr. Jennifer Wiseman being interviewed by NPR

Hubble's image of the galaxy UGC 2885.

Seen almost flat, the galaxy UGC 2885 shines against black space dotted with distant stars and galaxies. UGC 2885 has a bright yellow core and spiral arms surrounding it.

The Whirlpool Galaxy is a spiral galaxy located 31 million light-years away. Also known as M51, it highlights the attributes...

A large face on spiral galaxy with distinctive arms filled with rusty-brown, dust lanes and pinkish-red star-forming regions. One spiral arm extends off to the right, at the end of this arm is another galaxy. It looks like a bright, yellow-white ball of stars.

In 2016, NASA released this visible-light image of the Bubble Nebula taken by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3. Updates to...

A blue shell of gas resembling a bubble fills the lower left half of the image. Regions of dust and gas glowing in yellow, green, and orange fill the rest of the image.

These three images show the central region of spiral galaxy M100, taken with three generations of cameras aboard Hubble, and...

Three images of a spiral galaxy are side by side, with sharper resolution to the right.

M82, or the Cigar galaxy, shines brightly at infrared wavelengths and is remarkable for its star formation activity.

IRAS 14568-6304 is a young star cloaked in a haze of golden gas and dust, appearing embedded within an intriguing...

A reddish-orange star is surrounded by an arc of gas, which is also red-orange near the star and then fades to white and blue farther away. A bright blue-white star glows above it.

Called the Veil Nebula, this debris is one of the best-known supernova remnants, deriving its name from its delicate, draped...

Nebula in brilliant colors stretching from diagonal lower left to upper right

Hubble's view of M33.

This bright galaxy shines with a yellowish core and is surrounded by dust and stars.

The Hubble Space Telescope in low-Earth orbit.

The Hubble Space Telescope is seen in orbit, with the cloudy and blue surface of Earth behind it, with black space above it.

This Hubble image shows the center of the Lagoon Nebula.

Large galaxy clusters contain both dark matter and normal matter. The immense gravity of all this material warps the space...

Lower left corner: Hubble sits looking toward the upper-right corner where there is a spiral galaxy. Between the two is an image of a large galaxy cluster. Lines drawn from the spiral at upper-right to Hubble illustrate the gravitational lens created by the galaxy cluster.

Artist concept of Ganymede and Jupiter. Spiky blue auroras flare from Ganymede's surface.

A pop-up book-like 3-d visualization of pillars of creation shows flat, cut-outs of the pillars in separate locations on a graph paper.

Panta rhei is a simplified version of the famous Greek philosopher Heraclitus' teachings. It basically means, everything flows. And everything...

A scattered collection of bright white stars against the black background of space. The stars vary in brightness and some have t-shaped diffraction spikes.

This galaxy, known as NGC 2337, is an irregular galaxy, meaning that it — along with a quarter of all...

An irregular galaxy with a glowing center surrounded by young, hot blue stars.

A NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) view of a 4,000 light-year long jet of plasma emanating from the bright nucleus...

An image of Optical Jet in Galaxy M87. The jet appears as segmented blue and white blobs of hot gas that stretch from the lower-left to the upper right. They are against a black background with no visible stars.

N44 is a complex nebula filled with glowing hydrogen gas, dark lanes of dust, massive stars, and many populations of...

Upper 2/3 holds a bright white and blue gas and dust-cloud ring around a central void or bubble. lower 1/3 holds blue and white

NGC 6503 is 18 million light-years away from us in the northern circumpolar constellation of Draco. NGC 6503 spans some...

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.

This image shows Arp 230, also known as IC 51, observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Arp 230 is...

A warped looking galaxy surrounded by a round, spotlight-like glow. A bright star is to the right.

A tight smudge of bluish stars on a black, starry background

This sparkling new image depicts a small section of the Carina Nebula, one of the NASA Hubble Space Telescope’s most-imaged...

Dark, reddish-brown cloud fills the screen stretching from upper-left to filling the bottom of the image. Blue background is dotted with bright-white and yellow-orange stars.

Proxima Centauri is the star closest to our Sun. Since it is four light-years away, this Hubble image taken in...

Brilliant blue-white star with x-shaped lens flare

Messier 5 (M5) is a globular star cluster, 100,000 stars or more, bound by gravity and packed into a region...

A cluster of mostly blue stars, chunks of pinkish-white and orange stars.

This galaxy goes by the name of ESO 162-17 and is located about 40 million light-years away in the constellation...

An elongated collection of stars, gas and dust against the background of space. A bright foreground star is visible to the left.

Galaxies can take many shapes and be oriented any way relative to us in the sky. This can make it...

The oval glow of a bright galaxy with a brighter central core is cut through by a dark brown stripe of dust slashing neatly through its core from left to right.

Assembled from a total of 7,398 exposures taken over 411 individual pointings of the telescope, this image of our nearest...

Surrounded by an envelope of dust, the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a young forming star...

Surrounded by an envelope of dust, the subject of this Hubble image is a young forming star

The bright southern hemisphere star RS Puppis, at the center of the image, is swaddled in a gossamer cocoon of...

Bright star amid swirls of clouds illuminated by the star. Black background dotted with stars.

Messier 5 (M5) is a globular star cluster, 100,000 stars or more, bound by gravity and packed into a region...

A cluster of multi-colored stars on black

Sparkling at the center of this beautiful NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a Wolf–Rayet star known as WR 31a,...

A large blue bubble with a bright star in the center on a black background filled with stars

Galaxy clusters are some of the most massive structures that can be found in the Universe — large groups of...

MACS J0717 is located about 5.4 billion light-years away from Earth, in the constellation of Auriga (The Charioteer). It is...

Hubble imaged a small section of the Running Man Nebula, which lies close to the famed Orion Nebula and is...

Lower left: full view of the blue-white nebula with wispy purple edges Right side: Hubble image of elongated rusty and blue nebula "fingers" whose tips are bright-blue and white

Hubble image of elongated rusty and blue nebula

The spectacularly symmetrical wings of Hen 2-437 show up in a magnificent icy blue hue. Planetary nebulae such as Hen...

Bluish-purple "wings", very long and thing, stream out either side of a dying star. Other stars are visible in the background.

This extraordinary image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the galaxy cluster Abell 2813 (also known as ACO 2813)...

Hubble image of galaxy cluster abell 2813 (also known as aco 2813)

The subject of this image is NGC 6861, a galaxy discovered in 1826 by the Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Almost...

A tilted, disk-shaped galaxy with a bright core and dark dust lanes against the black background of space.

This neat little galaxy is known as NGC 4526. Its dark lanes of dust and bright diffuse glow make the...

A bright, disk-shaped galaxy with rim-like dark dust lanes and a bright core. It looks a bit like a distant flying saucer.

Rather than viewing NGC 1487 as a celestial object, it is actually better to think of this as an event....

Two or more galaxies are merging together, with a glowing core and surrounded by a grayish haze of gas and many bright blue stars.

Elliptical galaxy NGC 3610 still shows some structure in the form of a bright disk, implying that it formed only...

The soft white haze of light from the elliptical galaxy fills most of the image. At its core is a brighter, more defined disk

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows an elliptical galaxy called NGC 2865. It lies just over 100 million light-years...

A glowing orb of light on a field of stars, brightest in itscenter

A portion of the open cluster NGC 6530 appears as a roiling wall of smoke studded with stars in this...

Clouds of gas cover the entire view, in a variety of bold colors. in the center the gas is brighter and very textured, resembling dense smoke. around the edges it is sparser and fainter. several small, bright blue stars are scattered over the nebula.

Only three local stars appear in this image, quartered by right-angled diffraction spikes. Everything besides them is a galaxy; floating...

Three local stars and a spiral galaxy against black space

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows an edge-on view of the spiral galaxy NGC 5023. Due to its orientation...

A long, narrow formation of stars on a black background

NGC 3125 is a great example of a starburst galaxy — a galaxy in which unusually high numbers of new...

This galactic core has two bright reddish-pink concentrations of stars and gas, with pink and blue stars between them.

NGC 3597 is the product of a collision between two good-sized galaxies, and is slowly evolving to become a giant...

A collision between two good-sized galaxies, slowly evolving to become a giant elliptical galaxy, leaving a glowing center of blue stars, surrounded by pink and red stars and brownish-orange cloud-arms of gas and dust.

Red/orange bubbles of gas explde from a bluish center against black

An elongated collection of stars is seen with a background of more distant galaxies, with a single bright foreground star to its right.

Two stars shine through the center of a ring of cascading dust in this image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble...

Messier 61 (M61) is a type of galaxy known as a starburst galaxy. Starburst galaxies experience an incredibly high rate...

A dusky spiral galaxy with a close in swirl of bright blue stars

A bluish cloudlike nebula on a black background

The spiral galaxy ngc 7252 has a superficial resemblance to an atomic nucleus.

This galaxy has a pinwheeling, spiral shape in its center surrounded by a large circle of light made up of concentric rings.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 3021 which lies about 100 million light-years away in...

A spiral galaxy appears as a swirl of dust and light on a field of stars, with more galaxies in the background and a bright foreground star visible nearby.

A thick blanket of stars spreads across the upper part of the image against the black background of space. The stars are thicker in the center of the grouping and more scattered in the outer regions. Smaller, more distant galaxies, including several obvious spirals, dot the background of the image.

A cluster of hundreds of stars on a black background

Hubble image of messier 110. A soft light on the right side of the image shrouded by dust and gas.

Blue stars can be seen scattered across the frame, set against a distant backdrop of red-hued cosmic companions.

This sprinkle of cosmic glitter is a blue compact dwarf galaxy known as Markarian 209. Galaxies of this type are...

An irregular but somewhat spherical collection of stars, with a large bluish knot of gas visible to the left side of the grouping. Other farther galaxies are visible in the background.

This image shows a host of colorful, differently-shaped galaxies; some bright and nearby, some fuzzy, and some so far from...

Three galaxies - two of which are on the left and are relatively close in the picture, visibly distorting each other. The third galaxy is on the right side of the image.

This image shows the center of the globular cluster Messier 22, also known as M22, as observed by the NASA/ESA...

A field of stars on black, some larger than others

The glowing object in this Hubble Space Telescope image is an elliptical galaxy called NGC 3923. It is located over...

A bright halo around a star on a black background

This image captures the glow of distant stars within NGC 5264, a dwarf galaxy located just over 15 million light-years...

NGC 4394 is a spiral galaxy located about 55 million light-years away.

NGC 4394 is the archetypal barred spiral galaxy with spiral arms emerging from the ends of a bar that cuts through the galaxy.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observes some of the most beautiful galaxies in our skies — spirals sparkling with bright...

Small, tight spiral galaxy with a glowing gold center and dark dust lanes and clusters of blue stars in its winding arms.

The face-on spiral galaxy NGC 6814 has a luminous nucleus and spectacular sweeping arms, rippled with an intricate pattern of...

Spiral galaxy ngc 6814 with luminous arms, a glowing core, and dark dust streaking throughout the arms

Irregular galaxy NGC 5408 is associated with an object known as an ultraluminous X-ray source, dubbed NGC 5408 X-1, one...

Ngc 5408 sports a 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.

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope photo of NGC 7714 presents an especially striking view of the galaxy's smoke-ring-like structure. The...

A swirled galaxy with a bright center and a swooping tail of stars pulled out into a glowing golden loop that eventually trails off to the right of the galaxy. A bright foreground star and more-distant galaxies are visible in the image.

On April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-31 mission. The mission...

Hubble space telescope in space after deployment with earth below

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) berthed in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Columbia during the STS-109 mission silhouetted...

Hubble image of m75. Large group of stars in the center.

This new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3521 from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is not out of focus....

Spiral galaxy ngc 3521 has a soft, woolly appearance of its brownish spiral arms around the galaxies core, interspersed with blue-white and pink patches of stars.

The brightly glowing plumes seen in this image are reminiscent of an underwater scene, with turquoise-tinted currents and nebulous strands...

Wispy, drifting blue clouds of gas interspersed with dark dust lanes fill the scene against a background thick with red and blue stars.

Globular clusters are big balls of old stars that orbit the centers of their galaxies like satellites. This one, NGC...

A bright glob of white stars with some yellow blazing through.

This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the galaxy IC 335 in front of a backdrop of distant galaxies....

A delicate side-on galaxy in a field of black. The core is visible as a brighter spot in the center and the galaxy itself is tilted so it appears almost as a thin white glowing line.

This Hubble image shows the galaxy UGC 477.

A galaxy is seen almost edge-on, with a bright orange-yellow core surrounded by patchy violet regions of star formation. The rest of the image is dotted with distant stars and galaxies against black space.

NGC 3455 is known as a type SB galaxy — a barred spiral. Barred spiral galaxies account for approximately two...

A spiral galaxy with blue-white arms and a hazy orange glow. Distant orange galaxies can be seen in the background off to the right.

These ultraviolet images of the dancing lights at Saturn’s north pole provide a detailed look at its stormy aurorae by...

6 Hubble views of Saturn in ultraviolet light, all appearing pale blue. They're arranged in two rows of three pictures each.

Barred spiral galaxy NGC 4639’s spiral arms are sprinkled with bright regions of active star formation. But this galaxy also...

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.

NGC 4111 is a lenticular, or lens-shaped, galaxy about 50 million light-years from us in the constellation of Canes Venatici...

A bright galactic core is surrounded by dark dust, with a faint streak of light going through its center. This is a series of filaments, silhouetted against the bright core of the galaxy.

The bright streak of glowing gas and stars in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is known as PGC 51017,...

A bright streak of stars containing a clump of glowing pinkish gas at its right end, surrounded by many more distant galaxies.

This image captures the stunning NGC 6535, a globular cluster 22,000 light-years away in the constellation of Serpens (The Serpent)...

A loose concentration of a multitude of bright white stars on a black background, with the higher concentration of stars toward the center of the grouping.

PK 329-02.2, also known as Menzel 2, is a planetary nebula, a glowing cloud of gas shed by a dying...

A winding blue cloud forming two lobes around two stars at the center.

The image shows the symmetrical shape of NGC 1783 and the concentration of stars towards the center, both typical features...

A spherical cluster of white, red and some blue stars, thicker and denser toward the center,

A star with a spiral of dust bordering it

Edge-on lenticular galaxy NGC 5308, located just under 100 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major.

Big, bright disk galaxy next to small irregular galaxy

NGC 4845’s glowing center hosts a gigantic version of a black hole, known as a supermassive black hole. The presence...

Image of spiral galaxy ngc 4845, a flat and dust-mottled reddish-brown disk surrounding a bright orange galactic bulge.

This Hubble image is a snapshot of NGC 986 — a barred spiral galaxy discovered in 1828 by James Dunlop....

Galaxy with golden center and barred swirling arms streaked with dark dust lanes.

In this image, we can see an almost face-on view of the galaxy NGC 1084, which, at first glance, is...

A spiral galaxy shaped a bit like a starfish, with a pink-orange center, surrounding arms and clouds of pinkish stars and reddish brown dust, and blue-white stars at the edges.

NGC 613 is classified as a barred spiral galaxy for the bar-shaped band of stars and dust crossing its intensely...

A spiral galaxy with a glowing bright white core, ribbons of orange-brown flowing out from its center, and spiral arms of blue-white and pink stars.

In the center of this image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849 —...

Two bright orange galaxies seem to form eyes, and streaks of curved, bent and magnified light form the circle of a face and a happy smile. A smaller bright galaxy serves as the nose in this smiley face. Other galaxies dot the picture.

The galaxy cutting dramatically across the frame of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a slightly warped dwarf galaxy...

Diagonal smudge of stars with multiple background galaxies in the distance

This galaxy, part of a group of galaxies known as the M94 Group, appears as a wafer-thin streak across the...

Silver sliver of stars on black background

This spectacular image was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The bright streak slicing...

Galaxy Messier 63 is nicknamed the Sunflower Galaxy.

A swirling spiral galaxy with a bright core, and glowing bluish star clusters and dark dust lanes throughout its fluffy appearing arms.

This elliptical galaxy was discovered in March 1781 and lies about 60 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation...

A line of dust obscures a glowing object

A dying star’s final moments are captured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The death throes of...

A dying star's remains are seen as a roughly circular region of gas, with an inner teal region and orange at the edges, all against black space dotted with stars.

NGC 5474 is a dwarf galaxy part of the Messier 101 Group. The term "dwarf galaxy" may sound diminutive, but...

Hubble image of dwarf galaxy ngc 5474; a diffuse blob of stars off-centered with a vague swirl stretching right and up.

Overall NGC 428’s spiral structure appears to be quite distorted and warped, thought to be a result of a collision...

Bursts of pink and red star clusters and dark lanes of mottled cosmic dust surround a bright core in this partial image of a galaxy

A cluster of bright stars, mostly white in color, fills this image. The stars are slightly thicker toward the center of the image Several bright large stars have diffraction spikes.

NGC 6240 lies 400 million light-years away in the constellation of Ophiuchus (The Serpent Holder).

A bright pink star in the center radiates white light and darker dust on a field of stars

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the super-rich galaxy cluster Abell 1413. Located between the constellations of...

A collection of galaxies glowing in a soft golden light. In the center is an elliptical galaxy that appears to be emanating a bar of golden light. Around it are scattered multiple smaller galaxies of varying sizes, shapes, and colors.

The luminous core of ngc 2768 slowly fades outwards to a dull white haze.

A distant elliptical galaxy is a soft white glow around a bright white core. The glow slowly fades out into the darkness of space, where a scattering of other smaller and more distant galaxies are visible. A swirl of dark dust lanes is visible agains the ellipitcal's glow.

This Hubble image shows the dwarf galaxy Leo A.

A field of stars against black space fills the image, making up the dwarf galaxy Leo A.

The Arches Cluster is the densest known star cluster in the Milky Way. It is so dense that, in a...

A field of stars of a variety of colors on a black background

Peering deep into the dusty heart of our Milky Way galaxy using infrared vision, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals a...

A field of stars crowd the image, with brown dust interlaced throughout.

Messier 96 is a very asymmetric galaxy; its dust and gas are unevenly spread throughout its weak spiral arms.

The galaxy resembles a giant maelstrom of glowing gas, rippled with dark dust that swirls inwards towards the nucleus.

Known as UGC 4459, this dwarf galaxy is located approximately 11 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major...

A field of stars fills the image, with pink filaments near the center that show the dwarf galaxy UGC 4459.

A cloudy smudge of stars with a very small orange background galaxy below it.

NGC 3921 — found in the constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear) — is an interacting pair of disk...

Pair of interacting galaxies merging, seen as a bright white central region of light surrounded by hazy trails of stars.

A tight group of bright, blue-white stars just left of center in the image. the group also holds a few orange-white stars. A smattering of blue-white stars against a black background fills the rest of the scene.

This Hubble image shows a beautiful dwarf irregular galaxy known as PGC 18431.

A bright elliptical galaxy on a field of stars

MACS J0416 is located about 4.3 billion light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Eridanus. This image of the cluster...

Pink, purple and blue colliding galaxy clusters

A dwarf galaxy with an irregular form, featuring bluish stars and red tendrils of gas and dust.

Several thousand years ago, a star some 160,000 light-years away from us exploded, scattering stellar shrapnel across the sky. The...

A c-shaped red "whisp", leftover shrapnel of a dead star. In the upper left corner is a bright white star.

A cluster of stars spread diagonally across the image, brightest toward the interior, and lines of brown dust.

This glittering gathering of stars is Pismis 26, a globular star cluster located about 23,000 light-years away. Many thousands of...

Bright blue-white stars fill the scene with a smattering or bright yellow-white stars

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the region around a star known as R Sculptoris, a red giant located...

A large black dot obscures the center of the star in order to more clearly show the area around it. A bright round region of rippled, flaring orange and yellow material, bluish toward the center, fills the frame and travels off it to the top, bottom and right.

These rippling wisps of ionized gas, named DEM L316A, are located within one of the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbors...

Red "wisps" of gas and dust, with a few blue and purple accents, against a backdrop of stars of various colors.

The star HD 44179 is surrounded by an extraordinary structure known as the Red Rectangle.

Star hd 44179 surrounded by a nebula shaped like an x

This striking galaxy — known as LO95 0313-192 — has a spiral shape similar to that of the Milky Way....

Two spiral galaxies: the main one on the left is seen nearly head-on, just able to see the brownish dust of the disk with a yellowish glow. Its companion spiral is seen more face-on, with grayish-yellow spiral arms.

This colorful bubble is a planetary nebula called NGC 6818, also known as the Little Gem Nebula.

The colorful bubble against the black sky is planetary nebula ngc 6818

NGC 3081's barred spiral center is surrounded by a bright loop known as a resonance ring. This ring is full...

The center is a glowing white barred spiral, surrounded by a yellowish-brown layer ringed with reddish-brown arms of dusk. The outer ring glows bluish-white with stars.

These two spiral galaxies are engaged in a cosmic tug-of-war. Not all interacting galaxies result in mergers, and it's quite...

Two spiral galaxy disks intertwining as they interact, with their cores looking like a pair of eyes, against a black backdrop of other galaxies.

The smudge of stars at the center of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a galaxy known as UGC...

A bright smudge on a black starry background

With so many galaxies swarming around, NGC 4605--part of the M81 group--may seem unremarkable. However, astronomers are using this galaxy...

Bright blue stars and dusky red dust lanes in a diagonal streak

Visible as a small dot at the approximate center of this image. Supernova SN1995E, discovered in 1995 as its name...

Spiral galaxy with brightest spot at center and arms extending out into deep space

The galaxy UGC 8201, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is a dwarf irregular galaxy, so called because...

A large, irregular oval of stars fills the image. Some bright foreground stars and many smaller, more-distant galaxies are visible in the background.

Globular cluster Terzan 1 is around 20,000 light-years away in the constellation of Scorpius.

A globular cluster consisting of around a hundred thousand stars

X-shaped nebula in space

X-shaped nebula in colors of green, yellow, and rusty brown

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a striking view of a multiple star system called XZ Tauri, its neighbor...

Dim, blue and red clouds mixed with the occasional star.

Brilliant star explosion with orange jets, blue shockwave

A glittering multitude of stars in the globular cluster Terzan 4 fill this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope....

Reddish-gold fill the scene, bright blue-white stars dot the scene, bright white stars fill the center of the image

This galaxy has merged with another galaxy leaving a fine mist, made of millions of stars, spewing from it in...

Galaxy undergoing a galactic merger, leaving a fine mist, made of millions of stars, spewing from it in long trails. More-distant galaxies and a few bright stars are also visible in the image.

Showcased at the center of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is an emission-line star known as IRAS 12196-6300.

Several stars shine against black space, many of which are visible in the foreground with diffraction spikes. Faint clouds shining in blue, gray, and brown are visible near the center as well.

Astronomers used Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, or WFC3, to observe four globular clusters in a small nearby galaxy known...

A four-paneled image of four globular clusters. The first image is of a very loose cluster of stars; the second shows a more defined but still loose cluster. The third is a defined spherical cluster with a large, bright white center of collected stars; the fourth is another defined rounded cluster with a smaller white center of stars.

This trick that the planet is looking back at you is actually a Hubble treat: An eerie, close-up view of...

Jupiter with its moon Ganymede's shadow forming the dark pupil of an eye with the great red spot as the iris.

The small but extremely bright nucleus of NGC 1566 is clearly visible in this image, a telltale sign of its...

A bright spiral galaxy with two pronounced arms of bright pink stars

Left: a disk galaxy that appears nearly edge-on to our line of sight with its long axis vertical and just left of image center. It has a bright core with a smooth ring of starlight surrounding it. Right: a ring galaxy. Its pancake-shaped disk of material appears is a clumpy blue ring of intense star formation. A dusty reddish blob at the bottom of the blue ring may be the galaxy’s original nucleus.

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image showcases the collision of galaxies NGC 2445 (right) and NGC 2444 fueled a frenzy...

This is an artist's illustration of a supermassive black hole that is inside the dust-shrouded core of a vigorously star-forming...

Glowing reddish-orange/yellow disk of material with dark black dusty lanes infalling into a hot, glowing-white center of material that shrouds the black hole

A gently glowing sphere of light, brightest in its center, on a field of stars

Nasa hubble space telescope color image of ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt. It looks like a slightly blurry round ball with a pale gray and dark gray mottled appearance.

A dazzling cluster of bright stars is nestled within the hollow of a cavern of gas and dust visible in shades of orange, blue and white.

Within the tempestuous Carina Nebula lies “Mystic Mountain.” This three-light-year-tall cosmic pinnacle, imaged by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 in...

Glowing gold and orange peaks of gas with scattered pinkish stars against a dark blue and black background made hazy by more cosmic gas.

Rusty yellow clouds and dark brown clouds fill the scene. A bright jet stretches from lower left to upper right.

Discovery's robotic CANADARM deploys NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on April 25, 1990.

Space shuttle cargo bay open and space telescope being released, with earth visible below

Within the bright ring or starburst ring around Messier 94, new stars are forming at a high rate and many...

Galaxy messier 94. Its outer spirals of blue stars, with a smatter of pink, make a nearly-circle shape around the core. The inner part of the galaxy has several reddish-brown trails of gaseous arms.

This striking NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a glittering bauble named Messier 92. Located in the northern constellation of...

Bright field of many stars with brightest area at center and deep space surrounding

In this image the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope takes a close look at the spiral galaxy NGC 4217, located 60...

Edge on spiral galaxy with dark dust clouds and a surrounding hazy glow slashes across the frame from the upper left corner to the lower right corner.

NGC 4833 is one of the over 150 globular clusters known to reside within the Milky Way. These objects are...

A field of stars called a globular cluster

Hen 2-427 is a Wolf–Rayet star,super-hot stars characterized by a fierce ejection of mass.

An orange nebula surrounding a bright star on a black background

This galaxy is known as Mrk 820 and is classified as a lenticular galaxy.

Hints of a spiral structure embedded in a circular halo of stars

Individuals in attendance who had a hand in the development or servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope pose for a...

A group of 24 people gathered in front of the "Repairing Hubble" exhibit at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have assembled a comprehensive picture of the evolving universe – among the most colorful...

A deep field image containing about 10,000 galaxies of different distances from Earth, shapes, sizes, and colors.

This spiral galaxy, NGC 3501, faces Earth edge-on. It is one half of a pair with another spiral galaxy, NGC...

Looking into the disk of a galaxy, we see a glowing white center and billions of stars, with streaks of reddish-brown gas and dust. All against the black backdrop of space.

This galaxy is irregular in shape, but it hasn’t always been so. Part of NGC 4485 has been dragged towards...

A soft blur of a galaxy, bordered on the right by explosions and bright starbursts

This view, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a nearby spiral galaxy known as NGC 1433, a type...

Oblong spiral arms streak outward from a central glowing bluish heart

Globular clusters are big balls of old stars that orbit around their host galaxy. It has long been believed that...

A sprinkling of mostly whitish and a few reddish stars on black.