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This is a montage of Hubble Space Telescope views of our solar system's four giant outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,...

A montage of Hubble Space Telescope images of our solar system's four giant outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, taken under the OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) program over 10 years, from 2014 to 2024.

A nine-panel collage showing Hubble images of Jupiter taken under the OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) program from 2015 to...

A nine-panel collage showing Hubble images of Jupiter taken under the OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) program from 2015 to 2024, with approximately true color. OPAL tracks the Great Red Spot (GRS) and other notable changes in Jupiter's banded cloud structure of zones and belts over time.

A nine-panel collage showing Hubble images of Jupiter taken under the OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) program from 2015 to...

A nine-panel collage showing Hubble images of Jupiter taken under the OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) program from 2015 to 2024, with approximately true color. OPAL tracks the Great Red Spot (GRS) and other notable changes in Jupiter's banded cloud structure of zones and belts over time.

Two views of Jupiter showcase the wealth of information provided by the spectral filters on the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide...

A two-panel image labeled Jupiter, January 5, 2024, HST WFC3/UVIS; showcases the wealth of information provided by the spectral filters on the Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) science instrument. At left, the Hubble image of Jupiter is created using three filters at wavelengths similar to the colors seen by the human eye: F395N is blue, F502N is green, F658N is red. At right, the wavelength bounds are widened beyond the visible range to extend just into the ultraviolet (UV) and infrared regimes: F343N is blue, F467M is green, FQ889N is red. Humans can't perceive these extended wavelengths. The result is a vivid disk that shows UV-absorbing lofty hazes as orange (over the poles and in three large storms, including the Great Red Spot), and freshly-formed ice as white (compact storm plumes just north of the equator). These filters (and others not shown here) allow astronomers to study differences in cloud thickness, altitude, and chemical makeup.

Two views of Jupiter showcase the wealth of information provided by the spectral filters on the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide...

A two-panel image labeled Jupiter, January 5, 2024, HST WFC3/UVIS; showcases the wealth of information provided by the spectral filters on the Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) science instrument. At left, the Hubble image of Jupiter is created using three filters at wavelengths similar to the colors seen by the human eye: F395N is blue, F502N is green, F658N is red. At right, the wavelength bounds are widened beyond the visible range to extend just into the ultraviolet (UV) and infrared regimes: F343N is blue, F467M is green, FQ889N is red. Humans can't perceive these extended wavelengths. The result is a vivid disk that shows UV-absorbing lofty hazes as orange (over the poles and in three large storms, including the Great Red Spot), and freshly-formed ice as white (compact storm plumes just north of the equator). These filters (and others not shown here) allow astronomers to study differences in cloud thickness, altitude, and chemical makeup.

A "Warhol-esque" array of Saturn images depict real data from multiple filters mapped onto the RGB colors perceptible to the...

A six-panel collage titled Saturn, August 22, 2024, HST WFC3/UVIS. This array of Saturn images depict real data from multiple filters mapped onto the RGB colors perceptible to the human eye. Each filter combination emphasizes subtle differences in cloud altitude or composition. Infrared spectra from the Cassini mission suggested that Saturn's aerosol particles may have even more complex chemical diversity than on Jupiter. The OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) program extends Cassini's legacy by measuring how the subtle patterns in the clouds vary over time.

This is a time-lapse movie of a Hubble Space Telescope set of images taken of Saturn in August 2024. In...

This is a series of Hubble Space Telescope images of the planet Saturn taken from 2018 to 2024. This sequence...

A "Warhol-esque" array of Saturn images depict real data from multiple filters mapped onto the RGB colors perceptible to the...

A six-panel collage titled Saturn, August 22, 2024, HST WFC3/UVIS. This array of Saturn images depict real data from multiple filters mapped onto the RGB colors perceptible to the human eye. Each filter combination emphasizes subtle differences in cloud altitude or composition. Infrared spectra from the Cassini mission suggested that Saturn's aerosol particles may have even more complex chemical diversity than on Jupiter. The OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) program extends Cassini's legacy by measuring how the subtle patterns in the clouds vary over time.

This is a montage of Hubble Space Telescope views of our solar system's four giant outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,...

A montage of Hubble Space Telescope images of our solar system's four giant outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, taken under the OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) program over 10 years, from 2014 to 2024.

C. Michael Foale (left) and Claude Nicollier participate in the second of three STS-103 spacewalks to service the Hubble Space...

Two astronauts on a space walk in front of the Hubble Space Telescope. One of Hubble's instrument bays is open.

The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 1637, a spiral galaxy located 38 million light-years from...

A spiral galaxy filling the view. Its disk holds many bright red spots where stars are forming, dark reddish threads of dust that obscure light, and bluish glowing areas that hold concentrations of older stars. It has a large, glowing yellow oval area at the center, from which two spiral arms wind through the galaxy’s disk. One side of the disk appears rounded (bottom of the image) while the opposite side appears somewhat squared-off (top of the image).

A Hubble Space Telescope image of the core of quasar 3C 273. A coronagraph on Hubble blocks out the glare...

A Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) coronagraph image of quasar 3C 273. It looks the same as the WFPC2 image, but in shades of blue. A black circle (labeled “core light blocked”) blocks the glare of the quasar. Blue-colored filamentary material is visible near the black hole. The extragalactic jet is still visible.

A Hubble Space Telescope image of the core of quasar 3C 273. A coronagraph on Hubble blocks out the glare...

A two-panel annotated image of quasar 3C 273, taken by different Hubble science instruments. The top panel is a Hubble Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) image of quasar 3C 273. It looks like a bright white car headlight. There is a linear orange-white smoke-like feature stretching to the 4 o’clock position, an extragalactic jet launched from the quasar in the center of the black hole of an unseen galaxy. The bottom panel is a Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) coronagraph image of quasar 3C 273. It looks the same as the WFPC2 image, but in shades of blue. A black circle (labeled “core light blocked”) blocks the glare of the quasar. Blue-colored filamentary material is visible near the black hole. The extragalactic jet is still visible.

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 left an indelible mark on our understanding of the cosmos when it collided with Jupiter. Discover the...

These composite images show a suspected plume of material erupting two years apart from the same location on Jupiter's icy...

Two Side-by-side images of Europa showing a white plume extending from the moon's limb. Left image was takin in 2014, right in 2016.

This composite Hubble Space Telescope picture shows the location of a newly discovered moon, designated S/2004 N 1, orbiting the...

An image showing Hubble data that found new moons around Neptune. Blue, cloud-covered Neptune is at image center. Black and White data of the moons and Neptune's rings are to either side of the planet.

Two dramatically different faces of our Red Planet neighbor appear in these comparison images showing how a global dust storm...

Two images Hubble images of Mars. The left image was taken on 26 June 2001 and shows Mars with its polar caps and a few white clouds. The right image was taken on 4 September 2001 and shows the planet enshrouded in a dust storm.

This is a composite image showing the Saturn Lyman-alpha bulge, an emission from hydrogen which is a persistent and unexpected...

An image of Saturn. Its rings stretch across the image from the upper-left to the lower-right. The rings appear dark blue, nearly black. The planet is a series of dark blue, blue, light blue, and white bands.

Much like the eclectic group of space rebels in the upcoming film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, NASA's Hubble...

Four bright-white circles, positioned in the shape of a cross around a fifth more muted white spot in the center.

With the final observation of the distant galaxy cluster Abell 370 — some five billion light-years away — the Frontier...

A field of galaxies along with the curved arcs of gravitationally lensed galaxies.

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows Supernova 1987A within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring galaxy to our Milky Way....

A black background is speckled with stars and red gas clouds. At image center is SN1987a with a series of bright rings circling it.

HST has resolved, to an unprecedented detail of 0.1 arcsecond, a mysterious elliptical ring of material around the remnants of...

Dark blue background. near image center is a pink blob surrounded by a yellow ring. On either side of the ring are blue-white blobs.

Peering across 7.5 billion light-years and halfway back to the Big Bang, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the fading...

Black background with a few galaxies and several bright spots. One bright-white dot has an arrow pointing to it.

On August 17, 2017, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory detected gravitational waves from a neutron star collision. Within 12 hours,...

A galaxy in the center of the image. A bright yellow dot has a white square around it. This area is expanded in three images below the galaxy. Each taken on a different day: August 22, 2017; August 26, 2017; August 28, 2017.

These images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal a new type of stellar explosion produced from the merger of...

Three images, the largest is on the left ant takes up most of the image. It is an image of several galaxies. A white outline of a box surrounds the central galaxy. To the right are enlarged views of that central galaxy. One taken on June 13, 2013 (top). The other on July 2, 2013 (bottom).

This is a sampling of the host galaxies of long-duration gamma-ray bursts taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Gamma-ray bursts...

Six Hubble images in a grid of three across and two down. Each is a gamma-ray burst in a host galaxy. The images are orange-red and white with hints of yellow.

Astronomers have gotten creative in trying to trace the elusive cosmic web, the large-scale backbone of the cosmos. Researchers turned...

Black background with a series of bright-pink filaments radiating out randomly in all directions. Below are three boxes that looks at details of the filaments.

This three-dimensional map offers a first look at the web-like large-scale distribution of dark matter, an invisible form of matter...

Top: Three views going back in time show slices of the cosmos. Bottom: A computer simulated, 3-D map of the distribution of dark matter.

This composite image shows the massive galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745 (MACS J0717, for short), where four separate galaxy clusters were...

A black background is dotted with galaxies and a few foreground stars. Blobs of purple, blue, and reddish-purple denote temperature of matter.

This is an artist's concept of the early stages of the young star FU Orionis (FU Ori) outburst, surrounded by...

Artist's concept of early stages of the young star FU Orionis outburst. The star, a bright yellow sphere near the center, and its fluffy disk of gas and dust are slightly tilted, extending from the top left corner to the bottom right. The swirling disk is bright yellow close to the star and gradually transitions to dark orange moving toward the edges of the frame. The top left and right corners reveal a black, starless background.

This artist's concept shows the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, in the foreground as it passes through the gaseous halo...

A whitish, whirlpool-like galaxy at middle of top edge, and a tadpole-shaped structure sweeps from left to right across lower half. A label pointing to outer, left of galaxy reads “Earth.” Faint, purple haze labeled “Milky Way Halo” surrounds galaxy and stretches to graphic’s edges. The tadpole-shaped object is the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, with its own halo and streaming tail. Semi-circular, progressively darker layers of purple labeled “LMC Halo” surround the LMC, which appears roughly circular, with a central, light-yellow bar. Cloud-like features sprinkled with white specks surround this bar. Trailing the LMC is a large, tail-like feature labeled “Stream.” At the bottom left corner of graphic are several small, bright points of light labeled “Quasars.” Three light blue lines point from the label “Earth” through the LMC’s halo, and to three corresponding quasars. At the bottom, right corner is the label “Artist’s Concept.”

This artist's concept illustrates the Large Magellanic Cloud's (LMC's) encounter with the Milky Way galaxy's gaseous halo. In the top...

A 3-panel graphic labeled “artist’s concept” at bottom, right corner. Each of the three panels shows the same whitish, whirlpool-like spiral galaxy at middle of top edge. A faint, purple haze surrounds galaxy and stretches to panel’s edges. At the middle of the right side of the first panel, a white dot surrounded by fuzzy, lighter purple halo approaches. In middle panel, a pronounced, light purple bow shock develops to left part of the halo. The right part of halo is being stripped and blown back into a streaming tail of gas. The bottom panel shows the tail becoming longer and more defined as the now tadpole-like object curves below the spiral galaxy and sweeps toward the upper left.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy, named UGC 10043. We don’t see the galaxy’s spiral arms...

A spiral galaxy seen directly from the side, such that its disk looks like a narrow diagonal band across the image. A band of dark dust covers the disk in the center most of the way out to the ends, and the disk glows around that. In the center of the galaxy, a whitish circle of light bulges out above and below the disk. Each end of the disk curves slightly. The background is black and mostly empty.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image depicts the cosmic tangle that is MCG+05-31-045, a pair of interacting galaxies located 390...

In the center is a large, oval-shaped galaxy, with a shining, ringed core. Left of its center is a second, smaller galaxy with two spiral arms. The galaxy pair is so close that they appear to be merging: a tail of material with a few glowing spots connects from one of the smaller galaxy’s spiral arms to the larger galaxy. A faint halo surrounds both galaxies. Several stars are visible around the pair.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from Earth in...

A spiral galaxy with an oval-shaped disk. Two large arms curve out away from the ends of the disk. Bright pink patches and dark reddish threads of dust fill the arms. The bright pink patches indicate where stars are forming. The core is very bright and filled with stars. Some large stars appear in front of the galaxy. Directly under the point where the right arm joins the disk, a fading supernova is visible as a green dot.

[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 top-left half of the image is a Hubble Space Telescope view of a 100-billion-mile-wide disk of dust around the summer star Vega. The disk is represented in blue. The color trails to white as we get closer to the center of the disk. The black spot at the center blocks out the bright glow of the hot young star. The disk is perfectly circular because we are looking down on top of it. The lower-right half of the image is a view from the James Webb Space Telescope, which reveals the glow of warm dust in the disk's halo that is colored orange. The disk is brighter toward the center. There is a notable dip in surface brightness between the inner and outer disk.

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

locator star chart for M83