Hubble Space Telescope

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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.

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 spectrogram that reveals lines of oxygen and carbon.

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

Artist's depiction of a pair of active black holes at the heart of two merging galaxies. One distant black hole is at upper left, and a foreground black hole is at lower right.

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.

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 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.

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.

Hubble 35th Anniversary Logo

Hubble's Beautiful Universe cover.

Image of space with lost of stars clustered at the top left and space clouds at the bottom.

Hubble's 35th anniversary patch.

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.

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.

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.

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...