Hubble Space Telescope

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Though this towering structure of billowing gas and dark, obscuring dust is only a small portion of the Eagle Nebula...

A tall, thin structure of dark gas clouds. This pillar is darker and broader at its base, thins toward the middle, and broadens out again at the top, with spikes, fingers, and wisps of gas protruding in all directions from its head. Some parts of the pillar are illuminated, but most are dark and silhouetted at the edges and lit from behind. A wall of colorful gas lies behind the pillar, bluish at the top and redder toward the bottom, with several blue and gold stars scattered across it.

Today’s rather aquatic-themed NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy,...

A close-up, face-on view of a spiral galaxy. Its center glows brightly. Spiral arms emerge from the galaxy’s core and wind through the round disk of the galaxy. You can spot these arms by their dark-red dust lanes and dots of brightly-shining, pink spots where stars are forming. Some faint stars are visible around the galaxy, as well as a particularly bright foreground star near the lower-left corner of the image.

Located around 30 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, the Sombrero Galaxy is instantly recognizable. Viewed nearly edge on,...

The Sombrero Galaxy is an oblong, pale white disk with a glowing core. It appears nearly edge-on but slants slightly in the front, presenting a slight top-down view of the inner region of the galaxy and its bright core. The outer disk is darker with shades of brown and black. Different colored distant galaxies and various stars are speckled among the black background of space surrounding the galaxy.

The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a portal to another...

The image holds a planetary nebula, a glowing shell of material thrown off by a dying star. A glowing, jagged ring encircles a small central region of greenish clouds, making it appear like a hole torn in fabric. This “hole” is itself encircled by a band of silvery-blue clouds and a larger, fainter, yellow ring of gas. Puffy, smoky clouds of orange and red gas billow out from there into a large oval nebula, fading into the dark background of space dotted by stars.

This image of Uranus’ aurorae was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on 10 October 2022. These observations were...

This Hubble image shows Uranus and dynamic aurora activity on 10 October 2022. The planet is dominated by a blue hue and a large white region in the lower left. A faint ring is also visible around the planet. Fuzzy blue/purple regions hovering over the planet on the left and ride indicate the presence of aurorae.

These images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcase the dynamic aurora on Uranus in October 2022. These observations were...

This visual shows three panels that each show Uranus and dynamic aurora activity. The images were captured in October 2022 on the 8th, 10, and 24th respectively. Each image shows the planet with a strong blue hue and a visible white region. A faint ring is also visible around the planet in each image. Each image shows fuzzy blue/purple regions hovering over the planet in different locations to indicate the aurorae.

As part of ESA/Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations, ESA is sharing a new image series revisiting stunning, previously released Hubble targets...

A star cluster within a nebula. Thin, pale-blue wisps of clouds fill the background while denser areas of pinkish clouds appear superimposed upon them. The star cluster holds bright-blue stars that illuminate the nebula. Large arcs of dense, reddish-brown dust pressed together by the stars’ radiation, curve around, in front of, and behind the clustered stars. Many orange stars are visible in the background behind the clouds of the nebula.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the picturesque spiral galaxy NGC 4941, which lies about 67 million light-years from...

A spiral galaxy stretches diagonally across the image, from upper-left to lower-right. At its center is a bright-white, glowing orb surrounded by an inner disk of golden light that is wrapped by a broad outer disk that glows more dimly. The disk holds patchy, broken spiral arms swirling around the galaxy’s core and filled with small blue and pink star clusters. Dark, reddish threads of dust also spiral through the disk, with some strands reaching into the core.

The image columns show the change of Uranus for the four years that STIS observed Uranus across a 20-year period....

Graphic titled “Hubble Space Telescope – Observations of Uranus,” with 16 images of Uranus, arranged in a 4 by 4 grid showing changes in appearance of Uranus as observed by Hubble between 2002 and 2022. Columns are labeled with observation year, from left to right: 2002; 2012; 2015; and 2022. Rows are labeled from top to bottom: visible light; visible and near infrared; aerosols/haze; and methane depletion. In the visible light images in the top row, Uranus appears blue-green with faint vertical bends of slightly lighter or darker color. In the visible and near infrared images in the second row, Uranus is very colorful, with deep neon blue to neon green bands within an orange-red glow that outlines the edge of the planet. In the two bottom rows of images, Uranus appears in grayscale, with vertical bands ranging from dark gray to almost white. All four rows of images show changes from observation to observation (left to right). For a given year, all four images in the column show similar banding patterns.

A box in the Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) image of M84 (upper right) pinpoints the location of Hubble’s...

Two views of the elliptical galaxy M84. One larger view fills the upper-right side of the image. The galaxy appears as a bright,-white, hazy ball against a black background. A box around its core indicates the location of another image situated in the lower-left part of the image. That image holds a hazy ball of white light that fills the image frame. The ball is brighter toward the center of the image, becoming more diffuse toward the edges of the image. Bands of rusty-brown dust stretch across the core.

M84 glows softly with the light of mostly older stars, typical of elliptical galaxies. The galaxy’s bright central core --...

M84 fills most of the right side of the image. The galaxy appears as a bright,-white, hazy ball against a black background dotted with other galaxies. The galaxy's core is bright-white, transitioning to hazy, diffuse white toward the galaxy's outer edges. Bands of rusty-red dust stretch across the galaxy's core.

Dark dust lanes streak across the core of elliptical galaxy M84 in this Hubble image.

A hazy ball of white light fills the image. The ball is brighter toward the center of the image, becoming more diffuse toward the edges of the image. Bands of rusty-brown dust stretch across the core.

The subject of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530. This galaxy is situated...

$A spiral galaxy, seen tilted at a slight angle, on a dark background of space. It glows softly from its center and out to its edge. The disk is a broad swirl of dark-reddish dust webs and sparkling blue patches where stars have formed. Atop the center of the galaxy is a foreground star that appears very large and bright with four diffraction spikes emanating from it. The star is relatively close to Earth compared to the galaxy.$

A box in the wide-field, ground-based, ESO image of M8 (upper right) shows the location of Hubble’s view within the...

A small image in the upper-right quadrant is a wide-field view of M8. It holds a box that shows the area of M8 Hubble imaged.

Clouds of gas and knots of dark dust are strewn with a scattering of bright blue stars in this Hubble...

Wisps of pinkish-grey clouds fill the scene. Patches of dark dust obscure the glow. Bright, blue-white stars shine through the cloud. The words "New Image" in a red box on the upper-right side of the image.

This Hubble Space Telescope picture shows a hypersonic shock wave (lower right) of material moving at 148,000 miles per hour...

A blue cloud fills the left side of the image. The blue cloud transitions to white and then reddish yellow toward its edge. A plume of yellow gas extends from the cloud in the lower-right quadrant of the image. one prominent knot in the cloud, near the plume, is a proplyd.

Say hello to one of the Milky Way’s neighbors! This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from one...

$An area of space filled with stars. Most of the stars are small, distant dots in a range of orange colors; closer stars shine with a bright glow and hold four thin diffraction spikes around them. These closer stars appear both bluish and reddish. Clouds from a nebula cover the left half of the scene, giving it a blue-greenish cast. More pieces of cloud also drift over the black background of space on the right side of the image.$

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling spiral galaxy paired with a prominent star, both in the constellation...

$A spiral galaxy seen face-on. Broken spiral arms made of blue patches of stars and thin strands of dark dust swirl around the galaxy’s center, forming a broad, circular disk. An extended circular halo surrounds the disk. At the disk’s center is a brightly glowing, pale-yellow, stubby, bar-shaped area. A bright star in our own galaxy, with long cross-shaped diffraction spikes, is visible atop the distant galaxy’s disk in the upper-left quadrant.$