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These are assets that appear on Hubble mission pages and are managed by the Hubble mission team.

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.

This artist's concept is based on Hubble Space Telescope images of gas-and-dust disks around the young star TW Hydrae. Hubble...

Artists 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.

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.

In January 2002, a red supergiant star named V838 Monocerotis expanded very quickly, heating the surrounding interstellar dust to extreme,...

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.

Hubble in space, two golden solar arrays on either side with the blackness of space behind it.

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 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.

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 is being installed at the Aerospace Museum of California

A birds eye view of a team of technicians putting together the Hubble traveling exhibit.

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.