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

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...

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.

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.

Web Design Lead Michelle Belleville

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...

A model of the Hubble telescope

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

Deputy Operations Manager Morgan Van Arsdall

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.