Hubble Space TelescopeThese are assets that appear on Hubble mission pages and are managed by the Hubble mission team. The Virgo cluster is a collection of more than 1,300 galaxies, including the elliptical galaxy M60. Unlike spiral galaxies, elliptical...This star chart for M59 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.M59 is one of the largest elliptical galaxies in the Virgo galaxy cluster. However, it is still considerably less massive,...This star chart for M58 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.Discovered in 1779 by Charles Messier, M58 was one of the first galaxies recognized to have a spiral shape and...This star chart for M57 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.M57, or the Ring Nebula, is a planetary nebula, the glowing remains of a sun-like star. The tiny white dot...This star chart for M56 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the globular cluster Messier 56 (also known as M...This star chart for M54 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.This beautiful visible and infrared Hubble image shows what could be just another globular cluster, but this dense group of...This star chart for M53 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.Thousands and thousands of brilliant stars make up the globular cluster Messier 53, captured with crystal clarity in this image...This star chart for M51 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.The graceful, winding arms of the majestic spiral galaxy M51 appear like a grand spiral staircase sweeping through space. They...The globular cluster Messier 5, shown here in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, is one of the oldest belonging...This star chart for M49 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.This Hubble image of M49 was created using observations at infrared wavelengths. There is an X-ray source at the core...This star chart for M46 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image showcases the planetary nebula NGC 2438, which is located in front of the open...In this image, which combines visible and infrared observations, Hubble has captured the eerie, wispy tendrils of an interstellar cloud...This star chart for M43 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.This Hubble image, assembled from observations at visible and infrared wavelengths of light, shows several of the brilliant, hot, young...Separated from the Orion Nebula (M42) by only a dark lane of dust, M43 was recognized as a distinct nebula...This star chart for M42 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.Resembling an interstellar Frisbee, the dark feature in these two Hubble images is a protoplanetary disk of dust seen edge-on...Appearing like glistening precious stones, M42’s Trapezium cluster, named for the trapezoidal arrangement of its central massive stars, is seen...This stunning Hubble image offers the sharpest view of the Orion Nebula ever obtained. Created using 520 different Hubble exposures...In order to capture M4’s oldest white dwarfs, Hubble took many snapshots of the cluster in infrared, visible and ultraviolet...This sparkling picture taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the centre of globular cluster M 4. The power...This star chart for M32 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.This image of a large part of M32 was created from ultraviolet observations with Hubble and provides evidence that the...This ground-based image from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) shows elliptical galaxy M32, with the white outline highlighting the portion...This image of a portion of the elliptical galaxy M32 was captured by the Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS),...This star chart for M31 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.This image from Hubble spans 7,900 light-years and reveals M31’s crowded central region. The bright area to the right of...Hubble’s M31 mosaic image, taken by the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) program, is shown in context with a ground-based...This brilliant image of Messier 30 (M30), taken by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), is composed of exposures in...This image of M3’s core was constructed using Hubble observations in visible and infrared light.This globular cluster, M28, is most notable for being the first of its kind known to contain a millisecond pulsar:...
