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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...

$A spherical collection of stars fills the image. The stars merge into a bright, bluish core at image center and form a sparse band around the core and out to the edges of the image. A few stars lie in front of the cluster, with visible diffraction spikes. The background is dark black.$

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.

An artist’s impression of the cosmic web. Gravity builds a vast cobweb-like structure of filaments tying galaxies and galaxy clusters...

Pinkish-purple filaments fill the screen. Areas where they are more dense are brighter and a bit yellow, while voids are black.

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 is an artist's concept of a brown dwarf. This class of object is too large to be a planet...

This artist's concept shows a brown dwarf, an object more massive than a planet but smaller than a star. The dwarf is a cherry-red sphere. It has horizontal stripes of various shades of red that are cloud bands. In the dark background there are myriad stars that are inside our Milky Way galaxy.

Caldwell 62/NGC 247 is also home to an object known as an ultraluminous X-ray source. Scientists have long debated the...

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.

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.

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).

This red bubble is made of gas that is being shocked by the expanding blast wave from a supernova explosion....

Black background dotted with stars. A dark-red transparent bubble of gas looking like a ring. Stars are visible through the center of the ring.

This colorful creation was made by combining data from two of NASA's Great Observatories. Optical data of SNR 0509-67.5 and...

Black background dotted with stars. A dark-red transparent bubble of gas with blue and green looking like a ring. Stars are visible through the center of the ring.

As NASA's Cassini spacecraft hurtled its way toward a July 1, 2004 rendezvous with Saturn, the Hubble Space Telescope snapped...

Saturn and its rings. The planet appears as though it is tilted backward, appearing to reveal the underside of its rings. Overall Saturn is yellow with bands of red, yellowish-brown, light orange, pink, and blue.

This Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet image of Saturn was taken when the planet's rings were at a maximum tilt of...

Saturn, seen in purples, greens and blues, is surrounded by its bright yellow rings.

Dubbed “Mystic Mountain,” this is a region of the much more extensive Carina Nebula. In it, towers of cool hydrogen...

The Mystic Mountain is seen as a chaotic pillar of colorful gas and dust, narrowing toward the top of the image. The dust and gas is mostly yellow, brown, and orange, all jutting against a hazy purple and blue background with a few pink stars.

This near-infrared image shows a myriad of stars behind the gaseous veil of the nebula's background wall of hydrogen, laced...

This close-up shot of the centre of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) clearly shows the delicate structures formed when the...

M8, the Lagoon Nebula (Hubble image) that looks like colorful waves breaking.

This near-infrared view penetrates these clouds to uncover stars hidden within and behind the nebula.

A star studded view of space with a large star at the center with gas clouds surround it.

This Hubble Space Telescope composite of V and I filters shows the active galaxy 3C 348, also known as Hercules...

Black space with multiple galaxies visible, large white glowing supermassive black hole in the center and two bright stars on each side.

Spectacular jets powered by the gravitational energy of a supermassive black hole in the core of the elliptical galaxy Hercules...

Black space with multiple galaxies visible, large white glowing supermassive black hole in the center. two bright stars on each side, and two pink jets of gas streaming out of either side of the center star.

Hubble observed this pillar of gas and dust in the Carina Nebula in visible light in 2009 using its newly...

Entire image is filled with green, brown, rusty colors of the Carina Nebula. Chaotic groupings of this dust and gas with stars dispersed randomly throughout the image.

The infrared image reveals stars that are hidden in the visible-light image. A jet of material can be seen streaming...

The column of gas and dust is a dim, ghostly gray version of itself and mostly transparent. Stars can be seen through it and a cloudy jet of gas is visible emerging horizontally from within the column. The background is black space dotted with a myriad of stars.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows LEDA 42160, a galaxy about 52 million light-years from Earth in the constellation...

$A distorted dwarf galaxy, obscured by dust and by bright outbursts caused by star formation, floats roughly in the center. Tendrils of gas stretch up from the plane of the galaxy. A few distant galaxies are visible in the background around it, many as little spirals, and also including a prominent elliptical galaxy. A bright star hangs above the galaxy in the foreground, marked by cross-shaped diffraction spikes.$

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