Hubble Space Telescope

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Astronomers used the Hubble Space telescope to revisit one of its most iconic subjects, the so-called "Pillars of Creation" in...

Three giant pillars of rusty colored dust and gas with a blueish green background.

Observing in infrared light, Hubble pierced through the obscuring gas and dust of M16’s Pillars of Creation. This ethereal image...

Star-filled view with faint outlines of gas clouds.

Jets emerge from the cocoon of a newly forming star to blast across space, slicing through the gas and dust...

A dark cloud of gas and dust sits along the top half of the image. The cloud is illuminated by a bright-white star below it and just to the right of image center. Another bright object, looking like a bright, vertical disk bisected by a dark cloud, sits just to the right of the main cloud and above and to the right of the bright-white star. A jet of bright, turquoise light streams to the left and right from each side of the vertical disk-like object. A section of the jet, to the left, appears to be hidden behind the dark cloud, but emerges from the cloud left of image center. The background is black with rusty hues near the bright-white star.

A pair of storms: a deep red cyclone and a reddish anticyclone, appear to be next to each other at...

Image of Jupiter taken on January 6, 2024. This side of Jupiter is also banded in stripes of brownish orange, light gray, soft yellow, and shades of cream, with many large storms and small white clouds punctuating the planet. At upper right of center, a pair of storms appear next to each other: a deep-red, triangle-shaped cyclone and a reddish anticyclone. Toward the far-left edge of this view is Jupiter's tiny orange-colored moon Io.

Big enough to swallow Earth, the classic Great Red Spot stands out prominently in Jupiter's atmosphere. To its lower right,...

Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter taken on January 5, 2024. Jupiter is banded in stripes of brownish orange, light gray, soft yellow, and shades of cream, punctuated with many large storms and small white clouds. The largest storm, the Great Red Spot, is the most prominent feature in the left bottom third of this view. To its lower right is a smaller reddish anticyclone, Red Spot Jr.

The Hubble Space Telescope images used in this animated science visualization present a full rotation of the giant planet Jupiter....

The giant planet Jupiter, in all its banded glory, is revisited by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in these latest images,...

A side-by-side image showing both faces of Jupiter on the black background of space. At the top, left corner of the left-hand image is the label Jupiter. Centered at the bottom is the label "January 5, 2024." Jupiter is banded in stripes of brownish orange, light gray, soft yellow, and shades of cream, punctuated with many large storms and small white clouds. The largest storm, the Great Red Spot, is the most prominent feature in the left bottom third of this view. To its lower right is a smaller reddish anticyclone, Red Spot Jr. On the right-hand image, centered at the bottom is the label "January 6, 2024." This opposite side of Jupiter is also banded in stripes of brownish orange, light gray, soft yellow, and shades of cream, with many large storms and small white clouds punctuating the planet. At upper right of center, a pair of storms appear next to each other: a deep-red, triangle-shaped cyclone and a reddish anticyclone. Toward the far-left edge of this view is Jupiter's tiny orange-colored moon Io.

At the center of these side-by-side images is a special class of star used as a milepost marker for measuring...

A horizontal, two-panel image of pixelated, black-and-white star fields. The left image label is: “Webb Near-IR.” It holds a few dozen points of light of varying brightness. At the center of the image, a circle marks one bright point. The right image label is: “Hubble Near-IR.” It holds more indistinct, blurry patches whose overall brightness is similar to the more defined regions in the left image. At center, a circle marks a light gray pixel.

This image of NGC 5468, a galaxy located about 130 million light-years from Earth, combines data from the Hubble and...

A spiral galaxy with a small bar of bright-white stars at its core. Two main spiral arms extend outward from each end of the bar. They appear to fork into multiple branches beyond the galaxy's core. The spiral arms have a lavender hue. Bright-white and bright-red stars dot the galaxy. Reddish-brown dust lanes line the inner curves of the spiral arms.

This illustration shows the three basic steps astronomers use to calculate how fast the universe expands over time, a value...

Illustration with black background. On the left side of the image is Earth and the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble is pointing toward the right. A cone of light purple light starts at Earth and stretches to the right side of the image. At intervals along the cone are objects astronomers use to calculate distances. The first are Cepheid variable stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way). Next are Cepheids and Type 1a Supernovas in galaxies. The cone next holds an illustration of how light is red-shifted due to the expansion of space. Finally, distant galaxies that host Type 1a supernovas mark the right side of the extended cone. Along the bottom of the illustration is a gauge in yellow that marks the distance of each object in light years: from Earth extending out to 1 billion light years.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows NGC 4423, a galaxy that lies about 55 million light-years away in the...

A broad spiral galaxy is seen edge-on, so that its spiral arms can’t be seen. Visible dust and stars trace the disk of the galaxy, surrounded by a glowing halo above and below. The color of the galaxy changes smoothly between the outer disk at the ends and the bulge in the center. A few bright stars surround the galaxy on a dark background.

M108 is one of the largest and brightest members of the Ursa Major cluster, which is part of the Virgo...

Bright stars scatter across the field of view, more closely concentrated at the lower right. Dark brown lanes of dust spread throughout the view.

This densely populated group of stars is the globular cluster NGC 1841, which is part of the Large Magellanic Cloud...

A cluster of stars. Most of the stars are very small and uniform in size, and they are notably bluish and cluster more densely together toward the center of the image. Some appear larger in the foreground. The stars give way to a dark background at the corners.

Hubble's detailed view of a small portion of M67 showcases some of the open cluster's bright stars.

A scattering of white and reddish stars on a black background.

Galaxies and stars visible on the outskirts of open cluster Messier 44, also known as the Beehive Cluster or Praesepe.

Background galaxies and stars are sprinkled across a black background. Some of the distant galaxies are spirals.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features IC 3476, a dwarf galaxy that lies about 54 million light-years from Earth...

A dwarf spiral galaxy. The center is not particularly bright and is covered by some dust, while the outer disc and halo wrap around as if swirling in water. Across the face of the galaxy, an arc of brightly glowing spots marks areas where new stars are forming. The galaxy is surrounded by tiny, distant galaxies on a dark background.

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is teeming with color and activity. It features a relatively close star-forming...

$A nebula with stars. The center of the image from top-left to bottom-right glows brightly with the light of newly forming stars and is partially obscured by dark dust. Colored layers of gas and dust billow out across the rest of the image. Foreground stars with large diffraction spikes speckle the nebula.$

This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope view shows the globular cluster NGC 2298, a sparkling collection of thousands of stars...

$Thousands of bright stars shine against black space, more tightly condensed near the image’s center. The stars glint in shades of white, blue, and red, and diffraction spikes are visible around the foreground stars.$

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a densely packed field of stars laid upon a background of dust, gas,...

An irregular galaxy: a cloud of tiny, point-like stars on a dark background. The cloud is densest along a broad, curved band across the center of the image. It is colored a faint blue with glowing purplish patches, and the stars grow less dense out to the edges but don’t fully vanish. A few distant background galaxies appear among the stars as glowing spots.

Galaxy AM 1054-325 has been distorted into an S-shape from a normal pancake-like spiral shape by the gravitational pull of...

This is a picture of a galaxy with a peculiar S-shape. It has a bright milky-white core at the center. Twin arms of blue stars wrap around the core. One arm looks particularly stretched out due to the gravitational tidal pull of a neighboring galaxy. Bright, young, whitish star clusters are strung along the arm like a string of pearls. They formed as a result of the collision process.

Astrophysicist John Bahcall tirelessly pushed lawmakers for funding and support for the Hubble Space Telescope mission, while simultaneously contributing to...

John Bahcall looks at the camera in front of a bookshelf. He wears a light gray shirt, red tie, and glasses.

NGC 3384, visible in this image, has many of the characteristic features of so-called elliptical galaxies. Such galaxies glow diffusely,...

A black background dotted with galaxies. A bright galaxy is at image center. It looks like a diffuse ellipse that stretches from the lower-left corner to the upper-right corner, with a bright core at image center.

This is an artist's concept of the exoplanet GJ 9827d, the smallest exoplanet where water vapor has been detected in...

Occupying the upper half of this illustration is the foreground exoplanet, partly in shadow, with subtle blue and white atmospheric features along the crescent closest to the star. The planet appears above a red dwarf star, which is represented by a smaller reddish-white, mottled globe at the bottom left. Two other planets in this system are to the left and right of the red dwarf star. The second planet is slightly larger, but appears farther away, about midway between the star and the foreground exoplanet. It is in shadow, with only the crescent facing the star bathed in light. The planetary system is on a mostly black background speckled with hundreds of faint distant stars.

The narrow galaxy elegantly curving around its spherical companion in this image is a fantastic example of a truly strange...

A black background dotted with galaxies. Image center holds a cluster of galaxies with a distinct arc nearly surrounding it.

This interesting galaxy imaged by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is one of a group of galaxies called Luminous Red Galaxies....

Black background dotted with galaxies. A reddish galaxy at image center with a bluish-white ring curving almost completely around it.

One way Hubble finds planets thousands of light-years from Earth is by using a gravitational microlensing technique. Credit: NASA, ESA,...

The galaxy NGC 5427 shines in the large image from Hubble, with ground-based observations showing its companion galaxy NGC 5426....

The rightmost image in this inset graphic shows a massive spiral galaxy. To its left, white text reads “Arp 271” and a more zoomed-out image below shows two interacting spiral galaxies with a white box designating the portion that is the rightmost image.

The galaxy NGC 5427 shines in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. It’s part of the galaxy pair Arp...

A massive spiral galaxy fills the lower left of the image. Spiral arms full of dark brown dust and bright blue stars extend out from the yellow galactic core, all against black space dotted with more distant galaxies and stars.

UGC 3912 is classified as a spiral galaxy … but you wouldn’t know it from this detailed Hubble Space Telescope...

$A scattered grouping of blue and violet stars shines near the lower half of the image. Distant galaxies fill the black background of space, and bright stars with diffraction spikes are visible throughout.$

Arp 300 consists of two interacting galaxies, UGC 05028 (the smaller face-on spiral galaxy) and UGC 05029 (the larger face-on...

Near the top center of the image, a galaxy full of bright blue stars shines. To its lower left is a spiral galaxy, also full of blue stars and dark brown dust. Other distant galaxies and stars fill the black background of space.

Looking like a baseball lobbed into the depths of the universe, ESO 420-G013 is a face-on spiral galaxy and a...

A glowing, white galaxy shines at the center of the image, interlaced with dark brown dust. More distant galaxies and stars fill the black background of space.

A pair of small, interacting galaxies shine in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. The larger of the two...

The lower half of the image is filled with a large spiral galaxy that has a bright white bar of stars at its center. To its upper left, a smaller galaxy shines with bright blue stars. It has an irregular shape, appearing almost like a vertical bar of stars. The rest of the image shows black space interspersed with more distant galaxies and stars.

This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows ESO 185-IG013, a luminous blue compact galaxy (BCG). BCGs are nearby galaxies...

A bright, purplish galaxy glows at the image’s center, with blue stars interspersed and a blue-white haze extending outward, all against black space dotted with stars and distant galaxies.

This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a group of interacting galaxies known as LEDA 60847. LEDA 60847 is...

$A glowing pink point of light with diffraction spikes is surrounded by dark dust and faint stars. Two yellowish points of light are visible above and below it, all against black space dotted with intermittent distant galaxies.$