Hubble Space Telescope

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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...

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

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...

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