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The Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 revealed the infrared afterglow (circled) of GRB 221009A and its host galaxy,...

A field filled with stars and galaxies against a black background. A small pinkish circle at image center denotes the host galaxy of a gamma-ray burst.

This visualization shows the weather patterns on the exoplanet WASP-121 b, also known as Tylos. This video has been slowed...

This is an artist's concept of the exoplanet WASP-121 b, also known as Tylos. The exoplanet's appearance is based on...

A large, yellow-white star fills the center of the frame. An orange, yellow, and reddish-brown striped planet sits on the lower left side of the frame.

This Hubble Space Telescope photo of Saturn was taken on October 22, 2023, when the ringed planet was approximately 850...

Colorful stripes in yellow, white, reddish-orange, pink, and green cover the planet. Saturn is tilted slightly toward us allowing the Sun to illuminate the top of its rings. The planet's shadow is cast toward the back and left of the planet. Saturn's moons Dione, and Enceladus are visible to its upper right, while its moon Mimas is just below and to the left of the planet's rings.

This Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse series of Saturn images (taken on October 22, 2023) resolves a phenomenon called ring spokes...

This striking Hubble Space Telescope image shows the densely packed globular cluster known as NGC 2210, which is situated in...

A dense cluster of stars. It is brightest and most crowded in the center, where the stars are mostly a cool white color. Moving out towards the edges the stars become more spread out and reddish until a noticeable ‘edge’ to the cluster is reached. Beyond that edge there are still many stars, more disorganized and seen on a black background. Some stars appear to be in front of the cluster.

Archival video of the June 27, 1990 NASA press conference outlining the problem with Hubble's primary mirror. Credit: NASA

The crew poses for a traditional inflight portrait for the crew of the Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 1. In...

The astronauts of STS-61, the first servicing mission to Hubble, pose for an unofficial portrait while in orbit.

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope view looking long ago and far away at a supernova that exploded over 10 billion...

Top image holds a field of galaxies. A small, white box in the lower/left of center region of the image outlines the area of sky viewed in the three bottom images. The bottom images are black and white and reveal the supernova in a distant galaxy.

This video series of photo illustrations shows the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy,...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope crossed another milestone in its space odyssey of exploration and discovery. On Monday, July 4, 2011...

An oval representing the sky. Red, yellow, blue, orange, green, and white dots represent Hubble observations.

These four images are among the first observations made by the new Wide Field Camera 3 aboard the upgraded NASA...

Top Left: two, lobed, white clouds expand from image center. They are edged by pink and reddish-pink clouds. Top Right: Galaxies. Bottom Left: A field of red, white, yellow, orange, and blue stars. Bottom Right: A greenish-blue background dotted with stars. A pillar of rusty-orang gas and dust rises from the bottom and extends across and toward the left of the image block.

Illustration: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of...

Illustration: Bright orange-yellow star off of the page to the left. A small world orbits it. Hubble is on the right side, opposite the star and planet, pointing toward them. The bottom of the illustration holds a graph of the methane absorption.

This image features the spiral galaxy NGC 941, which lies about 55 million light-years from Earth. Hubble’s Advanced Camera for...

A spiral galaxy, seen face-on from Earth. The spiral arms of the galaxy are bright but not well defined, merging into a swirling disk with a faint halo of dimmer gas around it. The core glows brightly in a lighter color and has a bit of faint dust crossing it. Two redder, visually smaller galaxies and a bright star are prominent around the galaxy, with more tiny objects in the background.

This animation is a composite of images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope that reveal Comet Holmes's bright core. The...

This composite image shows the galaxy cluster 1E 0657-556, also known as the "bullet cluster." This cluster was formed after...

Galaxies dot a black background with only one bright foreground star just above and to the right of image center. Swaths of purple and purple through the center of the galaxy cluster.

These Hubble Space Telescope images, taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys, reveal Pluto, its large moon Charon, and the...

Two images: Left May 15, 2005. A white circle at image center is Pluto. Charon is below Pluto and aqua in color color. The two dots to the upper right of Pluto are the suspected moons. Right: May 19, 2005. Charon is now above Pluto. The two suspected moons have also moved above Pluto.

This time-lapse sequence of 20 images reveals the dramatic effects from a collision between comet 9P/Tempel 1 and an 820-pound...

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) transitions back to its normal observing routine after a week of servicing and upgrading by...

Hubble orbits above Earth and its blue oceans and white clouds as a backdrop.

Dissolve sequence of the four epochs (May-Dec. 2002) of the light echo of star V838 Mon. This star was the...

The movie shows dynamic rings, wisps and jets of matter and antimatter around the pulsar in the Crab Nebula as...

Planet formation is a hazardous process. These four snapshots, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, show dust disks around embryonic...

Four images of planetary disks in Orion. Upper-left looks like an upside down raindrop that is reddish with bright blobs of bright-green within. Upper-right is a pink, gaseous blob with a bright yellow spot within. Lower-left is a bright-yellow crescent with a dark core against a blue background. Lower-right image is a bright-yellow crescent with a long tail and a bright-white core against a black background.

This illustration depicts how astronomers detected vast filaments of invisible hydrogen by using the light of a distant quasar (core...

In this illustration, the upper-left corner holds a bright-white quasar. The lower-left corner holds an illustration of Earth's limb with Hubble orbiting above it. Between the quasar an Hubble are strands of reddish gas and dust.

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) orbits gracefully above the blue Earth in December 1999 at the conclusion of HST servicing...

Earth's limb fills the lower-left half of the image. Hubble is against the black background of space just above and to the right of center.

The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest view yet of the most famous of all planetary nebulae: the...

An beautifully colored ring of gas and dust. The ring is slightly elongated/egg-shaped. The center of the ring is blue with two stars visible inside of it (one directly in the center). Beyond the blue center are rings of color. First is green, then yellow, orange, and red.

The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a picture of a 400-km-high (250-mile-high) plume of gas and dust from a volcanic...

A mottled, reddish-orange sphere sits on a blue and light orange background. A plume of reddish-orange gas extends from the left side of Io.

Part of the Orion Nebula shown in visible light then in infrared light. Credit: NASA, STScI

The infrared vision of the Hubble Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) is providing a dramatic new...

Two images: The left side holds a colorful cloud in hues of green, pink, white, yellow, and light blue. The right side holds a bright yellow spot surrounded by clouds of yellow, reddish-orange, purple, and blue.

Steven L. Smith, STS-82 mission specialist, on the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm with the Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) after...

An astronaut on the end of the space shuttle's robotic CANADARM above the shuttle's cargo bay. He is holding Hubble's Faint Object Spectrograph, which looks like a large black box. Hubble is in the background.

The Hubble Space Telescope achieved its 100,000th exposure June 22 with a snapshot of a quasar that is about 9...

Black and white image. Two bright points of light, one at image center, the other slightly above and to the right. Top center of the image holds 2 galaxies together, at least one is a spiral. Other galaxies dot the scene.

The never-before-seen surface of the distant planet Pluto is resolved in these NASA Hubble Space Telescope pictures, taken with the...

Two black and white, mottled spheres.

This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows for the first time the inner region of a 200-billion mile diameter...

Top: Black and white image of the system. Bottom: False color image of the system.

Four global projections of the HST Titan data, separated in longitude by 90 degrees. Upper left: hemisphere facing Saturn. Upper...

Four reddish, white, yellow, and maroon globes.

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found seemingly conclusive evidence for a massive black hole in the center of...

Bright-orange cloud. A bright-yellow point at lower left, from which shoots out a jet of material toward the upper right.

A NASA Hubble Space Telescope "natural color" image of the material surrounding the star Eta Carinae, as imaged by the...

A double-lobed cloud of gas in yellow and pink hues veined with dark dust lanes surrounded by outflows of more reddish-orange-colored gas. Three stars below and to the right of the lobes.

A team of astronomers working with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope announced results today of a major step in the Key...

A grid of images, 4 columns and 4 rows. Each image holds clumps of bright-white and dots of green, blue, red, and yellow.

This low-angle view shows the launch of the STS-31 mission from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Official launch time was 8:33...

Looking up at the space shuttle Discovery as it climbs toward space.

A Hubble Space Telescope image of a giant disk of cold gas and dust fueling a possible black hole at...

A disk in orange-red, and yellow-white. A yellow white point at image center surrounded by a deep orange-red disk that is ringed by yellow-white and then more orange-red.

On March 11, 1991, the Wide Field/Planetary Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope observed Jupiter for the first time. This...

Only a quarter of the planet Jupiter is visible extending from the lower-right corner across the image. Colors of orange, rusty-red, and white bands.

An astronaut is training on how to install Hubble's Science Instrument Command and Data Handling Module prior to Servicing Mission...

A mock-up of the Hubble Space Telescope in an enormous tank of water. An astronaut, standing on a replica of the Space Shuttle's robotic Canadarm is practicing the installation of Hubble's Science Instrument Command and Data Handling Module. On the far left, a scuba diver works on another component.