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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...

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

A barred spiral galaxy and a lenticular galaxy come together to create this interacting pair known as Arp 140. The...

Two side-by-side galaxies fill the image. The leftmost galaxy is a bright spiral galaxy bursting with blue stars. The rightmost is a lenticular galaxy, emitting a hazy glow. Distant stars and galaxies dot the background.

One of the galaxies from a galactic group known as Arp 295 is visible in this new NASA Hubble Space...

A galaxy laced through with dark brown dust is viewed edge-on, shining against black space dotted with more distant galaxies. The central galaxy has a hazy bridge of faint stars extending down through the bottom of the image.

This image features a relatively small galaxy known as UGC 5189A, which is located about 150 million light-years away in...

A galaxy that is flat and misshapen. Above and on its right side are plumes of shining gas and dust, while its center and left side are dimmer and patchier. A trail of dark, dim dust stretches from below the galaxy up and off to the left, where there are three more bright patches. The background around the galaxy is quite dark. It holds a few small background galaxies and one bright, foreground star.

This panchromatic view of galaxy cluster MACS0416 was created by combining infrared observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope with...

A field of galaxies on the black background of space. In the middle, stretching from left to right, is a collection of dozens of yellowish spiral and elliptical galaxies that form a foreground galaxy cluster. Among them are distorted linear features, which mostly appear to follow invisible concentric circles curving around the center of the image.

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features a richness of spiral galaxies: the large, prominent spiral galaxy on...

A collection of galaxies. On the right side a large spiral galaxy with swirling, twisted arms is flanked by a smaller, but still detailed, spiral behind its arm on the left, and a smaller spiral above it. On the left side is a fourth, round spiral galaxy seen face-on. Between them lies a single bright star. Several stars and distant galaxies dot the background.

This visualization shows the temperature forecast spanning 130 exoplanet-days, across sunrise, noon, sunset, and midnight for the exoplanet WASP-121 b,...

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...