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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.

Hubble's Science Instrument Command and Data Handling Module (SI C&DH) works with Hubble's data management Unit (DMU) to process, format,...

Four people in white suits and masks are in the Goddard Space Flight Center clean room. They are standing around a table that holds a large instrument package, Hubble's Science Instrument Command and Data Handling Module. The module holds several black boxes of varying sizes with bundled wires in tubes connecting them.

Until the 20th century, astronomers learned virtually all they knew about sources in the sky from only the tiny fraction...

A side-by-side comparison of the Crab Nebula as seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in optical light (left) and NASA's...

A side-by-side-comparison of the Crab Nebula as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in optical light (left) and the James Webb Space Telescope in infrared light (right). In both images, the oval nebula’s complex structure lies against a black background. On the nebula’s exterior, particularly at the top left and bottom left, lie curtains of glowing red and orange fluffy material. Interior to this outer shell lie large-scale loops of mottled filaments of yellow-white and green, studded with clumps and knots. In the Hubble image, the central interior of the nebula glows brightly, while the Webb image shows translucent thin ribbons of smoky white in the same area. Around and within the supernova remnant are many points of blue-white light in the Hubble image, and blue, red, and yellow light in the Webb image.

Four hundred years ago, sky watchers, including the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler, were startled by the sudden appearance of a...

Top: A spheroidal cloud. Its center holds colors of red and yellow with small areas of green and blue. Around the center is a ring of blue and green with a smattering of pink, purple, and white. Bottom, four small images (left to right): The first two are Chandra X-ray images in blue and green respectively. The third is a Hubble visible light image in yellow. The fourth is a Spitzer infrared image in red.

Four hundred years ago, sky watchers, including the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler, were startled by the sudden appearance of a...

A spheroidal cloud. Its center holds colors of red and yellow with small areas of green and blue. Around the center is a ring of blue and green with a smattering of pink, purple, and white.

This video uses NASA Hubble Space Telescope data to zoom in on Saturn's rings as we appear to fly over...

Hubble's exquisite optics, coupled with the high resolution of its Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), allow it to take breathtaking...

A zoomed-in view of Saturn's rings. The rings stretch from the upper-right to the lower-left. A portion of the planet's disk is visible in the upper-right corner. The rings appear in shades of white, beige, and grey. Saturn is a washed-out yellow with darker bands in muted tones of green, orange, and grey.

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 time-lapse sequence of 20 images, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, reveals the dramatic effects from a collision early...

Three images of Jupiter show the gas giant in three different types of light — infrared, visible, and ultraviolet. The...

Three images of Jupiter, from left to right: Infrared Jupiter holds bright yellow, deep red, orange and marron stripes. The Great Red Spot is a deep maroon. The middle image is in the visible light our eyes are sensitive to. It reveals horizontal stripes in muted tones of red and orange along with wide white bands. The Great Red Spot is deep orange with bands of dark red. The final image is in ultraviolet. Here Jupiter's cloud bands are in tones of blue, pink and purple. The Great Red Spot appears as a dark blue.

Like the speed of an advancing race car driver, the winds in the outermost “lane” of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center planetary scientist, Dr. Amy Simon, tells us about Hubble's Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) project....

This image from the NASA Hubble Space Telescope shows the planet Jupiter in a color composite of ultraviolet wavelengths. Released...

The planet Jupiter with its familiar cloud bands seen in shades of pink, rusty red, blue, and purple. The Great Red Spot is a deep navy blue, surrounded by bands and swirls of pink, and light blue.

Dr. Brian Welch explains the discovery of Earendel while outlining how important Hubble is to exploring the mysteries of the...

Hubble's Senior Project Scientist, Dr. Jennifer Wiseman, explains gravitational lensing. Credit: NASA GSFC, Producer: James Leigh

The powerful gravity of a galaxy embedded in a massive cluster of galaxies in this Hubble Space Telescope image is...

A field of galaxies in white and gold on a black background. An expanded view of the gravitationally lensed supernova is just left of center.

This collage of Hubble images displays the breadth and depth of its more than 1.5 million observations. Hubble observes everything...

A colorful array of Hubble images. Rows and columns of images include the varied objects Hubble observes.

This striking image captures the interacting galaxy pair known as Arp-Madore 2339-661. The Arp-Madore catalog is a collection of peculiar...

Two spiral galaxies. Each glows brightly in the center, where a bar stretches from side to side. The upper one is rounder, and its arms form two thin rings. The lower galaxy is flatter and its arms make one outer ring; a dusty knot atop its upper arm marks out a third object. Gravity is pulling gas and dust together where the galaxies come close. A number of small galaxies surround them on a black background.

A unique composite image of comet Siding Spring as it made its never-before-seen close passage of a comet by Mars.

A comet with a tail streaking through space with small, orange Mars in the background along with many stars.

The thin blue bull's-eye patterns in these eight Hubble Space Telescope images appear like neon signs floating over reddish-white blobs....

Eight images (two rows, four in each row) of amorphous elliptical galaxies ringed by blue-white light.