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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.

Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) took this unprecedented image of the cosmos. Hubble peered straight through the center of...

Bright yellow-white galaxies fill the field of view. A few foreground stars dot the scene in the upper half of the image. Faint arcs of gravitationally lensed background galaxies.

Firing off a string of action snapshots like a sports photographer at a NASCAR race, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured...

Four panel images of Jupiter showing three of its moons passing by the planet, casting shadows over its surface.

This spectacular image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a region called G35.2-0.7N, which lies around 7,200 light-years from...

A nebula with stars. Dense clouds of dust and gas cover the left-hand side and a filament crosses the center horizontally. Billowing streams of gas and dust in various colors emerge from around the center. The very center of the image is permeated with glowing orange regions. Many blue stars with cross-shaped spikes lie in the foreground, and small point-like stars are visible beyond the clouds.

A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient (LFBOT) designated AT 2023fhn, indicated by pointers....

This Hubble photograph shows three galaxies against the velvet-black backdrop of space. The largest is the white and blue spiral-shaped galaxy at image center. Two smaller galaxies are whitish patches toward the left. A curious white spot near the top of the image is the brilliant glow from some unknown object that exploded, but is not associated with any of the galaxies.

Crowds enjoy Hubble images and activities during a celebration of the anniversary of the telescope's Servicing MIssion 4 at the...

A girl selects Hubble images to take home from a table covered with Hubble activities. A large model of Hubble is visible in the background alongside other spacecraft exhibits at the National Air and Space Museum.

A child's Star Trek-themed board book features a Hubble image of the Tadpole Galaxy and its long tidal tail of...

A child's board book shows Hubble's image of the Tadpole Galaxy with a cartoon image of Star Trek's Enterprise flying away from them. On the right the text reads: "Would you like to continue the adventure and boldly go into SPACE?"

Just in time for the fall foliage season, this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features a glistening scene...

The background is filled with bright orange-red clouds of varying density. Towards the top-left, several large, pale blue stars with prominent cross-shaped spikes are scattered. A small, tadpole-shaped dark patch floats near one of these stars. More of the same dark, dense gas fills the lower-right, resembling black smoke. A bright yellow star and a smaller blue star shine in front of this.

Video Credit: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, ESA, STScI; Acknowledgment: NSF's NOIRLab, Akira Fujii , Jeff Hester , Davide De Martin...

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image (upper-right) includes ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light. The Webb image (lower-right) is in infrared....

Three images of the galaxy NGC 5068 on a black background. The Hubble image in ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light (upper-right) reveals the galaxy's bright-white central bar of stars and tendrils of its spiral arms in hues of pink and blue below. The Webb image in infrared (lower-right) reveals the bright-white central bar and orange details of the galaxy's inner spiral arms. The lower-left image is a wide-field image of NGC 5068 that holds boxes that outline the locations of the Hubble and Webb images.

NGC 685 takes center stage amid faintly twinkling stars on an inky black background. This galaxy is clearly a barred...

A face-on spiral galaxy with bright, blue-white spiral arms and dark, reddish-brown dust lanes. A bright-white bar of stars extends through the center of the galaxy. Small, more distant, reddish galaxies are visible in the background.

Bright blue spiral arms twist around the bright-white center of this starry galaxy. This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image...

A nearly face-on spiral galaxy with a bright-white core with two dark, orange-brown dust lanes swirling out from it. Those dust lanes extend into the galaxy’s spiral arms where bright, blue-white pockets of stars and hazy clouds define the spiral.

Patches of bright pink and wisps of dark red paint the foreground of this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image....

Splotches of bright-pink and blue-white fill the lower half of the image. A bright bar of white stars extends downward from top-center toward the left. Random areas of dusty clouds form dark streams against the bright backdrop.

It’s easy to get swept up in the swirling starry arms of this intermediate spiral galaxy, NGC 4654, in the...

A bright spiral galaxy fills the frame from the lower-right to the upper-left. The galaxy is tilted toward us and holds bright blue-white stars and reddish-brown dust lanes that showcase its spiral nature.

New and old stars alike twinkle in the dusty spiral arms of NGC 1087. Located 80 million light-years away in...

This nearly face-on spiral galaxy has bright blue-white and pink regions outlined by dark, rusty-brown dust lanes. A small, bright-white bar of stars stretches horizontally across the image’s center at the galaxy’s heart.

A striking orange and blue streak fills this new image from the NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble’s visible and infrared...

Black background dotted with galaxies. A large, nearly edge-on galaxy fills the right side of the frame. Its dusty, orangish-brown silhouette extends from center-bottom to the upper-right while its bright-white, lens-shaped glow extends above and below its dust lane.

This image taken using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) shows Arp 107, a celestial object...

A pair of merging galaxies. The galaxy on the left has a large, single spiral arm curving out from the core and around to below it, with very visible glowing dust and gas. The right galaxy has a bright core but only a bit of very faint material. A broad curtain of gas connects the two galaxies’ cores and hangs beneath them. A few small stars and galaxies are scattered around the black background.

Even with its blurry vision, Hubble still provided valuable data to astronomers in the years before the first servicing mission....

Just left of image center is a pink spot. It is ringed by a yellow-green oval. To its left is a bright-blue spot, another sits to the far right edge.

The mighty blue giant AG Carinae is one of the brightest stars in our Milky Way galaxy. It shines with...

Bright-white star surrounded by a pinkish and white shell of gas. Black background dotted with stars.

Hubble’s Faint Object Camera provided astronomers with a detailed view of this multi-imaged quasar, which is a classic example of...

Five bright points of blue-white light. The center point is the galaxy. The four other points are above, below, and left, and right of the center.