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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.

This extraordinary image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the galaxy cluster Abell 2813 (also known as ACO 2813)...

Black background is dotted with distant galaxies. Image center holds a cluster of galaxies, many of the appear to be large elliptical galaxies. Curved orange-yellow lines appear to cut through the galaxy cluster. These are more distant galaxies gravitationally lensed by the cluster.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of spiral galaxy NCG 5728, which is also a Seyfert-type active galaxy.

In this image, NCG 5728 appears to be an elegant, luminous, barred spiral galaxy.

This simulation shows two spiral galaxies with material orbiting based on two different mass models. The one on the left...

Two purple spiral galaxies rotate side by side. All the stars in the left-hand galaxy rotate at the same angular rate, like an old-fashioned vinyl record on a turntable. The stars in the right-hand galaxy rotate at different rates, depending on how far out from the center they are, with the fastest rotation toward the center. The result is a little like twirling pasta around a fork, where there’s a build-up of pasta/stars at the center.

The swirls of the galaxy IC 1776 stand in splendid isolation in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope....

An irregularly-shaped spiral galaxy. Its spiral arms are difficult to distinguish. The edges are faint, and the core has a pale-yellow glow. It is dotted with small, wispy, blue regions where stars are forming. A few stars and small galaxies in warm colors are visible around it.

This colorful image of the globular star cluster Terzan 12 is a spectacular example of how dust in space affects...

The glittering globular cluster Terzan 12 -- a vast, tightly bound collection of stars -- fills the frame. Yellow, gold and blue stars fill the frame against a black background.

The colorful "zigzag" on the right is not the work of a flamboyant artist, but the signature of a supermassive...

A colorful zig-zag against black space fills the screen. The leftmost portion is blue, and the right is orange and red. The top and bottom of the zig-zag are green.

This diagram illustrates how Hubble Space Telescope spectral observations were used to study the chemical makeup of the Southern Crab...

Against a gray background, this graphic shows a Hubble image of the Crab Nebula at left. To the right, four repeated images in different colors (green, yellow, orange, and red) show the different present elements in the nebula. Beneath them, a horizontal row seen as a jagged rainbow-colored line represents its spectrum.

Grating from the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph, which STIS replaced. The GHRS operated for seven years.

A view of the Goddard High Resolution Spectrometer grating, which appears as a device with an elliptical cavity filled with rows in a rainbow of colors.

Rings of gas lit up and became visible when energy from Supernova 1987A crashed into them, revealing the final stages...

Three rings of glowing, pale red light shine in a row. The two leftmost rings are closer together.

This illustration shows the three basic steps astronomers use to calculate how fast the universe expands over time, a value...

A graphic titled "Three Steps to the Hubble Constant."

Astronomers study the pattern of light coming from a cosmic object like a star to figure out what elements it...

Four black rows with various rainbow-colored lines throughout represent four spectra. From top to bottom, they are labeled Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, and Iron.

A choir performs Eric Whitacre's Deep Field piece in Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York City.

A large choir performs beneath a screen showing an image of the Hubble Space Telescope. It is night and the lit buildings of New York City are visible in the background.

Students learn about Hubble discoveries from astronomer Norman Grogin of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

Middle-school children seated on the floor of a classroom point tablets toward a Hubble image of the Cat's Eye Nebula on a large screen in the front of the classroom. A Hubble scientist stands next to the screen discussing the image. The walls and nearby desks are covered with space and astronomy images.

American actor and comedian Josh Peck films a happy birthday message for the 30th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope...

Actor Josh Peck in a t-shirt and baseball hat points into a camera operated by producer Paul Morris while delivering a birthday message. Morris is in the foreground, behind the camera, and Peck is positioned in front of a large model of the Hubble Telescope.

Medal of Honor recipient Kyle White tours Hubble's Space Telescope Operations Control Center at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,...

Kyle White in a dark suit gazes through a lit display case at Hubble hardware. An image of one of Hubble's deep fields, filled with stars and galaxies, is the backdrop for the case.

The galaxy ESO 300-16 looms over this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy, which lies 28.7 million...

An irregular galaxy that resembles the shape of a cloud. It is made of many tiny stars all clumped together, surrounded in a diffuse light. In the central, brightest part there is a bubble of blue gas. The galaxy is surrounded by mostly very small and faint objects, though there are bright stars above and to the left of it, and a string of galaxies nearby.

Grating from the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph, which STIS replaced. The GHRS operated for seven years.

A view of the Goddard High Resolution Spectrometer grating, which appears as a device with an elliptical cavity filled with rows in a rainbow of colors.

Astronomer Nancy Grace Roman sits in the control center of the Hubble Space Telescope, the telescope she helped usher into...

Nancy Grace Roman in a blue outfit and glasses smiles as she sits in a chair in the Hubble control room in front of desks full of computers with screens showing Hubble data.

Following a successful Servicing Mission 4, Senator Barbara Mikulski talks with Michael Prior, Hubble Space Telescope operations manager, while visiting...

Senator Barbara Mikulski gestures as she speaks with a member of the Hubble flight operations team. He sits at a long desk with another team member. The desk is covered with computers, keyboards, stacks of paper bound together with o-rings so it can be flipped through easily, and a small Hubble model. Other figures are visible in the background, including someone holding a boom mic to capture their interaction.

This visualization shows the fast-moving ionized clouds that continue to provide the Milky Way with material for star formation. Researchers...

A graphic outlining large-scale flows in the Milky Way halo