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These are assets that appear on Hubble mission pages and are managed by the Hubble mission team.

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

Using a spectrogram like this one created from the Hubble Space Telescope’s Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS), scientists determined what atoms...

PKS 0405-123 COS Spectrum

The massive cluster Abell 3322 is featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in which the galaxy...

A cluster of elliptical galaxies, visible as a crowd of oval shapes, each glowing around a bright core. The elliptical galaxy that appears largest by far is in the center, with the other largest galaxies close to it. They are surrounded by a variety of more distant stars and galaxies, in many shapes and sizes but all much smaller, on a dark background.

Spectrum graph of a hot blue star

An image of a star cluster with a blue graph to its right representing its spectra. There is a black background with white text reading "Spectrum Graph of a Hot Blue Star."

Spectrum graph of a cool red star

An image of a star cluster with a blue graph to its right representing its spectra. There is a black background with white text reading "Spectrum Graph of a Cool Red Star."

The end of a Hubble gyro reveals the hair-thin wires known as flex leads. They carry data and electricity inside...

The end of a Hubble gyroscope that shows hair thin wires.

Spectrum graph of elliptical galaxy NGC 4697

An image of a bright elliptical galaxy against black space dotted with distant starts, with a blue graph to its right representing its spectrum. This is set against a black background with white text that reads "Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4697 Spectrum Graph."

Spectrum graph of galaxy M94

An image of a spiral galaxy with a blue graph to its right representing its spectra. There is a black background with white text reading "M94 Starburst Galaxy Spectrum Graph."

Elements emit unique patterns of wavelengths, and astronomers study that pattern of light coming from a cosmic object like a...

A graphic with a white background titled "Spectra Showing Different Elements" in teal font. Four spectra are shown, stacked two-by-two. These look like black rows with vertical rainbow streaks of light. They are labeled, from left to right and starting at the upper left: Carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and iron.

When light from a celestial object enters the telescope, it passes through a tiny slit in a metal plate to...

A graphic with a black background and white text across the top that reads "How a Spectroscope Works." A Hubble image of a star cluster is seen near the top, white a white circle labeled as a Target Object. Yellow arrows and a beam point down the image, with just the beam continuing downward through a gray bar. That beam hits a diagonal gray line representing the grating. A rainbow beam of light then extends from the grating, aimed diagonally upward to the right and into a detector, which is also seen in rainbow hues.

When white light hits a water droplet or a prism, the colors split into a rainbow.

A graphic with a white background shows a large, blue cartoon raindrop. A yellow semicircle in the upper left corner represents the sun, and a line linking it to the raindrop splinters into a rainbow ribbon that extends through the raindrop and arcs around to the lower left corner. At the top, text in black font reads "Making Rainbows From Raindrops."

The laser installation "From the Distant Past" by artist Tim Otto Roth projects across Venice’s Palazzo Franchetti. While the scanning...

A jagged green line of laser light, resembling an EKG, plays across the face of a yellow and white building on the Venice canals at night.

The hair-thin wire, known as a flex lead, facilitates the transfer of electricity and data inside the gyro. Its thickness...

A hair-thin wire laying above a dime

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found an answer to a long-standing puzzle by resolving giant but delicate filaments shaped by...

A galaxy with red filaments of gas protruding from it in multiple directions.

The National Geographic has produced numerous books on Hubble and its images including this one that highlights the science and...

The cover of a national geographic book with Hubble's image of the Orion Nebula on it. The title reads "Hubble: Imaging Space and Time."

Pictured is the Science Instrument Command and Data Handling (SI C&DH) unit that flew on Servicing Mission 4 in 2009,...

Man in a white clean room suit looking at Hubble instruments in black boxes with wires coming out of the sides.

Hubble 25 - A Quarter Century of Discovery with the Hubble Space Telescope e-book

Hubble 25 - A Quarter Century of Discovery with the Hubble Space Telescope e-book cover

Hubble Focus - The Lives Of Stars e-book

Hubble Focus - The Lives Of Stars e-book cover

Hubble Focus - Strange New Worlds e-book

Hubble Focus - Strange New Worlds e-book cover

Hubble Focus- Our Amazing Solar System e-book cover

Hubble Focus-Our Amazing Solar System e-book cover

Hubble Focus-Galaxies Through Space And Time

An e-book cover for the Hubble Focus-Galaxies Through Space And Time book