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Explore Hubble's iconic image of the universe, and view photos of mission operations and astronauts servicing Hubble in space.

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Trifid Nebula Tour

NASA is celebrated Hubble's 36th anniversary with a stunning new look at the Trifid Nebula, a star-forming region about 5,000 light-years away. First imaged in 1997, Hubble revisited this scene nearly 30 years later with sharper vision. The image reveals a structure nicknamed the “Cosmic Sea Slug,” including a jet from Herbig-Haro 399, showing how young stars actively shape their surroundings. Hubble Senior Project Scientist, Dr. Jennifer Wiseman takes us on a tour of this beautiful image.

Hubble’s Universe

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Yellow and white stars in a star cluster float in front of a cloud of bue wispy dust and gas.

Hubble's Star Clusters

A collection of star clusters images from the Hubble Space Telescope

Spirals of gas and dsut emenate from a central point in a spiral galaxy

Hubble's Galaxies

A collection of galaxy images from the Hubble Space Telescope

Wispy, nebulous clouds extend from the lower-left of the image. At the top and right the dark background of space can be seen through the sparse nebula. Along the left and in the corner are many layers of brightly-colored gas and dark, obscuring dust. A cluster of small, bright blue stars in the same corner expands out across the image. Many much smaller stars cover the background.

Hubble's Nebulae

A collection of nebula images from the Hubble Space Telescope

Thousands of galaxies float in a small section of space.

Hubble's Deep Fields

A collection of Deep Field images that look back in both space and time, capturing thousands of galaxies in various stages of evolution.

Hubble image of ringed Saturn

Hubble's Solar System

The Hubble Space Telescope's view of the planets and other objects orbiting our Sun.

Top: a distorted spiral galaxy. One of its spiral arms extends in a sweeping arc below the galaxy. Below this spiral is another edge-on galaxy extending from the lower left toward image center.

Hubble's Interacting Galaxies

Hubble's collection of images of galaxies reshaped by cosmic collisions and interactions.

Hubble image of remote galaxy exhibiting gravitational lensing

Hubble's Gravitational Lenses

Witness an Einstein-predicted phenomenon that magnifies light from far-distant galaxies through the gaze of the Hubble Space Telescope.

Hubble Servicing Mission Galleries

Image taken of the 1990 deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble, bright and silver, reflects the Earth below, on either side of Hubble there are two golden solar arrays. At the bottom of the picture you can see the body of the Space Shuttle Discovery as well as the grapple arm letting go of Hubble.

Hubble Deployment

The deployment of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope

Earth in the background, Hubble in the foreground, and an astronaut at the bottom of Hubble.

Hubble Servicing Mission 1

Select images from Hubble’s first servicing mission, STS-61 (December 1993)

Astronaut standing on the extended robotic arm. On the left there is Hubble, which the astronaut is touching as part of the repair.

Hubble Servicing Mission 2

A collection of images from Hubble’s second servicing mission, STS-82 (February 1997)

An astronaut on the end of the robotic arm with numerous tools. The blue earth is in the background

Hubble Servicing Mission 3A

Images from Hubble’s third servicing mission, STS-103 (December 1999)

Two astronauts float in the cargo bay in bright sunlight.

Hubble Servicing Mission 3B

Images from Hubble’s servicing mission STS-109 (March 2002)

Two astronauts service the Hubble telescope. The one on the left is attached to a robotic arm. The one in the center waves to the camera.

Hubble Servicing Mission 4

Images from Hubble’s fifth and most recent servicing mission, STS-125 (May 2009)servicing mission, STS-125 (May 2009)

Hubble Mission Galleries

Hubble Space Shuttle Missions Gallery

Building Hubble Gallery

Hubble Observatory Gallery

Hubble Mission Operations Gallery

35th Anniversary Galleries

Hubble Space Telescope in Orbit

35 Years of Images

Celebrate Hubble's 35th anniversary with a countdown of images the observatory captured over its lifetime, one for each year in orbit.

Against the dark background of space, pale, misty clouds of gas and dust are liberally sprinkled with blue and pink stars. Some bright pink patches of clustered stars are visible, as are dark brown knots of dust.

New Hubble Images from the Archive at SXSW

To celebrate NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's 35th year in orbit, we've combed through Hubble's extensive archive of observations for new images.

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Large blue bubble in the center of the image with tufts of yellow/orange clouds of dust and gas in the top left of the image, and a bit at the top of the blue bubble. Random purple stars are seen speckled at random throughout the image.

European Space Agency Images

Images released by European Space Agency

Hubble Images

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Flip through Hubble's numerous Flickr albums and see astronauts at work in space, behind the scenes of mission operations, and Hubble's iconic images from nebulae to gravitational lens.

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Black background holding an oval of light. The outer ring of the oval is orange-red. Moving inward the ring is more greenish-yellow. The center of the ring is bright blue with one small star at its center and another above and to the right of it.

M57, or the Ring Nebula, is a planetary nebula, the glowing remains of a sun-like star. The tiny white dot in the center of the nebula is the star’s hot core, called a white dwarf.

NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration

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Image taken of the 1990 deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble, bright and silver, reflects the Earth below, on either side of Hubble there are two golden solar arrays. At the bottom of the picture you can see the body of the Space Shuttle Discovery as well as the grapple arm letting go of Hubble.

Space Shuttle Discovery’s robotic arm deploys Hubble on April 25, 1990.

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