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This is your one-stop shop for all Hubble media. View Hubble's iconic images and watch video explanations of the science behind those images. Allow your ears to enjoy sonifications of Hubble data turned into sound, or listen to podcasts about Hubble's mission and its images. Download e-books, fact sheets, and more. Don't forget to exercise your mind with Hubble's interactive activities!

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Images

Hubble is most famous for its beautiful and iconic images that forever changed the way we view the cosmos. From breathtaking nebulae and sparkling star clusters, to deep fields littered with galaxies, see more of Hubble's famous and latest images.

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NASA Hubble Space Telescope captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars in a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby stars in a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula.
NASA, ESA, M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)

Videos

From science to history, servicing missions to technology, and documentaries to human interest stories, NASA has produced a library of informative and interesting videos on the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Video Thumbnail text: Hubble's Inside the Image: Herbig-Haro Jet HH24. Background image holds clouds of yellow, white, gold, grey, and black. A bright jet of material runs appears to emerge from a bright cloud near image center. It runs from the cloud to the upper left and the lower right. NASA meatball logo is in the upper-right corner.
The Pillars of Creation visualization that uses data from NASA's Hubble and Webb space telescopes. Astronomers and artists modeled the iconic Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16 or M16) in three dimensions, creating a movie that allows viewers to fly past and among the pillars.
Greg Bacon, Ralf Crawford, Joseph DePasquale, Leah Hustak, Christian Nieves, Joseph Olmsted, Alyssa Pagan, and Frank Summers (STScI), NASA's Universe of Learning

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Titles in white: Shoemaker-Levy 9: Interplanetary Impact" and the NASA Meatball logo at the top of the image. The image is of Jupiter and one of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's impact sites on the planet. We see half of Jupiter its cloud bands extending from the lower left to the upper right. The impact site looks like a dark-maroon bull's eye.

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Shoemaker-Levy 9: Interplanetary Impact

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 left an indelible mark on our understanding of the solar system when it collided with Jupiter. Discover the event’s significance and the crucial role NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope played in capturing its dramatic impact.

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Mosaic of the Pillars of Creation visualization model, composed of 4 rectangular strips oriented 45 degrees clockwise from vertical. Strips alternate between Hubble and Webb views of the visualization model, with each strip labeled: “Hubble” at lower right corners of first and third strips; “Webb” at upper left corners of the second and fourth strips. Webb strips have drop shadows that make it look like they are overlaid on top of larger Hubble image. Mosaic shows 3 vertical structures (pillars) of thick smoke-like material. Pillar edges are glowing, with thin wisps of material moving away into space. In Hubble strips, pillars are dark brown and opaque, on greenish blue background. In Webb strips, pillars are bright orange to brown with a distinct area of bright red at the top of middle pillar. A red star appears at the tip of a peak in the left pillar and the background is deep blue.

Pillars of Creation Visualization

Using data from NASA's Hubble and Webb space telescopes, astronomers and artists modeled the iconic Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16 or M16) in three dimensions, creating a movie that allows viewers to fly past and among the pillars.

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Background image: a field of galaxies against a black background. Text in white: Refsdal: Hubble's Inside the Image

Inside the Image: Lensed Supernova Refsdal

Dr. Brian Welch explains Hubble's image of a massive galaxy cluster creating a gravitational lens that magnified the same supernova exploding four different times!

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Background image is of the space shuttle Atlantis lifting off. Title in black: Servicing Mission 4

Hubble Celebrates Servicing Mission 4's 15th Anniversary

In May 2009, a brave team of astronauts embarked on a daring journey. Their mission? To breathe new life into Hubble, ensuring its legacy of discovery could continue for years to come.

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Video Thumbnail text: Hubble's Inside the Image: Herbig-Haro Jet HH24. Background image holds clouds of yellow, white, gold, grey, and black. A bright jet of material runs appears to emerge from a bright cloud near image center. It runs from the cloud to the upper left and the lower right. NASA meatball logo is in the upper-right corner.

Inside the Image: Herbig-Haro Jet HH 24

A dark, Jedi-like cloak of dust obscures a newborn star that is shooting twin jets out into space. Dr. Kenneth Carpenter explains this breathtaking image.

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Video thumbnail for a video about Hubble's clock rollover. Background holds a calendar with red numbers. The foreground holds an image of the Hubble Space Telescope. Title reads: It's Time to Change Hubble's Clock

It's Time to Change Hubble's Clock

Remember that Y2K thing a few years ago? Well, it turns out Hubble has something similar, only Hubble’s clock restarts every 6,213 days, 18 hours, 48 minutes, and 31.875 seconds, or roughly every 17 years.

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Text: Hubble's Highlights From its 34th Year in Orbit. Background images: artist illustration of a planet passing in front of a star, an image of Jupiter, an image of the Little Dumbbell Nebula.

Highlights from Hubble's 34th Year in Orbit

After more than three decades, Hubble continues to uncover the mysteries of the universe. These are a few science achievements from Hubble’s latest year in orbit.

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Sonifications

Ever wonder what the music of the spheres would sound like? Hubble brings us cosmic sights, but these astronomical marvels can also be experienced with other senses. Through data sonification, the same digital data that is translated into images is transformed into sound.

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Two images of V838 Monocerotis. The left image of this light echo appears as a ball of gas and dust with a bright star at its center. In the right image the ball of gas appears expanded and more diffuse.
NASA

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More Hubble Sonifications
Two interacting galaxies. A bridge of stars stretches between them, while a long tail of stars stretches beyond one of them.

Sonification of the Mice Galaxies

The Mice Galaxies are a colliding pair of galaxies, that will eventually merge.

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A multi-layered nebula that looks like it has a lion's mane surrounding it. A bright central star surrounded with overlapping rings of gas and dust.

Sonification of NGC 2392

About 5,000 light-years from Earth, the stunning nebula NGC 2392 formed after the demise of a star like our Sun.

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Clouds of orange, yellow, and rusty-brown fill the scene. A bright pillar of gas and dust rises above a denser region of the cloud.

Sonification of Pismis 24

Pismis 24 is a stunning star cluster that lies within the nebula NGC 6357, which resides about 8,000 light-years away.

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Podcasts

These episodes of NASA's Curious Universe podcast focus on Hubble. Learn more about the mission from scientists, engineers, outreach specialists, and others.

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NASA's Curious Universe is typed out in white text against a blue, illustrated background. From left to right, pale blue cartoons of a rocket ship launching, the Moon, stars, and an astronaut are seen. The NASA meatball logo is at top right, and a red semicircle is at top left.
NASA's Curious Universe podcast logo
NASA
After sunset, with oranges and pinks in the darkening sky, a young person appears in silhouette, looking through a telescope, pointed toward right. A group of adults, also in silhouette, are visible in the background.
People at a star party gathering around and gazing through telescopes at the night sky.
NASA/Aubrey Gemignani

STARGAZERS WELCOME! The night sky isn’t just for experts, it belongs to all of us! Join amateur astronomer and retired Hubble Science Operations Manager Kevin Hartnett, Hubble Social Media Lead Elizabeth Tammi, and the Astronomical Society of Greenbelt on a tour of the stars as they share how you can join from your own backyard. 

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E-books

Investigate the mysteries of the universe, or dive into Hubble's history with our free, downloadable e-books.

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Hubble Space Telescope
Hubble: An Overview of the Space Telescope, an e-book that gives you the history, design, science,and more about the iconic mission.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Full cover image of the Hubble Focus: Dark Universe e-book. Black background with a galaxy cluster that is superimposed with a blue-white haze that indicates the location of dark matter. Top of the image holds the phrase, "Hubble Focus." The "o" in focus is Hubble as we look down the tube of the telescope.
“Hubble Focus: The Dark Universe” highlights the mission’s recent discoveries about two mysterious components of our universe, dark energy — an unexplained cosmic pressure that’s speeding up the universe’s expansion — and dark matter, an invisible substance detectable only by seeing how it gravitationally influences visible matter.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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Lithographs

Hubble lithographs showcase some of Hubble's most stunning images and explain the science behind the object. Print these downloadable PDFs to create a gallery of astronomical art for your wall or use them as educational materials in your classroom.

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The front of a "lithograph" that contains a picture of a nebula framed. Lithos are two sided files with an image on the front and explanatory text on the back.
Hubble's 30th anniversary image of the Cosmic Reef is seen here on the front of a NASA lithograph.
NASA

Fact Sheets

Want to know more about Hubble's gyroscopes? Interested in the tools astronauts used to service Hubble? Download these NASA Hubble fact sheets that dive deeply into specific topics.

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The front of a standard NASA fact sheet that focuses on Hubble's fine guidance sensors.
Hubble’s Pointing Control System relies upon Fine Guidance Sensors to accurately measure the position of guide stars and thereby detect and correct unwanted drifts of the telescope from its desired pointing. This NASA fact sheet provides information on these highly accurate devices.
NASA

Online Activities

Expand your cosmic horizons and get to know the telescope behind some of astronomy’s most groundbreaking discoveries. Explore our online activities including games, 360 videos, trivia, interactive skymap, and more.

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An astronaut stands in front of a background of a nebula against a deep field of galaxies. The words "Name That Nebula" hovers above.
People see all kinds of shapes in the cosmic clouds of the universe, from owls to soccer balls, skulls to insects. Test your nebulae knowledge and match these tumultuous clouds of gas and dust with their true names. The Name that Nebula game is just one of many interactives on the Online Activities page.
NASA

Media Resources

Need to talk to our communication's team? Need b-roll for the documentary your making? This page helps you find the Hubble media information you need.

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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.
NASA

More Things Hubble

  • nearly spherical gathering of white stars at center top. Blue gas cloud extends from top left to center bottom

    Hubble Science Highlights

    Hubble’s most notable scientific discoveries reflect the broad range of research and the breakthroughs it has achieved.

  • Illustration of the Hubble Space Telescope (left) and the James Webb Space Telescope (right) on a grey background.

    Hubble vs. Webb

    Learn how the two telescopes differ and how they complement each other.

  • woman and a man sitting at a desk with multiple computer monitors, the woman is pointing at a monitor

    Mission Operations

    The Space Telescope Operations Control Center is the engine that keeps Hubble operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

  • Two astronauts service Hubble, one standing in the space shuttle cargo bay and one attached to a robotic arm, with the Earth in the background in the upper half of the picture.

    Hubble Servicing Missions

    Hubble’s serviceable design and modular components enabled upgrades that took advantage of advancements in technology. Astronauts used this capability to service Hubble five times.

  • Hubble Nebula - Crab Nebula

    Explore the Night Sky

    Using our Skymap, find astronomical objects with a backyard telescope, or binoculars, then compare your view to Hubble's images of the object.

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Hubble Science Highlights

On a background awash in blue and orange cloudy light stands a darker cloud with three pillars rising from it. The edges of the dark regions glow with white and light-blue light.

Hubble Design

Photograph of the Hubble Space Telescope over Earth.

Missions to Hubble

Astronaut on an EVA in a white space suit waving while working on the Hubble space telescope.

Hubble vs. Webb

Left is the Hubble Space Telescope. Right is the James Webb Space Telescope. Title text is white and says, "Hubble vs. Webb". Background image is Hubble's view of Mystic Mountain, star-forming pillars and Herbig-Haro Objects with Jets in the vast Carina Nebula. The background image is faded and shaded light blue.