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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)

Lenticular galaxy NGC 4753 holds a bright-white core and surrounding, defined dust lanes around its nucleus that predominantly appear dark brown in color. A variety of faint stars fill the background of the image. — Featured in this Hubble image is a nearly edge-on view of the lenticular galaxy NGC 4753. Lenticular galaxies have an elliptical shape and ill-defined spiral arms. This image is the object's sharpest view to date, showcasing Hubble’s incredible resolving power and ability to reveal complex dust structures. NGC 4753 resides around 60 million light-years from Earth and is likely the result of a galactic merger with a nearby dwarf galaxy roughly 1.3 billion years ago.
ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Kelsey

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. — This Hubble image is a color composite of Jupiter in ultraviolet wavelengths of light.
NASA, ESA, and M. Wong (University of California - Berkeley); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

Three bright stars with diffraction spikes shine near the center-right of the image, illuminating nearby clouds that glow in pale blue. The clouds darken at the edges of the image, and are dotted with smaller stars, some also with diffraction spikes. — Looking like a glittering cosmic geode, a trio of dazzling stars blaze from the hollowed-out cavity of a reflection nebula in this Hubble image.
NASA, ESA, G. Duchene (Universite de Grenoble I); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

Taking up most of the image, is a multi-colored nebula in shades of blue, pink, yellow, orange, purple, and white. It appears as two translucent orbs attached by a white band. — To celebrate the 34th anniversary of Hubble's launch, astronomers took a snapshot of the Little Dumbbell Nebula, also known as Messier 76, or M76, located 3,400 light-years away. The name 'Little Dumbbell' comes from its shape that is a two-lobed structure of colorful, mottled, glowing gases resembling a balloon that’s been pinched around a middle waist. Like an inflating balloon, the lobes are expanding into space from a dying star seen as a white dot in the center. Blistering ultraviolet radiation from the super-hot star is causing the gases to glow. The red color is from nitrogen, and blue is from oxygen.
NASA, ESA, STScI

A dark cloud of gas and dust sits along the top half of the image. The cloud is illuminated by a bright-white star below it and just to the right of image center. Another bright object, looking like a bright, vertical disk bisected by a dark cloud, sits just to the right of the main cloud and above and to the right of the bright-white star. A jet of bright, turquoise light streams to the left and right from each side of the vertical disk-like object. A section of the jet, to the left, appears to be hidden behind the dark cloud, but emerges from the cloud left of image center. The background is black with rusty hues near the bright-white star. — Jets emerge from the cocoon of a newly forming star to blast across space, slicing through the gas and dust of a shining nebula in this Hubble image of the multi-star system, FS Tau.
NASA, ESA, and K. Stapelfeldt (NASA JPL); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

A cluster of stars in warm and cool colors. The whole view is filled with small stars, which become much denser and brighter around a core just right of center. Most of the stars are small, but some are larger with a round, brightly colored glow and four sharp diffraction spikes. Behind the stars, a dark background can be seen. — The teeming stars of the globular cluster NGC 6544 glisten in this Hubble image that combines data from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3.
ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Lewin, F. R. Ferraro

Upper 2/3 holds a bright white and blue gas and dust-cloud ring around a central void or bubble. lower 1/3 holds blue and white — This Hubble image of N44 reveals a complex nebula that holds a starry gap called a “superbubble” that is some 250 light-years wide.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, V. Ksoll and D. Gouliermis (Universität Heidelberg), et al.; Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

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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Hubble captured what looks like a cosmic, double-bladed lightsaber. In the center of the image, partially obscured by a dark, Jedi-like cloak of dust, a newborn star shoots twin jets out into space as a sort of birth announcement to the universe. Dr. Ken Carpenter explains this breathtaking image and how important Hubble is to exploring the mysteries of the universe, even if it is far far away!

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Videos

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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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.

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Sonifications

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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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.

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: 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

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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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More Things Hubble

Hubble Science Highlights
Hubble’s most notable scientific discoveries reflect the broad range of research and the breakthroughs it has achieved.
Hubble vs. Webb
Learn how the two telescopes differ and how they complement each other.
Mission Operations
The Space Telescope Operations Control Center is the engine that keeps Hubble operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
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.
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.