Hubble Space Telescope Images

NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team

This colorful Hubble Space Telescope mosaic of a small portion of the Monkey Head Nebula unveils a collection of carved knots of gas and dust silhouetted against glowing gas.

NASA/ESA/STScI/Arizona State University

The "Pillars of Creation" in the Eagle nebula, as seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1995.

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The 'Butterfly Nebula,' as seen by Hubble in 2009.

NASA, ESA, and D. Gouliermis (University of Heidelberg)

This stunning new Hubble image shows a small part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the closest galaxies to our own.

NASA, ESA, A. Goobar (Stockholm University), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

This Hubble Space Telescope composite image of a supernova explosion designated SN 2014J in the galaxy M82. At a distance of approximately 11.5 million light-years from Earth it is the closest supernova of its type discovered in the past few decades.

NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team

This interacting galaxy duo is collectively called Arp 142. The pair contains the disturbed, star-forming spiral galaxy NGC 2936, along with its elliptical companion, NGC 2937 at lower left.

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NGC 660 is classified as a "polar ring galaxy," meaning that it has a belt of gas and stars around its center that it ripped from a near neighbor during a clash about one billion years ago.

Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA

Anemic Spiral Galaxy NGC 4921

ESA/Hubble & NASA

This image from Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) is likely the best of ancient and brilliant quasar 3C 273, which resides in a giant elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin). Its light has taken some 2.5 billion years to reach us.

Hubble/European Space Agency

These galaxies — also known as NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 — are locked in a deadly embrace. Once normal, sedate spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, the pair have spent the past few hundred million years sparring with one another. This clash is so violent that stars have been ripped from their host galaxies to form a streaming arc between the two.

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This Hubble image shows a supernova in the spiral galaxy NGC 6984.

NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team

Astronomers used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light.

JPL/NASA, NOAO, ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team, (STScI/AURA)

The Horsehead nebula

ESA/Hubble & NASA

Shining brightly in this Hubble image is our closest stellar neighbor: Proxima Centauri.

ESA/Hubble & NASA

The image, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows part of NGC 3621, an unusual spiral galaxy located over 20 million light-years away in the constellation of Hydra.

NASA, ESA, and G. Brammer

Astronomers have observed stars spinning around this supermassive black hole (located right in the center of the image) which is near the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy.

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In this handout from NASA, the mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the Crab Nebula, shows six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion as released December 2, 2005.

ESA/Hubble & NASA

This image, snapped by NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the star HD 184738, also known as Campbell’s hydrogen star.

NASA/Hubble

The Whirlpool Galaxy is a classic spiral galaxy. At only 30 million light years distant and fully 60 thousand light years across, it's one of the brightest and most picturesque galaxies on the sky.

Hubble/European Space Agency and NASA

Lying over 110 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Antlia (The Air Pump) is the spiral galaxy IC 2560, shown here in an image from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

European Space Agency

Slightly bigger than our Milky Way, the spiral galaxy named NGC 4517 is seen edge-on, crowned by a very bright star in this Hubble image.

ESA/Hubble and NASA

It may look like something from "The Lord of the Rings," but this fiery swirl is actually a planetary nebula known as ESO 456-67.

ESA/NASA/Hubble

Nearly 200 000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy.

NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team

This esthetic close-up of cosmic clouds and stellar winds features LL Orionis, interacting with the Orion Nebula flow.

NASA/Hubble

A planetary nebula called NGC 5189. Planetary nebulae represent the final brief stage in the life of a medium-sized star like our sun.

NASA/ESA/Hubble

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a spectacular image of the bright star-forming ring that surrounds the heart of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1097.

ESO, VISTA, HLA, Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Combined image data from the massive, ground-based VISTA telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope was used to create this wide perspective of the interstellar landscape surrounding the famous Horsehead Nebula.

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An image of the tip of the Cone Nebula, which is about half a light-year long as taken by the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, released June 5, 2002.

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An image of a Cas A supernova reveals the remnants of a section of the upper rim of the youngest known supervova identified in our Milky Way galaxy.

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This image shows NGC 4622 and its outer pair of winding arms full of new stars, shown in blue. The galaxy NGC 4622 appears to be rotating in the opposite direction to what was expected.

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This image recorded by the Hubble telescope on July 10, 2001 shows two clusters of stars, called NGC 1850, located in a neighboring galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud.

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A composite image of the Crab Nebula showing X-ray (blue), and optical (red) images superimposed is shown in this undated photo. Multiple observations made over several months with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope captured the spectacle of matter and antimatter propelled to nearly the speed of light by the Crab pulsar.

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The 30 Doradus Nebula, a fertile star-forming region is seen in this panoramic mosaic portrait released by NASA.

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A Hubble telescope edge-on view of the ESO 510-G13 galaxy is seen in this undated NASA photograph. The image shows the galaxy''s warped dusty disk.

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In this handout image released from the Hubble Space Telescope the Eagle Nebula is seen, April 25, 2005.

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NASA's Hubble space telescope shows a grouping of galaxies engaging in a slow dance of destruction that will last for billions of years. (Photo by NASA/ Getty Images)

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This deep-space image was created using a gravitational lens created by a cluster of galaxies on January 7, 2003. The Hubble Space Telescope made a 13-hour exposure through a tight cluster of galaxies located 2.2 billion light-years away.

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This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the "Dumbbell Nebula" or M27 The nebula, which lies 1,200 light-years away, was formed when an old star shed its outer layers.

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In this image released by NASA, the galaxy NGC 3310, a starburst galaxy that is forming clusters of new stars at a prodigious rate, is shown taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image released 04 December, 2003 shows a festively colored nebula, called NGC 604, one of the largest known seething cauldrons of star birth in a nearby galaxy.

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Resembling a flaming creature on the run, this image exposes the hidden interior of a dark and dusty cloud in the emission Nebula IC 1396.

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This Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) photograph is a composite of a million one-second exposures and reveals galaxies from the time shortly after the big bang.

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The Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) photograph is a composite of a million one-second exposures and reveals galaxies from the time shortly after the big bang.

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This NASA image shows ladder-like structures within a dying star known as the Red Rectangle.

NASA/HUBBLE HERITAGE TEAM

This Hubble Space Telescope image released by NASA's Hubble Heritage team 04 February shows the self-destruction of a massive star called supernova 1987-A (C) in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

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This undated image taken by the Hubble telescope shows Pluto and its moons: Charon, Nix, and Hydra.

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This handout image of the giant, active galaxy NGC 1275, obtained August 21, 2008 was taken using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys in July and August 2006.

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In this handout image provided by NASA, a colourful cloud of gas and dust, a nebula named Knockout 4-55 (or K 4-55), is photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope on May 4, 2009 in Space.

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