Hubble Images

Enjoy some of the iconic astronomical images captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during its more than 30 years in orbit.

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The deepest X-ray image ever produced, obtained by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The central region of the image contains the...
Black background with small scattered dots colored white, light pink, blue, and red.
Backlit wisps along the Horsehead Nebula upper ridge are being illuminated by Sigma Orionis, a young five-star system just off...
Backlit wisps along the Horsehead Nebula upper ridge are being illuminated by Sigma Orionis, a young five-star system just off the top of this image from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Hubble’s Contentious Constant Poster
The Flame Nebula, also called NGC 2024, is a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that lies about 1,400...
Image of a colorful blues and dark browns nebula with stars.
NASA Hubble Space Telescope captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten...
The Mystic Mountain is seen as a chaotic pillar of colorful gas and dust, narrowing toward the top of the image. The dust and gas is mostly yellow, brown, and orange, all jutting against a hazy purple and blue background with a few pink stars.
This image shows the sky around the ultra diffuse galaxies NGC 1052-DF4 and NGC 1052-DF2. It was created from images forming...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this image of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 61, also known as NGC 4303....
Hubble’s Spirograph In this classic Hubble image from 2000, the planetary nebula IC 418 glows like a multifaceted jewel with...
This Picture of the Week revisits the Veil Nebula, a popular subject for Hubble images! This object was featured in...
Another small portion of Caldwell 34 is highlighted in this Hubble image, made from observations taken in 1994 and 1997....
Bright yellow, red, and blue clouds of dust and gas form together near the bottom half of the image.
Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across a more complete spectrum...
Resembling the shape of a butterfly, two lobes of gas and dust stretch across a starry black background in shades of green and blue, growing paler toward where they meet.
Astronomers are using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras — stunning light shows in a planet’s atmosphere —...
The planet Jupiter is seen against black space. At the planet's northern pole, its aurorae are seen as a bright blue whirl of light.
This Hubble telescope snapshot of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula, reveals that the object has an hourglass shape with an...
Two sets of rings in orange and gold stacked one above the other form the shape of a hourglass. At image center, where the two sets of rings overlap, is an area of white, green and black dust in a shape that is similar to the human eye.
This image shows just a portion of M55, the cluster as a whole appears spherical because the stars’ intense gravitational...
Field is filled with white stars, smattered with blue-white and reddish-orange stars. Stars are concentrated at the center of the image. All are on a black background.
Image released 11 Aug 2011. The "Necklace Nebula" is located 15,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagitta (the Arrow). In...
This image shows a composite view of the Crab nebula, an iconic supernova remnant in our Milky Way galaxy, as...
This image shows a composite view of the Crab nebula, an iconic supernova remnant in our Milky Way galaxy, as viewed by the Herschel Space Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope.
This shot from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of...
NASA Hubble peers into a small portion of the nebula near the star cluster NGC 2074. The region is a...
NASA Hubble peers into a small portion of the nebula near the star cluster NGC 2074. The region is a firestorm of raw stellar creation, perhaps triggered by a nearby supernova explosion. It lies about 170,000 light-years away near the Tarantula
Venus Cloud Tops Viewed by Hubble. This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, taken...
Venus Cloud Tops Viewed by Hubble. This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, taken on January 24 1995, when Venus was at a distance of 70.6 million miles 113.6 million kilometers from Earth.
Hubble Captures Best View of Mars Ever Obtained from Earth
Hubble Captures Best View of Mars Ever Obtained from Earth
Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - Full Disk
Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - Full Disk
Saturn from Far and Near Hubble Space Telescope
Saturn from Far and Near Hubble Space Telescope
Several hundred never before seen galaxies are visible in this deepest-ever view of the universe, called the Hubble Deep Field,...
Hundreds of galaxies of all shapes and sizes shining against the dark background of space.
This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of a concentration of stars within the globular cluster NGC 6752. Hidden among...
Resembling an opulent diamond tapestry, this image from NASA Hubble Space Telescope shows a glittering star cluster that contains a...
Resembling an opulent diamond tapestry, this image from NASA Hubble Space Telescope shows a glittering star cluster that contains a collection of some of the brightest stars seen in our Milky Way galaxy called Trumpler 14.
In the center of this image from the Hubble Space Telescope, partially obscured by a dark cloud of dust, a...
In the center of this image from the Hubble Space Telescope, partially obscured by a dark cloud of dust, a newborn star shoots twin jets out into space as a sort of birth announcement to the universe.
A delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy. This image, taken by NASA Hubble Space Telescope, is a...
A delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy. This image, taken by NASA Hubble Space Telescope, is a very thin section of a supernova remnant caused by a stellar explosion that occurred more than 1,000 years ago.
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured for the first time snapshots of fledging white dwarf stars beginning their...
Stars in white and orange hues crowd the image, more concentrated toward the center.
Morphologies, masses, and structures - oh, my! This beautiful clump of glowing gas, dark dust and glittering stars is the...
The teeming stars of the globular cluster NGC 6544 glisten in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This...
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.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observation time devoted to Saturn each year, thanks to the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL)...
Two blue-white, comma-shaped galaxies: at upper-right and lower-left of center. Streams of diffuse gas stretch between them. Areas of reddish-brown dust dot galaxy at left, less so on galaxy at right. Black background dotted with stars, distant galaxies.
Black background. Image is filled with a spherical grouping of blue-white, orange, and red stars. The density of stars is greatest at the center of the sphere. Star numbers taper off toward the image's edges.
The lenticular galaxy NGC 5283 is the subject of this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC 5283 contains an active...
Lower left: Bright-white sphere of stars that is more diffuse toward its edges. Band of brown streaks arcs from the sphere's lower left to upper right where a face-on barred spiral galaxy shines in the distance. Black background dotted with stars.
Bright-white galaxy stretching across the center of the frame from left to right. The galaxy's core is brightest at image center. Filaments of reddish-brown gas and dust follow the arc of the galaxy's curve. All on a black background dotted with stars.
A large spiral galaxy. It has many narrow arms that are tightly-twisted in the center, but at the ends they point out in different directions. The galaxy’s core glows brightly, while its disc is mostly faint, but with bright blue spots throughout the arms. A few smaller spiral galaxies at varying angles are visible in front, and it is surrounded by other tiny stars and galaxies, on a black background.
A spiral galaxy. It is large in the center with a lot of detail visible. The core glows brightly and is surrounded by concentric rings of dark and light dust. The spiral arms are thick and puffy with grey dust and glowing blue areas of star formation. They wrap around the galaxy to form a ring. Part of the arm is drawn out into a dark thread above the galaxy, and dust from the arm trails off to the right.
N44 is a complex nebula filled with glowing hydrogen gas, dark lanes of dust, massive stars, and many populations of...
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
A spiral galaxy that is tilted partially toward us. Its inner disc is bright and colorful, with bluish and reddish spots of star formation throughout the arms. An outer disc of pale, dim dust surrounds it. It has many arms, which are being pulled away from the disc, down and to the right. They stretch into long, faint trails that cross the image. The background is dark and mostly empty, with three bright stars.
While photographing Mars, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a cameo appearance of the tiny moon Phobos on its trek around...
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image spotlights the giant elliptical galaxy, UGC 10143, at the heart of galaxy cluster,...
Visible right next to the stinger of the scorpion in the constellation Scorpius, Messier 7 is an easy naked-eye target...
A black background is filled with small, reddish-orange stars. Larger blue-white stars are scattered across the image, with a slightly higher concentration at upper left.
This is a color Hubble Space Telescope (HST) heritage image of supernova remnant N49, a neighboring galaxy, that was taken...
Cluster NGC 3532 is near the Carina Nebula, a vast star-forming region shown in this Hubble Space Telescope composite image.
Astronomers combined ultraviolet images of Saturn's southern polar region with visible-light images of the planet and its rings to make...
Yellow, rust, and white bands visible on Saturn. The planet is tilted, such that its rings extend from upper-left to lower-right. A blue-white, glowing ring (the auroras) is visible at the bottom of the planet's sphere. All on a black background.
A small, dense cloud of gas and dust called CB 130-3 blots out the center of this image from the...
The image shows an irregularly-shaped bright orange object composed of dense gas and dust, which appears darker and more compact at the centre. This dense cloud, called CB 130-3, is outlined by thinner gas and dust in light shades of blue. The background shows a multitude of bright stars against a black background.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has snapped the best ever image of the Antennae Galaxies. Hubble has released images of...
Comma shaped curved cloud of gases in bright white edged with bright-pink star forming regions, and threaded with rusty-brown tendrils of dust at center and throughout the comma shaped merger. All set against the black of deep space.
"Starry Night", Vincent van Gogh's famous painting, is renowned for its bold whorls of light sweeping across a raging night...
Hubble view of an expanding halo of light around star V838 Monocerotis. Center of the ball-like cloud holds a bright star surrounded by red gas. The outer region of the "ball" is a tan color dotted with stars. Black background dotted with stars.
M82 lies 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Fermi’s LAT and the ground-based VERITAS observatory have detected...
A bluish streak of light extends from the lower left to the upper right, with threads of reddish dust and gas seen throughout, all against a black backdrop of space.
Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 captured this image in ultraviolet and visible light showing 100,000 stars in the core of...
A field of stars in colors of red, blue, yellow, white, and orange.
Caldwell 100 (also called Collinder 249) is a loose collection of stars, known as an open cluster, that’s embedded within...
A rusty-orange background is dotted with dark clouds. One large, dark cloud at upper right, two medium-sized dark clouds at the bottom; one left, the other right, of center. The upper left corner is blacked-out in a step pattern.
The star V380 Orionis shines on the cloud of material left over from its formation, here seen as the NGC...
Faint, wispy clouds glow from the light of a central, pale star. A hole in the clouds, roughly in the shape of a keyhole, shows black space.
These opaque, dark knots of gas and dust called "Bok globules" are absorbing light in the center of the nearby...
Glowing reddish gas is speckled with bright-white stars. In the foreground is a dark, vertically extended cloud of gas and dust that blocks the light of objects behind it. The largest part of the dark cloud (Bok Globule) extends from image center to bottom. Tenuous clouds extend vertically above the main globule toward the image top.
Filaments of gas and dust left behind by an exploded star make up the Crab Nebula. The remains of the...
Hubble image of the Crab Nebula
Thousands upon thousands of stars illuminate this breathtaking image of star cluster Liller 1, imaged with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera...
Bright, reddish-gold spherical swarm of stars fills the center of the image. Even brighter blue-white foreground stars dot the entire scene.
Long streamers of stars and gas appear as tails in this Hubble image of the gravitationally interacting galaxies NGC 4676,...
Two interacting galaxies centered in the image. The left galaxy is a spiral galaxy with its arms distorted and drawn out toward the left side of the image. The right galaxy has a long tail that extends to the upper-right corner of the image. Gas and dust also extends between the two galaxies.
Hubble Discoveries Highlights
Looking like a broad-brimmed Mexican hat, the “Sombrero” galaxy, M104, is a spiral galaxy seen nearly edge-on.
A bright hazy, oblate ball of stars fills the scene. Its core is bright white. Around the equator is a disk of bright stars and dark dust. The dust lane is prominent and bisects the sphere of stars.
Black background dotted with stars. A dark-red transparent bubble of gas looking like a ring. Stars are visible through the center of the ring.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revisited the famous Pillars of Creation, revealing a sharper and wider view of the structures...
Three pillars of gas and dust rise from the bottom of the image. They are rusty-brown and black with golden highlights. A bright, hazy background of varying shades of blue and turquoise helps silhouette the darker pillars. Bright stars dot the background.
Observing in infrared light, Hubble pierced through the obscuring gas and dust of M16’s Pillars of Creation. This ethereal image...
Thousands of stars are seen behind and inside the dust and gas towers in an infrared view of M16
Hubble's view of the Lagoon Nebula.
Bright nebula with dark clouds of gas extending from center
A dark greenish-blue background that is lighter on the left side than it is on the right. Rising up from the bottom-center of the image is a golden-orange pillar of gas and dust. Stars dot the background.
Streaming out from the center of M87 like a cosmic searchlight is one of nature’s most amazing phenomena: a black-hole-powered...
This close-up image shows a jet of material ejecting down and to the lower left corner from a bright, orange-ish galaxy core.
This Hubble image provides a close-up view of the myriad stars near M83’s core, the bright, whitish region at far...
Several stars near the core of the galaxy M83 are seen in this image, in dark pink blooms of star birth and bright blue pockets of star formation.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the globular cluster Messier 56 (also known as M...
Large galaxy that's globular in shape, the closer to the center you get the brighter and whiter the image due to the amount of stars. Stars are everywhere in this image, of all sorts of colors.
Hubble captured this image of Caldwell 11’s central star and one edge of the nebula’s “bubble” with the telescope’s original...
On the top left of the image, light blue dust and gas surrounds a purple star. At the bottom right, delicate filaments of dust.
In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the brilliance of the compact centre of Messier 70, a...
A cluster of bright stars, concentrated at the center.
In the most active starburst region in the local universe lies a cluster of brilliant, massive stars, known to astronomers...
Clouds of dark and light pink, and green fill the scene. Upper-left half of the image is pink, while the lower right half is more green. Lower-right corner holds the star cluster Hodge 301.
This beautiful visible and infrared Hubble image shows what could be just another globular cluster, but this dense group of...
Large galaxy that's globular in shape, the closer to the center you get the brighter and whiter the image due to the amount of stars. Stars are everywhere in this image, of all sorts of colors.
The arrangement of the spiral arms in the galaxy Messier 63, seen here in a new image from the NASA/ESA...
A spiral galaxy with a glowing yellow center. Its spiral arms are full of dark reddish-brown lanes of dust and faint purple stars.
This sparkling picture taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the centre of globular cluster M 4. The power...
Hubble view of M4, a colorful ball of thousands of stars
Peering deep into M1, this spectacular Hubble image captures the nebula’s beating heart: the rapidly spinning pulsar at its core....
The core of the Crab Nebula - M1 showing ripples in the gas and dust.
This Hubble image captures a small region within M17. This hotbed of star formation is colored according to the chemical...
A diagonal cliff of yellows and brown dust and gas in front of a more etherial cloud of blue and green gas.
This cluster of stars is known as Messier 15, and is located some 35,000 light-years away in the constellation of...
A dense globular cluster of thousands of stars.
This closer view of billowing clouds of gas around the dying star at the center of the Cat’s Eye Nebula...
Bright red clouds of dust and gas surround a bright white star in the center of the image.
Comet-like tendrils cluster along the inner rim of the nebula’s reddish outer gas ring. This composite picture is a seamless...
This zoomed-in image of the Helix nebula seems to make a rainbow outwards from the star. It's blue at the center, fading to white, then yellow, then orange, and finally red at the outer edges.
The spiral pattern shown by the galaxy in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is striking because of its delicate,...
A galaxy with a large, yellow core shines against black space, surrounded by feathery, short spiral arms laced with dark brown dust and blue regions of star formation.
This image of Caldwell 45, captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, provides a larger view, showing more of the...
This spiral galaxy is shaped like a hurricane, with a glowing white spherical center. The arms of gas and dust closest to the center are orange, red, brown, and pale yellow in color. Farther away from the center, the arms are layers of brown and blue.
This Hubble image focuses on a tiny tendril in Caldwell 33, the Eastern Veil Nebula. By comparing this Hubble image...
A delicate tendril of blue dust and gas extends across the image
This image was taken using Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 in 2000. Astronomers compared this image to earlier...
Light blue dust and gas forms an egg shaped shell surrounding a bright white star in the center. There is an outer shell as well, also light blue, with some pink on the edges.
This Hubble image, taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, shows both the spindly, spidery filaments of gas...
Orange-white and bluish-white stars litter the black background. Light blue cloud wisps and thicker white clouds across the bottom half of the image.
Astronomers created this infrared mosaic of the Tarantula Nebula (Caldwell 103) using exposures from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys and...
Clouds of pink, white, brown, and grey fill the scene. Bright pinkish-white cloud fills the upper-left quadrant of the image. A few large, yellow stars and many, small white stars dot the scene.
This image, nicknamed the “Cosmic Reef,” was released on Hubble’s 30th birthday. The red nebula and its blue neighbor are...
Hubble image of giant red nebula and smaller blue neighbor nebula (NGC 2014 and NGC 2020)
A NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a spiral-shaped disk of hot gas in the core of active galaxy M87....
Bright-orange cloud. A bright-yellow point at lower left, from which shoots out a jet of material toward the upper right.