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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the galaxy, NGC 4694. Most galaxies fall into one of two basic types....

An oval-shaped galaxy seen tilted at an angle. It glows brightly at its core and radiates outward, dimming toward the edge of the oval. Reddish-brown, patchy dust spreads out from the core and covers much of the galaxy’s top half, as well as the outer edge, obscuring some of its light. Stars are visible around and in front of the galaxy.

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy IC 1954, located 45 million light-years from Earth...

A spiral galaxy seen tilted diagonally. It has two large, curling arms that extend from the center and wrap around. Thick strands of dark reddish dust follow behind these arms. The galaxy’s arms and disk are speckled with glowing patches of gas — some are blue in color, others are pink — illuminated by new stars. A faint glow surrounds the galaxy, which lies on a dark, nearly empty background.

A Hubble Space Telescope image of the giant galaxy M87 shows a 3,000-light-year-long jet of plasma blasting from the galaxy's...

A Hubble image of galaxy M87, which resembles a translucent, fuzzy white cotton ball. The brightness decreases gradually out in all directions from a bright white point of light at the center. A wavy blue-white jet of material extends from the point-like core outward to the upper right, about halfway across the galaxy. Stars speckle the background.

This is an artist's concept looking down into the core of the giant elliptical galaxy M87. A supermassive black hole...

An artist's concept looks down into the core of the galaxy M87, which is just left of center and appears as a large blue dot. A bright blue-white, narrow and linear jet of plasma transects the illustration from center left to upper right. It begins at the source of the jet, the galaxy’s black hole, which is surrounded by a blue spiral of material. At lower right is a red giant star that is far from the black hole and close to the viewer. A bridge of glowing gas links the star to a smaller white dwarf star companion immediately to its left. Engorged with infalling hydrogen from the red giant star, the smaller star exploded in a blue-white flash, which looks like numerous diffraction spikes emitted in all directions. Thousands of stars are in the background.

The nearby barred-spiral galaxy NGC 1068 serves as a proxy for helping astronomer understand the fireworks taking place at the...

Spiral galaxy NGC 1069 fills the image, a majestic spiral of glowing gas and dark dust with long, winding arms. A callout box points to the center of the galaxy. Within the callout box are glowing, red and orange clouds of hydrogen gas.

This composite image shows the distribution of dark matter, galaxies, and hot gas in the core of the merging galaxy...

Green, orange, blue and purple blobs of glowing light mingle with the shining galaxies in a massive cluster. Blue and green is concentrated in the middle and orange and purple is in splotches on the outskirts.

Through the phenomenon of gravitational lensing, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured three different moments in the explosion of a very...

The top box shows galaxy cluster Abell 370 with a callout box indicating the area where the lensed supernova images were found. The bottom box shows an expanded version of the callout box flanked by Hubble on the left and a galaxy on the right. Light path lines between the two, intersecting the image, show how the light from the supernova in the galaxy was split and bent by the gravitational lens.

This graphic shows the location of the infrared image from the Hubble Space Telescope in a wider view of the...

Left half of the image is the entire NGC 2174 nebula. A white square indicates the location of the Hubble infrared image at right. The nebula appears like an oval cloud ringed by rusty-brown gas and filled with glowing blue gas dotted with stars. Right half: Right half of the image: Infrared light shows a rusty-brown dust cloud dotted with a few bright stars. Hazy pillars of gas and dust rise up toward the right. A bluish-white glow fills the lower-right quadrant. The haze is more transparent as you move toward the upper right corner. Background is dotted with stars.

This graphic compares visible-light and infrared views of the same detailed area in the star-forming nebula NGC 2174 from the...

Left half of the image: Visible light shows a black to rusty-brown cloud outlined by illuminated, golden clouds. The nebula is sent against a glowing blue cloud dotted with stars. Right half of the image: Infrared light shows a dust cloud dotted with a few bright stars. Hazy pillars of gas and dust rise up toward the right. A bluish-white glow fills the lower-right quadrant. The haze is more transparent as you move toward the upper right corner. Background is dotted with stars.

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the galaxy NGC 1559.

A spiral galaxy, tilted at an angle, with irregularly-shaped arms. It appears large and close-up. The center glows in a yellowish color, while the disk around it is a bluer color, due to light from older and newer stars. Dark reddish threads of dust cover the galaxy, and there are many large, shining pink spots in the disc, where stars are forming.

This animation shows the motion of a white dwarf star passing in front of a distant background star. During the...

This Hubble image shows several blue, loop-shaped objects that actually are multiple images of the same galaxy. The gravitational lens...

Several bright elliptical and spiral galaxies cluster near the image's center, while many others dot the field of view. Elongated, blue ellipses around the central cluster are a distant, gravitationally lensed galaxy.

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This star chart for Caldwell 65 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for Caldwell 56 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M74 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M110 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

star chart showing location in night sky of M110

This star chart for Caldwell 23 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M33 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M33 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M32 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M31 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Diagram illustrating the expansion of the universe which results in cosmological redshift, or light waves lengthening as they travel through space due to the expansion of the universe.

This star chart for Caldwell 63 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C63 above the constellation Aquarius, in the northwestern night sky in October at 10pm.

This star chart for Caldwell 22 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 22

This star chart for Caldwell 43 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for Caldwell 43 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for C2 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 2.

This star chart for M30 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M30 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M2 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A massive object in yellow is at the center of the image. A star is directly behind it on the left side of the image. The observer is located on the opposite side of the star on the far-right side of the image.

Galaxies, galaxies everywhere - as far as NASA's Hubble Space Telescope can see. This view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is...

A field of galaxies of various shapes, sizes, colors, and types against a black backgrouns.

This star chart for Caldwell 27 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 27

This star chart for Caldwell 57 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C57 between the constellations Sagittarius, Aquarius, and Aquila in the northern night sky in September at 10pm.

This star chart for Caldwell 55 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C55 in the lower-left corner of the constellation Aquarius, in the northern night sky in September at 10pm.

This star chart for Caldwell 20 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 20.

This star chart for M27 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M71 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M75 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

star chart showing location in night sky of M75

This star chart for M75 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M55 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A starchart that shows the location of M55 in the constellation Sagittarius above the northern horizon in September at 10 pm.

This star chart for M55 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

A starchart that shows the location of M55 in the constellation Sagittarius above the southern horizon in September at 10 pm.

This star chart for M15 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M15 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

These Hubble images show a series of supernovae ― explosions that occur at the death of massive stars ― detected...

This image contains six boxes with Hubble pictures. The top three boxes show distant galaxies, which are small and somewhat blurry, and lack much detail. The bottom three boxes are the same galaxies, but with the bright point of a supernova explosion. An arrow points to the supernova in each galaxy.

This star chart for Caldwell 24 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 24

This star chart for Caldwell 67 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C67 next to the constellation Fornax on the right, in the northern night sky in December at 10pm.

This star chart for M77 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M45 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M45 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M57 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M22 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M20 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M16 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M16 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M11 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M8 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for Caldwell 86 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars, and the location of Caldwell 86.

Using the light from the quasar PKS 0405-123, located 7 billion to 8 billion light-years away, the Hubble's Cosmic Origins...

This star chart for Caldwell 78 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Star chart for Caldwell 78 showing the outlines of constellations and the location of C78.

This Hubble image features four of the thousands of galaxies found within the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. All of the...

A field of galaxies against a black background. Several distant galaxies are highlighted and numbered. Views of those galaxies are expanded on the right with their spectra extending further to the right of the images.

This star chart for M107 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Rings of brilliant blue stars encircle the bright, active core of this spiral galaxy, whose monster black hole is blasting...

Hubble image of the galaxy Markarian 817 at top. Spectragram of the galaxy Markarian 817 below the image.

This star chart for M92 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

The galaxy UGC 9391, contains two types of stars that astronomers use to calculate accurate distances to galaxies, a key...

Spiral galaxy UGC 9391 is shown sprinkled liberally with red circles where Cepheid variable stars have been found and a blue cross where a Type 1a supernovae was seen.

This star chart for M62 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

star chart showing location in night sky of M62

This star chart for M4 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

locator star chart for M4 - southern hemisphere

This star chart for M13 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo named NGC 5668. It is relatively...

A spiral galaxy, seen up close and face-on. It is colored yellow and glowing brightly at the oval-shaped center, showing older and cooler stars, and it becomes bluer out to the edge of the disc where the stars are younger and hotter. It has a number of somewhat patchy spiral arms curling around, with sparkling areas where stars form. The black background is visible in the corners.

Two absorption spectra. The top one shows the rainbow of colors in a spectrum with dark absorption lines at certain intervals. The bottom spectrum shows the same rainbow spectrum with the absorption lines shifted to the red end of the spectrum.

Original high-resolution image of the 1919 solar eclipse before the digital restoration. Funding for this project was provided Klaus Tschira...

A black and white image of the total solar eclipse of May 29, 1919 taken from Sobral, Brazil. A large prominence arches across the upper right quadrant of the Sun's limb. Spikes of the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, ring its darkened disk.

Eclipse instruments at Sobral, Brazil (1919) include a 4-inch telescope (left) and an astrograph (right), a telescope designed for astrophotography....

A sepia-toned photo of two telescopes in a shed.

Sir Arthur S. Eddington (1882-1944)

Black and white portrait of British astronomer, Sir Arthur S. Eddington.

British astronomer, Sir Frank Watson Dyson (1868 – 1939)

Black and white portrait of British Sir Astronomer Frank Watson Dyson. Taken between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920.

Hubble's 35th logo artwork

The Hubble image on the left shows the bright core of M84 surrounded by a dark band of gas and...

Left: A diffuse, white cloud that is vertically bisected by two dark dust lanes. A turquoise, vertical rectangle denotes the area that the spectrograph sampled. Right: A vertical zig-zag of colors that are green through the middle (top to bottom) and blue on the left and red on the right.

The STIS long-slit spectrograph of Supernova 1987A dissects its light, producing a detailed image of the ring in each of...

A graphic with a black background, showing images of the rings around Supernova 1987A. On the left, a wider angle shot shows rings around a bright point of light. On the right, closer looks at the rings are seen in red and green hues.

White dwarf stars have remarkable properties, yet they are very simple. These stripped cores of normal hydrogen-burning stars are about...

Three absorption spectra: the Sun, a white dwarf, and a blue giant. The white dwarf spectra has wide dark absorption lines.

White dwarf stars have remarkable properties, yet they are very simple. These stripped cores of normal hydrogen-burning stars are about...

The wispy, glowing, magenta structures in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image are the remains of a star 10 to...

Upper left: an image of a supernova remnant. It appears as a pinkish-purple cloud against a starry background. Right two-thirds of the image holds a spectrum that reveals lines of oxygen and carbon.

This star chart for Caldwells 60 & 61 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

the location of Caldwell 60 and 61 is shown against the backdrop of stars with the constellation outlined.

White dwarf stars have remarkable properties, yet they are very simple. These stripped cores of normal hydrogen-burning stars are about...

The wispy, glowing, magenta structures in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image are the remains of a star 10 to...

This is an artist's depiction of a pair of active black holes at the heart of two merging galaxies. They...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy IC 4709a located around 240 million light-years away in the...

A spiral galaxy with a bright-white core, a glowing disk thick with swirling patterns of dark dust, and a faint halo around the disk. It is on a black background with a few small, distant galaxies and some foreground stars around it.

On a black background, a large orange and white orb is surrounded by a diffuse, grainy, orange halo. The halo appears to have more material on its right side than its left.

These are far-ultraviolet Hubble images of Mars near its farthest point from the Sun, called aphelion, on December 31, 2017...

Split image of two panels stacked vertically. In the left corner of the top image is the label Mars Corona, Hubble Space Telescope. This label pertains to both panels. In the top panel, on a black background, an orange and white orb is surrounded by a small, diffuse, grainy, orange halo. The halo appears to have more material on its left side than its right. Under the orb is the label Aphelion: December 31, 2017. In the bottom panel, on a black background, a larger orange and white orb is also surrounded by a diffuse, grainy, orange halo. This halo is wider than the one in the top panel. The halo appears to have more material on its right side than its left. Under the orb is the label Perihelion: December 19, 2016. In both panels, white, polar ice caps and some surface features are visible.

These screenshots represent the above steps from left to right: Step 1; Step 2; Step 3; and Step 4.

An infrared light flight simulation through the Orion Nebula.

A visible light flight simulation through the Orion Nebula.

Simulated flight through the Orion Nebula. Video Thumbnail

This scientific visualization holds two simulated galaxies that appear to be merging. The galaxies are set against a black background with bright yellow-white centers that extend into blue-white disks. The two galaxies are at nearly right angles to each other--one nearly face on, the other nearly edge on.

A simulation of a globular cluster set against a black background.

An illustration of the cosmic web as displayed on a planetarium dome.

The left image is a ground-based Digital Sky Survey image. The rectangle on indicates the area of Messier 48 captured...

Left, square, Digital Sky Survey image: stars fill the field of view, with many blue-white stars near image center. Right, rectangular, Hubble image: a black background with a smattering of bright stars.

This Hubble Space Telescope image captures a portion of the open cluster, Messier 48 (NGC 2548).

A smattering of stars against a black background.

This star chart for M48 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Star chart showing the constellation outlines and the location of Messier 48.

This star chart for M48 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This image shows NASA's Hubble AR model on iOS devices in the default AR Mode (left) and in Object Mode...

This image shows NASA's Hubble AR model on Android devices in the default Object Mode (left) and in AR Mode...

A model of the Hubble Space Telescope, taken as a screenshot from NASA's "Eyes on the Solar System" web feature.

Screenshot of the Hubble model from NASA's "Eyes on the Solar System" web feature.

From left to right, these images represent Steps 1, 2, and 3 above.

The image on the left represents the "How to Use" step detailed above. The two images on the right relate...

From left to right: screenshots from the NASA App of 1) the HST Images section; 2) one example image from...

This star chart for M80 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Annotated star chart of Messier 80 for the southern hemisphere.

This star chart for M5 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Annotated star chart of Messier 5 for the southern hemisphere.

This star chart for M3 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Annotated star chart of Messier 3 for the southern hemisphere.

Hubble's Inside the Image: Cat's Eye Nebula thumbnail for the YouTube video.

This star chart for M104 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M64 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows M64 as seen from the Southern Hemisphere in the northern night sky in May at 10pm.

This star chart for M53 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows M53 as seen from the Southern Hemisphere in the northern night sky in May at 10pm.

This star chart for M87 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows M87 as seen from the Southern Hemisphere in the northern night sky in May at 10pm.

This star chart for M51 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows M51 as seen from the Southern Hemisphere in the northern night sky in May at 10pm.

This star chart for C32 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C32 as seen from the Southern Hemisphere in the northern night sky in May at 10pm.

This star chart for C52 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C52 as seen from the Southern Hemisphere in the northern night sky in May at 10pm

This star chart for Caldwell 60 & 61 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C60 and C61 as seen from the Southern Hemisphere in the northern night sky in mid April at 10pm

Light boxes displayed in Hubble's STOCC.

Framed colorful lighted galaxy images hanging along a tan wall.

This star chart for M96 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Annotated star chart for M96 in the southern hemisphere, facing the northern sky in April at 10 PM.

This star chart for M95 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Annotated star chart for M95 in the southern hemisphere, facing the northern sky in April at 10 PM.

This star chart for M66 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Annotated star chart for M66 in the southern hemisphere, facing the northern sky in April at 10 PM.

This star chart for M65 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Annotated star chart for M65 in the southern hemisphere, facing the northern sky in April at 10 PM.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope surveyed the actively forming and recently formed stars in ultraviolet light over three years. The result...

A large-scale vertical infographic, “ULLYSES: Hubble’s Ultraviolet Survey of Young Stars,” has six distinct sections and supporting text. The first two sections provide an overview of the program, which includes hundreds of actively forming and recently formed stars. Additional sections describe what can be learned about star formation and why these ultraviolet data will have lasting importance.

Stars are forming every moment, gobbling up gas and dust. Precisely how do stars form? How do they grow and...

These spectra show the presence of iron in two stars. The star in Sextans A, represented in purple, doesn’t contain...

Infographic with a chart window and two image windows.

These spectra reflect the intense winds of massive stars in N11 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, set off in teal,...

Hubble’s ULLYSES program observed the ultraviolet light stars emit – and spread that light into its component wavelengths, which are...

The Hubble Space Telescope undertook an extensive three-year program, known as the Ultraviolet Legacy Library of Young Stars as Essential...

This star chart for C100 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 100.

This star chart for Caldwell 107 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M83 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M80 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for Caldwell 66 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Star chart for Caldwell 66 in the southern hemisphere

This star chart for Caldwell 45 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Star chart that shows C45 between the constellations of Bootes and Virgo in the southern night sky in June at 10pm.

This star chart for Caldwell 89 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A simple map of the sky shows outlines of constellations, labeled stars, and the location of Caldwell 89

This star chart for M5 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This star chart for M3 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

Annotated star chart of Messier 3 for the northern hemisphere.

The Hubble Space Telescope undertook an extensive three-year program, known as the Ultraviolet Legacy Library of Young Stars as Essential...

The Tucana Dwarf galaxy resides about 3 million light-years away, at the far edge of our Local Group of galaxies.

More closely concentrated near the center, several stars shine against black space along with a few distant galaxies.

NGC 261 is located within one of the Milky Way’s closest galactic companions, the Small Magellanic Cloud.

Thousands of stars fill the image against black space, with a glowing, nebulous cloud of pink dominating most of the lower right half of the view.

The Pegasus Dwarf spheroidal galaxy, also known as Andromeda VI, is one of at least 13 dwarf galaxies that orbit...

Several stars shine against black space. A few foreground stars with diffraction spikes throughout.

NGC 346 is nestled within the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy to our Milky Way.

A grouping of large, glowing, and purplish stars dominate the image’s center. Dark ridges of gas and dust are visible around them, with more background stars crowding the view.

This Hubble image shows a complex cluster of emission nebulae, nestled within the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Glowing clouds of pink and red gas and dust fill the image, along with several stars – foreground stars shine with diffraction spikes, and more distant stars fill the background.

The galaxy Leo A resides about 2.6 million light-years away.

A black background dotted with stars and distant galaxies. The distribution of stars increases toward image center, forming the loose oval shape of the irregular galaxy Leo A that stretches horizontally across the image. Three foreground stars shine brightly – one located at center-top, and two others in the lower-right quadrant of the image. Each holds four bright barbs (called diffraction spikes) that extend outward from the star.

Andromeda III is one of at least 13 dwarf satellite galaxies in orbit around the Andromeda galaxy, or Messier 31,...

Several stars fill the image, more closely concentrated near the center. Foreground stars with diffraction spikes shine throughout as well.

Clusters of stars set the interstellar medium ablaze in the Andromeda Galaxy about 2.5 million light-years away.

Thousands of distant stars crowd the view against black space. Tendrils of red nebulosity bloom across the image.

Scientists probed Andromeda’s spiral arms using Hubble to analyze the collection of stars buried in its cosmic bouquets.

Thousands of distant stars crowd the view against black space. A rosy, bloomlike tendril of red nebulosity shines near the center-top.

VV124, or UGC 4879, is an isolated dwarf galaxy that resides just beyond our own Local Group of galaxies some...

An oblong smudge of stars stretches diagonally across the image from upper-left to lower-right. It holds stars in blue, orange, yellow, and white. The highest concentration of stars is near the image center and toward the lower-right. This region also holds bright, light-blue clumps of stars. Star densities taper off in all directions as you move away from the core. A number of bright, distant galaxies dot the scene, with a few shining through UGC 4879.

Messier 33 is the third largest galaxy in our Local Group of galaxies.

Thousands of bright stars crowd the image, alongside bright pink and red regions of nebulosity.

This inset image shows Hubble's view of the center of galaxy M33.

At the right, an image shows thousands of bright stars, alongside bright pink and red regions of nebulosity. It’s connected via white lines to a wider image to its lower left, showing a spiral galaxy with reddish tendrils throughout its arms. Text up top reads “M33” in white.

Hubble's detailed view of a small portion of M67 showcases some of the open cluster's bright stars.

A scattering of white and reddish stars on a black background.

Galaxies and stars visible on the outskirts of open cluster Messier 44, also known as the Beehive Cluster or Praesepe.

Background galaxies and stars are sprinkled across a black background. Some of the distant galaxies are spirals.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the subtle glow of the galaxy named IC 3430, located 45 million light-years...

A relatively small, oval-shaped galaxy, tilted diagonally. Its center glows brightly and dims gradually to its edge. Its center also holds a few small, blue, glowing spots where stars are forming and dark wisps of dust that cross the galaxy. The image has a black background on which many background galaxies and foreground stars are visible.

A screenshot of Hubble's Cosmic Adventure game.

On 17 August 2017, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo Interferometer both detected gravitational waves from the...

A lenticular galaxy seen face on. To the upper left of the galaxy's core is a bright, yellow dot with a box around it. That is the kilonova. The bottom of the image holds three expanded views of the kilonova at different times.

A screenshot of Hubble's Cosmic Adventure game.

This star chart for Caldwell 53 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

C53 finder chart for mid-southern latitudes at 10:00 p.m. in April.

This star chart for Caldwell 40 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A finder chart for C40 for mid-southern latitudes, in the constellation Leo at 10:00 p.m. in April.

This star chart for Caldwell 48 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C48 to the upper-right of the constellation Cancer in the southern night sky at 10pm in March.

This star chart for M46 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Shows the location of M46 from mid-southern latitudes in the night sky, near the constellation Canis Major at 10pm in February.

This star chart for Caldwell 58 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Shows the location of C58 from mid-southern latitudes in the night sky, near the constellation Canis Major at 10pm in February.

This star chart for Caldwell 39 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Shows the location of C39 from mid-southern latitudes in the southern night sky, near the constellation Gemini, at 10pm in February.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image treats viewers to a wonderfully detailed snapshot of the spiral galaxy NGC 3430 that...

A spiral galaxy with three prominent arms wrapping around it. The galaxy holds plenty of extra gas and dark dust between the arms. There are shining blue points throughout the arms and some patches of gas out beyond the galaxy’s edge, where stars are forming. The center of the galaxy also shines brightly. It is on a dark background where some small orange dots mark distant galaxies.

Hubble 35th Anniversary Logo

Hubble's Beautiful Universe cover.

Image of space with lost of stars clustered at the top left and space clouds at the bottom.

Hubble's 35th anniversary patch.

Visitors at the Joint Base Andrews air show visit with the Hubble team and get to experience the Hubble mission...

Two women and a man standing at a table with a computer monitor and a digital interactive hubble space telescope speaking to people at an event.

May 2019 was the 10th anniversary of STS-125, the fifth and final Hubble servicing mission. The public joined the National...

Young girl taking handouts from a stand on a table with a woman and man speaking with other people at an event in a large room with lots of windows and a rocket booster hanging overhead.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 5238, located 14.5 million light-years from Earth in...

A dwarf irregular galaxy. It appears as a cloud of bluish gas, filled with point-like stars that spread beyond the edge of the gas. A few glowing red clouds sit near its center. Many other objects are visible around it: distant galaxies in the background, four-pointed stars in the foreground, and star clusters that are part of the galaxy appear as bright spots surrounded by more tiny stars.

Lacking spiral arms but boasting a galactic bulge and prominent disk, lenticular galaxies like Caldwell 53 are intermediates between the...

Black background dotted with stars. Image center holds an elliptical haze of white light. Along the horizontal axis of the ellipse is a band of brighter light. The center of the ellipse holds a small, bright sphere of light.

This image, showing a central part of Caldwell 72, is a composite of visible and infrared observations made by Hubble’s...

The center of the galaxy glows in a pinkish-white, and is tilted diagonally, going up-right and down-left. Black clouds of dust are visible around the center, and in the lower left corner, thick blue "clumps" of stars.

Assembled from a total of 7,398 exposures taken over 411 individual pointings of the telescope, this image of our nearest...

This sweeping bird's-eye view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) shows stars, lanes of dark dust and bright core. The central region is on the left.

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a field of stars in the galaxy’s outskirts. The galaxy’s center is out of...

Tens of thousands of stars fill this image as tiny dots, more concentrated in the upper left corner. Stars taper off as you move down and to the right.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image depicts the spiral galaxy NGC 3810. The galaxy was part of a 2023 Hubble...

A spiral galaxy with a shining core at its center and winding spiral arms that extend outward. A bright point in the galaxy, just below the core, is the Type Ia supernova, SN2022zut. A white circle marks the supernova.

Measuring the distance to truly remote objects like galaxies, quasars, and galaxy clusters is a crucial task in astrophysics, particularly...

A spiral galaxy seen almost face-on. Large spiral arms whirl out from its center, filling the scene. They glow faintly blue from the stars within, with some small bright patches of blue and pink marking areas of star formation. Thin filaments of dark reddish dust that block light overlay the stars. The galaxy’s center shines brightly white.

Hubble STOCC map.

Illustrated map layout with text, black outlines and colored numbers of the Hubble STOCC.

A team of astronomers analyzed observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope taken over a span of 18 years to measure...

A three-paneled image shows different perspectives of the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy. The first panel fill's the left half of the image. It is a Digitized Sky Survey image of the region. The upper-right and lower-right images are zoomed-in Hubble images of areas denoted by white boxes in the left-side image. Each of the images holds a field of distant galaxies and foreground stars on a inky-black background.

An international team of astronomers used more than 500 images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope – spanning two decades of...

This image includes three panels. The first image at left shows the globular cluster Omega Centauri, a collection of myriad stars colored red, white, and blue on the black background of space. The second image, middle, zooms in on details of the central region of this cluster, with a closer view of the individual stars. The third image, at right, zooms in further to show the location of the intermediate-mass black hole candidate in the cluster. A dark region is circled and labeled "likely location of black hole." A scale bar about one-sixth the width of the image is labeled "0.1 light-year."

This image shows the central region of the Omega Centauri globular cluster, where NASA's Hubble Space Telescope found strong evidence...

The central region of the globular star cluster Omega Centauri. It appears as a collection of myriad stars colored red, white, and blue on the black background of space.

An international team of astronomers has used more than 500 images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope – spanning two decades...

A Hubble image of the globular cluster Omega Centauri, a collection of myriad stars colored red, white, and blue on the black background of space.

It might appear featureless and unexciting at first glance, but NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations of this elliptical galaxy —...

The bright-white, diffuse glow of an elliptical galaxy sits at image center. The galaxy's core appears as an intense-white circle that gets more diffuse as you move outward from the core. A rusty-red, diffuse cloud is visible to the upper-left of the galaxy. It extends to the upper-left corner of the image, where it is very faint. Black background dotted with foreground stars and distant galaxies.

Graphic showing thumbnails of Hubble posters.

This scientific visualization explores the iconic Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16 or M16) using data from...

In the Hubble version of the model (left), the pillars feature dark brown opaque dust and bright yellow ionized gas...

Two visualizations using Hubble and Webb data. The left image is from visible-light data collected by Hubble. The right visualization is from infrared-light data collected by Webb.

Graphic showing thumbnails of Hubble posters.

This image is a mosaic of visible-light and infrared-light views of the same frame from the Pillars of Creation visualization....

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.

Hubble Poster 2024 - Westerlund 2

Hubble Poster 2024 - Veil Nebula

Hubble Poster 2024 - V838 Mon Light Echo

Hubble Poster 2024 - SNR 0454-67.2

Hubble Poster 2024 - Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841

Hubble Poster 2024 - Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300

Hubble Poster 2024 - NGC 1097

Hubble Poster 2024 - NGC 691

Hubble Poster 2024 - Photographs of the Universe from the Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble Poster 2024 - Cosmic Reef

Hubble Poster 2024 - Black Eye Galaxy

Hubble Poster 2024 - AG Carinae

Hubble Poster 2024 - Terzan 4

Hubble Poster 2024 - Ring Nebula M57

Hubble Poster 2024 - Omega Centauri

Hubble Poster 2024 - Stellar Demise: NGC 6302

Hubble Poster 2024 - Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 6217

Hubble Poster 2024 - NGC 2775

Hubble Poster 2024 - NGC 1866

Hubble Poster 2024 - Supernova Remnant N 49

Hubble Poster 2024 - A View of ‘Mystic Mountain’

Hubble Poster 2024 - Milky Way Bulge

Hubble Poster 2024 - Hubble Ultra Deep Field

Hubble Poster 2024 - Horsehead Nebula

Hubble Poster 2024 - Butterfly Nebula

Hubble Poster 2024 - Arp 273 – The Rose Galaxies

Hubble Poster 2024 - Abell 370

Hubble Poster 2024 - Star Birth in 30 Dorado

This star chart for M79 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This Southern Hemisphere star chart shows the location of Messier 79 in the northern part of night sky at 10pm in January.

This star chart for M78 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This Southern Hemisphere star chart shows the location of Messier 78 in the northern part of night sky at 10pm in January.

Hubble Poster 2024 - Our Galactic Center

Hubble Poster 2024 - Bubble Nebula

This star chart for M43 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This Southern Hemisphere star chart shows the location of Messier 43 in the northern part of night sky at 10pm in January.

This star chart for M42 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This Southern Hemisphere star chart shows the location of Messier 42 in the northern part of night sky at 10pm in January.

This star chart for M1 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This Southern Hemisphere star chart shows the location of Messier 1 in the northern part of night sky at 10pm in January.

This star chart for Caldwell 46 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

This Northern Hemisphere star chart shows C46 just below the constellation Monocerotis in the southern part of night sky at 10pm in January.

This star chart for Caldwell 46 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

This Southern Hemisphere star chart shows C46 just below the constellation Monocerotis in the northern part of night sky at 10pm in January.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image presents a visually striking collection of interstellar gas and dust. Named RCW 7, the...

Clouds of gas and dust with many stars. The clouds form a flat, blue background toward the bottom, and become thicker and smokier toward the top. Stars on one side light the nebula. A thick arc of gas and dust reaches around from the bottom-right corner of the image toward the top-left corner. It begins as a dark and obscuring cloud at bottom right and gradually becomes brightly lit by many stars at the upper left. Other large, foreground stars lie between the nebula and the viewer.

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope features the galaxy NGC 1546.