Hubble Space Telescope

Lithographs

Hubble lithographs showcase some of Hubble's most stunning images, as well as an explanation of the science behind the object. Print these Hubble images to create a gallery of astronomical art for your wall. Some lithographs are accompanied by suggestions for their use in the classroom.

Hubble Space Telescope

Galaxies

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Hubble Image Gallery

Caldwell 48

Spiral Galaxy Caldwell 48

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Galaxy UGC 2885 (Rubin's Galaxy)

Huge spiral galaxy UGC 2885, located 232 million light-years away in the northern constellation, Perseus.

Galaxia UGC 2885 (Galaxia Rubin)

Bright spiral galaxy

Triangulum Galaxy (M33)

two spiral galaxies, one edge on, one facing us

Spiral Galaxies NGC 4302 and NGC 4298

two spiral galaxies, one edge on, one facing us

Galaxias espirales NGC 4302 y NGC 4298

Face-on spiral galaxy NGC 3982. Bright-white core surrounded by spiral arms. Areas of reddish-pink star formation regions dot the spiral arms which appear like a light-bluish haze. Dark rusty-brown dust lanes follow the curves of the spiral arms.

Spiral Galaxy NGC 3982

Face-on spiral galaxy NGC 3982. Bright-white core surrounded by spiral arms. Areas of reddish-pink star formation regions dot the spiral arms which appear like a light-bluish haze. Dark rusty-brown dust lanes follow the curves of the spiral arms.

Galaxia espiral NGC 3982

Two edge-on, spiral galaxies appear to be at right angles to each other. One extending from the lower left to the upper right. The other has distinct spiral arms and dust lanes and extends from just left of center to the lower right. Black background dotted with stars.

NGC 3314: A Tale of Two Galaxies

Top: a distorted spiral galaxy. One of its spiral arms extends in a sweeping arc below the galaxy. Below this spiral is another edge-on galaxy extending from the lower left toward image center.

Interacting Galaxies Arp 273

Left: a disk galaxy that appears nearly edge-on to our line of sight with its long axis vertical and just left of image center. It has a bright core with a smooth ring of starlight surrounding it. Right: a ring galaxy. Its pancake-shaped disk of material appears is a clumpy blue ring of intense star formation. A dusty reddish blob at the bottom of the blue ring may be the galaxy’s original nucleus.

Interacting Galaxies Arp 147

A white band of stars that cuts across a black background, from the lower left to the upper right, is the galaxy M82. Reddish brown gas and dust overlays the galaxy concentrated in the center of the image and fanning out above and below the white band of the galaxy. Black background is dotted with stars.

M82: A Starburst Galaxy

Looking like a pinwheel, this face-on spiral galaxy holds a bright-white core at image center. Arms curve outward from the core. They hold dark dust lanes and bright star-forming regions. All on a black background dotted with stars.

Pinwheel Galaxy (M101)

a large, face-on spiral galaxy fills the image. It's bright core is surrounded by pinkish-red dusty spiral arms

Center of Galaxy M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy

A large face on spiral galaxy with distinctive arms filled with rusty-brown, dust lanes and pinkish-red star-forming regions. One spiral arm extends off to the right, at the end of this arm is another galaxy. It looks like a bright, yellow-white ball of stars.

Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) and Companion (NGC 5195)

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.

Sombrero Galaxy (M104)

A bright ball of stars at image center. Along the equator of the ball is a warped disk of dust that appears like a dark, gentle wave across the ball of stars. Black background with a smattering of stars.

Warped Galaxy ESO 510-G13

Upper-left corner: a ground-based image of the galaxy looks like a bright-white ball of stars with a dark dust lane through its middle. A box outlines the area Hubble image. The rest of the image holds Hubble's view. A dusty streak stretches from the upper-right corner to the lower left. A background yellow-orange glow cuts through the dust.

Galaxy Centaurus A

Left: black and white, wide-field view of two galaxies colliding. Right: Hubble image of the two galaxy cores, intertwined. The cores are bright yellow-orange. Sweeping around the cores are bright bluish-purple areas of star formation. Rusty-brown clouds and filaments give them a knotted appearance.

Colliding Galaxies

Two galaxies one right one on the left. right galaxy has a blue-white triangular star forming region surrounding it.

Arp 143

Five galaxies, two toward the upper right and top center, three clustered together in the lower right.

Hickson Compact Group 40

A swirled galaxy with a bright center and a swooping tail of stars pulled out into a glowing golden loop that eventually trails off to the right of the galaxy. A bright foreground star and more-distant galaxies are visible in the image.

Interacting Galaxy NGC 7714

Galaxy Fields

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The field of view is filled with galaxies in all shapes and sizes. Colors range from red to blue and those in between.

Extreme Deep Field

The field of view is filled with galaxies in all shapes and sizes. Colors range from red to blue and those in between.

Campo profundo eXtremo

Deep field image of galaxies in space

Galaxy Cluster: Abell 2744

The image is filled with galaxies of various shapes and sizes. Their colors include red, orange, yellow, white, and blue.

Hubble's Galaxy Gallery

a myriad of colorful galaxies, in all shapes, sizes, and forms, dot the image

Hubble Ultra Deep Field

Field is filled with galaxies in colors of white, yellow, blue-white, and red; all on a black background.

Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2014

The field is filled with galaxies. One large elliptical galaxy is in the upper-left quadrant, just left of center. A large spiral galaxy is on its side near the right corner.

Diverse Galaxies

The field is filled with galaxies. One large elliptical galaxy is in the upper-left quadrant, just left of center. A large spiral galaxy is on its side near the right corner.

Galaxias diversas

A cluster of yellow galaxies with hundreds of background galaxies. The image include arcs that are distorted images of background galaxies.

Galaxy Cluster MACS J0416.1-2403

Nebulae

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This Hubble Space Telescope image of the giant, petulant star Eta Carinae is yielding new surprises. Telescopes such as Hubble have monitored the super-massive star for more than two decades. The star, the largest member of a double-star system, has been prone to violent outbursts, including an episode in the 1840s during which ejected material formed the bipolar bubbles seen here. Now, using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 to probe the nebula in ultraviolet light, astronomers have uncovered the glow of magnesium embedded in warm gas (shown in blue) in places they had not seen it before. The luminous magnesium resides in the space between the dusty bipolar bubbles and the outer shock-heated nitrogen-rich filaments (shown in red). The streaks visible in the blue region outside the lower-left lobe are a striking feature in the image. These streaks are created when the star's light rays poke through the dust clumps scattered along the bubble's surface. Wherever the ultraviolet light strikes the dense dust, it leaves a long, thin shadow that extends beyond the lobe into the surrounding gas. Eta Carinae resides 7,500 light-years away.

Eta Carinae

Hubble image of giant red nebula and smaller blue neighbor nebula (NGC 2014 and NGC 2020)

NGC 2014 and NGC 2020

Hubble image of giant red nebula and smaller blue neighbor nebula (NGC 2014 and NGC 2020)

NGC 2014 y NGC 2020

X-shaped nebula in colors of green, yellow, and rusty brown

The Southern Crab

Dark clouds fill the scene. They are outlined by bright rusty-orange, and blue-white clouds of gas. Stars dot the scene.

Stellar Shadow in Serpens Nebula

Eagle Nebula showing visible and infrared

Eagle Nebula (M16) in Visible and Infrared Light

Bright nebula with dark clouds of gas extending from center

Lagoon Nebula (M8)

Bright cloud of pink, white, orange, and yellow with dark dust lanes.

Orion Nebula (M42)

Bright cloud of pink, white, orange, and yellow with dark dust lanes.

La Nebulosa de Orión (M42)

A cloud of yellow, pink, blue, and green with white filaments.

Multiwavelength Crab Nebula (M1)

Clouds of yellow, pink, blue, and green with white filaments.

Nebulosa del Cangrejo (M1) en varias longitudes de onda

Brilliant star explosion with orange jets, blue shockwave

Calabash Nebula

Hubble photograph of bubble blown into space by massive star

Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635)

The brilliant tapestry of young stars flaring to life resembles a glittering fireworks display in this Hubble Space Telescope im

Star Cluster Westerlund 2

The brilliant tapestry of young stars flaring to life resembles a glittering fireworks display in this Hubble Space Telescope im

Cúmulo de estrellas Westerlund 2

Colorful wisps of dust and gas appear diagonally from lower left to upper right ot the image, set against the black backdrop of space.

Veil Nebula

Lower -left quadrant is filled with 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.

Monkey Head Nebula Pillars (NGC 2174)

Black background holding an oval of light. The outer ring of the oval is orange-red. Moving inward the ring is more greenish-yellow. The center of the ring is bright blue with one small star at its center and another above and to the right of it.

The Ring Nebula (NGC 6720)

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.

A Horse of a Different Color

Clouds of pink, purple and white fill the scene. The lower right corner holds rusty-brown, dark clouds. These clouds billow out along the top and bottom of the image in an elongated "C." Bright stars dot the scene.

Star-Forming Nebula, N90

Clouds of pink, purple and white fill the scene. The lower right corner holds rusty-brown, dark clouds. These clouds billow out along the top and bottom of the image in an elongated "C." Bright stars dot the scene.

Nebulosa N90 de formación estelar

Tones of rusty-brown, blue, white, and a smattering of red fill the scene. Left of center holds bright-white tendrils of gas and a star cluster. Surrounding the cluster are tendrils and clumps of rusty-brown gas. Upper-left background glows faintly dark blue, while the lower half of the image holds a black background. Many stars dot the scene, their light shining within or through the nebula.

30 Doradus: A Turbulent Star-forming Region

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-orang pillar of gas and dust. Stars dot the background.

Pillar in the Carina Nebula

Hubble observations of Carina Nebula section

Carina Nebula Pillar (Mystic Mountain)

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.

Supernova Remnant: SNR 0509

Two lobes of gas fan outward from a center point. One to the upper-right corner, the other to the lower-left corner. The cloud is bright, pinkish-white at the center getting darker toward the edges where it is a dark, pinkish-orange.

Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302)

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.

Multiwavelength Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302)

A black background dotted with stars is bisected from the lower-left corner to the upper-right corner by a slightly twisted strand of red gas and dust.

Supernova Remnant: SN 1006

Red/orange bubbles of gas explde from a bluish center against black

Planetary Nebula: NGC 2440

Upper left half of the image is filled with bright-pink clouds dotted with stars. A lobe of the pink clouds extends below the cloud toward the lower-right corner. Lower right half of the image is black and dotted with stars.

NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud

An oval of colorful tendrils of gas and dust stretching from lower-left to upper right. Ova's outer ring is rusty-red tendrils, followed by a yellow/lime-green ring of tendrils. Oval's center is bright turquoise with white tendrils bisecting it. All set on a black background.

The Crab Nebula (M1)

A tower of dark gas and dust rises from the bottom of the image. The tower is thinner at the bottom and becomes wider in the upper half of the image. Two colors dominate the image's background. The lower two-thirds is a rusty orange, and the upper-third is light blue.

Stellar Spire in the Eagle Nebula (M16)

Image center holds a spirograph of interconnected rings in light blue, pink, purple, reddish-pink, to light orange. The center of the image is a point of light. A ring of dark purple surrounds it and a ring of light blue surrounds that. The ring colors get lighter as you move outward.

Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543)

A cluster of stars fills the center of the image against a black background. A "U" of purple clouds rings the bottom and sides of the image, nesting the star cluster. A bright-red star is in the upper right corner.

Star-Forming Nebula: NGC 3603

Dark clouds ring the image. The middle of the image holds bright clouds in colors of green, light blue, orange, yellow and white. Near the image center is a cluster of stars called the Trapezium.

Orion Nebula (1995)

Black background. At image center is a colorful ring of gas and dust. The ring is a deep red along the outside. Moving inward toward the center of the ring, the colors change from red, to orange, to yellow, to pinkish-white, to a light blue sphere in the center.

Helix Nebula (NGC 7293)

The lower-left, two-thirds of the image is a deep blue. The upper-third holds gas pinkish-orange gas and dust. Radiating into the blue from the upper right are greenish blobs that look like comets.

Helix Nebula (NGC 2793)

Hubble image of "Pillars of Creation" in the Eagle nebula, 1995

Eagle Nebula (1995)

Vertical image: blue at top, golden at middle, red at bottom. Bright blue star at top illuminates clouds of gas. Below bright star, fainter stars shine yellow. Image center, brighter yellow star illuminates gas. Image bottom is darker, with splash of red.

NGC 1333

At the center of the image is the dying star. It's surrounded by a white-and-orange wispy "cloud" of gas. Farther away, more gas and dust creates an orange-and-yellow circular "ring" around the center.

NGC 2392

Stars

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Hubble view of an expanding halo of light around star v838 monocerotis

V838 Monocerotis Light Echo

Black background filled with stars. Bright-red clouds fill the upper half of the image. Supernova 1987a is at image center. It is a bright point of light surrounded by a bright, pink-white ring. two red rings circle the central ring and form a figure eight. Two bright stars appear like diamonds. One along the upper ring, and the other along the lower red rings.

Supernova 1987A

Bright-white star surrounded by a pinkish and white shell of gas. Black background dotted with stars.

AG Carinae

rusty yellow clouds and dark brown clouds fill the scene. A bright jet stretches from lower left to upper right.

Herbig Haro 24 Jets

Bright star amid swirls of clouds illuminated by the star. Black background dotted with stars.

Cepheid Variable: RS Puppis

A field of stars in colors of red, blue, yellow, white, and orange.

Omega Centauri Core
(NGC 5139)

A giant sphere of stars in colors of white, yellow, yellow-orange

Globular Cluster: M80

A sea of stars in colors of white, blue, yellow, orange, and red.

Heart of the Milky Way Galaxy

This image from the nasa/esa hubble space telescope features afgl 5180, a beautiful stellar nursery.

Star-Forming Region
AFGL 5180

Solar System

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curves and s-shaped lines seen on an image of a galaxy cluster.

Asteroids in Abell 370

Black background dotted with stars and galaxies. The bright-white comet is in the upper right quadrant of the image, just to the upper right of center. Its tail is pointing toward the lower left corner.

Comet ISON

upper left: Jupiter, upper right: Saturn, lower left: Uranus, lower right: Neptune

The Jovian Planets

Saturn on a black background. The planet's rings are tilted at a slight angle downward toward Earth.

Saturn 2018

Saturn and its rings. The planet appears as though it is tilted backward, appearing to reveal the underside of its rings. Overall Saturn is yellow with bands of red, yellowish-brown, light orange, pink, and blue.

Saturn's Rings

Jupiter with its rusty-orange, red, white, yellow, and tan horizontal cloud bands on a black background. The red spot is located in the lower-right quadrant of the image near image center. At the top of the planet is a swirl of light blue light.

Jupiter's Aurora

Left: an image of Jupiter pointing out the location of the smaller red spot. Right: a Hubble image showing detail of the small red spot.

Jupiter's "Red Spot Jr."

Two images of rusty-red Mars, one of each hemisphere. Each shows its icy-white south polar cap.

Mars 2003: Closest Approach

Rusty-red Mars with a haze of white clouds and a white north polar cap.

Mars

The disk of Mars is set against a black background. The planet is rusty-orange with darker grey areas. Bright-white clouds are visible along the left side of the sphere, and at the poles. An even brighter white patch is visible at the equator of the right limb.

Mars Portrait 2016

Hubble Space Telescope

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Hubble orbiting above Earth.

Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble orbiting above Earth.

Telescopio espacial Hubble

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