Hubble’s Universe

Year after year, Hubble provides stunning images of the cosmos. This album provides just a taste of the most famous and intriguing images taken.

Looking like a glittering cosmic geode, a trio of dazzling stars blaze from the hollowed-out cavity of a reflection nebula...

👁 Three bright stars with diffraction spikes shine near the center-right of the image, illuminating nearby clouds that glow in pale blue. The clouds darken at the edges of the image, and are dotted with smaller stars, some also with diffraction spikes.

A beautiful but skewed spiral galaxy dazzles in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy, called Arp 184 or...

👁 A spiral galaxy seen at a skewed angle. Its center is a bright spot radiating light. A thick, stormy disk of material surrounds this bright center, with swirling strands of dark dust and bright spots of star formation strewn through the disk. A large spiral arm extends from the disk toward the viewer. Some foreground stars are visible atop the galaxy.

Astronomers are using the Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras — stunning light shows in a planet's atmosphere — on...

👁 Bright blue aurora circle the top of Jupiter's north pole.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided a dramatic and colorful close-up look at one of the most rambunctious stars in...

👁 A bright binary star surrounded by a colorful loops of nebula on the black background of space. One loop is vertical the other is horizontal across the center of the image.

Merging Star Clusters in 30 Doradus This Hubble Space Telescope image captures two clusters full of massive stars that may...

👁 A colorful red, orange, and brown and dust cloud with a bright blue star cluster on the right side.

Within the bright ring or starburst ring around Messier 94, new stars are forming at a high rate and many...

👁 Galaxy messier 94. Its outer spirals of blue stars, with a smatter of pink, make a nearly-circle shape around the core. The inner part of the galaxy has several reddish-brown trails of gaseous arms.

This image of massive galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1-2403 was part of the Hubble Space Telescope's Frontier Fields project, which combined...

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

Featured in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is a nearly edge-on view of the lenticular galaxy...

👁 Lenticular galaxy NGC 4753 holds a bright-white core and surrounding, defined dust lanes around its nucleus that predominantly appear dark brown in color. A variety of faint stars fill the background of the image.

This colliding pair of spiral galaxies is known as "The Mice" because of the long tails of stars and gas...

👁 Two galaxies interacting that look like mice with tails.

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.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured in exquisite detail a face-on view of a remarkable-looking galaxy. NGC 5335 is categorized as...

👁 Barred spiral galaxy NGC 5335 observed by the Hubble Space Telescope takes up the majority of the view. At its center is a milky yellow, flattened oval that extends bottom left to top. Within the oval is a bright central region that looks circular, with the very center the brightest. In the bright central region is what looks like a bar, extending from top left to bottom right. Around this is a thick swath of blue stars speckled with white regions. Multiple arms wrap up and around in a counterclockwise direction, becoming fainter the farther out they are. Both the white core and the spiral arms are intertwined with dark streaks of dust. The background of space is black. Thousands of distant galaxies in an array of colors are speckled throughout.

This Hubble Space Telescope image captures the beauty of the moth-like planetary nebula NGC 2899. This object has a diagonal,...

👁 NGC 2899 set against the black background of space. The planetary nebula is shaped like a single macaroni noodle, with its edges pointed up, but its edge-on central torus is semi-transparent in the middle.

Located in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin), around 50 million light-years from Earth, the galaxy NGC 4535 is truly...

👁 Arms swirl of new blue stars around a central region of older yellow stars in this galaxy image.

This 100 million-year-old globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and...

👁 Thousands of red, white, yellow, and blue stars in a star cluster that is in front of a reddish orange cloud of gas and dust.

In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope spent 10 straight days in a unique experiment, staring at a dark, seemingly empty...

👁 Thousands of galaxies float in a small section of space.

NGC 2146 is classified as a barred spiral because of its shape, but the most distinctive feature is the dusty...

👁 A Galaxy is center in image with thick black dust and some redish star regionsCredit: popping through.

Looming like a giant flying saucer in our outer solar system, Saturn puts on a show as the planet and...

👁 Five images of Saturn from lower left to upper right with each image showing Saturn and its rings tilted at different amounts.

Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across a more complete spectrum...

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The scattered stars of the globular cluster NGC 6355 are strewn across this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. NGC...

👁 A massive cluster of blue, red, yellow, and white stars.

Because the nebula is nearby, it appears as nearly one-half the diameter of the full Moon. This required Hubble astronomers...

👁 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.

This 100 million-year-old globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and...

👁 Yellow and white stars in a star cluster float in front of a cloud of bue wispy dust and gas.

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the central region of Messier 96 (M96), a spiral galaxy of about the same...

👁 A spiral galaxy with dark dust on the front side and star formation on the back side.

This galaxy, called NGC 1569, sparkles with the light from millions of newly formed young stars. NGC 1569 is pumping...

👁 A bright red galaxy shines near the top of the image in shades of pink and white.

Ring galaxies arise from a collision in which one galaxy plunges directly through the disk of another one. Seen here...

👁 Two galaxies. The one on the upper-left is an orange-ish barred spiral with brown streaks. The one on the right near the center has a yellow core, and the blue-white ring of stars with streaks of red-brown gas is close to the core on the left in the direction of the other galaxy, but forms a wider tail-like ring on the right.

The hallmark of the Sombrero Galaxy, Messier 104 (M104), is a brilliant white, bulbous core encircled by thick dust lanes...

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Like a fireworks display, a young, glittering collection of stars looks like an aerial burst. The cluster of huge, hot...

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To the surprise of astronomers, galaxy NGC 4622 appears to be rotating in the opposite direction from what they expected....

👁 A large, face-on galaxy. It has a bright-white center with yellowish spiral arms. The spiral arm form concentric circles near the galaxy's core and curve outward further away from the galaxy.

A jet of electrons and other sub-atomic particles traveling at nearly the speed of light streams from galaxy Messier 87...

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Eta Carinae may be about to explode. But no one knows when - it may be next year, it may...

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Elliptical galaxy NGC 4660 is one of a hundred galaxies imaged by Hubble that are members of the nearest large...

👁 A bright-white elliptical galaxy extends from the lower-left to the upper-right of the image. Its core is at image center and shines bright-white.

The orange-red "cobwebs" in this Hubble image are dusty clouds of sooty carbon engulfing the dying star CW Leonis. They...

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Shreds of the colorful supernova remnant DEM L 190 seem to billow across the screen in this Hubble Space Telescope...

👁 Center-top: supernova remnant in the shape of a flame, many long strands and thin layers of gas that glow orange and blue. Faint gas clouds outline its edges. several scattered blue and red stars surround it. the background is black with small red stars.

The Hubble Space Telescope was used to observe Saturn on June 6, 2018, when Saturn was only approximately 1.36 billion...

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This peculiar Hubble Space Telescope portrait showcases NGC 1999, a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion. NGC 1999 is around...

👁 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.

This Hubble Space Telescope composite image shows a ghostly "ring" of dark matter in the galaxy cluster ZwCl0024+1652. The ring-like...

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In July 1994, 21 chunks of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which had broken apart a year earlier, slammed into Jupiter. The...

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Mounded, luminous clouds of gas and dust glow in this Hubble Space Telescope image of a Herbig-Haro object known as...

👁 Hubble image of NGC 1977. Bright blue cloud with a reddish-orange jet (bottom, center). Far-right side and bottom right corner, reddish-orange cloud.

N44 is a complex nebula filled with glowing hydrogen gas, dark lanes of dust, massive stars, and many populations of...

👁 Nebula image of bright blue, purple dust surrounded by stars of all sorts of colors. At the top of the image, a large nebula with swirls and clouds of dust and gas is present, at the bottom of the image, a smaller nebula with bright white stars.

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows how young, energetic, massive stars illuminate and sculpt their birthplace with powerful winds and...

👁 A large, red, nebula of dust and gas at the top right portion of the image with a small blue bubble at the bottom left.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the interacting galaxy pair Arp 273, popularly called the “Rose.” The larger...

👁 Spiral galaxy at the top of the image with a smaller galaxy being pulled in from the bottom.

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