The Dog Star, Sirius, and its Tiny Companion
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows Sirius A, the brightest star in our nighttime sky, along with its faint, tiny stellar companion, Sirius B. Astronomers overexposed the image of Sirius A [at center] so that the dim Sirius B [tiny dot at lower left] could be seen. The cross-shaped...
Mars WFPC2: November 8, 2005
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of Mars.
Mars ACS/HRC: October 28, 2005
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of Mars.
Mars Near Opposition 1995-2005: 2005
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of Mars.
Mars Image Showing the High Resolution Camera's "Occulting Mask"
The Advanced Camera for Surveys on Hubble Space Telescope includes two cameras, the Wide Field Channel (WFC) and the High Resolution Channel (HRC). Images from the WFC are roughly 4,000 pixels square with a scale of roughly 0.05 arcseconds per pixel. Images from the HRC are smaller in pixel...
Mars Near Opposition 1995-2005: 2003
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of Mars.
Mars Near Opposition 1995-2005: 2001
A 2001 Hubble Space Telescope image of Mars.
Mars Near Opposition 1995-2005: 1999
A 1999 Hubble Space Telescope image of Mars.
Mars Near Opposition 1995-2005: 1997
A 1997 Hubble Space Telescope image of Mars.
Mars Near Opposition 1995-2005: 1995
A 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image of Mars.
Mars Dust Storm -- October 28, 2005
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of Mars.
A Dust Storm on Mars
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped this picture of Mars on October 28, within a day of its closest approach to Earth on the night of October 29. Hubble astronomers were also excited to have captured a regional dust storm on Mars that has been growing and evolving over the past few weeks. The...
Mars Dust Storm -- June 26, 2001
A 2001 Hubble Space Telescope image of Mars.
Uranus: 2005 (Unannotated)
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of Uranus.
Uranus: 2003 (Unannotated)
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of Uranus.
NASA Great Space Observatories Glimpse Faint Afterglow of Nearby Stellar Explosion
Intricate wisps of glowing gas float amid a myriad of stars in this image created by combining data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory. The gas is a supernova remnant, cataloged as N132D, ejected from the explosion of a massive star that occurred some 3,000 years...
Einstein Ring Gravitational Lens (SDSS J232120.93-093910.2)
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of SDSS J232120.93-093910.2.
Einstein Ring Gravitational Lens (SDSS J163028.15+452036.2)
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of SDSS J163028.15+452036.2.
Einstein Ring Gravitational Lens (SDSS J162746.44-005357.5)
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of SDSS J162746.44-005357.5.
Einstein Ring Gravitational Lens (SDSS J140228.21+632133.5)
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of SDSS J140228.21+632133.5.
Einstein Ring Gravitational Lens (SDSS J120540.43+491029.3)
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of SDSS J120540.43+491029.3.
Einstein Ring Gravitational Lens (SDSS J125028.25+052349.0)
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of SDSS J125028.25+052349.0.
Einstein Ring Gravitational Lens (SDSS J095629.77+510006.6)
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of SDSS J095320.42+520543.7.
Einstein Ring Gravitational Lens (SDSS J073728.45+321618.5)
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of SDSS J073728.45+321618.5.
Hubble View of Apollo 17 Landing Region on the Moon
This image showcases Hubble Space Telescope's first high-resolution ultraviolet and visible imaging of the Apollo 17 landing region within the Taurus-Littrow valley of the Moon. Humans last walked and drove on the lunar surface in this region (marked "+" in the image) in December 1972. The...
Hubble's View of the Apollo 17 Landing Site
This image of the Taurus-Littrow valley shows the Apollo 17 landing site (the "+" symbol in the image). This region marks the last time - December 1972 - that humans walked and drove on the Moon's surface. Astronomers are using the Apollo 17 images (and those of the Apollo 15 site) as...
A Close-Up View of the Aristarchus Crater
The Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys snapped this close-up view of the Aristarchus crater on Aug. 21, 2005. The crater is 26 miles (42 kilometers) in diameter and approximately 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) in depth, and sits at the southeastern edge of the Aristarchus Plateau....
Hubble Image Overlaid on Modeling of Apollo 17 Landing Site
This image was constructed by overlaying the Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys image of the Apollo 17 landing region within the Taurus-Littrow valley, taken on Dec. 16, 2005, with a digital-terrain model acquired by the Apollo program to provide a perspective view looking from west to east...
Aristarchus Crater in False Color
This color composite focuses on the 26-mile-diameter (42-kilometer-diameter) Aristarchus impact crater, and employs ultraviolet- to visible-color-ratio information to accentuate differences that are potentially diagnostic of ilmenite- (i.e, titanium oxide) bearing materials as well as...
Schroter's Valley Rille in False Color
This color-composite focuses on a section of Schroter's Valley (rille) and employs ultraviolet- to visible-color-ratio information to accentuate differences that are potentially diagnostic of ilmenite- (i.e, titanium oxide) bearing materials as well as pyroclastic glasses. Bluer units in...
Hubble Ultra Deep Field
The galaxy, named HUDF-JD2, was pinpointed among approximately 10,000 others in a small area of sky called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF). This is the deepest image of the universe ever made at optical and near-infrared wavelengths.
Aristarchus Plateau in Ultraviolet Light
The Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys imaged Aristarchus crater and nearby Schroter's Valley rille on Aug. 21, 2005. The Hubble images reveal fine-scale details of the crater's interior and exterior in ultraviolet and visible wavelengths at a scale of approximately 165 to...
Aristarchus Plateau on the Moon
The Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys imaged Aristarchus crater and nearby Schroter's Valley rille on Aug. 21, 2005. The Hubble images reveal fine-scale details of the crater's interior and exterior in ultraviolet and visible wavelengths at a scale of approximately 165 to 330...
Galaxy HUDF-JD2 From the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
A blow-up of one small area of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field used to identify where the distant galaxy is located. The galaxy's visible light has been absorbed by traveling billions of light-years through intervening hydrogen.
Galaxy HUDF-JD2 in Visible and Infrared Light
Composite of visible-light (Hubble) and infrared (Spitzer) images of the distant galaxy HUDF-JD2 in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.
Galaxy HUDF-JD2 - Near Infrared
The galaxy was detected using Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS). But at near infrared wavelengths, it is very faint and red.
Ceres: January 24, 2004 03:27 UT
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of Ceres, 1 Ceres.
Ceres: January 24, 2004 02:52 UT
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of Ceres, 1 Ceres.
Ceres: January 24, 2004 00:15 UT
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of Ceres, 1 Ceres.
Ceres: January 23, 2004 23:40 UT
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of Ceres, 1 Ceres.
Ceres: December 30, 2003 16:21 UT
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of Ceres, 1 Ceres.
Ceres: December 30, 2003 15:46 UT
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of Ceres, 1 Ceres.
Color View of Ceres
CERES: JANUARY 23, 2004 23:40 UT This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope color image of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt. Astronomers enhanced the sharpness in these Advanced Camera for Surveys images to bring out features on Ceres' surface, including brighter and darker regions...
Images of the Asteroid Ceres As It Rotates One Quarter
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took these images of the asteroid 1 Ceres over a 2-hour and 20-minute span, the time it takes the Texas-sized object to complete one quarter of a rotation. One day on Ceres lasts 9 hours. Hubble snapped 267 images of Ceres as it watched the asteroid make more ...
Scattered Light from the Boomerang Nebula
The Hubble Space Telescope has "caught" the Boomerang Nebula in these new images taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys. This reflecting cloud of dust and gas has two nearly symmetric lobes (or cones) of matter that are being ejected from a central star. Over the last 1,500 years,...
The Boomerang Nebula
This image of the Boomerang Nebula was taken in 1998 with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 instrument. Keith Taylor and Mike Scarrott called it the Boomerang Nebula in 1980 after observing it with a large ground-based telescope in Australia. Unable to see the detail that only Hubble can...
The Core of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31)
A Hubble WFPC2 image of the core of M31. Astronomers believe the two bright objects are a ring of red stars and a disk of blue stars.
Neptune's Methane Band
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of Neptune's Methane Band.
A Zoo of Galaxies
Gazing deep into the universe, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spied a menagerie of galaxies. Located within the same tiny region of space, these numerous galaxies display an assortment of unique characteristics. Some are big; some are small. A few are relatively nearby, but most are far...
Out of This Whirl: the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) and Companion Galaxy
The graceful, winding arms of the majestic spiral galaxy M51 (NGC 5194) appear like a grand spiral staircase sweeping through space. They are actually long lanes of stars and gas laced with dust. This sharpest-ever image of the Whirlpool Galaxy, taken in January 2005 with the Advanced Camera...
Neptune - Enhanced Color
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of Neptune - Enhanced Color.
Neptune - Natural Color with Satellites
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of Neptune.
SN 2005cs in M51 - After Progenitor Star's Explosion
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of SN 2005cs.
SN 2005cs in M51 - Before Progenitor Star's Explosion
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of SN 2005cs.
Section of M51 with Progenitor Star
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of SN 2005cs.
The Pluto System -- May 18, 2005
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of Pluto.
Comet Tempel 1 - 19 Hours, 7 Minutes After Deep Impact Collision
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of 9P/Tempel 1.
The Pluto System -- May 15, 2005
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of Pluto.
Comet Tempel 1 - 4 Hours, 41 Minutes After Deep Impact Collision
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of 9P/Tempel 1.
Comet Tempel 1 - 1 Hour, 28 Minutes After Deep Impact Collision
A 2005 Hubble Space Telescope image of 9P/Tempel 1.
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