Mars
Here is the discovery image of the Martian polar storm as seen in blue light (410 nm). The storm is located near 65 deg. N latitude and 85 deg. W longitude, and is more than 1000 miles (1600 km) across. The residual north polar water ice cap is at the top of the image. A belt of clouds like...
AB Aurigae
A 1999 Hubble Space Telescope image of AB Aurigae.
Developing Star AB Aurigae, Viewed With a Coronograph
A 1999 Hubble Space Telescope image of AB Aurigae.
Nebula NGC 3603 Shows Life Cycle of Stars
In this stunning picture of the giant galactic nebula NGC 3603, the crisp resolution of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures various stages of the life cycle of stars in one single view. To the upper right of center is the evolved blue supergiant called Sher 25. The star has a unique...
Supernova 1994D in Galaxy NGC 4526
A 1999 Hubble Space Telescope image of Supernova 1994D, NGC 4526.
Distant Spiral Galaxy NGC 4603, Home to Variable Stars
A NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) view of the magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 4603, the most distant galaxy in which a special class of pulsating stars called Cepheid variables have been found. It is associated with the Centaurus cluster, one of the most massive assemblages of galaxies in the...
HST 18078+4600
HST 18078+4600 is a blue arc caused by the gravitational potential of a small group of 4 galaxies.
HST 12368+6212
HST 12368+6212 is a blue arc in the Hubble Deep Field (HDF).
HST 16309+8230
HST 16309+8230 is an edge-on disk-like galaxy (blue arc) which has been significantly distorted by the redder lensing elliptical galaxy.
HST 14164+5215
HST 14164+5215 is a pair of bluish lensed images symmetrically placed around a brighter, redder galaxy.
HST 12531-2914
HST 12531-2914 is the second quadruple lens candidate discovered with Hubble. It is similar to the first, but appears smaller and fainter.
HST 14176+5226
HST 14176+5226 is the first, and brightest lens system discovered in 1995 with the Hubble telescope. This lens candidate has now been confirmed spectroscopically using large ground-based telescopes. The elliptical lensing galaxy is located 7 billion light-years away, and the lensed quasar is...
Polar Ring Galaxy NGC 4650A: A Disk of Red Stars Ringed By Dust, Gas, and More Stars
Space Telescope Science Institute astronomers are giving the public chances to decide where to aim NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Guided by 8,000 Internet voters, Hubble has already been used to take a close-up, multi-color picture of the most popular object from a list of candidates, the...
HST 16302+8230
HST 16302+8230 could be an "Einstein ring" and the most intriguing lens candidate. It has been nicknamed the "the London Underground" since it resembles that logo.
HST 15433+5352
HST 15433+5352 is a very good lens candidate with a bluer lensed source in the form of an extended arc about the redder elliptical lensing galaxy.
HST 01247+0352
HST 01247+0352 is another pair of bluer lensed source images around the red spherical elliptical lensing galaxy. Two much fainter images can be seen near the detection limit which might make this a quadruple system.
HST 01248+0351
HST 01248+0351 is a lensed pair on either side of the edge-on disk lensing galaxy.
Close-Up of Crater Copernicus on Earth's Moon
A closeup view of Copernicus' terraced walls. Hubble can resolve features as small as 280 feet across.
Moon
A 1999 Hubble Space Telescope image of Moon.
Crater Copernicus on Earth's Moon
Hubble Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 mosaic of crater Copernicus. Hubble's crisp bird's-eye view clearly shows the ray pattern of bright dust ejected out of the crater over 1 billion years ago. Hubble can resolve features as small as 600 feet across in the terraced walls of the crater, and...
Jupiter and Io
A 1999 Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter, Io.
Io
A 1999 Hubble Space Telescope image of Io.
The Hodge 301 Cluster: Multiple Generations of Stars in the Tarantula Nebula
In the most active starburst region in the local universe lies a cluster of brilliant, massive stars, known to astronomers as Hodge 301. Hodge 301, seen in the lower right hand corner of this image, lives inside the Tarantula Nebula in our galactic neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud. This...
Jupiter and Io
A 1999 Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter, Io.
Jupiter and Io
A 1999 Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter, Io.
Close-Up of Galaxy NGC 2903 in Infrared
A 1999 Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 2903.
Close-Up of Galaxy NGC 4826 in Infrared
A 1999 Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 4826.
Close-Up of Galaxy NGC 6946 in Infrared
A 1999 Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 6946.
Edge-On Spiral Galaxy NGC 891
A 1999 Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 891.
Spiral Galaxy NGC 3593 in Infrared
A 1999 Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 3593.
Mile-Wide Asteroid Streaks By Background of Stars
On April 6, 1994 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was performing a detailed study of the Sun's nearest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri, using the Fine Guidance Sensors to search for small deviations in the position of Proxima Centauri that could reveal the presence of an unseen planetary...
Spiral Galaxy NGC 5653 in Infrared
A 1999 Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 5653.
Fading Fireball From Gamma Ray Burst 990123 (Close-Up)
A 1999 Hubble Space Telescope image of GRB 990123.
Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1316 Shows Aftermath of Cosmic Collision
This beautiful, eerie silhouette of dark dust clouds against the glowing nucleus of the elliptical galaxy NGC 1316 may represent the aftermath of a 100 million year old cosmic collision between the elliptical and a smaller companion galaxy. A number of faint objects are scattered across the...
Fading Fireball From a Powerful Cosmic Explosion, Gamma Ray Burst 990123
A 1999 Hubble Space Telescope image of GRB 990123.
False-Color Picture of Mars
A false-color picture taken in infrared light reveals features that cannot be seen in visible light. Hubble's unique infrared view pinpoints variations in the abundance and distribution of unknown water-bearing minerals on the planet. While it has been known for decades that small amounts of...
True-Color Image of Mars
This "true-color" image of Mars shows the planet as it would look to human eyes. It is clearly more earth-toned than usually depicted in other astronomical images, including earlier Hubble pictures. The slightly bluer shade along the edges of the disk is due to atmospheric hazes and wispy water...
I04302
This image shows IRAS 04302+2247, a star hidden from direct view and seen only by the nebula it illuminates. Dividing the nebula in two is a dense, edge-on disk of dust and gas which appears as the thick, dark band crossing the center of the image. The disk has a diameter of 80 billion miles...
Mosaic of Supernova 1987A
A 1999 Hubble Space Telescope image of SN 1987A.
I04248
I04248 - In this image of IRAS 04248+2612, the infrared eyes of NICMOS peer through a dusty cloud to reveal a double-star system in formation. A nebula extends at least 65 billion miles in opposite directions from the twin stars, and is illuminated by them. This nebula was formed from material...
I04016
I04016 - A very young star still deep within the dusty cocoon from which it formed is shown in this image of IRAS 04016+2610. The star is visible as a bright reddish spot at the base of a bowl-shaped nebula about 100 billion miles across at the widest point. The nebula arises from dusty...
HK Tauri
HK Tauri is the first example of a young binary star system with an edge-on disk around one member of the pair. The thin, dark disk is illuminated by the light of its hidden central star. The absence of jets indicates that the star is not actively accreting material from this disk. The disk...
Haro 6-5B: A Disk of Dust Around a Star
Haro 6-5B is a nearly edge-on disk surrounded by a complex mixture of wispy clouds of dust and gas. In this WFPC2 image, the central star is partially hidden by the disk, but can be pinpointed by the stubby jet (shown in green), which it emits. The dark disk extends 32 billion miles across at a...
DG Tauri B: A Star With a Thick Dust Lane and Bright Gas Jet
DG Tauri B appears very similar to HH 30, with jets and a central dark lane with reflected starlight at its edges. In this WFPC2 image, the dust lane is much thicker than seen in HH 30, indicating that dusty material is still in the process of falling onto the hidden star and disk. The bright...
Herbig-Haro 30
This Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) image shows Herbig-Haro 30 (HH 30), the prototype of a young star surrounded by a thin, dark disk and emitting powerful gaseous jets. The disk extends 40 billion miles from left to right in the image, dividing the nebula in two. The central star is...
Haro 6-5B
This image of the young star Haro 6-5B shows two bright regions separated by a dark lane. As seen in the WFPC2 image of the same object, the bright regions represent starlight reflecting from the upper and lower surfaces of the disk, which is thicker at its edges than its center. However, the...
DG Tau B
An excellent example of the complementary nature of Hubble's instruments may be found by comparing the infrared NICMOS image of DG Tau B to the visible-light Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) image of the same object. WFPC2 highlights the jet emerging from the system, while NICMOS...
Supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Glittering stars and wisps of gas create a breathtaking backdrop for the self-destruction of a massive star, called supernova 1987A, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy. Astronomers in the Southern hemisphere witnessed the brilliant explosion of this star on Feb. 23, 1987. Shown in...
CoKu Tau/1
This image shows a newborn binary star system, CoKu Tau/1, lying at the center of four "wings" of light extending as much as 75 billion miles from the pair. The "wings" outline the edges of a region in the stars' dusty surroundings, which have been cleared by outflowing gas. A thin, dark lane...
Spiral, Elliptical and Colliding Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field South Image
Several thousand never-before-seen spiral, elliptical and colliding galaxies snap into view in this Hubble Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) image.
Dust Ring Around Star HR 4796A Offers New Clues Into Planet Formation
A NASA Hubble Space Telescope false-color near infrared image of a novel type of structure seen in space - a dust ring around a star. Superficially resembling Saturn's rings - but on a vastly larger scale - the "hula-hoop" around the star called HR 4796A offers new clues into the possible...
Gap in Stellar Dust Disk May Be Swept Out By Planet
A striking NASA Hubble Space Telescope near-infrared picture of a disk around the star HD 141569, located about 320 light-years away in the constellation Libra. Hubble shows that the 75 billion-mile wide disk seems to come in two parts: a dark band separates a bright inner region from a fainter...
The Ring Nebula (M57)
The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest view yet of the most famous of all planetary nebulae: the Ring Nebula (M57). In this October 1998 image, the telescope has looked down a barrel of gas cast off by a dying star thousands of years ago. This photo reveals elongated dark...
Combined Deep View of Infrared and Visible Light Galaxies
This narrow, deep view of the universe reveals a plethora of galaxies (reaching fainter than 28th magnitude), as seen in visible and infrared light by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The reddish galaxies are glowing in infrared light, and the bluish galaxies are glowing in visible light. Several...
Edge-On Spiral Galaxy NGC 253: Behind a Dusty Veil Lies a Cradle of Star Birth
NGC 253 is a large, almost edge-on spiral galaxy, and is one of the nearest galaxies beyond our local neighborhood of galaxies. This dramatic galaxy shows complex structures such as clumpy gas clouds, darkened dust lanes, and young, luminous central star clusters. These elements are typical of...
Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field South Image
Hubble's Near Infrared and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) captures the "invisible light" coming from stars hidden in dusty galaxies, and galaxies that are so far away their light has been stretched beyond the red end of the visible spectrum.
Hubble Deep Field South Unveils Myriad Galaxies
A NASA Hubble Space Telescope view down a 12 billion light-year long corridor of space loaded with a dazzling assortment of thousands of never-before seen galaxies. This picture is the culmination of a 10-day-long observation called the Hubble Deep Field South (HDF-S) which was carried out in...
HDF-S
The carefully selected HDF-S target field in the constellation Tucana, as imaged by the 4-meter Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.
Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field South Image
The deepest visible/ultraviolet light image of the universe ever taken, revealing galaxies down to 30th magnitude.
A Glowing Pool of Light: Planetary Nebula NGC 3132
NGC 3132 is a striking example of a planetary nebula. This expanding cloud of gas, surrounding a dying star, is known to amateur astronomers in the southern hemisphere as the "Eight-Burst" or the "Southern Ring" Nebula. The name "planetary nebula" refers only to the round shape that many of...
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