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The Hubble Space Telescope achieved its 100,000th exposure June 22 with a snapshot of a quasar that is about 9 billion light-years from Earth. The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 clicked this image of the quasar, the bright object in the center of the photo. The fainter object just above it...
Eta Carinae
This is a unique three-dimensional image of the star Eta Carinae, with its twin lobes and equatorial disk of expanding dust and gas. The picture, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, was assembled from two images of Eta Carinae take 17 months apart (April 1994, September 1995). The motion of...
Eta Carinae
The furious expansion of a huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds are captured in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope comparison image of the supermassive star Eta Carinae. To create the picture, astronomers aligned and subtracted two images of Eta Carinae taken 17 months apart (April 1994,...
NGC 4639
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows NGC 4639, a spiral galaxy located 78 million light-years away in the Virgo cluster of galaxies. The blue dots in the galaxy's outlying regions indicate the presence of young stars. Among them are older, bright stars called Cepheids, which are used as...
Eta Carinae
A huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds are captured in this stunning NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the supermassive star Eta Carinae. Using a combination of image processing techniques (dithering, subsampling and deconvolution), astronomers created one of the highest resolution...
Whirlpool Galaxy, M51
A 1996 Hubble Space Telescope image of Whirlpool Galaxy, M51.
Saturn
This is a rare view of Saturn's rings seen just after the Sun has set below the ring plane, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope on Nov. 21, 1995. This perspective is unusual because the Earth is slightly above (2.7 degrees latitude) Saturn's rings and the Sun is below them. Normally we see...
HDF-N
A 1996 Hubble Space Telescope image of HDF-N.
Uranus
Hubble Space Telescope has peered deep into Uranus' atmosphere to see clear and hazy layers created by a mixture of gases. Using infrared filters, Hubble captured detailed features of three layers of Uranus' atmosphere. Hubble's images are different from the ones taken by the Voyager 2...
Whirlpool Galaxy, M51
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a view of several star generations in the central region of the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51), a spiral region 23 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs). The galaxy's massive center, the bright ball of light...
Comet Hyakutake
The image of the comet has been processed to emphasize the jets. The original image is divided by a perfectly circularly symmetric model coma. Regions where the coma conforms to the model are colored black, while strong jets appear white. The nucleus is approximately at the intersection of the...
Comet Hyakutake
This image shows pieces of the nucleus that apparently broke off and were first detected during ground-based observations on March 24. The Hubble image shows at least three separate objects that are probably made up of coarse-grained dust. Large fragments of the nucleus would not be accelerated...
Comet Hyakutake
This expanded view of the near-nucleus region is only 470 miles (760 km) across. The nucleus is near the center of the frame, but the brightest area is probably the tip of the strongest dust jet rather than the nucleus itself. Presumably, the nucleus surface lies just below this bright jet....
Helix Nebula
This colorful image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the collision of two gases near a dying star. Astronomers have dubbed the tadpole-like objects in the upper right-hand corner "cometary knots" because their glowing heads and gossamer tails resemble comets. Although astronomers...
Comet Hyakutake
This image is 2070 miles across (3340 km) and shows that most of the dust is being produced on the sunward-facing hemisphere of the comet. Also at upper left are three small pieces which have broken off the comet and are forming there own tails. Icy regions on the nucleus are activated as they...
Helix Nebula
These gigantic, tadpole-shaped objects are probably the result of a dying star's last gasps. Dubbed "cometary knots" because their glowing heads and gossamer tails resemble comets, the gaseous objects probably were formed during a star's final stages of life. Hubble astronomer C. Robert O'Dell...
M31 G1, Mayall II
Hubble Space Telescope has captured a view of a globular cluster called G1, a large, bright ball of light in the center of the photograph consisting of at least 300,000 old stars. G1, also known as Mayall II, orbits the Andromeda galaxy (M31), the nearest major spiral galaxy to our Milky Way. ...
Gravitational Lens Captures Image of Primeval Galaxy
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows several blue, loop-shaped objects that actually are multiple images of the same galaxy. They have been duplicated by the gravitational lens of the cluster of yellow, elliptical and spiral galaxies - called 0024+1654 - near the photograph's center. The...
The Stellar Death Process: Planetary Nebula NGC 7027
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of planetary nebula NGC 7027 shows remarkable new details of the process by which a star like the Sun dies. New features include: faint, blue, concentric shells surrounding the nebula; an extensive network of red dust clouds throughout the bright inner...
HDF-N
Several hundred never before seen galaxies are visible in this "deepest-ever" view of the universe, called the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Besides the classical spiral and elliptical shaped galaxies, there is a bewildering variety of other galaxy shapes...
Cygnus Loop
High speed gas from a supernova explosion slams into dark cooler clouds of interstellar material. Shocked and heated by this tidal wave of energy, the clouds glow in bright, neon-like colors. (Image Released: February 1995)
NGC 6543
Mysterious stellar fireworks create expanding gas shells and blowtorch-like jets which form a spectacularly intricate and symmetrical structure. The nebula is a fossil record of the late stages of the star's evolution. (Image Released: January 1995)
Orion
An immense wall of glowing gasses forms a colorful backdrop to dozens of newborn stars, many of which have dust disks - as revealed by Hubble - that might be embryonic solar systems. (Image Released: January 1994)
NGC 4261
The gravitational pull of a suspected super-massive black hole forms a frisbee-like disk of cool gas, at the core of an energetic galaxy. Subsequent Hubble observations of yet another active galaxy (M87) confirmed the reality of monstrous black holes - gravitational "sink holes" that trap...
Saturn
A rare storm, large enough to swallow Earth, appears near Saturn's equator. High altitude winds give the storm a distinctive arrowhead shape. (Image Released: December 1994)
Jupiter, Comet Shoemaker-Levy
Hubble followed unexpected and dramatic changes in Jupiter's atmosphere caused by collisions with comet fragments. The titanic blasts left Jupiter with a temporarily ``bruised'' appearance, caused by black debris that was tossed high above the giant planet's cloudtops. (Image Released: July 1994)
SN1987A
An eerie, nearly mirror-image pair of red luminescent gas "hula-hoops" frame the expanding debris of a star seen as a supernova explosion in 1987. (Image Released: April 1994)
Orion Nebula, M42, NGC 1976
This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The picture, seamlessly composited from a mosaic of 15 separate fields, covers an area of sky about five percent the...
NGC 4261
This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of an 800-light-year-wide spiral-shaped disk of dust fueling a massive black hole in the center of galaxy, NGC 4261, located 100 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Virgo. By measuring the speed of gas swirling around the black...
Jupiter
A 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter.
Jupiter
A 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter.
Jupiter
A 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter.
Jupiter
A 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter.
Jupiter
A 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter.
Orion Nebula, M42, NGC 1976
This image was taken through a different filter, which blocks any bright spectral emission lines from the nebula, and hence the disk itself is less distinctly silhouetted against the background. However, clearly visible in this image are nebulosities above and below the plane of the disk;...
Orion Nebula, M42, NGC 1976
A three-color composite image of a proplyd in the Orion Nebula, taken in blue, green, and red emission lines from glowing gas in the nebula.
Orion Nebula, M42, NGC 1976
A 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image of Orion Nebula, M42, NGC 1976.
M16, Eagle Nebula, NGC 6611
Undersea corral? Enchanted castles? Space serpents? These eerie, dark pillar-like structures are actually columns of cool interstellar hydrogen gas and dust that are also incubators for new stars. The pillars protrude from the interior wall of a dark molecular cloud like stalagmites from...
Orion Nebula, M42, NGC 1976
A 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image of Orion Nebula, M42, NGC 1976.
Orion Nebula, M42, NGC 1976
A 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image of Orion Nebula, M42, NGC 1976.
Orion Nebula, M42, NGC 1976
A 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image of Orion Nebula, M42, NGC 1976.
M16, Eagle Nebula, NGC 6611
This eerie, dark structure, resembling an imaginary sea serpent's head, is a column of cool molecular hydrogen gas (two atoms of hydrogen in each molecule) and dust that is an incubator for new stars. The stars are embedded inside finger-like protrusions extending from the top of the nebula. ...
M16, Eagle Nebula, NGC 6611
This eerie, dark structure, resembling an imaginary sea serpent's head, is a column of cool molecular hydrogen gas (two atoms of hydrogen in each molecule) and dust that is an incubator for new stars. The stars are embedded inside finger-like protrusions extending from the top of the nebula. ...
HST 14176+5226
A 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image of Gravitational Lens.
HST 12531-2914
A 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image of Gravitational Lens.
Comet Hale-Bopp
A 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image of Comet Hale-Bopp.
Saturn
A 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image of Saturn.
Comet Hale-Bopp
A 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image of Comet Hale-Bopp.
Saturn
A 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image of Saturn.
Beta Pictoris
A 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image of Beta Pictoris.
Beta Pictoris
A 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image of Beta Pictoris.
Io
A 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image of Io.
Io
A 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image of Io.
Ganymede
NASA's Hubbe Space Telescope found ozone's spectral "fingerprint" during observations of Ganymede made by Keith Noll and colleagues at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. These Hubble Faint Object Spectrograph results were presented at the American Astronomical...
Ganymede
A 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image of Ganymede.
Io
A 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image of Io.
GL 105A, HD 16160, GL 105C
This is a Hubble Space Telescope picture of one of the least massive and coolest stars even seen (upper right). It is a diminutive companion to the K dwarf star called GL 105A (also known as HD 16160) seen at lower left. The binary pair is located 27 light-years away in the constellation...
M4, NGC 6121
A ground-based image of M4, NGC 6121.
Saturn
Saturn's magnificent ring system is seen tilted edge-on - for the second time this year - in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture taken on August 10, 1995, when the planet was 895 million miles (1,440 million kilometers) away. Hubble snapped the image as Earth sped back across Saturn's ring...
M4, NGC 6121
A 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image of M4, NGC 6121.
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