Hubble Gallery
Portrait of Edwin Powell Hubble, leading astronomer of the 20th century. Through his observations and research, Hubble provided evidence that lead to the understanding that the universe is expanding. The Hubble Space Telescope is named after Edwin Hubble. Image credit: CCA-PD
The graphite-epoxy truss of Hubble's Optical Telescope Assembly during the telescope's early construction, circa 1985. Image credit: NASA
Engineers inspect the Hubble Space Telescope's Primary Mirror at the Perkin-Elmer Corporation's fabrication facility, circa 1981. Image credit: NASA
This diagram shows the locations of Hubble’s instruments inside the telescope. The instruments are located in containers that make them easy to remove and replace. Image credit: NASA, ESA.
The Hubble Space Telescope is being readied for launch on the Space Shuttle Discovery, October 10, 1989. Image credit: NASA
The launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery STS-31 mission with the Hubble Space Telescope, April 24, 1990. Image credit: NASA
The Hubble Space Telescope during pre-deployment check above the Space Shuttle Discovery's cargo bay, April 25, 1990. Image credit: NASA
Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery's STS-31 crew portrait: Mission Commander Loren J. Shriver, center front; other crew members are (L to R) Pilot Charles F. Bolden Jr. and Mission Specialists Steven A. Hawley, Bruce McCandless II and Kathryn D. Sullivan. Primary payload on the mission is the Hubble Space Telescope, to be deployed in a 380-statute-mile orbit. Image credit: NASA
STS-125 Astronaut Andrew Feustel participates in the fifth and final extravehicular activity to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope, May 18, 2009. Image credit: NASA
Three STS-31 crew members look at the Hubble Space Telescope through overhead windows on the Space Shuttle Discovery. Left to right are Bruce McCandless, Steve Hawley, and Loren Shriver. April 25, 1990. Image credit: NASA
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) being deployed from the Cargo Bay of Space Shuttle Discovery, April 25, 1990. Image credit: NASA/Smithsonian Institution/Lockheed
ESA Astronaut Claude Nicollier uses one of the Hubble Space Telescope powertools during Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-103 Servicing Mission 3A, December 16, 1999. Image credit: NASA/ESA
STS-125 Astronauts Andrew Feustel (left) and John Grunsfeld update the Hubble Space Telescope during the third extravehicular activity of the Servicing Mission 4, May 16, 2009. Image credit: NASA
STS-61 Astronauts Jeffrey A. Hoffman and F. Story Musgrave install the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on the Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 1, December 1993. Image credit: NASA
The Hubble Space Telescope's solar array panel is deployed aboard Space Shuttle Discovery, April 25, 1990. Image credit: NASA
The Hubble Space Telescope is in a pre-deployment position aboard Space Shuttle Discovery, April 25, 1990. Image credit: NASA
This "first light" image from Hubble Space Telescope was released in May 1990, to illustrate the telescope's improved resolution when compared to ground-based observatories. Image credit: Left: E. Persson (Las Campanas Observatory, Chile)/Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington; Right: NASA/ESA/STScI
The Whirlpool Galaxy (Messier 51) with its spiraling arms is home to young stars in the arms, while its yellow core is comprised of older stars. The smaller galaxy to the right has been gliding behind the Whirlpool Galaxy for hundreds of millions of years. Image credit: NASA/ESA/S. Beckwith (STScI)/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
The Southern Crab Nebula (Hen 2-104), as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope, is several thousand light-years from Earth, April 18, 2019. Image credit: NASA/ESA/STScI
The Crab Nebula is one of the most intricately structured and highly dynamic objects ever observed. The new Hubble image of the Crab was assembled from 24 individual exposures taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, December 1, 2005. Image credit: NASA/ESA/JPL/Arizona State Univ.
Cone Nebula (NGC 2264), is a giant pillar of gas and dust 7 light-years long, photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope, April 2, 2002. Image credit: NASA/ESA/H. Ford (JHU)/G. Illingworth (USCS/LO)/M. Clampin (STScI)/G. Hartig (STScI)/ACS Science Team
This 50-light-year-wide view of the central region of the Carina Nebula shows a whirling storm of the birth and death of stars. Color information was added with data taken at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Red corresponds to sulfur, green to hydrogen, and blue to oxygen emission. Image credit: NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley)/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)/N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley) and NOAO/AURA/NSF
Located in the Tarantula Nebula, 30 Doradus is the brightest star-forming region visible in a neighboring galaxy, 170,000 light years away and is home to the most massive stars ever seen. Photographed April 17, 2012. Image credit: NASA/ESA
The M2-9 Twin Jet nebula as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope, 1997. Image credit: NASA/Bruce Balick (University of Washington)/Vincent Icke (Leiden University, the Netherlands)/Garrelt Mellema (Stockholm University)
The photograph, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, captures a small region within M17, also known as the Omega or Swan Nebula. The nebula is a hotbed of star formation, where wave-like patterns of gas have been sculpted and illuminated by a torrent of ultraviolet radiation from the young, massive stars that lie outside the picture to the upper left. 2013. Image credit: NASA/ESA/J. Hester (ASU)
The "Pillars of Creation," towers of gas and dust, are part of the Eagle Nebula (M16), April 1, 1995. Image credit: NASA/ESA/STScI/J. Hester and P. Scowen (Arizona State University)
Two images of the Pillars of Creation, a star-forming region in the Eagle Nebula, October 19, 2022. At left, Hubble Space Telescope’s visible-light view shows darker pillars that rise from the bottom to the top of the screen, ending in three points. James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared image at right shows the same pillars, but they are semi-opaque and rusty red-colored. Hubble's view shows the vast pillars of gas and dust while the Webb image's blue hues highlight hydrogen atoms and an abundance of stars. Image credit: NASA/ESA/STScl/J. DePasquale, A. Koekemoer, A. Pagan (STScl)
The first true-color photograph of Jupiter from Hubble Space Telescope, May 17, 1991. Image credit: NASA/ESA/J. Westphal/Caltech
Hubble Space Telescope's view of Jupiter and Europa, August 25, 2020. Image credit: NASA/ESA/A.Simon (GSFC)/M.H. Wong (UofC, Berkeley)/OPAL Team
Comparison images of the M100 Galactic Nucleus, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field Planetary Camera-1 (WF/PC1) and Wide Field Planetary Camera-2 (WF/PC2), January 1994. Image credit: NASA