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25 Years of Hubble Space Telescope Photos
Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI
For the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope in April 2015, 25 images were selected for a special gallery, one for each year of Hubble's lifespan.
…Read More » Here: A elliptical, glowing ring of gas about 1.3 light-years across surrounds the center of the great supernova of 1987, as shown in this Hubble Space Telescope image. The European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera observed the supernova on August 23-24, 1990, with unprecedented sharpness and clarity.
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1991: NGC 4621
Credit: Walter Jaffe/Leiden Observatory, Holland Ford/JHU/STScI, and NASA
A giant, 300-light-year diameter disk of cold gas and dust fuels a what is suspected to be a supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy NGC 4261.
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1992: Orion Nebula
Credit: C.R. O'Dell (Rice University), and NASA
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered extended disks of dust around 15 newly formed stars in the Orion Nebula, a starbirth region lying 1,500 light-years
…Read More » away. These disks are a prerequisite for the formation of solar systems like our own.
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1993: Veil Nebula
Credit: J. J. Hester (Arizona State University), and NASA
This image of a small portion of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant was taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on April 24, 1991.
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1994: Spiral Galaxy M100
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI
This image of the core of spiral galaxy M100 shows the improvement in Hubble Space Telescope's optics after repairs made during the STS-61 Hubble Servicing
…Read More » Mission. The new camera can resolve faint structures as small as 30 light-years across in a galaxy lying tens of millions of light years away.
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1995: Eagle Nebula, M16
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, J. Hester and P. Scowen (Arizona State University)
Hubble telescope images show the "elephant trunks" of the Eagle Nebula (M16). These columns of cold dust and gas contain pockets of interstellar gas called
…Read More » evaporating gaseous globules (EGGs), at the ends of finger-like features, from which newborn stars emerge.
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1996: Hubble Deep Field
Credit: Robert Williams and the Hubble Deep Field Team (STScI) and NASA
In 1996, the Hubble telescope provided the deepest, most detailed visible view of the universe. Representing a narrow view extending to the visible horizon
…Read More » of the universe, the Hubble Deep Field image contains at least 1,500 galaxies at various stages of evolution.
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1997: M84 Black Hole Signature
Credit: Gary Bower, Richard Green (NOAO), the STIS Instrument Definition Team, and NASA
This image by Hubble Space Telescope's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) shows the signature of a supermassive black hole in the center of galaxy
…Read More » M84. Astronomers mapped the rotational motions of gas and stars around the black hole by aligning the STIS's spectroscopic slit across the nucleus in a single exposure.
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1998: NGC 4314
Credit: G. Fritz Benedict, Andrew Howell, Inger Jorgensen, David Chapell (University of Texas), Jeffery Kenney (Yale University), and Beverly J. Smith (CASA, University of Colorado), and NASA
Hubble Space Telescope obtained this close-up view of the core of Galaxy NGC 4314 in December 1995. Clusters of infant stars make up the bluish-purple
…Read More » clumps of the ring. Two dark, wispy lanes of dust and a pair of blue spiral arms lie just outside the star-forming ring.
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1999: Mars 2000
Credit: Steve Lee (University of Colorado), Jim Bell (Cornell University), Mike Wolff (Space Science Institute), and NASA
The Pathfinder spacecraft landing site lies near the center of this Hubble Space Telescope image of Mars. Dark sand dunes surrounding the polar cap merge
…Read More » into a large, dark region called Acidalia, which consists of dark, sand-sized grains of pulverized volcanic rock. Below and to the left of Acidalia sit the immense Martian canyon systems of Valles Marineris.
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2000: The Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392)
Credit: NASA, Andrew Fruchter and the ERO Team [Sylvia Baggett (STScI), Richard Hook (ST-ECF), Zoltan Levay (STScI)
Following the successful December 1999 servicing mission, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this planetary nebula, the remains of a dying, sun-like
…Read More » star. The "Eskimo" Nebula (NGC 2392), as seen in ground-based telescopes, appears reminiscent of a face surrounded by a fur parka. The parka-like shape consists of a disk of material embedding a ring of comet-shaped objects, with tails streaming away from the central star.
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2001: Warped Edge-On Galaxy ESO 510-G13
Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), Acknowledgment: C. Conselice (U. Wisconsin/STScI)
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of an unusual edge-on galaxy, revealing remarkable details of its warped dusty disk and showing how
…Read More » colliding galaxies spawn the formation of new generations of stars. Strangely twisted galaxy ESO 510-G13 lies in the southern constellation of Hydra, at a distance roughly 150 million light-years from Earth.
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2002: Tadpole Galaxy
Credit: NASA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth (UCSC/LO), M.Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), the ACS Science Team, and ES
UGC 10214, the "Tadpole" galaxy, possesses a shape radically different than other spiral galaxies, pulled wildly out of shape by the very blue, compact
…Read More » galaxy seen at upper left. The Tadpole lies about 420 million light-years away in the constellation of Draco.
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2003: V838 Monocerotis
Credit: NASA, ESA and H.E. Bond (STScI)
V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) had been a dull star in an obscure constellation until January 2002, when it suddenly glowed 600,000 times more luminous than
…Read More » our sun, temporarily making it the brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the phenomenon called a "light echo" consisting of light from a stellar explosion echoing off circumstellar dust.
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2004: Helix Nebula
Credit: NASA, ESA, C.R. O'Dell (Vanderbilt University), M. Meixner and P. McCullough (STScI)
The vastness of the Helix Nebula planetary nebula required two telescopes to capture this image: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Mosaic II Camera
…Read More » on the 4-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. A planetary nebula such as this consists of a gaseous envelope blown off by a dying star. The Helix may contain two gaseous disks nearly perpendicular to each other.
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2005: Whirlpool Galaxy (M51)
Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Spiral galaxy M51 (NGC 5194), The Whirlpool Galaxy, displays its long arms which consist of stars and gas laced with dust arranged in long lanes. NGC 5195,
…Read More » the small, yellowish galaxy to the right, appears to tug on one of the Whirlpool's arms, but NGC 5195 actually floats behind the Whirlpool.
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2006: Orion Nebula
Credit: Credit: NASA,ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team
520 Hubble images, taken in five colors, combine together to make this picture of the Orion Nebula. The Orion Nebula lies 1,500 light-years away, the nearest
…Read More » star-forming region to Earth. The bright glow at upper left emanates from M43, a small region shaped by a massive, young star's ultraviolet light.
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2007: NGC 602
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) - ESA/Hubble Collaboration
Star cluster NGC 602 lies at the heart of a star-forming region. High-energy radiation pours out from the hot young stars, sculpting the inner edge of the outer portions of the nebula.
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2008: Interacting Galaxy Arp 148
Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
Interacting galaxy Arp 148 represents the staggering aftermath following a collision of two galaxies, resulting in a ring-shaped galaxy and a long-tailed
…Read More » companion. Arp 148, nicknamed Mayall's Object, lies in the constellation of Ursa Major, the Great Bear, approximately 500 million light-years away.
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2010: Pillar and Jets in Carina
Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this view of a stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, which lies 7,500 light-years from Earth, on Feb. 1-2, 2010.
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2009: Saturn Quadruple Moon Transit
Credit: Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
The Hubble Space Telescope took a photo of four moons of Saturn passing in front of (transiting) the ringed planet on February 24, 2009. Here, orange-colored
…Read More » moon Titan casts a large shadow onto Saturn's north polar hood. Below Titan, near the ring plane and to the left floats the moon Mimas, casting a smaller shadow onto Saturn's equatorial cloud tops. Farther to the left, not on Saturn's disk, lie the bright moon Dione and the fainter moon Enceladus.
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2011: Interacting Galaxies Arp 273
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Hubble Space Telescope caught the interacting galaxies known as Arp 273. The larger of the spiral galaxies, UGC 1810, possesses a disk that exhibits distortion
…Read More » into a rose-like shape by the gravitational tidal pull of the companion galaxy below it, UGC 1813.
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2012: Planetary Nebula NGC 5189
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
The website of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope touted planetary nebula NGC 5189 as festive-looking enough to serve as a holiday ornament in December 2012.
…Read More » Planetary nebulas represent the final stage in the life of a medium-sized star like the sun. The dying star comsumes the last of its core fuel, and expels a large portion of its outer envelope into space.
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2013: Horsehead Nebula
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
The well-known Horsehead Nebula has gained iconic status since its discovery over a century ago. The nebula was photographed in 2013 to mark the 23rd anniversary
…Read More » of the launch of Hubble Space Telescope aboard the space shuttle Discovery. The Horsehead Nebula makes up part of a much larger complex in the constellation Orion, the Orion Molecular Cloud, lying about 1,500 light-years away.
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2014: Frontier Field Abell 2744
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, and the HFF Team (STScI)
Hubble Space Telescope made the deepest image of any cluster of galaxies with this long-exposure image of massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744. Some of the
…Read More » faintest and youngest galaxies ever detected in space appear here.
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