
Sample of non-star-forming galaxies from the COSMOS survey

The remains of a star gone supernova

Hubble image of Abell 68

High-redshift galaxy candidates in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2012

A peculiar compact blue dwarf galaxy

A loose spiral galaxy

Using the Moon as a mirror — Hubble to watch transit of Venus in reflected light

Tight and bright

Probing a super-giant shell of gas and stars

The belly of the cosmic whale

Stellar jets HH 47, HH 34 and HH 2

A dying star’s toxic legacy

Perfect spiral overlaid with Milky Way gems

Uncovering the Veil Nebula

Ring around NGC 4650A

Io transit of Jupiter

Looking down a barrel of gas at a doomed star

Conference group photo — Porto, Portugal

Lens Flair

A Sprinkling of Stars

Hubble Gazes Sidelong at NGC 3568

Four Filter Fusion

Hubble Showcases Hamilton’s Object

One of the Greats

Hubble’s Observation of the Stingray Nebula in 1996

Hubble Finds Halloween Pumpkin Pair

Dark Matter Surplus

Cotton Wool Galaxy

The smoking gun of a newborn star

More than meets the eye

Galaxy cluster MACS J2129-0741

Moving heart of the Crab Nebula

The loneliest of galaxies

Smoke ring for a halo

A cosmic couple

An intriguing young-looking dwarf galaxy

Merging galaxies in the distant Universe through a gravitational magnifying glass

Starbursts versus monsters

Hubble’s modern art

New Hubble infrared view of the Tarantula Nebula

The swan and the butterfly

Hubble images searchlight beams from a preplanetary nebula

Hubble spies a UFO

Core of Messier 100 in super high res

Arcade adventure for young stars

The star city that never sleeps

Waves breaking in the stellar lagoon

The core of the massive compact star cluster in NGC 3603

WFC3 infrared image of Carina Nebula

Colourful stars galore inside the globular star cluster Omega Centauri

Hubble celebrates the International Year of Astronomy 2009 with the galaxy triplet Arp 274

Quadruple Saturn moon transit snapped by Hubble

Hubble image of NGC 3324

NGC 1275 multi-wavelength composite

Hubble sees stars and a stripe in celestial fireworks

The majestic globular Omega Centauri

Galaxy NGC 2397 with an explosive secret

Mars: closest approach 2007

Arp 87

Hubble photographs grand design spiral galaxy M81

Hubble monitors Jupiter in support of the New Horizons Flyby

Hubble Ultra Deep Field

Extraterrestrial fireworks
![Magellanic gemstone in the southern sky [NGC 265]](https://cdn.esahubble.org/archives/images/thumb300y/heic0603b.jpg)
Magellanic gemstone in the southern sky [NGC 265]

Hubble snaps images of a pinwheel-shaped galaxy

Sculpting the landscape

A bright supernova in the nearby galaxy NGC 2403

Hubble peers inside a celestial geode

The heart of the Trifid Nebula
![A dust-bound supermassive black hole [artist's impression]](https://cdn.esahubble.org/archives/images/thumb300y/heic0409a.jpg)
A dust-bound supermassive black hole [artist's impression]

An abrasive collision gives one galaxy a "black eye"

Supernova blast bonanza in nearby galaxy

Firestorm of star birth seen in a Local Galaxy

Mega starbirth cluster is biggest, brightest and hottest ever seen (artist's impression)

Celestial composition
![Finding the ashes of the first stars [artist's impression]](https://cdn.esahubble.org/archives/images/thumb300y/heic0306a.jpg)
Finding the ashes of the first stars [artist's impression]

Rainbow image of a dusty star

N83B - massive infant stars rock their cradle

Uncovering the mysteries of Jupiter's aurora

Trapezium Cluster in the Orion Nebula

Galactic silhouettes

The glowing eye of NGC 6751

An expanding bubble in space

N159 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Hubble snapshot captures life cycle of stars

Supernova 1994D

Hubble finds variable stars in distant spiral galaxy

SN 1987a in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Blowing cosmic bubbles

A sky full of glittering jewels

Massive starbirth in N81

Disk around a black hole in galaxy NGC 7052 (Hubble WFPC2 view)

Galaxy NGC 4314 (Hubble view)

An infrared view of Saturn

Hubble's planetary nebula gallery. A view of NGC 6826

Hubble sees supersonic exhaust from nebula

Colliding gas in the Helix Nebula

Cover page of the 2025 ESA/Hubble and ESA/Webb calendar

Cosmic Smokescreen

Colours of the Lost Galaxy

Eye of the Serpent

A frEGGs-cellent Discovery

Hunger Pangs

Hubble data showing Neptune’s inner moons

The binary asteroid 288P (artist’s impression)

A mysterious hermit

Supermassive and super-hungry

A young elliptical

At the centre of the tuning fork

Ground-based view of the sky around the nearby star AU Microscopii

NGC 6503

Hubble spies eight green filaments lit up by past quasar blasts

Collage of six cluster collisions with dark matter maps

A galactic cloak for an exploding star

New view of Beta Pictoris

Three moons and their shadows parade across Jupiter — comparison of beginning and end of sequence, with annotations

Three moons and their shadows parade across Jupiter — comparison of beginning and end of sequence, without annotations

Three moons and their shadows parade across Jupiter — beginning of event

Artist’s impression of a Kuiper Belt object

IC 4499: A globular cluster’s age revisited

Supermassive black hole at the heart of NGC 5548

Hubble weighs “the fat one”

Stellar explosions in NGC 6984

A pulsating stellar relic

New Hubble view of galaxy cluster Abell 1689

Record-breaking supernova in the CANDELS Ultra Deep Survey

Light and dust in a nearby starburst galaxy

A multi-wavelength view of radio galaxy Hercules A

Hubble portrays a dusty spiral galaxy

Compact blue dwarf can’t hide

Crowded, but suspiciously quiet?

Engulfed by stars near the Milky Way’s heart

Spiral spins both ways

Stellar powerhouses in the Eagle Nebula

A dazzling planetary nebula

At the edge of the abyss

Star-birth party almost over in NGC 2976

Galaxy cluster MACS J0717

Hubble scores a perfect ten

Globular cluster NGC 6397

A bow shock near a young star

Stargazing in NGC 6355

Hubble Gazes into M74

Hubble Sees Red Supergiant Star Betelgeuse Slowly Recovering After Blowing Its Top

A Spectacular Side-On Spiral

Hubble's View of Jupiter and Europa in August 2020

Invisible Galactic Gale

Hubble Observes the Total Lunar Eclipse (Artist’s Impression)

Galaxy Galaxy, Burning Bright!

Visualisation of Fomalhaut and Fomalhaut b (Artist’s Impression)

Feeding Time

Sunburst Arc 3

Area surrounding the Sunburst Arc (ground-based image)

Hubble’s Observation of Comet 2I/Borisov in October 2019

A tiny galaxy with a big heart

Hubble’s Spectacular Wide View of the Universe

Artist's illustration of a young red dwarf stripping away a planet's atmosphere

A frenzy of stars

Dusty filaments in NGC 4696

Best image of Alpha Centauri A and B

The stars of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Busy bees

Hiding in the night sky

A distinctly disorganised dwarf

A cosmic kaleidoscope

A diamond in the dust

The icy blue wings of Hen 2-437

Galactic onion

Elliptical galaxy IC 2006

A young star takes centre stage

Dust filaments of NGC 4217

Four globular clusters in Fornax

A silver needle in the sky

Gravitational lensing by galaxy in cluster IRC 0218, annotated

Artist’s impression of debris around a white dwarf star

Artist's impression of a galaxy undergoing a starburst

A changing fan

The Needle Galaxy

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2012

Hubble probes ‘ghost’ galaxy

Globular cluster M 10

A bright spark in a nearby spiral galaxy

A spiral within a spiral

Star cluster surrounds wayward black hole in cannibal galaxy ESO 243-49 (unlabelled)

The calm after the galactic storm

Spot the difference — Hubble spies another globular cluster, but with a secret

Stars in the Andromeda Galaxy’s disc

Edge-on galaxy hosts supernova explosion

A perfect spiral with an explosive secret

Breathing new life into an old cluster

The beauty of asymmetry

Cluster’s deceptive serenity hides violent past

Hubble exploded view

Hubble witnesses the crafting of a celestial masterpiece

A piercing eye in the sky

Jupiter and Ganymede

Artist's impression of an ultra-short-period planet

Hubble watches light echo from mysterious erupting star (October 2002 image)

NGC 346

Hubble Captures Supernova in NGC 4568

Artist’s Impression of Jupiter and Europa

Hubble’s View of Ganymede in 1996

Hubble Sheds Light on Small-Scale Concentrations of Dark Matter (Artist’s Impression)

Two Supernovae, One Galaxy

A Stretched Spiral

Illustration of Hubble’s Observation of Fomalhaut b’s Expanding Dust Cloud

Stealing the Show

Comet 2I/Borisov at Perihelion in December 2019

Wading through water

On the hunt for newborn stars

Hubble captures glittering crowded hub of our Milky Way

Mapping the nearby Universe

Starbursts in NGC 5398

From microwaves to megamasers

A slice of Sagittarius

Galaxy cluster MACS j1149.5+223

Galaxy cluster MACS j1149.5+223 and a supernova four times over

Mass map of galaxy cluster MCS J0416.1–2403 using strong and weak lensing

Asteroid P/2013 R3 breaks apart

Hubble views new supernova in Messier 82

A members-only galaxy club

A spiral in the Air Pump

A tale of galactic collisions

An audience of stellar flashbulbs

Hubble finds fifth moon orbiting Pluto (labelled)

A galactic disc, edge-on and up close

A vapour of stars

Hubble view of NGC 2366

The eye of the storm

A spiral galaxy in Hydra

Hubble image of Messier 9

Stellar voyage of a butterfly-like planetary nebula

Star cluster surrounds wayward black hole in cannibal galaxy ESO 243-49 (labelled)

Young stars at home in an ancient cluster

Sunset glow in Orion