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Galaxy NGC 2525

Hubble sees galaxies galore

Hubble mosaic of the majestic Sombrero Galaxy

Spirals and supernovae

Butterfly emerges from stellar demise in planetary nebula NGC 6302

Hubble's sharpest view of the Orion Nebula

The Eagle has risen: stellar spire in the Eagle Nebula

A 'wallpaper' of distant galaxies is a stunning backdrop for a runaway galaxy

Light and shadow in the Carina Nebula

Spiral Snapshot

A Pocketful of Stars

The Death of a Star

The Inky Abyss

A green cosmic arc

Standout stars

A snowstorm of stars

Alien aurorae on Uranus

A Waterfall of Stars

A gargantuan collision

Galaxy cluster RCS2 J2327

Hubble and HAWK-I explore a cluster with the mass of two quadrillion Suns

The whirling disc of NGC 4526

An extraordinary celestial spiral

The Hourglass Nebula

Hubble Captures Comet NEOWISE

Globular Cluster NGC 1466

Einstein revisited

Thackeray's globules in IC 2944

WASP 121-b (artist’s impression)

The Sunburst Arc

Hubble's last look at Ccomet ISON before perihelion

Artist's concept of exoplanet orbiting Fomalhaut

Saturn's dynamic aurorae

A new view of the Helix Nebula

Gone but not forgotten

NGC 6302

Hubble views a supermassive black hole burping — twice

Hubble captures gallery of ultra-bright galaxies

Waltzing dwarfs

A stellar sneezing fit

NGC 2346

Stirring the interstellar soup

Starry spectacle

A spiral so inclined

Stellar sculptors in NGC 346

Lifting the veil

A spiral hiding an impostor

A Tarantula’s outskirts

Jetting into space

Pale blue (supernova) dot

A supernova checkup

Hubble revisits a grand spiral

Galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207 (Webb and Hubble image)

Celestial cannonball

Mars corona

Power across the spectrum

Galaxies in miniature

The difference between distance and dust

Lenticular dust in detail

On the hunt for X-rays

Little Dumbbell Nebula (M76)

FS Tau

An unlikely spiral

A matter of perspective

A high amount of ram

Colouring what human eyes can’t see

Dim, but still distinct

Exoplanet GJ 9827d (artist’s concept)

Saturn

One cluster or two?

“Late-type” galaxy?

Artist’s concept of exoplanet LTT 1445ac

The dancer in Dorado

What’s in a name?

Stellar cradle

A sparkling galactic neighbour

Neptune cloud cover over three decades

Hubble sees evaporating planet getting the hiccups

Hubble checks in on the neighbours

Hubble celebrates its 33rd anniversary with NGC 1333

Hubble finds Saturn's rings heating its atmosphere

Hubble captures DART asteroid impact debris (annotated 1)

Hubble Detects Ghostly Glow Surrounding Our Solar System

Head in the Clouds

In the Sky with Diamonds

A Flash of Life

Hubble Solves Mystery of Monster Star's Dimming

Mysterious Dark Rays

Hubble opens its eye again

A galactic sunflower

Snapshot of a shedding star

Hubble sees a cosmic caterpillar

Dying star creates fantasy-like sculpture of gas and dust

NGC 2392

Hubble's variable nebula (NGC 2261)

Hubble observes new tidal disruption event (January 2025 image)

20 years of Uranus observations

Evolution of a “Blue Lurker” star in a triple system (artist’s impression)

Hubble celebrates decade of tracking outer planets

Hubble and New Horizons View of Uranus

Close-up of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (December 2023 to March 2024)

The Sculpted Galaxy

Adding to Uranus’s legacy

R Sculptoris and its hidden companion

Cloaked in red

Hubble reveals NGC 2440

Hubble catches scattered light from the Boomerang Nebula

Hubble's newest camera eyes hotbed of star formation

Ants in space?

Hubble images a swarm of ancient stars

This is no supermodel spiral

A collection of ancient stars

Hubble offers a dazzling necklace

The very curious creation of an ageing star

The unique Red Rectangle: sharper than ever before

Celestial fireworks

Sunny side up

Hubble Spots Vagabond Comet Near Jupiter's Asteroids

At the Edge of the Blast

Stellar Snowflakes

Comet or cluster?

Cosmic fragments

Bipolar planetary nebula PN Hb 12

Sunset in Mordor

Hubble finds infant stars in neighbouring galaxy

A Bright Bar of Light

Stellar Sweet Shop

The heart of the Lion

A messy star factory

A star set to explode

Hubble snaps icy comet ISON

Cosmic riches

The Egg Nebula

Early stages of the FU Orionis outburst (artist’s concept)

Abell 370 Parallel Field with Asteroids

Spiral Snapshot

Hubble Takes a Grand Tour of the Solar System

Return to the Veil Nebula

Imposter or the Real Deal?

Sunburst Arc 2

A Passing Fancy

Neptune’s shrinking vortex

Asteroids in Hubble Frontier Field Abell 370

Distant active comet C/2017 K2

Waving goodbye

Violent birth announcement from an infant star

Hubble sees a flickering light display on Saturn

A spiral home to exploding stars

Magnifying the distant Universe

Secrets at the heart of NGC 5793

A nursery for unruly young stars

The remains of a star gone supernova

A loose spiral galaxy

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

The belly of the cosmic whale

Hubble Gazes Sidelong at NGC 3568

The smoking gun of a newborn star

The swan and the butterfly

Hubble images searchlight beams from a preplanetary nebula

Colourful stars galore inside the globular star cluster Omega Centauri

Quadruple Saturn moon transit snapped by Hubble

Extraterrestrial fireworks

A bright supernova in the nearby galaxy NGC 2403

The glowing eye of NGC 6751

Blowing cosmic bubbles

Eye of the Serpent

A frEGGs-cellent Discovery

The binary asteroid 288P (artist’s impression)

Supermassive and super-hungry

New view of Beta Pictoris

Artist’s impression of a Kuiper Belt object

Hubble weighs “the fat one”

A pulsating stellar relic

A multi-wavelength view of radio galaxy Hercules A

Hubble portrays a dusty spiral galaxy

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

Invisible Galactic Gale

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

Galaxy Galaxy, Burning Bright!

Area surrounding the Sunburst Arc (ground-based image)

Sunburst Arc 3

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

Best image of Alpha Centauri A and B

A diamond in the dust

The icy blue wings of Hen 2-437

A young star takes centre stage

A silver needle in the sky

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

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

The beauty of asymmetry

Jupiter and Ganymede

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

Comet 2I/Borisov at Perihelion in December 2019

Hubble captures glittering crowded hub of our Milky Way

Stellar voyage of a butterfly-like planetary nebula

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

Sunset glow in Orion

Family of stars breaking up

A cosmic searchlight

Rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b (illustration)

Magnetar (artist’s impression)

The Altjira system (artist’s concept)

Hubble unexpectedly finds double quasar in distant Universe

Comet blast from the past

Hubble's view of dazzling globular cluster NGC 6397

Sunburst Arc 1

Rings upon rings

A globular cluster’s striking red eye

Zooming in on the early Universe

Wasp-39b and its parent star (artist’s impression)

A window into the cosmic past

The loneliest firework display

Viewing the Vermin Galaxy

Moon Around the Trans-Neptunian object 2007 OR10

A cosmic conversation

Blowing cosmic bubbles

Home to a hypergiant

A remarkable galactic hybrid

Astronomical cooperation

The Calabash clash

A cosmic megamaser

A whole new view of the Crab Nebula

Blue bubble in Carina

Compass and scale image of WR 122 (NaSt1)

Hubble spies vast gas disk around unique massive star

The peculiar asymmetry of NGC 949

Beta Pictoris — Comparison

Grand swirls

Circumstellar disks HD 141943 and HD 191089

Hubble sees Mars-bound comet sprout multiple jets

Hubble views extraordinary multi-tailed asteroid P/2013 P5

New shot of Proxima Centauri, our nearest neighbour

A smouldering star

Exotic blue planet HD 189733b (artist’s impression)

Stars that go out with a whimper

Stalking our celebrity neighbours

NGC 1579: The Trifid of the North

Glowing, fiery shells of gas

Appearances can be deceptive

Don’t trust your eyes

A wanderer dancing the dance of stars and space

An unexpected population of young-looking stars

Violent star formation episodes in dwarf galaxies

A cosmic garden sprinkler

NGC 7090 — An actively star-forming galaxy

Hubble image of galaxy pair Arp 116

Globular Star Cluster M4

A ten billion year stellar dance