One of the most famous and beautiful cosmic sights shows its colors in this new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The Veil Nebula is the remnant of a massive star which exploded in a ...

A recent photo from the Hubble Space Telescope captures two protostars called HOPS 150 and HOPS 153, which are located in the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has returned to the site of what may be its most famous image, the wispy columns of the Eagle Nebula, and spanned a brand new picture as a celebration of its 25th birthday.

Hubble’s photographs of Uranus’ rings contributed to our knowledge of how many exist, 13 as of 2008. In this image, the rings appear as two spikes above and below the planet.

This is not the first time NGC 1385 has been the focus of the famous space telescope. Hubble photographed the galaxy a few ... Space photo of the day for May 9, 2025; Hubble spies a skewed spiral ...

Astrophotographers can capture Hubble-like photos using a special set of filters and some careful post-processing. ... Narrowband filters are the key to Hubble’s famous color palette.

The photo was released Wednesday (April 20) to mark the orbiting observatory's upcoming 21st birthday.Hubble was launched into space April 24, 1990 aboard the space shuttle Discovery.

Many of Hubble’s most famous photos are of nebulae—clouds of dust and gas that are breeding grounds for stars. It’s hard to get a sense of scale in these photos, but nebulae, ...

“This is a really new birthplace of stars,” Jennifer Wiseman, senior project scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope, said of the new image, which shows a cluster of 3,000 stars known as ...

With the Hubble Space Telescope’s fifth—and final—repair mission underway, Smithsonian.com highlighted the finest photographs taken by the world’s most famous telescope. While Hubble has ...