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  1. Eye on Infinity: NASA Celebrates Hubble's 35th Year in Orbit

    April 23, 2025Release ID: 2025-013 Missions: Hubble

    Legendary space telescope redefined the universe.

    Composite shows four Hubble images in quarters. At top left is a crisp view of Mars in shades of orange, blues, and browns. At top right is planetary nebula NGC 2899, which is shaped like a single macaroni noodle, with its central torus appearing semi-transparent and blue and green, and its top and bottom edges in orange. At bottom left is a tiny portion of the Rosette Nebula. Very dark gray material shaped like a triangle takes up the center. At bottom right is barred spiral galaxy NGC 5335 with a milky yellow center that forms a bar surrounded by multiple blue star-filled spiral arms that wrap up counterclockwise.

  2. NASA's Hubble Tracks a Roaming Magnetar of Unknown Origin

    April 15, 2025Release ID: 2025-010 Missions: Hubble

    Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy.

    An artist’s impression of a magnetar, which is a special type of neutron star with an incredibly strong magnetic field. The neutron star at the center of the image is illustrated as a mottled blue-white sphere with a bright edge and streamers looping off it. Concentric blue lines wrap around the neutron star, like a cage, from upper right to lower left to symbolize the intense magnetic field the star possesses. The words "artist's concept" are at bottom right.

  3. 20-Year Hubble Study of Uranus Yields New Atmospheric Insights

    March 31, 2025Release ID: 2025-011 Missions: Hubble

    Uranus findings can aid the study of exoplanets.

    Graphic titled “Hubble Space Telescope – Observations of Uranus,” with 16 images of Uranus, arranged in a 4 by 4 grid showing changes in appearance of Uranus as observed by Hubble between 2002 and 2022.

  4. NASA Awards Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2025

    March 31, 2025Release ID: 2025-012 Missions: STScI, Hubble

    The NHFP enables outstanding postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research in any area of NASA Astrophysics, using theory, observations, simulations, experimentation, or instrument development.

    The class of 2025 NHFP Fellows are shown in this photo montage (left to right, top to bottom): The Einstein Fellows (seen in the blue hexagons) are: Shi-Fan Chen, Nicolas Garavito Camargo, Jason Hinkle, Itai Linial, Kenzie Nimmo, Massimo Pascale, Elia Pizzati, Jillian Rastinejad and Aaron Tohuvavohu. The Hubble Fellows (seen in the red hexagons) are: Aliza Beverage, Anna de Graaff, Karia Dilbert, Emily Griffith, Viraj Karambelkar, Lindsey Kwok, Abigail Lee, Aaron Pearlman, Dominick Rowan, Nicholas Rui, Nadine Soliman, Bingjie Wang. The Sagan Fellows (seen in green hexagons) are: Kyle Franson, Caprice Phillips, and Keming Zhang.

  5. STScI Astronomer Carol Christian Elected AAAS Fellow

    March 27, 2025Release ID: 2025-402 Missions: STScI, Hubble

    Dr. Christian is being honored by the AAAS for exceptional leadership in bringing astronomy and astronomy images to the broader range of the public, notably the seeing impaired.

    Woman with blue sky and puffy white clouds in the background. She has short blonde wind-swept hair. She is wearing dark sunglasses and a green tee-shirt with a V-shaped neckline and short sleeves.

  6. NASA's Hubble Finds Kuiper Belt Duo May Be Trio

    March 04, 2025Release ID: 2025-007 Missions: Hubble

    A potential triple system of Kuiper Belt objects, only the second ever found, would support the theory that these rocky bodies form by gravitational collapse, like stars.

    Illustration of two large, cratered rocks in the foreground right. Another rock is seen in the distance to the left. The black background of space shows the hazy Sun and zodiacal light due to dust in the solar system, as well as scattered distant stars. The words "Artist's Concept" appear in gray at the bottom left.

  7. NASA's Hubble Provides Bird's-Eye View of Andromeda Galaxy's Ecosystem

    February 27, 2025Release ID: 2025-009 Missions: Hubble

    A Swarm of Dwarf Galaxies Buzz Around Our Milky Way's Twin

    Telescope image with infographic overlays. At top left the text reads, Hubble Space Telescope, Survey of Andromeda's Satellite galaxies. A large field of galaxies take up the left three-quarters. This portion shows hundreds scattered across the black background of space. Most are tiny white dots. Thirty-six tiny galaxies are circled in yellow. Four have labels. From top to bottom, left to right: NGC 185, NGC 147, NGC 205 (M110), NGC 221 (M32). NGC 221 appears slightly lower than a larger, angled oblong galaxy, which is labeled Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Along the right is a column separated into four boxes, each a zoomed in portrait of the labeled galaxies. From top to bottom: NGC 185 looks like a dim blue haze that takes up most of the frame; NGC 147 like a small, very dim oval, with scattered dots nearby; NGC 221 is large and bright white, and takes up most of the box; NGC 205 is not quite as large as NGC 221, and is pinker, with larger dots throughout the frame.

  8. Straight Shot: Hubble Investigates Galaxy with Nine Rings

    February 04, 2025Release ID: 2025-006 Missions: Hubble

    Hubble’s high-resolution imagery allowed researchers to hone in on more of the Bullseye galaxy’s rings — and helped confirm which galaxy dove through its core.

    A large galaxy is at center, and a significantly smaller galaxy is to its immediate left. Both are set on the black background of space, which is dotted with a range of galaxies in different shapes and sizes, along with a few foreground stars.

  9. NASA's Hubble Traces Hidden History of Andromeda Galaxy

    January 16, 2025Release ID: 2025-005 Missions: Hubble

    Panorama of Nearest Galaxy Unveils Hundreds of Millions of Stars

    The Andromeda galaxy, a spiral galaxy, spreads across the width. It is tilted nearly edge-on to our line of sight so that it appears as an extreme oval on its side. The borders of the galaxy are jagged because the image is a mosaic of smaller, square images. The outer edges are blue, while the inner two-thirds are yellowish with a bright, central core. Dark, dusty filamentary clouds wrap around the outer half of the galaxy’s disk. At 10 o'clock, a smaller dwarf elliptical galaxy forms a fuzzy, yellow blob. Hubble's sharp vision distinguishes about 200 million stars within the image. The background of space is black. There are what appears to be steps toward the bottom, mainly toward the middle, which indicates where no data were taken.

  10. NASA Celebrates Edwin Hubble's Discovery of a New Universe

    January 15, 2025Release ID: 2025-001 Missions: Hubble

    Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies

    A Hubble image of the Andromeda galaxy, tilted from the bottom left to top right. The outer edges of the galaxy are blue, while the inner two-thirds is yellowish with a bright, central core. Four inset boxes form an arc along the top portion of the galaxy, each showing a bright white star in the center surrounded by other stars. Each box has a correlating date at the bottom: Dec. 17, 2020, Dec. 21, 2010, Dec. 30, 2019, and Jan. 26, 2011. The center star in the boxes appears brighter with each passing date. An arrow from galaxy’s right center spiral arm points to the boxes, indicating where the star originates in the galaxy.

  11. NASA's Hubble Tracks Down a 'Blue Lurker' Among Stars

    January 13, 2025Release ID: 2025-002 Missions: Hubble

    A Triple Star System Yields an Unusual Surviving Star

    Illustration titled “Evolution of ‘Blue Lurker’ Star System.” It features six boxes, in two rows of three. The top left shows a large circular path of a star surrounding a small circular path of two rotating stars. The top middle box shows two stars rotating around each other, shown with blue streaks, and a third star is in the distance. The top right box shows a large fiery orange star with a feeding line to another distant star. The bottom left box shows a small yellow star on a black background surrounded by a faint red ring of gas. The bottom middle box shows the yellow star with a white box around it. Lines lead from this small box to the bottom right panel, showing a large fiery yellow star. The words “Artist’s Concept” is at the bottom right.

  12. Hubble Reveals Surprising Spiral Shape of Galaxy Hosting Young Jet

    January 13, 2025Release ID: 2025-004 Missions: Hubble

    Astronomers are now rethinking the underlying trigger of quasar jets.

    Field of yellow galaxies of various sizes and distances on a black background. Two larger galaxies are prominent. Centered is a galaxy with a bright core and faint spiral arms coming off its top and bottom. To the lower right of the spiral is a ring galaxy with an apparent gap between its bright core and the ring oval of dust and gas surrounding it.

  13. NASA's Webb Finds Planet-Forming Disks Lived Longer in Early Universe

    December 16, 2024Release ID: 2024-135 Missions: Webb, Hubble

    New data confirms Hubble finding and refutes current theories of planet formation in universe’s early days.

    The center of the image contains arcs of orange and pink that form a boat-like shape. One end of these arcs points to the top right of the image, while the other end point toward the bottom left. Another plume of orange and pink expands from the center to the top left of the image. To the right of this plume is a large cluster of white stars. There are various other white stars and a few galaxies of different sizes spread throughout the image. Ten, small, yellow circles overlaid at various points across the image indicate the positions of the ten stars surveyed in this study.

  14. NASA's Hubble Celebrates Decade of Tracking Outer Planets

    December 09, 2024Release ID: 2024-010 Missions: Hubble, STScI

    Hubble Space Telescope Keeps a Vigilant Eye on Weather on Other Worlds

    A montage of Hubble views of our solar system's four giant outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune taken from 2014 to 2024 by the OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) program. Upper-left toward center: The hazy white polar cap on the three teal-colored Uranus images appears more face-on as the planet approaches northern summer. Center-right to far-center right: Three images of the blue planet Neptune show the coming and going of clouds as the Sun's radiation level changes. Seven views of yellow-brown Saturn stretch across the mosaic center in a triangle, show the tilt of the ring plane relative to the view from Earth, from left to right from an oblique angle to nearly edge-on, with colorful changes to bands of clouds in the turbulent atmosphere. Bottom center: Three Jupiter images spanning nearly a decade form a triangle. Notable changes are seen in Jupiter's colorful white and brown striped cloud structure. The Great Red Spot, seen at southern latitudes, is prominent in each photo.

  15. NASA's Hubble Takes the Closest-Ever Look at a Quasar

    December 05, 2024Release ID: 2024-024 Missions: Hubble, STScI

    Legendary Active Galaxy Contains a Monster Black Hole

    A two-panel annotated image of quasar 3C 273, taken by different Hubble science instruments. The top panel is a Hubble Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) image of quasar 3C 273. It looks like a bright white car headlight. There is a linear orange-white smoke-like feature stretching to the 4 o’clock position, an extragalactic jet launched from the quasar in the center of the black hole of an unseen galaxy. The bottom panel is a Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) coronagraph image of quasar 3C 273. It looks roughly the same as the WFPC2 image, but in blue shades. A black circle (labeled "core light blocked") blocks the glare of the quasar. Blue-colored filamentary material can be seen near the black hole. The extragalactic jet is still visible.

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