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heic2413 — Photo Release
Hubble captures intricacies of R Aquarii
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided a dramatic and colourful close-up look at one of the most rambunctious stars in our galaxy, weaving a huge spiral pattern among the stars. Hubble's images capture its details and its evolution is featured by a unique timelapse video.
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heic2501 — Photo Release
Hubble traces hidden history of the Andromeda Galaxy
The largest photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, assembled from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations, has been unveiled. It took more than 10 years to collect data for this colorful portrait of our neighboring galaxy and was created from more than 600 snapshots. This stunning, colorful mosaic captures the glow of 200 million stars, and is spread across roughly 2.5 billion pixels.
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heic2416 — Photo Release
Hubble celebrates a decade of tracking the outer planets
From 2014 to 2024, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been studying the outer planets under a program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) to obtain long-time baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in order to understand their atmospheric dynamics and evolution. Hubble is the only telescope that can provide high spatial resolution and image stability for global studies of cloud coloration, activity, and atmospheric motion on a consistent time basis to help constrain the underlying mechanics of weather and climate systems.
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heic2415 — Science Release
Hubble sees aftermath of galaxy’s scrape with Milky Way
In an epic story of survival witnessed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, one of our nearest galactic neighbours has crashed through the Milky Way galaxy’s gaseous halo and lived to tell the tale. But in the process, this dwarf galaxy, called the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), has been stripped of most of its own surrounding halo of gas. Researchers were surprised to find such an extremely small gaseous halo remaining — one around 10 times smaller than halos of other galaxies of similar mass. Still, the LMC has held onto enough of its gas to keep forming new stars. A smaller galaxy wouldn’t have survived such an encounter. This is the first time astronomers have been able to measure the size of the LMC’s halo — something they could do only with Hubble.
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heic2414 — Photo Release
Webb and Hubble examine spooky galaxy pair
Stare deeply at these galaxies. They appear as if blood is pumping through the top of a flesh-free face. The long, ghastly ‘stare’ of their searing eye-like cores shines out into the supreme cosmic darkness.
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heic2413 — Photo Release
Hubble captures intricacies of R Aquarii
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided a dramatic and colourful close-up look at one of the most rambunctious stars in our galaxy, weaving a huge spiral pattern among the stars. Hubble's images capture its details and its evolution is featured by a unique timelapse video.
](/news/heic2413/)
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heic2501 — Photo Release
Hubble traces hidden history of the Andromeda Galaxy
The largest photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, assembled from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations, has been unveiled. It took more than 10 years to collect data for this colorful portrait of our neighboring galaxy and was created from more than 600 snapshots. This stunning, colorful mosaic captures the glow of 200 million stars, and is spread across roughly 2.5 billion pixels.
](/news/heic2501/)
[What's New](/announcements/)
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Hubble’s 35th anniversary public celebrations in Europe
29 Jan. 2025 — ann2502
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Announcement of the ESA/Hubble 35th anniversary calendar
27 Jan. 2025 — ann2501
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Announcement of the 2025 ESA Hubble and Webb Calendar
12 Dec. 2024 — ann2403
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Celebrate Hubble’s 35th anniversary with ESA/Hubble!
18 Oct. 2024 — ann2402
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Call for ESA/Hubble & ESA/Webb Science Writer
1 Aug. 2024 — ann2401
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Announcement of the 2024 ESA Hubble and Webb Calendar
15 Dec. 2023 — ann2302
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Announcement of Opportunity for ESA-appointed representatives to join the NASA-GOMAP START team for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
24 Oct. 2023 — ann2301
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Announcement of the 2023 ESA Hubble and Webb Calendar
19 Dec. 2022 — ann2202
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The new European Hubble Space Telescope (eHST) Science Archive
2 Dec. 2022 — ann2201
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Release of the 2022 ESA/Hubble Calendar
16 Dec. 2021 — ann2110
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Announcement of the ESA/Hubble and ESA Sky Collaboration
20 Oct. 2021 — ann2109
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Announcement of the ESA/Hubble Word Bank
28 July 2021 — ann2108
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New ESA/Hubble Online Assets: A Social Celebration of Hubble
14 May 2021 — ann2107
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Announcement of the ESA/Hubble Chrome Browser Application
14 April 2021 — ann2106
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Announcement of the ESA/Hubble GIPHY Account
7 April 2021 — ann2105
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Release of FITS Liberator 4
18 March 2021 — ann2104
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Interact with ESA/Hubble's Images with New App
3 March 2021 — ann2103
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Announcement of the new Space Sparks Video Series
17 Feb. 2021 — ann2102
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Release of the 2021 ESA/Hubble Calendar
1 Jan. 2021 — ann2101
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Hubblecast 133: Spectroscopy with Hubble
16 Dec. 2020 — ann2010
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[Picture of the Week](/images/potw/)
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17 March 2025 — potw2511
Colourful clouds of a nearby neighbour
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10 March 2025 — potw2510
A spiral and a star
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3 March 2025 — potw2509
A spiral of the water snake
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24 February 2025 — potw2508
Lifting the veil
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17 February 2025 — potw2507
A spiral hiding an impostor
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10 February 2025 — potw2506
Cosmic cloudscape
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3 February 2025 — potw2505
Supernova spotting
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27 January 2025 — potw2504
One in a hundred
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20 January 2025 — potw2503
A Tarantula’s outskirts
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13 January 2025 — potw2502
Jetting into space
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[Space sparks](/videos/archive/category/spacesparks/)
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23 April 2024 — heic2408a
Space Sparks Episode 19 — Hubble celebrates its 34th anniversary
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[ESA/Hubble science Newsletter](newsletters/science)
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ESA/Hubble/Webb Science Newsletter - March 2025
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[Top 100 Images](/images/archive/top100/)
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Hubble's View of Jupiter and Europa in August 2020
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Tapestry of Blazing Starbirth
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Westerlund 2 — Hubble’s 25th anniversary image
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New view of the Pillars of Creation — visible
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Rings of Relativity
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Galaxy NGC 2525
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Extreme star cluster bursts into life in new Hubble image
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The Bubble Nebula
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Antennae Galaxies reloaded
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New infrared view of the Horsehead Nebula — Hubble’s 23rd anniversary image
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Magnetic monster NGC 1275
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Hubble sees galaxies galore
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The Stellar Forge
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Hubble mosaic of the majestic Sombrero Galaxy
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Latest Saturn Portrait
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New stars shed light on the past
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Most detailed image of the Crab Nebula
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Hubble's 28th birthday picture: The Lagoon Nebula
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Spirals and supernovae
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Butterfly emerges from stellar demise in planetary nebula NGC 6302
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