The 25 best Hubble Space Telescope images

Hubble in orbit

The Hubble Space Telescope has been silently hovering above Earth for over 25 years, but it’s still returning spectacular images of the cosmos. That’s an amazing technological achievement. But it wasn’t always a smooth ride.

By now, the story is well known: Despite a Herculean effort to test Hubble before launch, an imperfection in the main mirror caused the resulting images to come out blurry. A NASA service mission was sent in 1993 to fit Hubble with a new camera. And it’s been sending back beautiful images ever since. This was only the first of five manned service missions to Hubble, which have delivered new equipment and instruments, and taken care of less-urgent issues, over the years.

Most of the famous Hubble images were taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), and the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). WFPC2 was the replacement installed on that service first mission. The WFPC2 was replaced with the WFC3 during the final Hubble service mission in 2009, and it has even greater optical resolution. Some images were also taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), which replaced the original Faint Object Camera in 2002.

Since it’s outside Earth’s murky atmosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope can see farther and more clearly than any astronomical instrument before. While it’s reaching the end of its mission, we can never forget the wondrous sights it brought us. To celebrate Hubble’s quarter century in space, we’ve assembled our 25 favorite images. Here they are in no particular order.

Most detailed image of the Crab Nebula
Pillars of Creation
deep field
Sombrero Galaxy
Hubble's sharpest view of the Orion Nebula
The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) and companion gala
Supergiant Star V838 Monocerotis
Quadruple Saturn Moon Transit
True colour Image of Impact Zones D and G
hercules a
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NGC 2841
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Carina Nebula
Stephan’s Quintet
Warped galaxy
Hubble Space Telescope Extreme Deep Field (XDF) image
Jupiter high-resolution
Centaurus A
New infrared view of the Horsehead Nebula
Mars from Hubble
The Antennae Galaxies
Eagle Nebula Spire
The Mystic Mountain in Carina
Butterfly Nebula

 

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