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STS061-74-045 - STS-061 - Various views of the 4th EVA to repair the HST

STS061-74-045 - STS-061 - Various views of the 4th EVA to repair the H...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of the fourth extravehicular activity (EVA) made to repair the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) include: astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman (foregro... More

STS061-74-047 - STS-061 - Various views of the 4th EVA to repair the HST

STS061-74-047 - STS-061 - Various views of the 4th EVA to repair the H...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of the fourth extravehicular activity (EVA) made to repair the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) include: astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman (foregro... More

STS061-74-046 - STS-061 - Various views of the 4th EVA to repair the HST

STS061-74-046 - STS-061 - Various views of the 4th EVA to repair the H...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of the fourth extravehicular activity (EVA) made to repair the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) include: astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman (foregro... More

The Cat's Eye Nebula. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Cat's Eye Nebula. NASA public domain image colelction.

(September 18, 1994) This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows one of the most complex planetary nebulae ever seen, NGC 6543, nicknamed the "Cat's Eye Nebula." Hubble reveals surprisingly intricate structure... More

Cometary Knots Around A Dying Star

Cometary Knots Around A Dying Star

(August 1, 1994) These gigantic, tadpole-shaped objects are probably the result of a dying star's last gasps. Dubbed "cometary knots" because their glowing heads and gossamer tails resemble comets, the gaseous ... More

This is a composite photo, assembled from separate images of Jupiter and Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 as imaged by the Wide Field & Planetary Camera-2 (WFPC-2), aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST).  Jupiter was imaged on May 18, 1994, when the giant planet was at a distance of 420 million miles (670 million KM) from Earth. This 'true-color' picture was assembled from separate HST exposures in red, blue, and green light. Jupiter's rotation between exposures creates the blue and red fringe on either side of the disk. HST can resolve details in Jpiter's magnifient cloud belts and zones as small as 200 miles (320 km) across (wide field mode). This detailed view is only surpassed by images from spacecraft that have traveled to Jupiter.   The dark spot on the disk of Jupiter is the shadow of the inner moon Io. This volcanic moon appears as an orange and yellow disk just to the upper right of the shadow. Though Io is approximately the size of Earth's Moon (but 2,000 times farther away), HST can resolve surface details.  When the comet was observed on May 17, its train of 21 icy fragments stretched across 710 thousand miles (1.1 million km) of space, or 3 times the distance between Earth and the Moon. This required six WFPC exposures along the comet train to include all the nuclei. The image was taken in red light.  The apparent angular size of Jupiter relative to the comet, and its angular separation from the comet when the images were taken, have been modified for illustration purposes.  CREDIT: H.A. Weaver, T.E. Smith (Space Telescope Science Institute (STSI)) and J.T. Tranuger, R.W. Evans (Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)) and NASA. (HST ref: STSci-PR94-26a) ARC-1994-AC94-0353-1

This is a composite photo, assembled from separate images of Jupiter a...

This is a composite photo, assembled from separate images of Jupiter and Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 as imaged by the Wide Field & Planetary Camera-2 (WFPC-2), aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Jupiter ... More

STS061-37-002 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC II in the HST

STS061-37-002 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialist Jeff Hoffman during an Extravehicular activity. Hoffman, attached to the end of the Remote Manipulator System... More

STS061-37-013 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC II in the HST

STS061-37-013 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialist Jeff Hoffman during an Extravehicular activity. Hoffman, attached to the end of the Remote Manipulator System... More

STS061-37-036 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman stow WFPC I in the Endeavour's payload bay

STS061-37-036 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman stow WFPC I in the Ende...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialists F. Story Musgrave and Jeff Hoffman as they stow the Wide Field Planetary Camera I (WFPC I) in the Endeavour'... More

STS061-37-034 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman stow WFPC I in the Endeavour's payload bay

STS061-37-034 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman stow WFPC I in the Ende...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialists F. Story Musgrave and Jeff Hoffman as they stow the Wide Field Planetary Camera I (WFPC I) in the Endeavour'... More

STS061-36-007 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman replace WFPC in the HST

STS061-36-007 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman replace WFPC in the HST

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialists F. Story Musgrave and Jeff Hoffman during their EVA to repalce the Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WFPC) in the... More

STS061-37-003 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC II in the HST

STS061-37-003 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialist Jeff Hoffman during an Extravehicular activity. Hoffman, attached to the end of the Remote Manipulator System... More

Magnificant Details in a Dusty Spiral Galaxy

Magnificant Details in a Dusty Spiral Galaxy

(June 3, 1999) In 1995, the majestic spiral galaxy NGC 4414 was imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the HST Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. An international team of astronomers, led... More

STS061-36-010 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman replace WFPC in the HST

STS061-36-010 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman replace WFPC in the HST

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialists F. Story Musgrave and Jeff Hoffman during their EVA to repalce the Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WFPC) in the... More

STS061-37-031 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman stow WFPC I in the Endeavour's payload bay

STS061-37-031 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman stow WFPC I in the Ende...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialists F. Story Musgrave and Jeff Hoffman as they stow the Wide Field Planetary Camera I (WFPC I) in the Endeavour'... More

STS061-37-010 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC II in the HST

STS061-37-010 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialist Jeff Hoffman during an Extravehicular activity. Hoffman, attached to the end of the Remote Manipulator System... More

STS061-36-004 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman replace WFPC in the HST

STS061-36-004 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman replace WFPC in the HST

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialists F. Story Musgrave and Jeff Hoffman during their EVA to repalce the Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WFPC) in the... More

STS061-37-011 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC II in the HST

STS061-37-011 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialist Jeff Hoffman during an Extravehicular activity. Hoffman, attached to the end of the Remote Manipulator System... More

STS061-36-001 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman replace WFPC in the HST

STS061-36-001 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman replace WFPC in the HST

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialists F. Story Musgrave and Jeff Hoffman during their EVA to repalce the Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WFPC) in the... More

STS061-36-005 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman replace WFPC in the HST

STS061-36-005 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman replace WFPC in the HST

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialists F. Story Musgrave and Jeff Hoffman during their EVA to repalce the Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WFPC) in the... More

STS061-37-035 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman stow WFPC I in the Endeavour's payload bay

STS061-37-035 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman stow WFPC I in the Ende...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialists F. Story Musgrave and Jeff Hoffman as they stow the Wide Field Planetary Camera I (WFPC I) in the Endeavour'... More

STS061-37-012 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC II in the HST

STS061-37-012 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialist Jeff Hoffman during an Extravehicular activity. Hoffman, attached to the end of the Remote Manipulator System... More

STS061-37-009 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC II in the HST

STS061-37-009 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialist Jeff Hoffman during an Extravehicular activity. Hoffman, attached to the end of the Remote Manipulator System... More

STS061-37-029 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman stow WFPC I in the Endeavour's payload bay

STS061-37-029 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman stow WFPC I in the Ende...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialists F. Story Musgrave and Jeff Hoffman as they stow the Wide Field Planetary Camera I (WFPC I) in the Endeavour'... More

STS061-36-002 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman replace WFPC in the HST

STS061-36-002 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman replace WFPC in the HST

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialists F. Story Musgrave and Jeff Hoffman during their EVA to repalce the Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WFPC) in the... More

STS061-37-001 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC II in the HST

STS061-37-001 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialist Jeff Hoffman during an Extravehicular activity. Hoffman, attached to the end of the Remote Manipulator System... More

STS061-37-004 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC II in the HST

STS061-37-004 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialist Jeff Hoffman during an Extravehicular activity. Hoffman, attached to the end of the Remote Manipulator System... More

STS061-37-030 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman stow WFPC I in the Endeavour's payload bay

STS061-37-030 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman stow WFPC I in the Ende...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialists F. Story Musgrave and Jeff Hoffman as they stow the Wide Field Planetary Camera I (WFPC I) in the Endeavour'... More

STS061-37-032 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman stow WFPC I in the Endeavour's payload bay

STS061-37-032 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman stow WFPC I in the Ende...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialists F. Story Musgrave and Jeff Hoffman as they stow the Wide Field Planetary Camera I (WFPC I) in the Endeavour'... More

Nursery of New Stars. NASA public domain image colelction.

Nursery of New Stars. NASA public domain image colelction.

(January 17, 1995) This is a Hubble Space Telescope image (right) of a vast nebula called NGC 604, which lies in the neighboring spiral galaxy M33, located 2.7 million light-years away in the constellation Tria... More

STS061-36-009 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman replace WFPC in the HST

STS061-36-009 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman replace WFPC in the HST

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialists F. Story Musgrave and Jeff Hoffman during their EVA to repalce the Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WFPC) in the... More

Giant Twisters in the Lagoon Nebula

Giant Twisters in the Lagoon Nebula

(September 27, 1995) This NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image reveals a pair of one-half light-year long interstellar "twisters," eerie funnels and twisted-rope structures in the heart of the Lagoon Nebula ... More

STS061-37-015 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC II in the HST

STS061-37-015 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialist Jeff Hoffman during an Extravehicular activity. Hoffman, attached to the end of the Remote Manipulator System... More

STS061-36-003 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman replace WFPC in the HST

STS061-36-003 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman replace WFPC in the HST

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialists F. Story Musgrave and Jeff Hoffman during their EVA to repalce the Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WFPC) in the... More

STS061-37-033 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman stow WFPC I in the Endeavour's payload bay

STS061-37-033 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman stow WFPC I in the Ende...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialists F. Story Musgrave and Jeff Hoffman as they stow the Wide Field Planetary Camera I (WFPC I) in the Endeavour'... More

STS061-37-014 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC II in the HST

STS061-37-014 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialist Jeff Hoffman during an Extravehicular activity. Hoffman, attached to the end of the Remote Manipulator System... More

STS061-36-006 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman replace WFPC in the HST

STS061-36-006 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman replace WFPC in the HST

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialists F. Story Musgrave and Jeff Hoffman during their EVA to repalce the Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WFPC) in the... More

STS061-37-006 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC II in the HST

STS061-37-006 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialist Jeff Hoffman during an Extravehicular activity. Hoffman, attached to the end of the Remote Manipulator System... More

STS061-37-008 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC II in the HST

STS061-37-008 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialist Jeff Hoffman during an Extravehicular activity. Hoffman, attached to the end of the Remote Manipulator System... More

STS061-37-005 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC II in the HST

STS061-37-005 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialist Jeff Hoffman during an Extravehicular activity. Hoffman, attached to the end of the Remote Manipulator System... More

STS061-37-007 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC II in the HST

STS061-37-007 - STS-061 - Various views of Hoffman replacing the WFPC ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialist Jeff Hoffman during an Extravehicular activity. Hoffman, attached to the end of the Remote Manipulator System... More

STS061-36-008 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman replace WFPC in the HST

STS061-36-008 - STS-061 - Musgrave and Hoffman replace WFPC in the HST

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Various views of STS-61 mission specialists F. Story Musgrave and Jeff Hoffman during their EVA to repalce the Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WFPC) in the... More

Stingray Nebula. NASA public domain image colelction.

Stingray Nebula. NASA public domain image colelction.

(March 1, 1996) This Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 image captures the infancy of the Stingray nebula (Hen-1357), the youngest known planetary nebula. In this image, the bright central star is in the middle ... More

The Twin Jet Nebula. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Twin Jet Nebula. NASA public domain image colelction.

(August 2, 1997) M2-9 is a striking example of a "butterfly" or a bipolar planetary nebula. Another more revealing name might be the "Twin Jet Nebula." If the nebula is sliced across the star, each side of it a... More

N81 in the Small Magellanic Cloud

N81 in the Small Magellanic Cloud

(September 24, 1997) A NASA Hubble Space Telescope "family portrait" of young, ultra-bright stars nested in their embryonic cloud of glowing gases. The celestial maternity ward, called N81, is located 200,000 l... More

Butterfly Nebula. NASA public domain image colelction.

Butterfly Nebula. NASA public domain image colelction.

(March 6, 1997) The Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) is back at work, capturing this image of the "butterfly wing"- shaped nebula, NGC 2346. The nebula is about 2,000 light-yea... More

The Ring Nebula. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Ring Nebula. NASA public domain image colelction.

(October 1, 1998) The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest view yet of the most famous of all planetary nebulae, the Ring Nebula (M57). In this October 1998 image, the telescope has looked down... More

An Expanding Bubble in Space. NASA public domain image colelction.

An Expanding Bubble in Space. NASA public domain image colelction.

(January 13, 2000) Astronomers, using the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in October and November 1997 and April 1999, imaged the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) with unprecedented... More

A Grazing Encounter Between Two Spiral Galaxies

A Grazing Encounter Between Two Spiral Galaxies

(November 4, 1999) The larger and more massive galaxy is cataloged as NGC 2207 (on the left in the Hubble Heritage image), and the smaller one on the right is IC 2163. Strong tidal forces from NGC 2207 have dis... More

Supernova SN1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Supernova SN1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud

(February 4, 1999) Glittering stars and wisps of gas create a breathtaking backdrop for the self-destruction of a massive star, called supernova 1987A, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy. Astronomer... More

Mars and Acidalia. NASA public domain image colelction.

Mars and Acidalia. NASA public domain image colelction.

Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space- based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. The telescope... More

Mars and Tharsis. NASA public domain image colelction.

Mars and Tharsis. NASA public domain image colelction.

Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space- based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. The telescope... More

Life Cycle of Stars. NASA public domain image colelction.

Life Cycle of Stars. NASA public domain image colelction.

(March 5, 1999) In this stunning picture of the giant galactic nebula NGC 3603, the crisp resolution of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures various stages of the life cycle of stars in one single view. To th... More

An Ancient Storm in the Jovian Atmosphere

An Ancient Storm in the Jovian Atmosphere

(August 5, 1999) When 17th-century astronomers first turned their telescopes to Jupiter, they noted a conspicuous reddish spot on the giant planet. This Great Red Spot is still present in Jupiter's atmosphere, ... More

The Reflection Nebula in Orion. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Reflection Nebula in Orion. NASA public domain image colelction.

(March 2, 2000) Just weeks after NASA astronauts repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in December 1999, the Hubble Heritage Project snapped this picture of NGC 1999, a nebula in the constellation Orion. The Heri... More

Hubble Reopens Eye on the Universe

Hubble Reopens Eye on the Universe

(January 17, 2000) In its first glimpse of the heavens following the successful December 1999 servicing mission, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a majestic view of a planetary nebula, the glowing remains... More

Mars and Elysium. NASA public domain image colelction.

Mars and Elysium. NASA public domain image colelction.

Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space- based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. The telescope... More

Light and Shadow in the Carina Nebula

Light and Shadow in the Carina Nebula

(February 3, 2000) Previously unseen details of a mysterious, complex structure within the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) are revealed by this image of the "Keyhole Nebula," obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescop... More

Ring Around a Galaxy. NASA public domain image colelction.

Ring Around a Galaxy. NASA public domain image colelction.

(May 6, 1999) Space Telescope Science Institute astronomers are giving the public chances to decide where to aim NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Guided by 8,000 Internet voters, Hubble has already been used to t... More

Galactic Silhouettes. NASA public domain image colelction.

Galactic Silhouettes. NASA public domain image colelction.

(May 11, 2000) This new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and its Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) shows the unique galaxy pair called NGC 3314. Through an extraordinary chance alignment, a face... More

The Eagle Nebula - Public domain  drawing

The Eagle Nebula - Public domain drawing

(March 31, 1995) These eerie, dark pillar-like structures are columns of cool interstellar hydrogen gas and dust that are also incubators for new stars. The pillars protrude from the interior wall of a dark mol... More

Mars and Syrtis Major, NASA history collection

Mars and Syrtis Major, NASA history collection

Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space- based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. The telescope... More

The Glowing Eye of NGC 6751. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Glowing Eye of NGC 6751. NASA public domain image colelction.

(June 6, 2000) Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have obtained images of the strikingly unusual planetary nebula, NGC 6751. Glowing in the constellation Aquila like a giant eye, the nebula is a cl... More

Peering into the Heart of the Crab Nebula

Peering into the Heart of the Crab Nebula

(June 1, 2000) In the year 1054 A.D., Chinese astronomers were startled by the appearance of a new star, so bright that it was visible in broad daylight for several weeks. Today, the Crab Nebula is visible at t... More

Stellar - Public domain  drawing

Stellar - Public domain drawing

(April 1, 1995) This eerie, dark structure, resembling an imaginary sea serpent's head, is a column of cool molecular hydrogen gas (two atoms of hydrogen in each molecule) and dust that is an incubator for new ... More

Fireworks of Star Formation Light Up a Galaxy

Fireworks of Star Formation Light Up a Galaxy

(January 6, 2000) Located some 13 million light-years from Earth, NGC 4214 is currently forming clusters of new stars from its interstellar gas and dust. In this Hubble image, we can see a sequence of steps in ... More

WFPC2 Image of the Variable Star Eta Carinae

WFPC2 Image of the Variable Star Eta Carinae

The discovery of likely Eta Carinae twins in other galaxies will help scientists better understand this brief phase in the life of a massive star with images such as this from NASA Hubble Space Telescope. Astro... More