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 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 ...
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 ...
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 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 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
STS061-37-003 - 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
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 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 ...
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
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 ...
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
STS061-36-005 - 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 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 ...
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 ...
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
STS061-36-002 - 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 ...
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 ...
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 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 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.
(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
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
STS061-37-015 - 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
STS061-37-014 - 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
STS061-36-003 - 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
STS061-36-006 - 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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.
(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.
(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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
(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
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
(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.
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 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
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
(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
(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
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