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1 | 2014 Hubble Image of the Pillars of Creation | NASA's Hubble Space Telescope revisited the famous Pillars of Creation, revealing a sharper and wider view of the structures in this visible-light image.
Astronomers combined several Hubble exposures to assemble the wider view. The towering pillars are about 5 light-years tall. The dark, finger-like feature at bottom right may be a smaller version of the giant pillars. The image was taken with Hubble's versatile and sharp-eyed Wide Field Camera 3.
The pillars are bathed in the blistering ultraviolet light from a grouping of young, massive stars located off the top of the image. Streamers of gas can be seen bleeding off the pillars as the intense radiation heats and evaporates it into space. Denser regions of the pillars are shadowing material beneath them from the powerful radiation. Stars are being born deep inside the pillars, which are made of cold hydrogen gas laced with dust. The pillars are part of a small region of the Eagle Nebula (also known as Messier 16), a vast star-for | June 24, 2015 | Hubble Highlights | CC BY | 27,950,248,711 | 72,157,669,859,700,000 | 7,071 | 6,780 | |
2 | A "Rose" Made of Galaxies Highlighted Hubble's 21st Anniversary | In celebration of the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's deployment into space, astronomers pointed Hubble's eye to an especially photogenic group of interacting galaxies called Arp 273.
The larger of the spiral galaxies, known as UGC 1810, has a disk that is tidally distorted into a rose-like shape by the gravitational tidal pull of the companion galaxy below it, known as UGC 1813. A swath of blue jewels across the top is the combined light from clusters of intensely bright and hot young blue stars. These massive stars glow fiercely in ultraviolet light.
The smaller, nearly edge-on companion shows distinct signs of intense star formation at its nucleus, perhaps triggered by the encounter with the companion galaxy.
A series of uncommon spiral patterns in the large galaxy is a tell-tale sign of interaction. The large, outer arm appears partially as a ring, a feature seen when interacting galaxies actually pass through one another. This suggests that the smaller co | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Highlights | CC BY | 27,747,570,680 | 72,157,669,859,700,000 | 7,994 | 7,887 | |
3 | A black hole of puzzling lightness | This image taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures a galaxy in the Virgo constellation. This camera was installed in 2002, and its wide field of view is double that of its predecessor, capturing superb images with sharp image quality and enhanced sensitivity that can be seen here.
The beautiful spiral galaxy visible in the center of the image is catchily known as RX J1140.1+0307, and it presents an interesting puzzle. At first glance, this galaxy appears to be a normal spiral galaxy, much like the Milky Way, but first appearances can be deceptive!
The Milky Way galaxy, like most large galaxies, has a supermassive black hole at its center, but some galaxies are centered on lighter, intermediate-mass black holes. RX J1140.1+0307 is such a galaxy — in fact, it is centered on one of the lowest black hole masses known in any luminous galactic core. What puzzles scientists about this particular galaxy is that the calculation | July 8, 2016 | Hubble's Latest | CC BY | 32,248,460,071 | 72,157,667,717,900,000 | 516 | 1,041 | |
4 | A cosmic atlas | This beautiful clump of glowing gas, dark dust, and glittering stars is the spiral galaxy NGC 4248, located about 24 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs).
This image was produced by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope as it embarked upon compiling the first Hubble ultraviolet “atlas”, for which the telescope targeted 50 nearby star-forming galaxies. A sample spanning all kinds of different morphologies, masses, and structures. Studying this sample can help us to piece together the star-formation history of the Universe.
By exploring how massive stars form and evolve within such galaxies, astronomers can learn more about how, when, and where star formation occurs, how star clusters change over time, and how the process of forming new stars is related to the properties of both the host galaxy and the surrounding interstellar medium (the “stuff” that fills the space between individual stars). This image is formed of observations from Hubb | February 20, 2017 | Hubble's Latest | CC BY | 36,224,058,765 | 72,157,667,717,900,000 | 833 | 1,041 | |
5 | A distorted duo | Gravity governs the movements of the cosmos. It draws flocks of galaxies together to form small groups and more massive galaxy clusters, and brings duos so close that they begin to tug at one another. This latter scenario can have extreme consequences, with members of interacting pairs of galaxies often being dramatically distorted, torn apart, or driven to smash into one another, abandoning their former identities and merging to form a single accumulation of gas, dust, and stars.
The subject of this Hubble Space Telescope image, IC 1727, is currently interacting with its near neighbor, NGC 672 (which is just out of frame). The pair’s interactions have triggered peculiar and intriguing phenomena within both objects — most noticeably in IC 1727. The galaxy’s structure is visibly twisted and asymmetric, and its bright nucleus has been dragged off-center.
In interacting galaxies such as these, astronomers often see signs of intense star formation (in episodic flurries known as starburs | March 13, 2017 | Hubble's Latest | CC BY | 36,734,402,865 | 72,157,667,717,900,000 | 781 | 1,041 | |
6 | A double discovery | NGC 178 may be small, but it packs quite a punch. Measuring around 40,000 light-years across, its diameter is less than half that of the Milky Way, and it is accordingly classified as a dwarf galaxy. Despite its diminutive size, NGC 178 is busy forming new stars. On average, the galaxy forms stars totaling around half the mass of the Sun per year — enough to label it a starburst galaxy.
The galaxy’s discovery is an interesting, and somewhat confusing, story. It was originally discovered by American astronomer Ormond Stone in 1885 and dubbed NGC 178, but its position in the sky was recorded incorrectly — by accident the value for the galaxy’s right ascension (which can be thought of as the celestial equivalent of terrestrial longitude) was off by a considerable amount.
In the years that followed NGC 178 was spotted again, this time by French astronomer Stéphane Javelle. As no cataloged object occupied that position in the sky, Javelle believed he had discovered a new galaxy and ente | August 21, 2017 | Hubble's Latest | CC BY | 36,031,715,364 | 72,157,667,717,900,000 | 693 | 1,041 | |
7 | A frenzy of stars | Discovered in 1900 by astronomer DeLisle Stewart and here imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, IC 4710 is an undeniably spectacular sight. The galaxy is a busy cloud of bright stars, with bright pockets - marking bursts of new star formation - scattered around its edges.
IC 4710 is a dwarf irregular galaxy. As the name suggests, such galaxies are irregular and chaotic in appearance, lacking central bulges and spiral arms - they are distinctly different from spirals or ellipticals. It is thought that irregular galaxies may once have been spirals or ellipticals, but became distorted over time through external gravitational forces during interactions or mergers with other galaxies. Dwarf irregulars in particular are important to our overall understanding of galactic evolution, as they are thought to be similar to the first galaxies that formed in the universe.
IC 4710 lies roughly 25 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Pavo (the Peacock). This constellati | June 27, 2017 | Hubble's Latest | CC BY | 39,866,059,134 | 72,157,667,717,900,000 | 946 | 1,041 | |
8 | A Giant Hubble Mosaic of the Crab Nebula | This is a mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese astronomers recorded this violent event nearly 1,000 years ago in 1054, as did, almost certainly, Native Americans.
The orange filaments are the tattered remains of the star and consist mostly of hydrogen. The rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in the center of the nebula is the dynamo powering the nebula's eerie interior bluish glow. The blue light comes from electrons whirling at nearly the speed of light around magnetic field lines from the neutron star. The neutron star, like a lighthouse, ejects twin beams of radiation that appear to pulse 30 times a second due to the neutron star's rotation. A neutron star is the crushed ultra-dense core of the exploded star.
The Crab Nebula derived its name from its appearance in a drawing made by Irish astronomer Lord Rosse in 1844, usi | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Highlights | CC BY | 27,747,556,420 | 72,157,669,859,700,000 | 3,864 | 3,864 | |
9 | A greedy giant | NGC 1222, seen in this image taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), is a galaxy with a rather eventful story to tell. NGC 1222 has been described as a peculiar example of a type of galaxy known as a lenticular galaxy. Typically, this kind of galaxy would present a rather smooth appearance on the sky and would consist mostly of old, reddish stars. A bit dull, perhaps.
But NGC 1222 is certainly not a typical member of its class — and it’s anything but dull. Observations show the characteristic features of very recent star formation on a huge scale — an event known as a starburst. The reason for all this violent activity is caused by the fact that NGC 1222 is not alone. It actually contains three compact regions, each of which appears to be the central nucleus of a galaxy. Astronomers think that NGC 1222 is in the process of swallowing up two much smaller dwarf galaxies that strayed too close to it. It is likely that the encounter was the trigger f | November 7, 2016 | Hubble's Latest | CC BY | 30,595,225,640 | 72,157,667,717,900,000 | 815 | 1,041 | |
10 | A Hubble Sky Full of Stars | Located approximately 22,000 light-years away in the constellation of Musca (the Fly), this tightly packed collection of stars — known as a globular cluster — goes by the name of NGC 4833. This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the dazzling stellar group in all its glory.
NGC 4833 is one of the over 150 globular clusters known to reside within the Milky Way. These objects are thought to contain some of the oldest stars in our galaxy. Studying these ancient cosmic clusters can help astronomers to unravel how a galaxy formed and evolved, and give an idea of the galaxy’s age.
Globular clusters are responsible for some of the most striking sights in the cosmos, with hundreds of thousands of stars congregating in the same region of space. Hubble has observed many of these clusters during its time in orbit around our planet, each as breathtaking as the last.
Image credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA
Text credit: European Space Agency
View the full press release <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/ima | August 1, 2016 | Hubble's Latest | CC BY | 28,503,227,340 | 72,157,667,717,900,000 | 1,261 | 1,280 | |
11 | A Lot of Galaxies Need Guarding in this NASA Hubble View | Much like the eclectic group of space rebels in the film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has some amazing superpowers, specifically when it comes to observing innumerable galaxies flung across time and space.
A stunning example is a galaxy cluster called Abell 370 that contains an astounding assortment of several hundred galaxies tied together by the mutual pull of gravity. That’s a lot of galaxies to be guarding, and just in this one cluster!
Photographed in a combination of visible and near-infrared light, the immense cluster is a rich mix of a variety of galaxy shapes. The brightest and largest galaxies in the cluster are the yellow-white, massive, elliptical galaxies containing many hundreds of billions of stars each. Spiral galaxies — like our Milky Way — have younger populations of stars and are bluish.
Entangled among the galaxies are mysterious-looking arcs of blue light. These are actually distorted images of remote galaxies behind the cluster. | May 5, 2017 | Hubble's Latest | CC BY | 33,655,588,633 | 72,157,667,717,900,000 | 1,096 | 985 | |
12 | A matter of distance | In space, being outshone is an occupational hazard. This Hubble Space Telescope image captures a galaxy named NGC 7250. Despite being remarkable in its own right — it has bright bursts of star formation and recorded supernova explosions — it blends into the background somewhat thanks to the gloriously bright star hogging the limelight next to it.
This bright object is a single and little-studied star named TYC 3203-450-1, located in the constellation of Lacerta (the Lizard), much closer than the much more distant galaxy. Only this way can a normal star outshine an entire galaxy, consisting of billions of stars. Astronomers studying distant objects call these stars “foreground stars” and they are often not very happy about them, as their bright light is contaminating the faint light from the more distant and interesting objects they actually want to study.
In this case TYC 3203-450-1 million times closer than NGC 7250, which lies over 45 million light-years away from us. Would the | November 26, 2016 | Hubble's Latest | CC BY | 34,190,418,941 | 72,157,667,717,900,000 | 1,041 | 1,041 | |
13 | A New Angle on Two Spiral Galaxies for Hubble's 27th Birthday | In celebration of the 27th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on April 24, 1990, astronomers used the legendary telescope to take a portrait of a stunning pair of spiral galaxies. This starry pair offers a glimpse of what our Milky Way galaxy would look like to an outside observer.
The edge-on galaxy is called NGC 4302, and the tilted galaxy is NGC 4298. These galaxies look quite different because we see them angled at different positions on the sky. They are actually very similar in terms of their structure and contents.
From our view on Earth, researchers report an inclination of 90 degrees for NGC 4302, which is exactly edge on. NGC 4298 is tilted 70 degrees.
In NGC 4298, the telltale, pinwheel-like structure is visible, but it's not as prominent as in some other spiral galaxies. In the edge-on NGC 4302, dust in the disk is silhouetted against rich lanes of stars. Absorption by dust makes the galaxy appear darker and redder than its companion. A large blue | April 20, 2017 | Hubble's Latest | CC BY | 33,791,303,270 | 72,157,667,717,900,000 | 1,140 | 985 | |
14 | A remarkable galactic hybrid | This Hubble Space Telescope image showcases the remarkable galaxy UGC 12591. Classified as an S0/Sa galaxy, UGC 12591 sits somewhere between a lenticular and a spiral. It lies just under 400 million light-years away from us in the westernmost region of the Pisces–Perseus Supercluster, a long chain of galaxy clusters that stretches out for hundreds of light-years — one of the largest known structures in the cosmos.
The galaxy itself is also extraordinary: it is incredibly massive. The galaxy and its halo together contain several hundred billion times the mass of the Sun; four times the mass of the Milky Way. It also whirls round extremely quickly, rotating at speeds of up to 1.8 million kilometers per hour!
Observations with Hubble are helping astronomers to understand the mass of UGC 1259, and to determine whether the galaxy simply formed and grew slowly over time, or whether it might have grown unusually massive by colliding and merging with another large galaxy at some point in i | February 27, 2017 | Hubble's Latest | CC BY | 33,227,734,285 | 72,157,667,717,900,000 | 867 | 1,041 | |
15 | A slice of Sagittarius | This stunning image, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), shows part of the sky in the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer). The region is rendered in exquisite detail — deep red and bright blue stars are scattered across the frame, set against a background of thousands of more distant stars and galaxies. Two features are particularly striking: the colors of the stars, and the dramatic crosses that burst from the centers of the brightest bodies.
While some of the colors in this frame have been enhanced and tweaked during the process of creating the image from the observational data, different stars do indeed glow in different colors. Stars differ in color according to their surface temperature: very hot stars are blue or white, while cooler stars are redder. They may be cooler because they are smaller, or because they are very old and have entered the red giant phase, when an old star expands and cools dramatically as its core collapses.
| January 16, 2017 | Hubble's Latest | CC BY | 31,609,992,343 | 72,157,667,717,900,000 | 528 | 1,041 | |
16 | A spiral in Andromeda | Not to be confused with our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy, the Andromeda constellation is one of the 88 modern constellations. More importantly for this image, it is home to the pictured NGC 7640.
Many different classifications are used to identify galaxies by shape and structure — NGC 7640 is a barred spiral type. These are recognizable by their spiral arms, which fan out not from a circular core but from an elongated bar cutting through the galaxy’s center. Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is also a barred spiral galaxy. NGC 7640 might not look much like a spiral in this image, but this is due to the orientation of the galaxy with respect to Earth — or to Hubble, which acted as photographer in this case! We often do not see galaxies face on, which can make features such as spiral arms less obvious.
There is evidence that NGC 7640 has experienced some kind of interaction in its past. Galaxies contain vast amounts of mass, and therefore affect one another via gravity. Sometimes thes | February 6, 2017 | Hubble's Latest | CC BY | 32,516,683,650 | 72,157,667,717,900,000 | 1,048 | 1,041 | |
17 | A star's colourful final splash | The Hubble Space Telescope captured this beautiful image of NGC 6326, a planetary nebula with glowing wisps of outpouring gas that are lit up by a central star nearing the end of its life. When a star ages and the red giant phase of its life comes to an end, it starts to eject layers of gas from its surface leaving behind a hot and compact white dwarf. Sometimes this ejection results in elegantly symmetric patterns of glowing gas, but NGC 6326 is much less structured. This object is located in the constellation of Ara, the Altar, about 11 000 light-years from Earth. Planetary nebulae are one of the main ways in which elements heavier than hydrogen and helium are dispersed into space after their creation in the hearts of stars. Eventually some of this outflung material may form new stars and planets. The vivid red and blue hues in this image come from the material glowing under the action of the fierce ultraviolet radiation from the still hot central star. This picture was created from | June 28, 2010 | Hubble's Latest | CC BY | 38,956,026,775 | 72,157,667,717,900,000 | 907 | 1,041 | |
18 | A subtle swarm | This Hubble image shows NGC 4789A, a dwarf irregular galaxy in the constellation of Coma Berenices. It certainly lives up to its name — the stars that call this galaxy home are smeared out across the sky in an apparently disorderly and irregular jumble, giving NGC 4789A a far more subtle and abstract appearance than its glitzy spiral and elliptical cousins.
These stars may look as if they have been randomly sprinkled on the sky, but they are all held together by gravity. The colors in this image have been deliberately exaggerated to emphasize the mix of blue and red stars. The blue stars are bright, hot, and massive stars that have formed relatively recently, whereas the red stars are much older. The presence of both tells us that stars have been forming in this galaxy throughout its history.
At a distance of just over 14 million light-years away NGC 4789A is relatively close to us, allowing us to see many of the individual stars within its bounds. This image also reveals numerous | November 14, 2016 | Hubble's Latest | CC BY | 30,952,176,712 | 72,157,667,717,900,000 | 648 | 1,041 | |
19 | A transformation in Virgo | The constellation of Virgo (the Virgin) is especially rich in galaxies, due in part to the presence of a massive and gravitationally bound collection of over 1300 galaxies called the Virgo Cluster. One particular member of this cosmic community, NGC 4388, is captured in this image, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).
Located some 60 million light-years away, NGC 4388 is experiencing some of the less desirable effects that come with belonging to such a massive galaxy cluster. It is undergoing a transformation, and has taken on a somewhat confused identity.
While the galaxy’s outskirts appear smooth and featureless, a classic feature of an elliptical galaxy, its center displays remarkable dust lanes constrained within two symmetric spiral arms, which emerge from the galaxy’s glowing core — one of the obvious features of a spiral galaxy. Within the arms, speckles of bright blue mark the locations of young stars, indicating that NGC 4388 has hosted recen | December 5, 2016 | Hubble's Latest | CC BY | 31,451,928,372 | 72,157,667,717,900,000 | 733 | 1,041 | |
20 | A window into the cosmic past | This image from Hubble shows the galaxy cluster PLCK G004.5-19.5. It was discovered by the ESA Planck satellite through the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect — the distortion of the cosmic microwave background radiation in the direction of the galaxy cluster, by high energy electrons in the intracluster gas. The large galaxy at the center is the brightest galaxy in the cluster and the dominant object in this image, and above it a thin, curved gravitational lens arc is visible. This is caused by the gravitational forces of the cluster bending the light from stars and galaxies behind it, in a similar way to how a glass lens bends light. Several stars are visible in front of the cluster — recognizable by their diffraction spikes — but aside from these, all other visible objects are distant galaxies. Their light has become redshifted by the expansion of space, making them appear redder than they actually are. By measuring the amount of redshift, we know that it took more than 5 billion years for | January 25, 2018 | Hubble's Latest | CC BY | 25,430,827,647 | 72,157,667,717,900,000 | 892 | 1,041 | |
21 | Abell S1063, the final frontier | Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2016, the TV series "Star Trek" has captured the public’s imagination with the signature phrase, "To boldly go where no one has gone before." NASA's Hubble Space Telescope doesn't "boldly go" deep into space, but it is "boldly peering" deeper into the universe than ever before to explore the warping of space and time and uncover some of the farthest objects ever seen.
When "Star Trek" was first broadcast in 1966, the largest telescopes on Earth could only see about halfway across the universe - the rest was uncharted territory. But Hubble's powerful vision has carried us into the true "final frontier."
This is epitomized in the latest Hubble image released today in time for the new motion picture "Star Trek Beyond." The Hubble image unveils a very cluttered-looking universe filled with galaxies near and far. Some are distorted like a funhouse mirror through a warping-of-space phe | July 21, 2016 | Hubble's Latest | CC BY | 24,116,318,888 | 72,157,667,717,900,000 | 784 | 700 | |
22 | Abell’s richest cluster | The Universe contains some truly massive objects. Although we are still unsure how such gigantic things come to be, the current leading theory is known as hierarchical clustering, whereby small clumps of matter collide and merge to grow ever larger. The 14-billion-year history of the Universe has seen the formation of some enormous cosmic structures, including galaxy groups, clusters, and superclusters — the largest known structures in the cosmos!
This particular cluster is called Abell 665. It was named after its discoverer, George O. Abell, who included it in his seminal 1958 cluster catalogue. Abell 665 is located in the well-known northern constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear). This incredible image combines visible and infrared light gathered by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope using two of its cameras: the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3.
Abell 665 is the only galaxy cluster in Abell’s entire catalogue to be given a richness class of 5, indi | June 9, 2017 | Hubble's Latest | CC BY | 38,110,232,482 | 72,157,667,717,900,000 | 1,034 | 1,041 | |
23 | Alien aurorae on Uranus | Ever since Voyager 2 beamed home spectacular images of the planets in the 1980s, planet-lovers have been hooked on extra-terrestrial aurorae. Aurorae are caused by streams of charged particles like electrons that come from various origins such as solar winds, the planetary ionosphere, and moon volcanism. They become caught in powerful magnetic fields and are channeled into the upper atmosphere, where their interactions with gas particles, such as oxygen or nitrogen, set off spectacular bursts of light.
The alien aurorae on Jupiter and Saturn are well studied, but not much is known about the aurorae of the giant ice planet Uranus. In 2011, the Hubble Space Telescope became the first Earth-based telescope to snap an image of the aurorae on Uranus.
In 2012 and 2014 astronomers took a second look at the aurorae using the ultraviolet capabilities of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) installed on Hubble. They tracked the interplanetary shocks caused by two powerful bursts o | March 30, 2017 | Hubble's Latest | CC BY | 33,129,240,364 | 72,157,667,717,900,000 | 881 | 1,041 | |
24 | An irregular island | This image, courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), captures the glow of distant stars within NGC 5264, a dwarf galaxy located just over 15 million light-years away in the constellation of Hydra (the Sea Serpent).
Dwarf galaxies like NGC 5264 typically possess around a billion stars — just one per cent of the number of stars found within the Milky Way. They are usually found orbiting other, larger, galaxies such as our own, and are thought to form from the material left over from the messy formation of their larger cosmic relatives.
NGC 5264 clearly possesses an irregular shape — unlike the more common spiral or elliptical galaxies — with knots of blue star formation. Astronomers believe that this is due to the gravitational interactions between NGC 5264 and other galaxies nearby. These past flirtations sparked the formation of new generations of stars, which now glow in bright shades of blue.
<b><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/fe | August 22, 2016 | Hubble's Latest | CC BY | 29,251,503,662 | 72,157,667,717,900,000 | 1,073 | 1,041 | |
25 | Andrew J. Feustel | Astronaut Andrew J. Feustel, STS-125 mission specialist, attired in a training version of the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit, awaits the start of a training session in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near Johnson Space Center. | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 4 | CC BY | 27,924,269,672 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 2,704 | 1,802 | |
26 | Astro-pointillism | On a clear evening in April of 1789, the renowned astronomer William Herschel continued his unrelenting survey of the night sky, hunting for new cosmic objects — and found cause to celebrate! Lengthening his impressive list of cosmic discoveries yet again, the astronomer spotted this bright spiral galaxy, named NGC 4707, lurking in the constellation of Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs). NGC 4707 lies roughly 22 million light-years from Earth.
Over two centuries later, the Hubble Space Telescope is able to view the same galaxy in far greater detail than Herschel could, allowing us to appreciate the intricacies and characteristics of NGC 4707 as never before. This striking image comprises observations from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), one of a handful of high-resolution instruments currently aboard the space telescope.
Herschel himself reportedly described NGC 4707 as a “small, stellar” galaxy; while it is classified as a spiral (type Sm), its overall shape, center, an | December 19, 2016 | Hubble's Latest | CC BY | 31,784,535,286 | 72,157,667,717,900,000 | 706 | 1,041 | |
27 | Astronaut Andrew Feustel Signs Autographs at Hubble 25th Anniversary Event at Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center | NASA astronaut Andrew Feustel signs autographs at an event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope on Saturday, April 25, 2015, at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Fuestel flew aboard space shuttle Atlantis during Hubble Servicing Mission 4 in 2009.
Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky | April 25, 2015 | Hubble 25th Anniversary Astronaut Panel | CC BY-NC-SA | 36,028,853,321 | 72,157,684,116,400,000 | 3,057 | 4,285 | |
28 | Astronaut Andrew Feustel Speaks at Hubble 25th Anniversary Event at Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center | NASA astronaut Andrew Feustel speaks as part of a panel discussion at an event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope on Saturday, April 25, 2015, at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Feustel participated in three spacewalks during the final Hubble servicing mission.
Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky | April 25, 2015 | Hubble 25th Anniversary Astronaut Panel | CC BY-NC-SA | 36,121,454,056 | 72,157,684,116,400,000 | 2,847 | 4,350 | |
29 | Astronaut Andrew Feustel Speaks at Hubble 25th Anniversary Event at Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center | NASA astronaut Andrew Feustel speaks as part of a panel discussion at an event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope on Saturday, April 25, 2015, at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Feustel participated in three spacewalks during the final servicing mission.
Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky | April 25, 2015 | Hubble 25th Anniversary Astronaut Panel | CC BY-NC-SA | 35,355,188,873 | 72,157,684,116,400,000 | 2,785 | 3,962 | |
30 | Astronaut Bruce McCandless Speaks at Hubble 25th Anniversary Event at Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center | Former NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless, mission specialist on STS-31, speaks as part of a panel discussion during an event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope on Saturday, April 25, 2015, at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.
Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky | April 25, 2015 | Hubble 25th Anniversary Astronaut Panel | CC BY-NC-SA | 36,121,465,876 | 72,157,684,116,400,000 | 2,313 | 3,838 | |
31 | Astronaut Bruce McCandless Speaks at Hubble 25th Anniversary Event at Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center | Former NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless, mission specialist on STS-31, speaks as part of a panel discussion at an event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope on Saturday, April 25, 2015, at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.
Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky | April 25, 2015 | Hubble 25th Anniversary Astronaut Panel | CC BY-NC-SA | 36,028,854,221 | 72,157,684,116,400,000 | 1,325 | 1,796 | |
32 | Astronaut Bruce McCandless Speaks at Hubble 25th Anniversary Event at Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center | Former NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless speaks during a panel discussion as part of an event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope on Saturday, April 25, 2015, at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. McCandless flew as a mission specialist aboard space shuttle Discovery on STS-31 in 1990, the mission that deployed Hubble.
Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky | April 25, 2015 | Hubble 25th Anniversary Astronaut Panel | CC BY-NC-SA | 36,028,853,911 | 72,157,684,116,400,000 | 3,069 | 4,652 | |
33 | Astronaut C. Michael Foale | Suit technicians assist astronaut C. Michael Foale, mission specialist, in readying for a session of emergency bailout training in the Systems Integration Facility at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Foale, wearing a training version of the partial-pressure launch and entry garment, and his six STS-103 crew mates are currently in training for the third servicing visit to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) since its 1990 deployment. | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3A | CC BY | 27,989,724,356 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 2,053 | 2,007 | |
34 | Astronaut Charles Hobaugh | Astronaut Charles Hobaugh, standing near the Spacecraft Communicator (CAPCOM) console in the Shuttle Flight Control Room of the Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center, talks with astronaut Mark L. Polansky (out of frame), STS-109 ascent CAPCOM. They were monitoring the pre-launch situation at the Kennedy Space Center launch site, several hundred miles away. Hobaugh's duties, among others, were to keep up with weather conditions at and around the launch site. | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,411,458,544 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 1,728 | 1,152 | |
35 | Astronaut Charles O. Hobaugh | Astronaut Charles O. Hobaugh, seated at the Spacecraft Communicator (CAPCOM) console in the Shuttle Flight Control Room of the Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center, gives a thumbs up signal, obviously connected to improving weather at the launch site for the Space Shuttle Columbia several hundred miles away in Florida. Astronaut William A. Oefelein is partially obscured in the background. | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,411,458,574 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 1,152 | 1,728 | |
36 | Astronaut Claude Nicollier | Astronaut Claude Nicollier, mission specialist from the European Space Agency (ESA), works at a storage enclosure, using one of the Hubble power tools, during the second of three STS-103 extravehicular activities (EVA). | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3A | CC BY | 28,024,329,265 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 2,046 | 1,999 | |
37 | Astronaut Claude Nicollier | Astronauts C. Michael Foale (left) and Claude Nicollier participate in the second of three STS-103 spacewalks to service the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). On this task they are replacing one of the telescope's Fine Guidance Sensors (FGS). Nicollier, a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, is standing on the end of the remote manipulator system (RMS). | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3A | CC BY | 28,024,329,105 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 2,048 | 2,032 | |
38 | Astronaut Claude Nicollier at RMS controls on aft flight deck | Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier is pictured at the aft flight deck station he occupied during much of the time on NASA's STS-61 mission aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Among Nicollier's responsibilities were the control of the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) during operations with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). | September 2, 2010 | Hubble Servicing Mission 1 | CC BY | 28,049,532,641 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 2,816 | 4,304 | |
39 | Astronaut Claude Nicollier on flight deck at controls of the RMS | ESA astronaut Claude Nicollier, mission specialist, is stationed on the Space Shuttle Endeavour's flight deck during one of the five Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing space walks. The controls for the Remote Manipulator System (RMS), which played an important role in the space walks, are left of frame center. Two space walkers can be seen through the aft windows. | September 2, 2010 | Hubble Servicing Mission 1 | CC BY | 28,127,833,675 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 2,804 | 4,304 | |
40 | Astronaut Claude Nicollier Speaks at Hubble 25th Anniversary Event at Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center | Former ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Claude Nicollier speaks during an event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope on Saturday, April 25, 2015, at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Nicollier took part in two Hubble servicing missions, Servicing Mission 1 in 1993 and Servicing Mission 3A in 1999.
Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky | April 25, 2015 | Hubble 25th Anniversary Astronaut Panel | CC BY-NC-SA | 36,028,854,131 | 72,157,684,116,400,000 | 2,514 | 1,988 | |
41 | Astronaut Dane Carey Speaks at Hubble 25th Anniversary Event at Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center | Former NASA astronaut Dane Carey speaks as part of a panel discussion during an event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope on Saturday, April 25, 2015, at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Carey flew as pilot aboard space shuttle Columbia on Hubble Servicing Mission 3B in 2002.
Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky | April 25, 2015 | Hubble 25th Anniversary Astronaut Panel | CC BY-NC-SA | 35,355,189,843 | 72,157,684,116,400,000 | 2,344 | 4,188 | |
42 | Astronaut Duane G. Carey | Astronaut Duane G. Carey, STS-109 pilot, dons a training version of the full-pressure launch and entry suit prior to a training session in one of the trainer/mockups (out of frame) in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Carey is assisted by United Space Alliance (USA) suit technician Mike Thompson. STS-109 will be the 108th shuttle flight and the fourth Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission. | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,923,262,092 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 2,080 | 3,147 | |
43 | Astronaut Duane G. Carey | Astronaut Duane G. Carey, STS-109 pilot, photographed in a T-38 trainer jet, prepares for a flight at Ellington Field near Johnson Space Center (JSC). | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,411,460,084 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 2,008 | 3,032 | |
44 | Astronaut Duane G. Carey | Astronaut Duane G. Carey, STS-109 pilot, fields a question during a pre-flight press conference at Johnson Space Center (JSC). | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,990,765,146 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 3,032 | 2,008 | |
45 | Astronaut Duane G. Carey | Astronaut Duane G. Carey, STS-109 pilot, attired in a training version of the shuttle launch and entry garment, awaits the start of a training session at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Carey is assisted by United Space Alliance (USA) crew trainer David Pogue. STS-109 will be the 108th shuttle flight and the fourth Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission. | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,411,463,604 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 3,733 | 2,454 | |
46 | Astronaut Duane G. Carey | Astronaut Duane G. Carey, STS-109 pilot, looks over a reference manual during capture and latch operations with the Hubble Space Telescope. The image was recorded with a digital still camera. | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,990,758,796 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 2,008 | 3,032 | |
47 | Astronaut Duane G. Carey | On the mid deck of the Space Shuttle Columbia, astronaut Duane G. Carey, STS-109 pilot, works with the extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) space suit of one of his crewmates. Astronauts James H. Newman and Michael J. Massimino, mission specialists, were about to begin the fourth space walk of the mission to perform several tasks on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The image was recorded with a digital still camera. | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,947,788,761 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 1,996 | 3,032 | |
48 | Astronaut Duane G. Carey | Astronaut Duane G. Carey, STS-109 pilot, takes a leisurely "spin" on the bicycle ergometer on the mid deck of the Space Shuttle Columbia, while waiting to assist Flight Day 7's assigned space walkers--astronaut James H. Newman and Michael J. Massimino. The extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) space suits of the two can be seen in the background. The image was recorded with a digital still camera. | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,411,449,384 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 3,011 | 2,008 | |
49 | Astronaut Duane G. Carey | Suited in a training version of the full-pressure launch and entry suit, astronaut Duane G. Carey, STS-109 pilot, awaits a training session in one of the trainer/mockups (out of frame) in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). STS-109 will be the 108th shuttle flight and the fourth Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission. | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,923,260,932 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 3,156 | 2,053 | |
50 | Astronaut Duane G. Carey | Astronaut Duane G. Carey, STS-109 pilot, speaks from the lectern in Hangar 990 at Ellington Field during the crew return ceremonies. | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,411,457,724 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 2,008 | 3,032 | |
51 | Astronaut Duane G. Carey | Astronaut Duane G. Carey, STS-109 pilot, consults a reference manual on the flight deck of the Space Shuttle Columbia. Making his first trip into space, Carey has been very busy this week inside the crew cabin, assisting four space walking astronauts participate in five days of extravehicular activity (EVA) to perform work on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,990,746,446 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 1,988 | 2,968 | |
52 | Astronaut Duane G. Carey training in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility | Astronaut Duane G. Carey, STS-109 pilot, occupies the pilot’s station during a mission training session in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Carey is attired in a training version of the shuttle launch and entry garment. STS-109 will be the 108th shuttle flight and the fourth Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission. | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,923,261,032 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 2,069 | 3,160 | |
53 | Astronaut Dwayne G. Carey | Astronaut Dwayne G. Carey training at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near the Johnson Space Center (JSC). | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,411,463,464 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 3,727 | 2,454 | |
54 | Astronaut Gregory J. Harbaugh | Astronaut Gregory J. Harbaugh, STS-82 mission specialist assigned to extravehicular activity (EVA) involved with the servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), dons the gloves for his extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) space suit. He is about to be submerged in a 25-ft. deep pool at the Johnson Space Center's weightless environment training facility (WET-F) to participate in simulations for some of the EVA work. Out of frame, astronaut Joseph Tanner was on the other side of the platform, waiting to
join Harbaugh in the spacewalk rehearsal. | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 2 | CC BY | 27,921,793,552 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 2,345 | 1,536 | |
55 | Astronaut Gregory J. Harbaugh | Astronaut Gregory J. Harbaugh at work on HST, with the assistance of astronaut Joseph R. Tanner (out of frame) on remote manipulator system (RMS). After replacing the HST's Solar Array Drive Electronics (SADE), Harbaugh and Tanner replaced the Magnetic Sensing System (MSS) protective lids with new, permanent covers; and they installed pre-cut insulation pieces to correct tears in the telescope's protective covering caused by temperature changes in space. | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 2 | CC BY | 27,410,065,254 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 1,017 | 1,536 | |
56 | Astronaut Gregory Johnson Speaks at Hubble 25th Anniversary Event at Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center | Former NASA astronaut Gregory C. Johnson speaks during a panel discussion at an event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope on Saturday, April 25, 2015, at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Johnson was pilot of space shuttle Atlantis during the final servicing mission to Hubble, STS-125, in 2009.
Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky | April 25, 2015 | Hubble 25th Anniversary Astronaut Panel | CC BY-NC-SA | 36,121,458,216 | 72,157,684,116,400,000 | 3,280 | 4,928 | |
57 | Astronaut Hoffman replaces fuse plugs on Hubble Space Telescope | Astronaut F. Story Musgrave (top right center) works with a restraint device near the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) during the first of five STS-61 extravehicular activities (EVA). Astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman, who joined Musgrave for three of the five spacewalks, is seen at the bottom of the frame preparing to work with fuse plugs. Photo credit: NASA | September 2, 2010 | Hubble Servicing Mission 1 | CC BY | 28,051,106,581 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 4,692 | 4,654 | |
58 | Astronaut James H. Newman | Astronaut James H. Newman, mission specialist, returns to a stowage area in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Columbia during the STS-109 mission's second day of extravehicular activity (EVA). Astronauts Newman and Michael J. Massimino worked to replace the second set of solar arrays on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The image was recorded with a digital still camera. | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,990,754,366 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 1,996 | 3,032 | |
59 | Astronaut James H. Newman | Astronaut James H. Newman prepares to don his extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) space suit in order to participate in the fourth of five scheduled STS-109 space walks to work on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). This image was recorded with a digital still camera. | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,947,787,611 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 1,996 | 3,032 | |
60 | Astronaut James H. Newman | Astronaut James H. Newman, mission specialist, moves about in the Space Shuttle Columbia's cargo bay while working in tandem with astronaut Michael J. Massimino (out of frame), mission specialist, during the STS-109 mission's second day of extravehicular activity (EVA). Inside Columbia's cabin, astronaut Nancy J. Currie, mission specialist, controlled the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) to assist the two in their work on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Part of the giant telescope's base, latched down in the payload bay, can be seen just above Newman. The image was recorded with a digital still camera. | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,411,451,484 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 3,018 | 2,008 | |
61 | Astronaut James H. Newman | Astronaut James H. Newman, STS-109 mission specialist, photographed in a T-38 trainer jet, prepares for a flight at Ellington Field near Johnson Space Center (JSC). | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,411,460,254 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 2,008 | 3,032 | |
62 | Astronaut James H. Newman | Astronaut James H. Newman, STS-109 mission specialist, responds to a query during a pre-flight press conference at Johnson Space Center (JSC). | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,990,764,646 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 3,032 | 2,008 | |
63 | Astronaut James H. Newman | Suited in a training version of the full-pressure launch and entry garment, astronaut James H. Newman, STS-109 mission specialist, awaits a training session in one of the trainer/mockups (out of frame) in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). STS-109 will be the 108th shuttle flight and the fourth Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission. | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,990,772,386 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 2,080 | 3,157 | |
64 | Astronaut James H. Newman | Astronaut James H. Newman, STS-109 mission specialist, speaks from the lectern in Hangar 990 at Ellington Field during the crew return ceremonies. | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,411,457,304 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 2,008 | 3,032 | |
65 | Astronaut James H. Newman | Astronaut James H. Newman, mission specialist, is about to put on his extravehicular mobility unit's (EMU) outer suit over its thermal under garment. Astronauts Newman and Michael J. Massimino were about to embark on the STS-109 mission's fourth space walk. The image was recorded with a digital still camera. | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,947,784,901 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 1,996 | 3,032 | |
66 | Astronaut James H. Newman | Astronaut James H. Newman, STS-109 mission specialist, works with Payload and General Support Computers (PGSC) on the mid deck of the Space Shuttle Columbia. | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,411,554,163 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 1,972 | 2,976 | |
67 | Astronaut James H. Newman and Michael J. Massimino EVA | With his feet secured on a platform connected to the remote manipulator system (RMS) robotic arm of the Space Shuttle Columbia, astronaut Michael J. Massimino, mission specialist, hovers over the shuttle's cargo bay while working in tandem with astronaut James H. Newman, mission specialist, during the STS-109 mission's second day of extravehicular activity (EVA). Inside Columbia's cabin, astronaut Nancy J. Currie, mission specialist, controlled the RMS. The image was recorded with a digital still camera. | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,990,753,056 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 2,008 | 3,032 | |
68 | Astronaut James H. Newman EVA | Astronaut James H. Newman, mission specialist, moves about in the Space Shuttle Columbia's cargo bay while working in tandem with astronaut Michael J. Massimino (out of frame), mission specialist, during the STS-109 mission's second day of extravehicular activity (EVA). The space walk lasted seven hours, 16 minutes. Inside Columbia's cabin, astronaut Nancy J. Currie, mission specialist, controlled the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) to assist the two in their work on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Part of the giant telescope's base, latched down in the payload bay, can be seen behind Newman. The image was recorded with a digital still camera. | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,947,789,241 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 2,000 | 3,032 | |
69 | Astronaut James H. Newman EVA | Astronaut James H. Newman, mission specialist, waves to a cabin-bound crewmate while moving about in the Space Shuttle Columbia's cargo bay. The veteran of four previous NASA space walks was working in tandem with astronaut Michael J. Massimino (out of frame) mission specialist, during the STS-109 mission's second day of extravehicular activity (EVA). The space walk lasted seven hours, 16 minutes. Inside Columbia's cabin, astronaut Nancy J. Currie, mission specialist, controlled the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) to assist the two in their work on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Part of the giant telescope's base, latched down in the payload bay, can be seen behind Newman. The image was recorded with a digital still camera. | July 1, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | CC BY | 27,990,752,776 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 2,000 | 3,032 | |
70 | Astronaut Jean-Francois Clervoy Signs Autographs at Hubble 25th Anniversary Event at Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center | ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Jean-Francois Clervoy signs autographs as part of an event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope on Saturday, April 25, 2015, at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Clervoy flew aboard space shuttle Discovery on Hubble Servicing Mission 3A in 1999.
Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky | April 25, 2015 | Hubble 25th Anniversary Astronaut Panel | CC BY-NC-SA | 35,355,189,463 | 72,157,684,116,400,000 | 2,711 | 4,611 | |
71 | Astronaut Jean-Francois Clervoy Speaks at Hubble 25th Anniversary Event at Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center | ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Jean-Francois Clervoy, far right, speaks during a panel discussion as part of an event celebrating the25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope on Saturday, April 25, 2015, at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Clervoy flew aboard space shuttle Discovery on Servicing Mission 3A in 1999.
Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky | April 25, 2015 | Hubble 25th Anniversary Astronaut Panel | CC BY-NC-SA | 36,121,464,886 | 72,157,684,116,400,000 | 2,663 | 4,515 | |
72 | Astronaut Jean-Francois Clervoy Speaks at Hubble 25th Anniversary Event at Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center | ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Jean-Francois Clervoy speaks during a panel discussion as part of an event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope on Saturday, April 25, 2015, at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Clervoy flew aboard space shuttle Discovery on Servicing Mission 3A in 1999.
Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky | April 25, 2015 | Hubble 25th Anniversary Astronaut Panel | CC BY-NC-SA | 36,028,854,011 | 72,157,684,116,400,000 | 2,328 | 1,731 | |
73 | Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman displays tools for use on HST | Astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman displays tools used in the five space walks on the STS-61 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) repair mission. Hoffman was one of four space walkers making use of the variegated gear. | August 13, 2009 | Hubble Servicing Mission 1 | CC BY | 28,049,533,281 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 2,780 | 4,284 | |
74 | Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman on RMS during third of five HST EVAs | Astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman signals directions to European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Claude Nicollier, as the latter controls the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm during the third of five Extravehicular Activities (EVA) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission. Astronauts Hoffman and F. Story Musgrave earlier changed out the Wide Field\Planetary Camera (WF\PC). | July 6, 2016 | Hubble Servicing Mission 1 | CC BY | 28,049,524,691 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 4,200 | 3,719 | |
75 | Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman with WF/PC during third STS-61 EVA | Astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman, anchored to the end of the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm, prepares to stow the Wide Field\Planetary Camera (WF\PC I) for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), during their extravehicular activity (EVA). Astronaut F. Story Musgrave, stationed at the stowage area at bottom of frame, assists. WF/PC II is in place on the HST. | September 2, 2010 | Hubble Servicing Mission 1 | CC BY | 28,051,112,341 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 4,720 | 4,665 | |
76 | Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman with WF/PC during third STS-61 EVA | Astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman, anchored on the end of the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm, is pictured with the Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WF/PC I) during the third of five extravehicular activity?s (EVA). Astronauts Hoffman and F. Story Musgrave, seen near the stowage area for the WF/PC, had earlier installed the new camera (note white rectangle) on lower portion of telescope. | September 2, 2010 | Hubble Servicing Mission 1 | CC BY | 27,514,162,734 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 4,683 | 4,648 | |
77 | Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman with WF/PC during third STS-61 EVA | Astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman, anchored to the end of the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm, is pictured with the Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WF/PC I) during the third of five extravehicular activity?s (EVA). Astronauts Hoffman and F. Story Musgrave, seen near the stowage area for the WF/PC, had earlier installed the new camera (note white rectangle) on the lower portion of the telescope. This photograph was made with a handheld Hasselblad camera from the Space Shuttle Endeavour's cabin. | September 2, 2010 | Hubble Servicing Mission 1 | CC BY | 28,051,113,171 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 4,692 | 4,655 | |
78 | Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman with Wide Field/Planetary Camera during EVA | Astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman with Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WF/PC 1) during changeout operations. WF/PC-2 has already been installed in cavity (out of frame). Astronauts Hoffman and Story Musgrave are performing Extravehicular Activities (EVA) to repair the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). | September 2, 2010 | Hubble Servicing Mission 1 | CC BY | 28,049,530,971 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 5,800 | 3,783 | |
79 | Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman works with replacement WF/PC II for HST | Anchored to the Space Shuttle Endeavour's Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm, astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman works with the replacement Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WF/PC II) for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) during the third of five space walks. Astronaut F. Story Musgrave, who joined Hoffman for three of the five space walks, helps with alignment at center frame. | September 2, 2010 | Hubble Servicing Mission 1 | CC BY | 27,514,163,464 | 72,157,670,398,700,000 | 2,800 | 4,292 | |
80 | Astronaut Jim Newman Speaks at Hubble 25th Anniversary Event at Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center | Former NASA astronaut Jim Newman speaks as part of a panel discussion at an event celebrating the25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope on Saturday, April 25, 2015, at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Newman flew as a mission specialist aboard space shuttle Columbia on Hubble Servicing Mission 3B in 2002.
Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky | April 25, 2015 | Hubble 25th Anniversary Astronaut Panel | CC BY-NC-SA | 35,355,189,703 | 72,157,684,116,400,000 | 3,280 | 4,928 | |
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