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Hubble space telescope stock photos and images

25 images of Hubble space telescope photos, pictures, Hubble space telescope stock photography

Spiral galaxy NGC 3370, HST image. This galaxy is around 98 million light years from Earth. It has a nucleus of mainly older yellower stars, surrounded by spiral arms containing younger, hotter, bluer stars. This galaxy was home to a type 1a supernova in 1994. Such supernovae have a known brightness, which allows their distance to be calculated. Studying type 1a events in galaxies provides informa Stock Photo - Royalty-Freenull, Code: 679-02684171

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Orion nebula. Hubble Space Telescope mosaic of the Orion nebula (M42; NGC 1976), which is 1500 light years away in the constellation Orion. This is one of the most detailed astronomical images ever produced (as of 2006). It shows thousands of stars never seen before in visible light. Nebulae are huge clouds of interstellar gas and dust. This is an emission nebula, a region of starbirth. It glows r Stock Photo - Royalty-Freenull, Code: 679-02684142

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Spiral galaxy M101, Hubble Space Telescope image. M101 is also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy. It lies around 25 million light years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. The disc of the galaxy is some 170,000 light years across, nearly twice as wide as our own Milky Way. The spiral arms appear blue as they contain hot young stars. The central nucleus is yellow as the stars there are older, an Stock Photo - Royalty-Freenull, Code: 679-02684175

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Reflection nebula N30B. Hubble Space Telescope image of the Double Bubble reflection nebula (N30B, upper centre). The twin bubbles of gas and dust surround a cluster of hot, young stars. The gas and dust shines by reflected starlight from this cluster. The Double Bubble is part of a much larger complex of gas and dust called DEM L 106, the wispy filaments of which fill the field of view. This comp Stock Photo - Royalty-Freenull, Code: 679-02684139

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Supernova remnant N132D, combined X-ray and optical image. The shockwave from the supernova is causing the surrounding gas and dust (pink) to glow. The supernova occurred around 163,000 years ago, and was first visible from Earth 3000 years ago. This supernova remnant is 160,000 light years from Earth, in the Large Magellanic Cloud in the constellation Dorado. The optical data was obtained with Hu Stock Photo - Royalty-Freenull, Code: 679-02684167

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Crab nebula (M1), Hubble Space Telescope image. This is a supernova remnant, the remains of a star that ended its life in a massine supernova explosion. The supernova itself was seen from Earth in 1054 AD, and was bright enough to be visible in daylight for 23 days. Stock Photo - Royalty-Freenull, Code: 679-02684168

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Crab nebula (M1), Hu...

Spindle galaxy (NGC 5866), optical image. This lenticular (disc-shaped) galaxy lies around 44 million light years from Earth in the constellation Draco. From Earth we see the disc edge-on, hence the spindle-shape. Dust lanes are visible in blue and red. Newly- formed stars extend outwards in blue streaks from the edges of the disc. This photograph was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Stock Photo - Royalty-Freenull, Code: 679-02684172

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Spindle galaxy (NGC ...

Saturn with its rings at their widest angle to Earth, optical HST image. Saturn, like Earth, has a large axial tilt (it rotates on a different plane to the one in which it travels around the Sun). With Earth, this effect causes the seasons. With Saturn, it is useful as it allows Saturn's polar regions to be studied from Earth. Its south pole is seen here. Saturn orbits the Sun once every 29.5 year Stock Photo - Royalty-Freenull, Code: 679-02684133

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Gravitational lensing by dark matter in the galaxy cluster CI 0024+17, Hubble Space Telescope image. The cluster galaxies are bright yellow, the far more distant lensed galaxies appear as elongated blue smears. Gravitational lensing is an effect whereby the path of light from distant objects is bent and magnified by the gravity of a sufficiently massive foreground object in the same line of sight. Stock Photo - Royalty-Freenull, Code: 679-02684176

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M43, an emission nebula that is part of the Orion nebula. The larger part of the nebula (known as M42) is out of frame at lower right. The region glows pink as the hydrogen gas it contains is ionised by radiation from the hot young stars born within it. Dark lanes of dust (across bottom) separate M43 from M42. These are only seen as they are silhouetted against the bright nebula behind them. The n Stock Photo - Royalty-Freenull, Code: 679-02684143

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Star cluster Pismis 24 (upper centre) above the nebula NGC 6357, Hubble Space Telescope image. The nebula is glowing under the impact of radiation from hot, young stars, such as those in the cluster. The largest and brightest member of the cluster, at upper centre, is Pismis 24-1. It was thought to be over 150 solar masses, beyond the theoretical limit for star formation, but a Hubble image has re Stock Photo - Royalty-Freenull, Code: 679-02684140

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Horsehead nebula. Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of the Horsehead nebula. The prominent horsehead shape is formed by the intrusion of the dark nebula B33 into the bright emission nebula IC 434. The horsehead nebula lies around 1000 light years away in the constellation Orion. Stock Photo - Royalty-Freenull, Code: 679-02684144

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Horsehead nebula. Hu...

Pleiades star cluster (M45), Hubble Space Telescope image. Stock Photo - Royalty-Freenull, Code: 679-02684152

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Launch of the space shuttle Discovery on 24 April, 1990 (mission STS-31), carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. The Space Telescope will be able to view objects 50 times fainter and 7 times further away than is possible with existing ground-based optical telescopes. In addition to being able to see fainter objects, Space Telescope will produce images of much higher resolution (detail) be Stock Photo - Royalty-Freenull, Code: 679-02684180

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Starbirth region N66, Hubble Space Telescope image. At centre is the star cluster NGC 346, where hot young stars are producing radiation and stellar winds that are sculpting and impacting the surrounding gas and dust, causing it to glow (pink colour). The visible ridge-like structure of dark nebulae (across top) are dust globules where new stars may be forming. The N66 starbirth region is 210,000 Stock Photo - Royalty-Freenull, Code: 679-02684148

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Light echoes around star V838 Monocerotis, Hubble Space Telescope image. This star underwent a massive brightening, or nova, in 2002. Since then, the light released by this event has illuminated a series of shells of gas and dust that surrounded the star. The shells are thought to have been formed by ejections from the star in its past. The 2002 nova is unusual in that the star's outer layers were Stock Photo - Royalty-Freenull, Code: 679-02684166

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Open star cluster NGC 290. This cluster of young stars lies in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy orbiting our Milky Way. Spanning approximately 65 light years, the cluster is 200,000 light years from the Earth in the constellation Tucana. This photograph was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Stock Photo - Royalty-Freenull, Code: 679-02684153

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Open star cluster NG...

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Astronomer looking through telescope at a star on white Stock Photo - Crestock Royalty-Free, Artist: Denis_Barbulat , Code: 400-05361034

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Planetary nebula. Combined X-ray and optical image of the planetary nebula BD+30-3639. A planetary nebula is a bubble of hot gas and dust, many times the size of our solar system, expanding outwards from a dying, Sun-like star. The nebula consists of the ejected outer layers of the star. The optical part of this image (orange) was obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The hotter, X-ray e Stock Photo - Royalty-Free, Artist: Denis_Barbulat , Code: 679-02684165

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The Hubble space telescope circles the earth in approx. 600 km height. The observations take place in the range of the visible light as well as the ultraviolet and infrared radiation. Stock Photo - Rights-Managed, Artist: imagebroker, Code: 860-03175065

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The Hubble space tel...

The Hubble space telescope circles the earth in approx. 600 km height. The observations take place in the range of the visible light as well as the ultraviolet and infrared radiation. Stock Photo - Rights-Managed, Artist: imagebroker, Code: 860-03175067

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The Hubble space tel...

The Hubble space telescope circles the earth in approx. 600 km height. The observations take place in the range of the visible light as well as the ultraviolet and infrared radiation. Stock Photo - Rights-Managed, Artist: imagebroker, Code: 860-03175091

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The Hubble space tel...

The Hubble space telescope circles the earth in approx. 600 km height. The observations take place in the range of the visible light as well as the ultraviolet and infrared radiation. Stock Photo - Rights-Managed, Artist: imagebroker, Code: 860-03175064

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The Hubble space tel...

The Hubble space telescope circles the earth in approx. 600 km height. The observations take place in the range of the visible light as well as the ultraviolet and infrared radiation. Stock Photo - Rights-Managed, Artist: imagebroker, Code: 860-03175066

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25 images of Hubble space telescope photos, pictures, Hubble space telescope stock photography

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