God’s Great World

Hubble’s Top Images 

(Pictured First to Last in Sequence) 

Red Spider Nebula—Surfing in Sagittarius—ESA / Garrelt Mellema (Leiden University, the Netherlands)

Light and Shadow in the Carina Nebula—NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team (AURA / STScI)

Saturn in Natural Colours—Hubble Heritage Team (AURA / STScI / NASA / ESA)

Hubble captures view of Mystic Mountain—NASA / ESA / M. Livio / Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)

Dramatically backlit dust lanes in NGC 7049—NASA / ESA / W. Harris (McMaster University, Ontario, Canada)

Ghostly Reflections in the Pleiades—NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA) / George Herbig, Theodore Simon (University of Hawaii)

Spirograph Nebula—NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA)

A grazing encounter between two spiral galaxies—NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team (STScI)

Hubble image of the Ring Nebula (Messier 57)—NASA / ESA / C. Robert O’Dell (Vanderbilt University)

Collison leaves giant Jupiter bruised—NASA / ESA / Michael Wong (STScI, Baltimore, MD) / H. B. Hammel (STScI, Boulder, CO) / Jupiter Impact Team

Hubble snaps Saturn moon transit—NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team (STSCI / AURA). Acknowledgment—M. Wong (STSCI / UC Berkeley) / C. Go (Phillippines)

Hubble studies sequences of star formation in neighbouring galaxy—NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team (AURA / STScI / HEIC)

Galaxy playing twister—NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA)

Turquoise-tinted plumes in the large magellanic cloud—ESA / Hubble / NASA. Acknowledgement—Josh Barrington

New Hubble image of NGC 2174—NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

A reflection nebula in Orion—NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team (STScI)

True colour image of Impact Zones D and G—H. Hammel / MIT / NASA / ESA

Best image of bright quasar 3C 273—ESA / Hubble / NASA 

Gaseous streamers flutter in stellar breeze—NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team

Hubble images remarkable double cluster—ESA / NASA / Martino Romaniello (ESA, Germany)

Trifid Nebula—Stellar Sibling Rivalry—NASA / ESA / Jeff Hester (Arizona State University)

Jupiter and its shrunken Great Red Spot—NASA / ESA / A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Centre). Acknowledgement—C. Go. Science Credit—A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Centre) / G. Orton (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) / J. Rogers (University of Cambridge, UK) / M. Wong, I. de Pater (University of California, Berkeley)

An extraordinary celestial spiral—ESA / NASA / R. Sahai 

The Hourglass Nebula—Raghvendra Sahai, John Trauger (JPL) / WFPC2 Science Team / NASA / ESA

Hubble watches light echo from mysterious erupting star—NASA / ESA / H.E. Bond (STScI)

Thackeray's Globules in IC 2944—NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Third way of galaxies—ESA / Hubble / NASA. Acknowledgement—J. Barrington

Pillars of Creation—Jeff Hester, Paul Scowen (Arizona State University) / NASA / ESA

A mysterious old spiral—ESA / Hubble / NASA. Acknowledgement—Judy Schmidt 

Stellar flare hits HD 189733b (artist's impression)—NASA / ESA / L. Calçada 

Arp 148—NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA) —ESA / Hubble Collaboration, A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville / NRAO / Stony Brook University) / K. Noll (STScI) / J. Westphal (Caltech) 

Saturn's dynamic aurorae—NASA / ESA / J. Clarke (Boston University, USA) / Z. Levay (STScI)

Nebula NGC 2080, nicknamed the Ghost Head Nebula—ESA / NASA, Mohammad Heydari-Malayeri (Observatoire de Paris, France)

The best Earth-based view of Mars ever—NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Hubble snaps image of space oddity—NASA / ESA / William Keel (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa) / Galaxy Zoo team

Jupiter's Great Red Spot and Ganymede's shadow colour—NASA / ESA / A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Centre). Acknowledgment— C. Go / Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA) 

A stellar sneezing fit—ESA / Hubble / NASA. Acknowledgement—Gilles Chapdelaine