Image credits

Photographs from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, via ESA/Hubble. Used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. On the homepage, photographs are cropped and interpreted as a field of coloured characters.

• Pillars of Creation

  NASA , ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team

• Orion Nebula

  NASA , ESA , M. Robberto ( Space Telescope Science Institute / ESA ) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team

• Whirlpool Galaxy

  NASA , ESA , S. Beckwith ( STScI ), and The Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA )

• Crab Nebula

  NASA , ESA and Allison Loll/Jeff Hester (Arizona State University). Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin ( ESA / Hubble )

• Helix Nebula

  European Space Agency , NASA , and J. Hester (Arizona State University)

• Sombrero Galaxy

  NASA / ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA )

• Cosmic Reef

  NASA, ESA, and STScI

• Westerlund 2

  NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A. Nota (ESA/STScI), and the Westerlund 2 Science Team The original observations of Westerlund 2 were obtained by the science team: Antonella Nota (ESA/STScI), Elena Sabbi (STScI), Eva Grebel and Peter Zeidler (Astronomisches Rechen-Institut Heidelberg), Monica Tosi (INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna), Alceste Bonanos (National Observatory of Athens, Astronomical Institute), Carol Christian (STScI/AURA) and Selma de Mink (University of Amsterdam). Follow-up observations were made by the Hubble Heritage team: Zoltan Levay (STScI), Max Mutchler, Jennifer Mack, Lisa Frattare, Shelly Meyett, Mario Livio, Carol Christian (STScI/AURA), and Keith Noll (NASA/GSFC).

• Bubble Nebula

  NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team

• Antennae Galaxies

  ESA/Hubble & NASA

• Horsehead Nebula

  NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team ( AURA / STScI )

• Perseus A

  NASA , ESA and Andy Fabian (University of Cambridge, UK)

• Hubble Ultra Deep Field

  NASA , ESA , and S. Beckwith ( STScI ) and the HUDF Team

• The Stellar Forge

  ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee Acknowledgement: Leo Shatz

• Saturn

  NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley)

• NGC 602

  NASA , ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA )- ESA / Hubble Collaboration

• Lagoon Nebula

  NASA, ESA, STScI

• NGC 1015

  ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess (STScl/JHU)

• Butterfly Nebula

  NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

• NGC 346

  NASA , ESA and A. Nota ( ESA / STScI , STScI / AURA )

• Stellar Spire, Eagle Nebula

  NASA , ESA , and The Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA )

• NGC 1316

  NASA , ESA , and The Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA )

• V838 Monocerotis

  NASA , ESA , and The Hubble Heritage Team ( AURA / STScI )

• NGC 1300

  NASA , ESA , and The Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA )

• Tadpole Galaxy

  NASA , Holland Ford (JHU), the ACS Science Team and ESA

• Cone Nebula

  NASA , Holland Ford (JHU), the ACS Science Team and ESA

• The Mice Galaxies

  NASA , Holland Ford (JHU), the ACS Science Team and ESA

• Red Spider Nebula

  ESA & Garrelt Mellema (Leiden University, the Netherlands)

• Carina Nebula

  NASA / ESA , The Hubble Heritage Team ( AURA / STScI )

• AG Carinae

  NASA, ESA and STScI

• Messier 106

  NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and R. Gendler (for the Hubble Heritage Team). Acknowledgment: J. GaBany

• Tarantula Nebula

  NASA, ESA

• NGC 2841

  NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration Acknowledgment: M. Crockett and S. Kaviraj (Oxford University, UK), R. O'Connell (University of Virginia), B. Whitmore (STScI) and the WFC3 Scientific Oversight Committee.

• Mystic Mountain

  NASA, ESA, M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)

• NGC 6217

  NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

• Stephan’s Quintet

  NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

• Messier 74

  NASA , ESA , and The Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration

• Carina, a Stellar Nursery

  NASA , ESA , N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

• NGC 1672

  NASA , ESA

• Cigar Galaxy

  NASA , ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA ). Acknowledgment: J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin), M. Mountain ( STScI ) and P. Puxley (NSF).

• Pinwheel Galaxy

  Image: European Space Agency & NASA Acknowledgements: Project Investigators for the original Hubble data: K.D. Kuntz (GSFC), F. Bresolin (University of Hawaii), J. Trauger (JPL), J. Mould (NOAO), and Y.-H. Chu (University of Illinois, Urbana) Image processing: Davide De Martin ( ESA / Hubble ) CFHT image: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope/J.-C. Cuillandre/Coelum NOAO image: George Jacoby, Bruce Bohannan, Mark Hanna/NOAO/AURA/NSF

• Veil Nebula

  NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team