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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-11 Europa Hubble Space Telescope
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Ultraviolet observations made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2012 illustrate two key elements in the thin atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Europa: hydrogen and oxygen.
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Hubble's Ultraviolet Observations Reveal Hydrogen and Oxygen at Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-10-28 Jupiter Hubble Space Telescope
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Jupiter's banded appearance is created by the cloud-forming weather layer. This composite image shows views of Jupiter in infrared and visible light taken by the Gemini North telescope and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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Jupiter's Bands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-04 Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
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Spitzer Space Telescope
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The image shows galaxy Arp 148, captured by NASA's Spitzer and Hubble telescopes. Specially processed Spitzer data is shown inside the white circle, revealing infrared light from a supernova hidden by dust.
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Hidden Supernova Spotted by Spitzer
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-05-25 Hubble Space Telescope
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This pair of visible-light and near-infrared photos from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the giant star N6946-BH1 before and after it vanished out of sight by imploding to form a black hole.
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Massive Star Goes Out With a Whimper Instead of a Bang
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-01-07 IC 3639 NuSTAR
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IC 3639, a galaxy with an active galactic nucleus, is seen in this image combining data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory.
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Galaxy IC 3639 with Obscured Active Galactic Nucleus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-01-06 Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
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Researchers found likely twins of the giant, erupting star Eta Carinae by comparing infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (top) and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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A Full Panel of Twins
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-11 Chandra X-ray Observatory
Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
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This composite image of NGC 2207 and IC 2163 contains Chandra data in pink, optical-light data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in red, green, and blue (appearing as blue, white, orange, and brown), and infrared data from Spitzer Space Telescope in red.
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Galactic Gathering Gives Impressive Light Display
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-08 NuSTAR
 Chandra X-ray Telescope
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The comparison from NASA's Hubble telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory highlights how different the universe can look when viewed in other wavelengths of light. M82 is located 12 million light-years away in the Ursa Major constellation.
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Galaxy in Different Lights
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-04-14 Hubble Space Telescope
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Known as IRAS 20324+4057 ('The Tadpole'), taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2012, shows a bright blue tadpole as it appears to swim through the inky blackness of space.
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The Tadpole and the Wriggler
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-04-02 Helix Nebula Hubble Space Telescope
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This image of the Helix Nebula from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows a fine web of filamentary 'bicycle-spoke' features embedded in the colorful red and blue gas ring, which is one of the nearest planetary nebulae to Earth.
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Iridescent Glory of Nearby Helix Nebula
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-02-11 Saturn Cassini-Huygens
Hubble Space Telescope
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Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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Ultraviolet and infrared images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft and Hubble Space Telescope show active and quiet auroras at Saturn's north and south poles.
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Dance of Saturn's Auroras Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-01-07 Hubble Space Telescope
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This long-exposure image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744 is the deepest ever made of any cluster of galaxies. Shown in the foreground is Abell 2744, located in the constellation Sculptor.
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Hubble Frontier Field Abell 2744
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-01-07 Hubble Space Telescope
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The view is a composite of images taken in visible and near-infrared light by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Researchers have circled four unusually red objects that appear as they existed just 500 million years after the big bang.
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Distant Galaxies in Goods North
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-10-25 Hubble Space Telescope
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Hubble Space Telescope
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The Boomerang nebula, called the 'coldest place in the universe,' reveals its true shape to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope. The background blue structure, is seen in visible light by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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Ghostly 'Boomerang'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-09-27 Vesta Dawn
Hubble Space Telescope
 Framing Camera
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These two images compare topographic maps of the giant asteroid Vesta as discerned by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (top) and as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft (bottom). Hubble has been in an orbit around Earth, while Dawn orbited Vesta from 2011 to 2012.
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Comparing Vesta's Topography
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-09-27 Vesta Dawn
Hubble Space Telescope
 Framing Camera
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These two maps of the giant asteroid Vesta show patterns of brightness from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (top) and NASA's Dawn spacecraft (bottom). Hubble's view is from an orbit around Earth. Dawn went into orbit around Vesta from 2011 to 2012.
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Two Views of Vesta Bright and Dark
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-23 Jupiter Hubble Space Telescope
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This is a composite photo, assembled from separate images of Jupiter and comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, as imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in 1994.
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Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Approaching Jupiter in 1994
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-12-21 Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
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Spizter Space Telescope
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This image from NASA's Hubble telescope shows one of the most distant galaxies known, called GN-108036, dating back to 750 million years after the Big Bang that created our universe. The galaxy's light took 12.9 billion years to reach us.
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Distant Galaxy Bursts with Stars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-01-26 Jupiter IRTF
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Eight Looks at the Jupiter Impact
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Eight Looks at the Jupiter Impact
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-16 Jupiter Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
Very Large Space Telescope (VLT)
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New thermal images from powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter's Great Red Spot.
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Jupiter's Storms: Temperatures and Cloud Colors
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-04 Pluto Hubble Space Telescope
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This is the most detailed view to date of the entire surface of the dwarf planet Pluto, as constructed from multiple NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken from 2002 to 2003.
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Hubble Maps of Pluto Show Surface Changes Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-04 Tempel 1 Hubble Space Telescope
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These pictures of comet Tempel 1 were taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. They show the comet before and after it ran over NASA's Deep Impact probe.
PIA02122:
Hubble Witnesses Comet Crash
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-06 Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
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NASA's three Great Observatories -- the Hubble Space Telescope, the SpitzerSpace Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory -- joined forces to probe the expanding remains of a supernova, called Kepler's supernova remnant.
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Three Great Eyes on Kepler's Supernova Remnant
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