10 never-before-seen Hubble Telescope images from deep space
10 never-before-seen Hubble Telescope images from deep space
21 May, 2025
Credit: ESA
The stately and inclined spiral galaxy NGC 3511 is located 43 million light-years away in the constellation Crater (The Cup).
A spiral so inclined
A sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way's galactic neighbours, a dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Candyfloss clouds
This galaxy, called Arp 184 or NGC 1961, sits about 190 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Camelopardalis (The Giraffe).
A peculiar spiral
M72 is a collection of stars, formally known as a globular cluster, located in the constellation Aquarius roughly 50 000 light years from Earth.
A glittering cluster
This is a planetary nebula named Kohoutek 4-55, a member of the Milky Way galaxy situated just 4600 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus (the Swan).
Swan song for stars
Say hello to one of the Milky Way's neighbours!. It features a scene from one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The SMC is a dwarf galaxy located about 200 000 light-years away.
Colourful clouds
The narrow galaxy elegantly curving around its spherical companion in this image is a fantastic example of a truly strange and very rare phenomenon.
Rings of Relativity
This latest image of Jupiter, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on 25 August 2020, was captured when the planet was 653 million kilometres from Earth.
Jupiter and Great Red Spot
The Bubble Nebula, also known as NGC 7635, is an emission nebula located 8 000 light-years away.
The Bubble Nebula
The star-forming region NGC 3603 - seen here in the latest Hubble Space Telescope image - contains one of the most impressive massive young star clusters in the Milky Way.
Extreme star cluster
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