Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble captures the break-up of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS). Credit NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA), Q. Ye (University of Maryland)

Eye On The Sky Hubble captures the break-up of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)

NGC 2014 and NGC 2020, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI

Eye On The Sky Hubble astronomers release new image on telescope's 30th anniversary

Hubble has helped to define the shape of the Ring Nebula, revealing it to be doughnut shaped, with lower density material at its core. Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration

Gallery Hubble highlights: 16 of the space telescope's most iconic images

Story Musgrave during the first of five spacewalks to repair Hubble in 1993. Credit: NASA

‘How we fixed Hubble’: An interview with former astronaut Story Musgrave

Astronaut Story Musgrave prepares to be elevated to the top of Hubble to install protective covers on its pointing control system, during the mission to repair Hubble. Credit: NASA

What was wrong with Hubble’s mirror, and how was it fixed?

Listen to the latest podcast from the makers of BBC Sky at Night Magazine, in which we look back at 30 years of the Hubble Space Telescope

Radio Astronomy Podcast 30 years of the Hubble Space Telescope

Diagram of the Hubble Space Telescope from 1981. Credit: Lockheed Missiles and Space Company (Lockheed Martin).

How did the Hubble Space Telescope come about?

Hubble's famous 1995 image the 'Pillars of Creation'. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, J. Hester and P. Scowen (Arizona State University)

What Hubble’s launch meant to me, as an amateur astronomer

Hubble Space Telescope sporting new solar arrays during SM3B Credit: NASA/ESA

How the Hubble Space Telescope changed our view of the Universe

Astronaut Steven L. Smith, payload commander, prepares to use a 35mm camera during the final space walk of the STS-103 mission. Credit: NASA/ESA

Why did astronauts service the Hubble Space Telescope?

Astronaut Mike Massimino at the commander's station on Space Shuttle Atlantis. Credit: NASA

‘How we serviced Hubble’: astronaut Mike Massimino on fixing the famous space telescope

Artist's concept of a Jupiter-mass exoplanet orbiting the nearby star Epsilon Eridani. Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)

How the Hubble Space Telescope is used to study exoplanets

The Hubble Space Telescope pictured following a successful service mission carried out via Space Shuttle Discovery Credit: NASA/ESA

Hubble at 30 Marking 3 decades of the famous telescope

Spiral galaxy NGC 2273. Credit: Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Greene

Eye On The Sky Hubble spies a spiral within a spiral galaxy

Galaxy UGC 2885. Credit: NASA/ESA and B. Holwerda (University of Louisville)

Eye On The Sky Hubble spies galaxy 2.5 times the diameter of the Milky Way