Image Highlights of Hubble Space Telescope's 36th Anniversary Year (1990-2026)
These are examples of a variety of images that have been featured throughout Hubble's 36th year of operations. Among these were the star-forming region N11 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the shells of stardust that make up the Egg Nebula, the Cat’s Eye Nebula together with ESA’s Euclid, and a brand-new image of the famous Crab Nebula. Hubble also showcased the smouldering heart of M82, swirling spiral galaxies UGC 11397 and Arp 4, dust rings around galaxy NGC 7722, the glittering stars of globular cluster NGC 1786, and the immense galaxy cluster Abell 209.
The Hubble Space Telescope has taken over 1.7 million observations to date. Almost 29,000 astronomers have published peer-reviewed science papers using Hubble data collected over the telescope’s 36-year lifetime, resulting in more than 23,000 publications, with almost 1100 in 2025 alone. Since 2022, researchers have regularly combined Hubble’s observations with those from the James Webb Space Telescope to push opportunities for discovery further.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA.
Duration: 1 minute, 39 second
Release Date: April 20, 2026
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