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Hubble and Webb space images: galaxies, nebulae

Free Hubble and Webb telescope images of galaxies, nebulae and star clusters from NASA, at full resolution, with NASA's credit and usage rules shown.

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The universe in detail

Since 1990 the Hubble Space Telescope has photographed nebulae, galaxies and star clusters in detail no ground telescope could reach, and since 2022 the James Webb Space Telescope has added infrared views. NASA publishes the images on its library, many at several thousand pixels across.

These pages collect telescope images from the NASA Image and Video Library and Wikimedia Commons: the Pillars of Creation, the Crab Nebula, the Carina Nebula, spiral galaxies and deep fields.

Using them

Credit the image as NASA gives it, for example NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team. Don’t use the NASA logo or suggest endorsement. Deep-space images contain no people or brands, so they make safe backgrounds for slides, posters and book covers, but check partner credits before commercial use.

Questions

Are Hubble images free to use commercially?
NASA Hubble images may be used with credit, without implying NASA endorsement. Images credited to ESA or STScI partners can have their own terms, shown here as 'check the terms'.
Are the colours real?
They are mapped from what the telescope recorded, often including infrared or ultraviolet light the eye can't see. They show real structure, in representative colour.

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