The Hubble Space Telescope has changed the way we see the universe. For a quarter of a century, it has sent vast amounts of data and images from space.
Hubble Highlights
![This image surveys star birth in the Great Orion Nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years from Earth and is the remnant of a star that began its life with about 10 times the mass of our own Sun. (NASA)](https://gdb.voanews.com/D2C47EDD-9172-4175-B508-3E796342C567_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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This image surveys star birth in the Great Orion Nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years from Earth and is the remnant of a star that began its life with about 10 times the mass of our own Sun. (NASA)
![These delicate filaments are actually sheets of debris from a stellar explosion. (NASA)](https://gdb.voanews.com/5C39384C-247A-4958-AF80-1856B43630DD_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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These delicate filaments are actually sheets of debris from a stellar explosion. (NASA)
![The Hubble Space Telescope took this close-up of Mars when it was just 88 million kilometers away. This image was assembled from a series of exposures taken over 36 hours. (NASA)](https://gdb.voanews.com/52783E54-C279-4CB0-ABFB-9DD3B73FDF87_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The Hubble Space Telescope took this close-up of Mars when it was just 88 million kilometers away. This image was assembled from a series of exposures taken over 36 hours. (NASA)
![NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has trained its razor-sharp eye on one of the universe's most stately and photogenic galaxies, the Sombrero galaxy. (NASA)](https://gdb.voanews.com/C1227A33-06D6-487B-96AE-9090FFB98249_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has trained its razor-sharp eye on one of the universe's most stately and photogenic galaxies, the Sombrero galaxy. (NASA)