Hubble Space Telescope Visible Light 2021. 29 2014 photo made available by NASA James Webb Space Telescope Optical Engineer Larkin Carey examines two test mirror. This image from the NASAESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy Mrk Markarian 1337 which is roughly 120 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Virgo.
For three decades the public has gotten used to space as seen through the eyes of Hubble. The key is infrared light. This galaxy is one of a pair but NGC 1317.
A Hubble Space Telescope visible light image of bright blue star clusters found along a wispy bridge of gas that was tidally stretched between the two galaxies and a third companion galaxy not seen in this picture.
Hubble telescopes bigger more powerful successor to soar. The 31-year-old Hubble increasingly creaky. As it is designed to be incredibly sensitive to infrared light it can observe deeper into time and space owing to the marvel called red shift. A generation of iconic Hubble images.