Space

What Hubble had to teach us about our home galaxy © NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Hubble at 30 What Hubble had to teach us about our home galaxy

9 of the Hubble Space Telescope’s greatest discoveries © NASA

Hubble at 30 10 of the Hubble Space Telescope’s greatest discoveries

Hubble's greatest discoveries: the cause of gamma-ray bursts © NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)

The cause of gamma-ray bursts

Hubble allowed scientists to create this 3D map of dark matter – the distance from Earth increases from left to right © NASA, ESA and R. Massey (California Institute of Technology)

Dark matter

Hubble's greatest discoveries: how galaxies evolve © R. Williams (STScI), the Hubble Deep Field Team and NASA

How galaxies evolve

15 distant supernovae © NASA, ESA, and A. Riess (STScI)

Accelerating expansion of the Universe

Kevin Hartnett working in the Space Telescope Operations Control Center during Hubble’s final servicing mission in 2009 ©

Hubble Space Telescope "It’s like keeping a laser pointer on a dime 330km away for 24 hours"

How Hubble gave us a new perspective on the planets (These images reveal how much Saturn’s aurorae change in the space of just a few days © NASA)

How Hubble gave us a new perspective on the planets

Black holes and dark energy: how Hubble discovered the Universe's darkest secrets © ESA/Hubble, NASA, Rivera-Thorsen et al.

Black holes and dark energy How Hubble discovered the Universe's darkest secrets

Hubble's greatest discoveries: how planetary collisions work © Getty Images

How planetary collisions work

The blue stream of material is being ejected from a black hole at the centre of the M87 galaxy © NASA

Supermassive black holes

Close-up of proplyds in Orion © C.R. O'Dell/Rice University; NASA

Protoplanetary discs

Hubble reveals individual stars in the galaxy M81, including Cepheid variables that were used to determine that the Universe is 13.8 billion years old © NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

The age of the Universe

Artist’s impression of the planet Osiris, which lies 150 light-years from Earth © NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)

Exoplanet atmospheres

The NGC 2808 globular cluster contains over one million stars of three different generations © NASA, ESA, A. Sarajedini (University of Florida) and G. Piotto (University of Padua [Padova]);

Generations of stars