Hubble Media Resources

Hubble Space Telescope being deployed in space from the the shuttle Discovery's cargo bay, the Earth in the background.

Media Contacts

Reporters with questions about Hubble should contact:

Claire Andreoli
Hubble Communications Lead
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
​301-286-1940

Liz Landau
Senior Communications Specialist
NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC
202-358-0845

Hubble

Social Media

These accounts represent NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on social media and follow the agency's policies and guidelines. Find the ones that match your interests and begin exploring!

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The top portion of the Hubble Space Telescope is seen in this image, with the red NASA worm logo on it, against black space.
The top portion of the Hubble Space Telescope is backdropped against dark space, just after the Space Shuttle Columbia used its 50-foot-long robotic arm to lower the telescope into its cargo bay on March 3, 2002. The image is one of a series recorded with a digital still camera during and immediately after Hubble's capture.
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Hubble Science

Science Highlights

Some of our most notable scientific discoveries

Hubble is far more than pretty pictures. Its suite of scientific instruments make it an orbiting observatory that gathers wavelengths of light from ultraviolet, through visible, and into the near-infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Hubble’s sensitivity to such a broad range of wavelengths makes it one of the most valuable and productive observatories in the history of astronomy.

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Hubble view of an expanding halo of light around star v838 monocerotis
"Starry Night", Vincent van Gogh's famous painting, is renowned for its bold whorls of light sweeping across a raging night sky. Although this image of the heavens came only from the artist's restless imagination, a new picture from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope bears remarkable similarities to the van Gogh work, complete with never-before-seen spirals of dust swirling across trillions of kilometres of interstellar space. This image, obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on February 8, 2004, is Hubble's latest view of an expanding halo of light around a distant star, named V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon). The illumination of interstellar dust comes from the red supergiant star at the middle of the image, which gave off a flashbulb-like pulse of light two years ago. V838 Mon is located about 20,000 light-years away from Earth in the direction of the constellation Monoceros, placing the star at the outer edge of our Milky Way galaxy.
NASA, the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI) and ESA

More Hubble Resources

Additional information about the telescope and its history.

Hubble orbiting the Earth

About Hubble

Get an overview of Hubble, its statistics, the instruments, and more.

Left: a CGI image of Hubble. Right: a CGI image of Webb.

Hubble vs. Webb

Learn how the two telescopes differ and how they complement each other.

Two medical workers in white coats work at an imaging machine. A patient in a hospital gown lies on a platform on top of the machine.

Impact & Benefits

Hubble's mission is to capture observations of the universe, but its technology would alter life on the ground in unique and unexpected ways.

Illustrated diagram of the Hubble Space Telescope with labeling of instruments and components of the telescope.

Hubble's Design

Hubble is the first space-based observatory specifically designed for servicing while in orbit.

woman and a man sitting at a desk with multiple computer monitors, the woman is pointing at a monitor

Hubble Mission Operations

The Space Telescope Operations Control Center keeps Hubble operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Astronaut Kathryn C. Thornton, center, grips a tool to perform servicing mission tasks on Hubble, left, with the Earth in the background on the right.

Missions to Hubble

Explore Hubble's deployment and five servicing missions.