8 incredible images of galaxies captured by NASA Hubble Space Telescope

The Whirlpool Galaxy is a spiral galaxy located 31 million light-years away. 

The elliptical galaxy NGC 4660 is one of a hundred galaxies imaged by Hubble that are members of the nearest large galaxy cluster to Earth, the Virgo Cluster

The dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 4214 resides about 10 million light-years away.

Approximately 10,000 galaxies fill a small area of sky called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. 

This illustration shows the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy, NGC 4694

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory captured this view of the massive Perseus cluster, one of the largest-known galaxy clusters

Caltech’s Cosmic Web Imager captured this image of quasar 1549+19 surrounded by hydrogen (blue) and a filament of gas flowing inward from bottom left