The 25 most beautiful images from 25 years of the Hubble Space Telescope

The Hubble has been orbiting Earth since 1990, capturing images of the Universe that have greatly changed humanity's scientific understanding of the universe.

This year, for the telescope's 25th birthday, NASA and ESA created a list of 25 of the best and most important images– one for each year the telescope was in orbit.

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  2014 Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, and the HFF Team (STScI) (Read about the image here.)
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  2013 Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) (Read about the image here.)
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  2012 Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) (Read about the image here.)
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  2011 Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) (Read about the image here.)
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  2010 Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI) (Read about the image here.)
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  2009 Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) (Read about the image here.)
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  2008 Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University) (Read about the image here.)
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  2007 Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) – ESA/Hubble Collaboration (Read about the image here.)
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  2006 Credit: NASA,ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team (Read about the image here.)
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  2005 Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) (Read about the image here.)
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  2004 Credit: NASA, ESA, CR O'Dell (Vanderbilt University), M. Meixner and P. McCullough (STScI) (Read about the image here.)
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  2003 Credit: NASA, ESA and HE Bond (STScI) (Read about the image here.)
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  2002 Credit: NASA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth (UCSC/LO), M.Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), the ACS Science Team, and ESA (Read about the image here.)
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  2001 Image Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), Acknowledgment: C. Conselice (U. Wisconsin/STScI)(Read about the image here.)
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  2000 Credit: NASA, Andrew Fruchter and the ERO Team [Sylvia Baggett (STScI), Richard Hook (ST-ECF), Zoltan Levay (STScI)(Read about the image here.)
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  1999 Credit: Steve Lee (University of Colorado), Jim Bell (Cornell University), Mike Wolff (Space Science Institute), and NASA (Read about the image here.)
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  1998 Credit: G. Fritz Benedict, Andrew Howell, Inger Jorgensen, David Chapell (University of Texas), Jeffery Kenney (Yale University), and Beverly J. Smith (CASA, University of Colorado), and NASA (Read about the image here.)
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  1997 Credit: Gary Bower, Richard Green (NOAO), the STIS Instrument Definition Team, and NASA (Read about the image here.)
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  1996 Credit: Robert Williams and the Hubble Deep Field Team (STScI) and NASA (Read about the image here.)
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  1995 Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, J. Hester and P. Scowen (Arizona State University) (Read about the image here.)
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  1994 Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI (Read about the image here.)
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  1993 Credit: JJ Hester (Arizona State University), and NASA (Read about the image here.)
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  1992 Credit: CR O'Dell (Rice University), and NASA(Read about the image here.)
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  1991 Credit: Walter Jaffe/Leiden Observatory, Holland Ford/JHU/STScI, and NASA(Read about the image here.)
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  1990 Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI (Read about the image here.)

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