Incredible pics: 25 years of the Hubble Space telescope

A storm on Jupiter is brewing.

Saturn and some of its four moons.

The Orion Nebula, a formation of dust and gas where thousands of stars are being born.

The Horsehead Nebula cloud, 1,500 light-years from Earth.

Planetary Nebula NGC 5189, a dying medium-sized star in its final stages of life.

The Cat's Eye Nebula, one of the most complex nebula seen in space. It is also a dying star.

Planetary Nebula NGC 6302, but more popularly called the Bug Nebula or the Butterfly Nebula.

The Monkey Head Nebula, 6,400 light-years from Earth.

The Crab Nebula is an expanding remnant of a star’s supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese astronomers recorded this violent event nearly 1,000 years ago in 1054 AD.

A 50-light-year wide-angle view of the Carina Nebula, an immense cloud of gas and dust where a maelstrom of star birth and death is taking place.

Omega Centauri, a collection of 10 million stars in the Milky Way.

V838 Monocerotis, once the brightest star in the entire Milky Way. It is 20,000 light-years away.

Nebula NGC 3603, a prominent star-forming region 20,000 light-years away.

Supernova Remnant 0509-67.5, a rapidly-expanding bubble of gas which remains after a star blew up.

Tarantula Nebula, 170,000 light-years away. it is home to some of the biggest stars ever seen.

Star Cluster NGC 602 where young stars are producing radiation which is eating away at the cloud of dust and gas.

Galaxy M83, 15 million light-years away. The pink clouds of hydrogen gas that dot the galaxy’s spiral arms are the nurseries where new stars are being born.

The Sombrero Galaxy, 29 million light-years away. Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole at its centre.

Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300, which is a barred spiral galaxy like our own, the Milky Way.

The Antennae Galaxies, two galaxies which collided with each other hundreds of millions of years ago.

Stephan's Quintet, four distant galaxies discovered in 1877. It is 290 million light-years away.

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