List of Hubble Space Telescope anniversary images

They celebrate its "birthday" when it was launched into orbit on April 24, 1990, by the crew of Space Shuttle Discovery.

[3] The 17th-anniversary celebration featured a panorama of part of the Carina Nebula, and a collection of images selected from that area.

[4] In its 17 years of exploring the heavens, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made nearly 800,000 observations and snapped nearly 500,000 images of more than 25,000 celestial objects.

In its 17-year lifetime, the telescope has made nearly 100,000 trips around our planet.59 images of merging galaxies were released for the 18th anniversary on 24 April 2008.

[5] In April 2019, a special celebration image of the Southern Crab Nebula (aka Hen 2-104) was released.

15th anniversary image - 2005 – M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy, including NGC 5194 and NGC 5195. [ 2 ]
17th anniversary image - 2007 – part of the Carina Nebula including the star system WR 22 and open cluster (stars) Trumpler 14
19th anniversary image - 2009 – Arp 194 [ 6 ]
20th anniversary image - 2010 – ' Mystic Mountain ' in Carina nebula [ 7 ]
21st anniversary image - 2011 – Arp 273 , which is UGC 1810 and UGC 1813, called a "rose" of galaxies in this release. [ 8 ]
22nd anniversary image - 2012 – 30 Doradus in Tarantula Nebula [ 9 ]
23rd anniversary image - 2013 – Horsehead nebula in infrared light [ 9 ]
24th anniversary image - 2014 – A set of Infrared images of Monkey Head Nebula incl. NGC 2174 and Sharpless Sh2-252 [ 10 ]
25th anniversary image - April 2015 – Westerlund 2 [ 11 ]
26th anniversary image - April 2016 – the Bubble nebula [ 12 ]
27th anniversary image - April 2017 – Interacting galaxies NGC 4302 and NGC 4298 [ 13 ]
28th anniversary image - April 2018 – A portion of the Lagoon nebula [ 14 ]
29th anniversary image - April 2019 – The southern Crab nebula [ 16 ]
30th anniversary image - April 2020 – The portrait features the giant nebula NGC 2014 and its neighbour NGC 2020 which together form part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud . [ 17 ]
31st anniversary image - April 2021 – The Image shows AG Carinae waging a tug-of-war between gravity and radiation to avoid self-destruction. [ 18 ]
32nd anniversary image - April 2022 – The Image shows an unusual close-knit collection of five galaxies, called The Hickson Compact Group 40. Three spiral-shaped galaxies, an elliptical galaxy, and a lenticular (lens-like) galaxy, these different galaxies crossed paths in their evolution to create an exceptionally crowded and eclectic galaxy sampler. [ 19 ]
33rd anniversary image - April 2023 - This image shows nearby star-forming region, NGC 1333. [ 20 ]