The Secret Behind Those Beautiful Hubble Images

Since it launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has snapped more than a million images and changed the way we see the universe, literally.

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Sources:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/hubble-team-breaks-cosmic-distance-record
https://hubblesite.org/science/exoplanets
http://hubble.stsci.edu/reference_desk/faq/all.php.cat=light
http://hubble.stsci.edu/gallery/behind_the_pictures/meaning_of_color/
https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/mwmw/mmw_across.html
http://hubble.stsci.edu/gallery/behind_the_pictures/meaning_of_color/tool.php
https://hubblesite.org/image/3862
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190220.html
https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/16/2099-Image.html

Images:
https://hubblesite.org/image/4012/news/1-planets
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Distant_galaxy_GN-z11_in_GOODS-N_image_by_HST.jpg
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic2006b/
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20314
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EmissionNebula_NGC6357.jpg
https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/full-electromagnetic-spectrum-information-collection-vector-illustration-diagram-gm932443826-255558895
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deep_Impact_MRI.jpg
https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2005/35/1819-Image.html?news=true
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/the-triangulum-galaxy
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/m33.html
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Triangulum_Galaxy_(Messier_33).jpg
https://public.nrao.edu/gallery/islands-in-space/
https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2020/03/4601-Image?page=2&filterUUID=4c394bbb-b21e-43ab-a160-2a4521d70243
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180221.html
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paranal_Starry_Night.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_OTA_FOVfgsyellow.png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Starsinthesky.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_Sees_a_Horsehead_of_a_Different_Color.jpg
https://science.nasa.gov/toolkits/spacecraft-icons
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160109.html
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0320a/
https://hubblesite.org/image/3862
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1501b/
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190220.html
https://hubblesite.org/image/4505/gallery
https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/16/2099-Image.html