Light Echo

"Light Echo" Illuminates Dust Around Supergiant Star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon)

Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)

The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute conducts Hubble science operations.

Goddard is responsible for HST project management, including mission and science operations, servicing missions, and all associated development activities.

To learn more about the Hubble Space Telescope go here: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/main/index.html

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.

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