Galaxy Collection:

 

Four Spiral Galaxies, From Ground (upper) and Hubble (lower)

Four Spiral Galaxies, From Ground (upper) and Hubble (lower)

Credits for the ground-based images: Allan Sandage (The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington) and John Bedke (Computer Sciences Corporation and the Space Telescope Science Institute)

Credits for WFPC2 and NICMOS composites: NASA, ESA, and Reynier Peletier (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)