The extraordinary photos were taken by Thierry Legault, an engineer famed for his pictures of space taken in his yard in Paris.
He took his latest image in Florida, 60 miles south of the Kennedy Space Centre.
Astronauts aboard the shuttle were repairing and upgrading Hubble for the last time today in a series of spacewalks.
Replacing Hubble’s gyroscopes is the top priority for this final repair mission to the 19-year-old observatory.
The gyroscopes are part of the telescope pointing system, and half of the old ones are broken.
Astronaut Michael Massimino slowly wedged himself into the telescope, head first, and started pulling out the old gyroscopes and putting in the new ones. His spacewalking partner, Michael Good, helped.
“Trained my whole life for this,” Massimino said as he squeezed his tall, husky body inside. Earlier, outside the telescope, he joked, “Anybody home?”
