News Release Archive: Galaxy

2007 (continued)

• 10/16/2007 STScI-2007-35 31. Hubble Finds 'Dorian Gray' Galaxy NASA's Hubble Space Telescope quashed the possibility that what was previously believed to be a toddler galaxy in the nearby universe may actually be considered an adult. (More)
• 7/3/2007 STScI-2007-26 32. Stellar Fireworks Are Ablaze in Galaxy NGC 4449 On July 4, fireworks blaze over the skies of American cities in the annual Independence Day celebrations. But nearly 12.5 million light-years... (More)
• 5/28/2007 STScI-2007-19 33. Hubble Photographs Grand Design Spiral Galaxy M81 The sharpest image ever taken of the large "grand design" spiral galaxy M81 is being released today at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. A spiral-shaped... (More)
• 5/15/2007 STScI-2007-17 34. Hubble Finds Ring of Dark Matter Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a ghostly ring of dark matter that formed long ago during a titanic collision between two massive galaxy clusters. (More)
• 4/3/2007 STScI-2007-15 35. Hubble's View of Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1672 This NASA Hubble Space Telescope view of the nearby barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672 unveils details in the galaxy’s star-forming clouds and dark bands of interstellar dust. (More)
• 3/2/2007 STScI-2007-12 36. Hubble Sees 'Comet Galaxy' Being Ripped Apart By Galaxy Cluster NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, in collaboration with several other ground- and space- based telescopes, has captured... (More)
• 2/22/2007 STScI-2007-10 37. NASA's Hubble Telescope Celebrates SN 1987A's 20th Anniversary Twenty years ago, astronomers witnessed one of the brightest stellar explosions in more than 400 years. The titanic supernova... (More)
• 2/5/2007 STScI-2007-08 38. Hubble Illuminates Cluster of Diverse Galaxies This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the diverse collection of galaxies in a galaxy cluster called Abell S0740, located more than 450 million light-years away in the constellation... (More)
• 1/10/2007 STScI-2007-05 39. Hubble Sees Star Cluster "Infant Mortality" Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that young stellar nurseries, called open star clusters, have very short lives. (More)

2006

• 12/19/2006 STScI-2006-55 40. Celestial Season's Greetings from Hubble Swirls of gas and dust reside in this ethereal-looking region of star formation imaged by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This majestic view of LH 95, located in the Large Magellanic... (More)