2013

• 4/19/2013 STScI-2013-12 1. Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color Unlike other celestial objects there is no question how the Horsehead Nebula got its name. This iconic silhouette of a horse's head and neck pokes up mysteriously... (More)
• 4/4/2013 STScI-2013-17 2. Taken Under the "Wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope has made the first detection of X-ray emission from young solar-type stars that lie outside our Milky Way galaxy. (More)

2012

• 8/16/2012 STScI-2012-35 3. Hubble Watches Star Clusters on a Collision Course Astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have caught two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. The 30 Doradus... (More)
• 7/3/2012 STScI-2012-30 4. NASA's Hubble Views a Cosmic Skyrocket Resembling a Fourth of July skyrocket, Herbig-Haro 110 is a geyser of hot gas from a newborn star that splashes up against and ricochets from the dense core of a cloud of molecular... (More)
• 4/17/2012 STScI-2012-01 5. Hubble's 22nd Anniversary Image Shows Turbulent Star-making Region Several million young stars are vying for attention in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a raucous stellar breeding ground in 30 Doradus, located... (More)
• 2/15/2012 STScI-2012-12 6. Astronomers Watch Delayed Broadcast of a Powerful Stellar Eruption Astronomers are watching a delayed broadcast of a spectacular outburst from the unstable, behemoth double-star system Eta Carinae, an event initially... (More)

2011

• 12/15/2011 STScI-2011-38 7. Hubble Serves Up a Holiday Snow Angel The bipolar star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106, or S106 for short, looks like a soaring, celestial snow angel. The outstretched "wings"... (More)
• 8/31/2011 STScI-2011-20 8. Hubble Movies Provide Unprecedented View of Supersonic Jets from Young Stars A team of scientists has collected enough high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope images over a 14-year period to stitch together time-lapse... (More)
• 5/12/2011 STScI-2011-14 9. Galaxy NGC 4214: A Star-Formation Laboratory The dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 is ablaze with young stars and gas clouds. Located around 10 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs), the galaxy's... (More)
• 1/10/2011 STScI-2011-01 10. Hubble Zooms in on a Space Oddity A ghostly, glowing, green blob of gas has become one of astronomy's great cosmic mystery stories. The space oddity was spied in 2007 by Dutch high-school teacher... (More)