10/5/2000STScI-2000-30101.Hubble Peeks into a Stellar Nursery in a Nearby Galaxy
The Hubble telescope has peered deep into a neighboring galaxy to reveal details of the formation of new stars. Hubble's target was a newborn star cluster... (More)
7/6/2000STScI-2000-20102.A Cosmic Searchlight
Streaming out from the center of the galaxy M87 like a cosmic searchlight is one of nature's most amazing phenomena, a black-hole-powered jet of electrons and other sub-atomic particles traveling... (More)
6/5/2000STScI-2000-22103.Black Holes Shed Light on Galaxy Formation
Astronomers are concluding that monstrous black holes weren't simply born big but instead grew on a measured diet of gas and stars controlled by their host galaxies... (More)
6/5/2000STScI-2000-21104.Feasting Black Hole Blows Bubbles
A monstrous black hole's rude table manners include blowing huge bubbles of hot gas into space. At least, that's the gustatory practice followed by the supermassive black hole residing... (More)
5/11/2000STScI-2000-14105.Hubble Heritage Program Wins Photography Award
Through an extraordinary chance alignment, the Hubble telescope has captured a view of a face-on spiral galaxy lying precisely in front of another larger spiral. (More)
3/9/2000STScI-2000-09106.Hubble Surveys Dying Stars in Nearby Galaxy
From ground-based telescopes, the glowing gaseous debris surrounding dying, sun-like stars in a nearby galaxy, called the Large Magellanic Cloud, appear as small, shapeless... (More)
2/16/2000STScI-2000-11107.Onset of Titanic Collision Lights Up Supernova Ring
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a ringside seat to a never before seen violent celestial "main attraction" unfolding in a galaxy 169,000 light-years... (More)
1/24/2000STScI-2000-07108.Hubble Reopens Its Eye on the Universe
The Hubble telescope reopened its "eye" on the universe following a successful December 1999 servicing mission by imaging a Sun-like star, dubbed the "Eskimo Nebula"... (More)
1/6/2000STScI-2000-01109.Fireworks of Star Formation Light up a Galaxy
Pictures obtained with the Hubble telescope reveal episodes of star formation that are occurring across the face of the nearby galaxy NGC 4214. Located some 13 million... (More)