2/5/2004STScI-2004-0451.An Abrasive Collision Gives One Galaxy a "Black Eye"
A collision of two galaxies has left a merged star system with an unusual appearance as well as bizarre internal motions. Messier 64 (M64) has a spectacular... (More)
2/3/2004STScI-2004-0652.Supernova Blast Bonanza in Nearby Galaxy
The nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 1569 is a hotbed of vigorous star birth activity which blows huge bubbles that riddle the main body of the galaxy. The galaxy's "star factories"... (More)
1/27/2004STScI-2004-4353.Massive Old Star Reveals Secrets on Deathbed
Like a doctor trying to understand an elderly patient's sudden demise, astronomers have obtained the most detailed observations ever of an old, but otherwise normal massive... (More)
1/6/2004STScI-2004-0254.Too Fast, Too Furious: A Galaxy's Fatal Plunge
Trailing 200,000-light-year-long streamers of seething gas, a galaxy that was once like our Milky Way is being shredded as it plunges at 4.5 million... (More)
9/4/2003STScI-2003-2457.Celestial Composition
Amid a backdrop of far-off galaxies, the majestic dusty spiral NGC 3370 looms in the foreground in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Recent observations taken with the Advanced... (More)
5/1/2003STScI-2003-1459.Freewheeling Galaxies Collide in a Blaze of Star Birth
A dusty spiral galaxy appears to be rotating on edge, like a pinwheel, as it slides through the larger, bright galaxy NGC 1275, in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope... (More)