2004

• 2/15/2004 STScI-2004-08 21. Hubble and Keck Team Up to Find Farthest Known Galaxy in Universe An international team of astronomers may have set a new record in discovering what is the most distant known galaxy in the universe. Located... (More)
• 1/6/2004 STScI-2004-02 22. 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)
• 1/1/2004 STScI-2004-01 23. Images from Hubble's ACS Tell a Tale of Two Record-Breaking Galaxy Clusters Looking back in time nearly 9 billion years, an international team of astronomers found mature galaxies in a young universe. The galaxies... (More)

2003

• 1/7/2003 STScI-2003-01 24. Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space Takes Hubble Deeper into the Universe The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has used a natural "zoom lens" in space to boost its view of the distant... (More)

2002

• 12/12/2002 STScI-2002-22 25. Hubble Watches Galaxies Engage in Dance of Destruction NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing a grouping of galaxies engaging in a slow dance of destruction that will last for billions of years. The galaxies... (More)

2001

• 10/5/2001 STScI-2001-32 26. Gravitational Lens Helps Hubble and Keck Discover Galaxy Building Block A very small, faint galaxy -- possibly one of the long sought "building blocks" of present-day galaxies -- has been discovered by a collaboration between... (More)
• 7/19/2001 STScI-2001-22 27. Star Clusters Born in the Wreckage of Cosmic Collisions In the beginning of the 1946 holiday film classic "It's a Wonderful Life," angelic figures take on the form of a famous group of compact galaxies... (More)

2000

• 1/24/2000 STScI-2000-07 28. 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)

1999

• 9/2/1999 STScI-1999-31 29. A Minuet of Galaxies This troupe of four galaxies, known as Hickson Compact Group 87 (HCG 87), is performing an intricate dance orchestrated by the mutual gravitational forces acting between them. (More)

1998

• 8/19/1998 STScI-1998-26 30. Distant Heavyweight Galaxy Cluster Clobbers Dense-Universe Theory A Space Telescope Science Institute astronomer has found the equivalent of the proverbial 900-pound gorilla in deep space. The "gorilla" is an extremely massive cluster... (More)

1997

• 7/30/1997 STScI-1997-25 31. World's Most Powerful Telescopes Team Up With a Lens in Nature to Discover Farthest Galaxy in the Universe An international team of astronomers has discovered the most distant galaxy in the universe... (More)
• 1/14/1997 STScI-1997-02 32. Hubble Finds Intergalactic Stars The Hubble telescope has found a long-sought population of "stellar outcasts" ? stars tossed out of their home galaxies into the dark emptiness of intergalactic space. (More)

1996

• 4/24/1996 STScI-1996-10 33. Hubble Space Telescope Completes Sixth Year of Exploration A new golden era of space exploration and discovery began April 24, 1990 with the launch and deployment of the Hubble telescope. Over the past six years Hubble's... (More)

1995

• 4/5/1995 STScI-1995-14 34. Hubble Views Distant Galaxies through a Cosmic Lens This Hubble telescope image of a rich cluster of galaxies called Abell 2218 is a spectacular example of gravitational lensing. The arc-like pattern... (More)

1994

• 12/6/1994 STScI-1994-52 35. Hubble Identifies Primeval Galaxies, Uncovers New Clues to the Universe's Evolution Astronomers using the Hubble telescope as a "time machine" have obtained the clearest views yet of distant galaxies that existed when the universe... (More)
• 12/6/1994 STScI-1994-25 36. Observes the Lost Ancestors to Our Milky Way Galaxy This NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of the central portion of a remote cluster of galaxies (CL 0939+4713) as it looked when the universe was two-thirds... (More)

1992

• 12/1/1992 STScI-1992-28 37. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Peers Far Back in Time to Uncover the Secrets of Galaxy Evolution Looking far away and far back in time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has found some suspected ancestors... (More)
• 10/8/1992 STScI-1992-25 38. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Uses a Distant Gravitational Lens to Explore the Cosmos NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has photographed a striking mirror- image of a very distant galaxy. The observations... (More)
• 5/7/1992 STScI-1992-15 39. Space Telescope Science Institute Prepares a "Desktop Universe" For Astronomers Imagine turning your home computer into the equivalent of a professional telescope which can display millions of stars and galaxies located anywhere... (More)