2006 (continued)

• 4/18/2006 STScI-2006-17 31. Magellanic Gemstones in the Southern Sky NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed images to date of the open star clusters NGC 265 and NGC 290 in the Small Magellanic Cloud -- two sparkling... (More)
• 2/28/2006 STScI-2006-10 32. Hubble's Largest Galaxy Portrait Offers a New High-Definition View Giant galaxies weren’t assembled in a day. Neither was this Hubble Space Telescope image of the face-on spiral galaxy Messier 101 (M101). It is the largest... (More)
• 2/7/2006 STScI-2006-07 33. Hubble Snaps Images of a Pinwheel-Shaped Galaxy This dramatic spiral galaxy is one of the latest viewed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Stunning details of the face-on spiral galaxy, cataloged as NGC 1309, are captured... (More)

2005

• 11/10/2005 STScI-2005-35 34. Young Stars Sculpt Gas with Powerful Outflows This image of star cluster NGC 346 and its surrounding star-formation region was taken in July 2004 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. (More)
• 9/20/2005 STScI-2005-26 35. Hubble Finds Mysterious Disk of Blue Stars Around Black Hole Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have identified the source of a mysterious blue light surrounding a supermassive black hole in our neighboring... (More)
• 9/14/2005 STScI-2005-13 36. Black Hole in Search of a Home A team of European astronomers has used two of the most powerful astronomical facilities available, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's... (More)
• 7/28/2005 STScI-2005-21 37. Hubble Pinpoints Doomed Star that Explodes as Supernova Amidst the glitter of billions of stars in the majestic spiral galaxy called the Whirlpool (M51), a massive star abruptly ends its life in a brilliant flash of light. (More)
• 4/25/2005 STScI-2005-12 38. Hubble Celebrates 15th Anniversary with Spectacular New Images During the 15 years NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has orbited the Earth, it has taken more than 700,000 photos of the cosmos; images that have awed, astounded... (More)
• 3/31/2005 STScI-2005-11 39. Hubble Spies Cosmic Dust Bunnies Like dust bunnies that lurk in corners and under beds, surprisingly complex loops and blobs of cosmic dust lie hidden in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1316. (More)
• 3/3/2005 STScI-2005-09 40. The Impending Destruction of NGC 1427A What happens when a galaxy falls in with the wrong crowd? The irregular galaxy NGC 1427A is a spectacular example of the resulting stellar rumble. Under the gravitational... (More)