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• 12/5/2002 STScI-2002-29 71. Hubble Photographs 'Double Bubble' in Neighboring Galaxy A unique peanut-shaped cocoon of dust, called a reflection nebula, surrounds a cluster of young, hot stars in this view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The "double bubble,"... (More)
• 10/3/2002 STScI-2002-23 72. Odd Couple Widely Separated by Time and Space Appearances can be deceiving. In this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, an odd celestial duo, the spiral galaxy NGC 4319 [center] and a quasar called Markarian... (More)
• 9/5/2002 STScI-2002-21 73. A Wheel within a Wheel A nearly perfect ring of hot, blue stars pinwheels about the yellow nucleus of an unusual galaxy known as Hoag's Object. This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures a face-on... (More)
• 6/5/2002 STScI-2002-13 74. Hubble's Infrared Camera is Back in Business — New Images Released After more than three years of inactivity, the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) has reopened its “near-infrared... (More)
• 5/9/2002 STScI-2002-12 75. Gaseous Streamers Flutter in Stellar Breeze N44C is the designation for a region of ionized hydrogen gas surrounding an association of young stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a nearby, small companion... (More)
• 4/30/2002 STScI-2002-11 76. Hubble's New Camera Delivers Breathtaking Views of the Universe Jubilant astronomers unveiled humankind's most spectacular views of the universe, courtesy of the newly installed Advanced Camera for Surveys... (More)
• 4/9/2002 STScI-2002-09 77. Hubble Astronomer Creates Spectacular Galaxy Collision Visualization for the National Air and Space Museum Someday our Milky Way Galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy may come crashing together in a horrendous collision... (More)
• 4/4/2002 STScI-2002-07 78. A Galaxy That's All Wound Up Tightly wound, almost concentric, arms of dark dust encircle the bright nucleus of the galaxy NGC 2787 in this Hubble Space Telescope image. In astronomer Edwin Hubble's... (More)
• 2/7/2002 STScI-2002-03 79. Hubble Reveals "Backwards" Spiral Galaxy Astronomers have found a spiral galaxy that may be spinning to the beat of a different cosmic drummer. To the surprise of astronomers, the galaxy, called NGC 4622, appears to be rotating... (More)
• 1/8/2002 STScI-2002-02 80. Stellar 'Fireworks Finale' Came First in the Young Universe The deepest views of the cosmos from the Hubble Space Telescope yield clues that the very first stars may have burst into the universe as brilliantly and spectacularly... (More)