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2002 (continued)

6/5/2002 STScI-2002-13 91. 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 92. 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 93. 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 94. 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 95. 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 96. 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 97. 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)

2001

11/1/2001 STScI-2001-37 98. Hubble Reveals Ultraviolet Galactic Ring The appearance of a galaxy can depend strongly on the color of the light with which it is viewed. This Hubble Heritage image of NGC 6782 illustrates a pronounced example of this effect. (More)
10/5/2001 STScI-2001-32 99. 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)
9/6/2001 STScI-2001-26 100. A Galaxy Blazes With Star Formation Most galaxies form new stars at a fairly slow rate, but members of a rare class known as "starburst" galaxies blaze with extremely active star formation. (More)