2008

• 4/24/2008 STScI-2008-16 1. Cosmic Collisions Galore! Astronomy textbooks typically present galaxies as staid, solitary, and majestic island worlds of glittering stars. But galaxies have a dynamical side. They have close encounters that sometimes... (More)

2007

• 10/30/2007 STScI-2007-36 2. 'Dancing with the Stars' Takes on a Whole New Twist Two galaxies perform an intricate dance in this new Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxies, containing a vast... (More)

2006

• 10/16/2006 STScI-2006-46 3. Super Star Clusters in the Antennae Galaxies This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of the collision, billions... (More)
• 10/12/2006 STScI-2006-45 4. Hubble Captures Galaxy in the Making Images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have provided a dramatic glimpse of a large and massive galaxy under assembly by the merging of smaller, lighter galaxies. Astrophysicists... (More)

2005

• 4/25/2005 STScI-2005-12 5. 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)

2004

• 4/22/2004 STScI-2004-15 6. The Lure of the Rings Resembling a diamond-encrusted bracelet, a ring of brilliant blue star clusters wraps around the yellowish nucleus of what was once a normal spiral... (More)

2003

• 5/1/2003 STScI-2003-14 7. 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)

2002

• 10/3/2002 STScI-2002-23 8. 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)
• 6/5/2002 STScI-2002-13 9. 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)
• 4/30/2002 STScI-2002-11 10. 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)