11/2/2000STScI-2000-3422.A Bird's Eye View of a Galaxy Collision
What appears as a bird's head, leaning over to snatch up a tasty meal, is a striking example of a galaxy collision in NGC 6745. The "bird" is a large spiral galaxy... (More)
5/11/2000STScI-2000-1423.Hubble Heritage Program Wins Photography Award
Through an extraordinary chance alignment, the Hubble telescope has captured a view of a face-on spiral galaxy lying precisely in front of another larger spiral. (More)
1999
11/22/1999STScI-1999-4524.Multiple Galaxy Collisions Surprise Hubble Astronomers
Wrecks between two galaxies were a common occurrence in the early cosmos. But pileups among several galaxies? Astronomers conducting a three-year survey of ultra-luminous infrared... (More)
11/4/1999STScI-1999-4125.A Grazing Encounter between Two Spiral Galaxies
The Hubble telescope has caught a cosmic dance between two spiral galaxies. The larger galaxy, NGC 2207, is on the left; the smaller one, IC 2163, is on the right. (More)
10/21/1997STScI-1997-3427.Hubble Reveals Stellar Fireworks Accompanying Galaxy Collisions
The Hubble telescope has uncovered over 1,000 bright; young star clusters bursting to life in a brief, intense, brilliant "fireworks show" at the heart of a pair of colliding... (More)
6/9/1997STScI-1997-1728.A Collision In The Heart Of A Galaxy
The Hubble telescope's infrared camera has uncovered a collision between two spiral galaxies in the heart of the peculiar galaxy called Arp 220. The collision... (More)
1996
11/26/1996STScI-1996-3629.Hubble Spies Supersonic "Comet-Clouds" in Heart of Galaxy
Analysis of dramatic Hubble telescope images reveals immense comet-shaped knots of gas in the heart of the Cartwheel Galaxy. The galaxy's unusual wagon-wheel... (More)
1995
11/29/1995STScI-1995-4930.HST's Greatest Hits 1990-1995
Hubble Space Telescope evokes a new sense of awe and wonder about the infinite richness of our universe in dramatic, unprecedented pictures of celestial objects. Like a traveler sharing... (More)
1/11/1995STScI-1995-0431.Surprising Hubble Images Challenge Quasar Theory
Astronomers report today that new observations from the Hubble telescope challenge 30 years of scientific theory about quasars, the most energetic objects in the universe. (More)