2008

• 11/20/2008 STScI-2008-38 1. Hubble Resolves Puzzle about Loner Starburst Galaxy Astronomers have long puzzled over why a small, nearby, isolated galaxy is pumping out new stars faster than any galaxy in our local neighborhood. (More)

2007

• 7/3/2007 STScI-2007-26 2. Stellar Fireworks Are Ablaze in Galaxy NGC 4449 On July 4, fireworks blaze over the skies of American cities in the annual Independence Day celebrations. But nearly 12.5 million light-years... (More)

2006

• 10/12/2006 STScI-2006-45 3. 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)
• 4/24/2006 STScI-2006-14 4. Happy Sweet Sixteen, Hubble Telescope! To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 16 years of success, the two space agencies involved in the project, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), are releasing... (More)

2005

• 3/3/2005 STScI-2005-09 5. 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)

2004

• 12/1/2004 STScI-2004-35 6. Hubble Uncovers a Baby Galaxy in a Grown-Up Universe Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have measured the age of what may be the youngest galaxy ever seen in the universe. By cosmological standards... (More)
• 11/11/2004 STScI-2004-31 7. Hubble Tracks Asteroid's Sky Trek While analyzing NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of the Sagittarius dwarf irregular galaxy (SagDIG), an international team of astronomers led by Simone Marchi, Yazan Momany... (More)
• 2/3/2004 STScI-2004-06 8. Supernova Blast Bonanza in Nearby Galaxy The nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 1569 is a hotbed of vigorous star birth activity which blows huge bubbles that riddle the main body of the galaxy. The galaxy's "star factories"... (More)

2003

• 3/6/2003 STScI-2003-07 9. Hubble Resolves a Blaze of Stars in a Galaxy's Core The central region of the small galaxy NGC 1705 blazes with the light of thousands of young and old stars in... (More)

2001

• 1/4/2001 STScI-2001-01 10. "X" Marks the Spot: Hubble Sees the Glow of Star Formation in a Neighbor Galaxy The saying "X" marks the spot holds true in this Hubble telescope image. In this case, X marks the location of Hubble-X... (More)