2003 (continued)

• 1/9/2003 STScI-2003-03 11. Hubble Probes the Heart of a Nearby Quasar The Hubble Space Telescope's new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) has provided the clearest view yet in visible light of the nearby quasar, 3C 273 [image at right]. (More)
• 1/8/2003 STScI-2003-04 12. Giant Radio Jet Coming from Wrong Kind of Galaxy These are composite images of the galaxy 0313-192, the first spiral galaxy known to be producing a giant radio-emitting jet. The image at left represents... (More)

2002

• 10/3/2002 STScI-2002-23 13. 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)

2001

• 8/16/2001 STScI-2001-28 14. Burst of Star Formation Drives Bubble in Galaxy's Core These NASA Hubble Space Telescope snapshots reveal dramatic activities within the core of the galaxy NGC 3079, where... (More)

2000

• 11/30/2000 STScI-2000-37 15. Hubble Captures an Extraordinary and Powerful Active Galaxy The Hubble telescope has taken a snapshot of a nearby active galaxy known as Circinus. This active galaxy belongs to a class of mostly spiral galaxies called Seyferts... (More)
• 7/6/2000 STScI-2000-20 16. A Cosmic Searchlight Streaming out from the center of the galaxy M87 like a cosmic searchlight is one of nature's most amazing phenomena, a black-hole-powered jet of electrons and other sub-atomic particles traveling... (More)
• 6/5/2000 STScI-2000-21 17. Feasting Black Hole Blows Bubbles A monstrous black hole's rude table manners include blowing huge bubbles of hot gas into space. At least, that's the gustatory practice followed by the supermassive black hole residing... (More)

1999

• 10/27/1999 STScI-1999-43 18. Very Long Baseline Array Reveals Formation Region of Giant Cosmic Jet Near a Black Hole Astronomers have seen the exhaust products of black hole "engines": narrow beams of material traveling... (More)
• 3/18/1999 STScI-1999-10 19. Hubble's Infrared Galaxy Gallery Astronomers have used the Hubble telescope to produce an infrared "photo essay" of spiral galaxies. By penetrating the dust clouds swirling around the centers of these galaxies, the telescope's... (More)

1998

• 12/3/1998 STScI-1998-42 20. Behind a Dusty Veil Lies a Cradle of Star Birth NGC 253 is a large, almost edge-on spiral galaxy, and is one of the nearest galaxies beyond our local neighborhood of galaxies. ... (More)