2008

• 8/20/2008 STScI-2008-28 1. Hubble Sees Magnetic Monster in Erupting Galaxy NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found an answer to a long-standing puzzle by resolving giant but delicate filaments shaped by a strong magnetic... (More)

2007

• 12/17/2007 STScI-2007-37 2. "Death Star" Galaxy Black Hole Fires at Neighboring Galaxy A powerful jet from a supermassive black hole is blasting a nearby galaxy, according to new data from NASA observatories. This never-before witnessed galactic... (More)
• 10/25/2007 STScI-2007-39 3. Hubble Spies Shells of Sparkling Stars Around Quasar What has appeared as a mild-mannered elliptical galaxy in previous studies is revealing its wild side in new images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. (More)
• 10/16/2007 STScI-2007-35 4. Hubble Finds 'Dorian Gray' Galaxy NASA's Hubble Space Telescope quashed the possibility that what was previously believed to be a toddler galaxy in the nearby universe may actually be considered an adult. (More)
• 4/3/2007 STScI-2007-15 5. Hubble's View of Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1672 This NASA Hubble Space Telescope view of the nearby barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672 unveils details in the galaxy’s star-forming clouds and dark bands of interstellar dust. (More)

2006

• 6/13/2006 STScI-2006-26 6. Hubble Eyes Star Birth in the Extreme Staring into the crowded, dusty core of two merging galaxies, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a region where star formation has gone wild. (More)
• 5/23/2006 STScI-2006-23 7. Hubble Captures a "Five-Star" Rated Gravitational Lens NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first-ever picture of a group of five star-like images of a single distant quasar. (More)
• 4/24/2006 STScI-2006-14 8. 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

• 9/14/2005 STScI-2005-13 9. Black Hole in Search of a Home A team of European astronomers has used two of the most powerful astronomical facilities available, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's... (More)

2004

• 6/1/2004 STScI-2004-19 10. Spitzer Leads NASA's Great Observatories to Uncover Black Holes, Other Hidden Objects in the Distant Universe Astronomers unveiled the deepest images from NASA's new Spitzer Space Telescope today, and announced the detection... (More)

2003

• 5/1/2003 STScI-2003-14 11. 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)
• 1/9/2003 STScI-2003-03 12. 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 13. 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 14. 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 15. 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 16. 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 17. 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 18. 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 19. 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 20. 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 21. 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)
• 10/26/1998 STScI-1998-37 22. New Research That Uses Gravitationally Lensed Quasars to Measure Universe is Good News, Bad News for Cosmologists Astronomers who are using the Hubble telescope to observe the gravitational lensing of light from distant... (More)
• 6/18/1998 STScI-1998-22 23. Hubble Uncovers Dust Disk around a Massive Black Hole Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700-light-year-wide dust disk encircles a 300-million- solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical... (More)
• 5/14/1998 STScI-1998-14 24. Hubble Provides Multiple Views of How to Feed a Black Hole Astronomers have obtained an unprecedented look at the nearest example of galactic cannibalism — a massive... (More)

1997

• 6/9/1997 STScI-1997-18 25. Fireworks Near a Black Hole in the Core of Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4151 The Hubble telescope's imaging spectrograph simultaneously records, in unprecedented detail, the velocities of hundreds of gas knots streaming... (More)
• 5/12/1997 STScI-1997-12 26. Hubble Records a Black Hole's Signature The colorful "zigzag" on the right is not the work of a flamboyant artist, but the signature of a super-massive black hole in the center of galaxy M84, discovered... (More)

1996

• 11/19/1996 STScI-1996-35 27. Hubble Surveys the "Homes" of Quasars Dramatic Hubble telescope pictures reveal that quasars live in a remarkable assortment of galaxies, many of which are violently colliding. This complicated picture suggests... (More)
• 7/18/1996 STScI-1996-25 28. Hubble Achieves Milestone: 100,000th Exposure The Hubble telescope reached a milestone several years sooner than scientists expected when it snapped its 100,000th exposure June 22, 1996. The six-year-old orbiting observatory... (More)
• 2/21/1996 STScI-1996-12 29. Hubble Opens Doorway to Systematic Search for Black Holes Hubble Space Telescope's ongoing black hole hunt has bagged yet another supermassive black hole in the universe. The compact... (More)

1995

• 12/4/1995 STScI-1995-47 30. Hubble Finds a New Black Hole - and Unexpected New Mysteries Confirming the presence of yet another super-massive black hole in the universe, astronomers using the Hubble telescope have found unexpected... (More)
• 11/29/1995 STScI-1995-49 31. 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)
• 8/7/1995 STScI-1995-30 32. Hubble Uncovers Surprisingly Complex Structures in Radio Galaxies Probing some of the most distant and energetic galaxies in the universe, the Hubble telescope has uncovered surprisingly varied and intricate structures... (More)
• 6/13/1995 STScI-1995-28 33. Astronomers Rule Out Starburst Galaxies as Contributing to the Far-Ultraviolet Background Astronomers using the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT), flown aboard the Shuttle ASTRO-2 mission, have been able to exclude one explanation... (More)
• 3/31/1995 STScI-1995-22 34. Hubble Data Suggest Galaxies Have Giant Halos NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has helped solve a two-decade-old cosmic mystery by showing that mysterious clouds of hydrogen in space may actually be vast halos of gas surrounding... (More)
• 2/20/1995 STScI-1995-10 35. Hubble Probes the Violent Birth of Stars in Galaxy NGC 253 This Hubble telescope image of the core of the nearest starburst spiral galaxy, NGC 253, reveals violent star formation within a region 1,000 light-years... (More)
• 1/19/1995 STScI-1995-05 36. Hubble Identifies Huge Clouds of Intergalactic Gas Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered evidence that clouds of hydrogen found between galaxies at distances of billions of light-years... (More)
• 1/11/1995 STScI-1995-04 37. 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)

1994

• 5/25/1994 STScI-1994-23 38. Hubble Confirms Existence of Massive Black Hole at Heart of Active Galaxy Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have found seemingly conclusive evidence for a massive black hole in the center of the giant elliptical... (More)
• 4/26/1994 STScI-1994-16 39. Hubble Resolves Quasars' Host Galaxies This Hubble telescope image [right] reveals a faint galaxy, the home of a quasar. The wealth of new detail in this picture helps solve a three-decade-old mystery... (More)
• 1/13/1994 STScI-1994-07 40. HST Reveals the Central Region of an Active Galaxy The refurbished HST has provided this outstanding image of the nuclear region of the galaxy NGC 1068. NGC 1068 is located at a distance of approximately... (More)

1993

• 9/9/1993 STScI-1993-30 41. HST Snaps Optical Jet of Quasar 3c 273 The Green (V band) image (left) shows the field around the quasar 3c 273 (courtesy Matthew Colless, David Schade and the CFHT). The optical jet can be seen SW of the quasar. (More)
• 7/16/1993 STScI-1993-19 42. Hubble Observations Support Black Hole Explanation For Active Galaxies A team of astronomers reports that recent NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of the nearest Seyfert galaxy, NGC 4395, further support... (More)
• 6/9/1993 STScI-1993-15 43. A Lighthouse Beacon From the Core of an Active Galaxy A NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) view of the core of the barred spiral Seyfert galaxy NGC 5728 reveals a spectacular bi-conical... (More)
• 1/7/1993 STScI-1993-03 44. Hubble Space Telescope Discovers a Double Nucleus in the Core of an Active Galaxy Astronomers announced today the discovery of a double nucleus in the active galaxy Markarian 315. The discovery... (More)

1992

• 11/19/1992 STScI-1992-27 45. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Discovers a Disk Fueling a Possible Black Hole Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have gotten their best look yet at the disk of material that surrounds... (More)
• 11/13/1992 STScI-1992-26 46. NASA's Hubble Telescope Observes Most Distant Galaxy Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope an international team of astronomers Is uncovering intriguing new details about the most distant galaxy known, located... (More)
• 6/2/1992 STScI-1992-16 47. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Uncovers a Starburst Galaxy NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has revealed a new class of object in the universe -- a grouping of gigantic star clusters produced by the collision of galaxies. (More)
• 5/7/1992 STScI-1992-14 48. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Discovers a High Energy Jet in Galaxy NGC 3862 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an unusual and fascinating new optical jet in the nucleus of the elliptical galaxy NOC 3862. (More)
• 1/16/1992 STScI-1992-07 49. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Yields Clear View of Optical Jet in Galaxy M87 A NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) view of a 4,000 light-year long jet of plasma emanating from the bright nucleus... (More)
• 1/16/1992 STScI-1992-01 50. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Probes the Compact Nucleus of Galaxy M87 Astronomers report today that they have found intriguing evidence that a black hole weighing over 2.6 billion... (More)
• 1/13/1992 STScI-1992-04 51. NASA Hubble Space Telescope Observations Indicate Nearby Hydrogen Clouds May Be Associated With Galaxies Astronomers reported today that recent ultraviolet observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope suggest... (More)

1991

• 1/15/1991 STScI-1991-01 52. Hubble Space Telescope Resolves Braided Galactic Jet NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided a detailed view of a ten thousand light-year long jet of plasma which has been ejected from the core of a galaxy 270 million light-years... (More)
• 1/15/1991 STScI-1991-02 53. Starburst Galaxies And The X-ray Background Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute have new evidence for explaining the mysterious X-ray background that permeates the universe. Astronomers Antonella Fruscione... (More)

1990

• 10/4/1990 STScI-1990-13 54. Hubble Space Telescope Probes a Galaxy with an Active Nucleus NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has provided an unprecedented, detailed view of highly energetic events in the core of a galaxy 30 million light-years... (More)
• 10/4/1990 STScI-1990-16 55. First ESA Faint Object Camera Science Images The Radio Galaxy PKS 0521-36 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has obtained the most detailed and highest resolution optical images of the radio galaxy PKS 0521-36. (More)