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2006

12/19/2006 STScI-2006-55 41. Celestial Season's Greetings from Hubble Swirls of gas and dust reside in this ethereal-looking region of star formation imaged by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This majestic view of LH 95, located in the Large Magellanic... (More)
11/2/2006 STScI-2006-51 42. Host Galaxy Cluster to Largest Known Radio Eruption This is a new composite image of galaxy cluster MS0735.6+7421, located about 2.6 billion light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis. (More)
10/16/2006 STScI-2006-46 43. 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 44. 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)
8/23/2006 STScI-2006-41 45. Wispy Dust and Gas Paint Portrait of Starbirth This active region of star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), as photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, unveils wispy clouds of hydrogen... (More)
8/21/2006 STScI-2006-39 46. NASA Finds Direct Proof of Dark Matter Dark matter and normal matter have been wrenched apart by the tremendous collision of two large clusters of galaxies. This composite image shows the galaxy cluster 1E 0657-56... (More)
7/31/2006 STScI-2006-35 47. Extraterrestrial Fireworks NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of a cosmic explosion that is quite similar to fireworks on Earth. In the nearby galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, a massive star has exploded... (More)
7/12/2006 STScI-2006-36 48. Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys Resumes Exploring the Universe After a brief hiatus, the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, probing the far reaches... (More)
6/13/2006 STScI-2006-26 49. 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)
6/8/2006 STScI-2006-24 50. Hubble Sees Galaxy on Edge This is a unique view of the disk galaxy NGC 5866 tilted nearly edge-on to our line-of-sight. Hubble's sharp vision reveals a crisp dust lane dividing the galaxy into two halves. (More)
5/23/2006 STScI-2006-23 51. 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 52. 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)
4/18/2006 STScI-2006-17 53. Magellanic Gemstones in the Southern Sky NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed images to date of the open star clusters NGC 265 and NGC 290 in the Small Magellanic Cloud -- two sparkling... (More)
2/28/2006 STScI-2006-10 54. Hubble's Largest Galaxy Portrait Offers a New High-Definition View Giant galaxies weren’t assembled in a day. Neither was this Hubble Space Telescope image of the face-on spiral galaxy Messier 101 (M101). It is the largest... (More)
2/7/2006 STScI-2006-07 55. Hubble Snaps Images of a Pinwheel-Shaped Galaxy This dramatic spiral galaxy is one of the latest viewed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Stunning details of the face-on spiral galaxy, cataloged as NGC 1309, are captured... (More)

2005

11/10/2005 STScI-2005-35 56. Young Stars Sculpt Gas with Powerful Outflows This image of star cluster NGC 346 and its surrounding star-formation region was taken in July 2004 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. (More)
9/20/2005 STScI-2005-26 57. Hubble Finds Mysterious Disk of Blue Stars Around Black Hole Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have identified the source of a mysterious blue light surrounding a supermassive black hole in our neighboring... (More)
9/14/2005 STScI-2005-13 58. 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)
7/28/2005 STScI-2005-21 59. Hubble Pinpoints Doomed Star that Explodes as Supernova Amidst the glitter of billions of stars in the majestic spiral galaxy called the Whirlpool (M51), a massive star abruptly ends its life in a brilliant flash of light. (More)
4/25/2005 STScI-2005-12 60. 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)