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2005 (continued)

3/31/2005 STScI-2005-11 61. Hubble Spies Cosmic Dust Bunnies Like dust bunnies that lurk in corners and under beds, surprisingly complex loops and blobs of cosmic dust lie hidden in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1316. (More)
3/3/2005 STScI-2005-09 62. 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)
1/12/2005 STScI-2005-04 63. Hubble Finds Infant Stars in Neighboring Galaxy Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered for the first time a population of embryonic stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a companion... (More)
1/10/2005 STScI-2005-01 64. A Poster-Size Image of the Beautiful Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300 One of the largest Hubble Space Telescope images ever made of a complete galaxy is being unveiled today at the American Astronomical Society meeting... (More)

2004

12/1/2004 STScI-2004-35 65. 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 66. 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)
9/2/2004 STScI-2004-23 67. A Bright Supernova in the Nearby Galaxy NGC 2403 The explosion of a massive star blazes with the light of 200 million Suns in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. The arrow at top right points to the stellar... (More)
8/5/2004 STScI-2004-25 68. Hubble Images Majestic Cousin of the Milky Way Our Sun and solar system are embedded in a broad pancake of stars deep within the disk of the Milky Way galaxy. Even from a distance, it is impossible... (More)
6/1/2004 STScI-2004-19 69. 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)
4/22/2004 STScI-2004-15 70. The Lure of the Rings Resembling a diamond-encrusted bracelet, a ring of brilliant blue star clusters wraps around the yellowish nucleus of what was once a normal spiral... (More)
4/8/2004 STScI-2004-13 71. Hubble Sees Stars as Numerous as Grains of Sand in Nearby Galaxy What appear as individual grains of sand on a beach in the image obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are actually myriads... (More)
2/15/2004 STScI-2004-08 72. Hubble and Keck Team Up to Find Farthest Known Galaxy in Universe An international team of astronomers may have set a new record in discovering what is the most distant known galaxy in the universe. Located... (More)
2/5/2004 STScI-2004-04 73. An Abrasive Collision Gives One Galaxy a "Black Eye" A collision of two galaxies has left a merged star system with an unusual appearance as well as bizarre internal motions. Messier 64 (M64) has a spectacular... (More)
2/3/2004 STScI-2004-06 74. 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)
1/27/2004 STScI-2004-43 75. Massive Old Star Reveals Secrets on Deathbed Like a doctor trying to understand an elderly patient's sudden demise, astronomers have obtained the most detailed observations ever of an old, but otherwise normal massive... (More)
1/6/2004 STScI-2004-02 76. Too Fast, Too Furious: A Galaxy's Fatal Plunge Trailing 200,000-light-year-long streamers of seething gas, a galaxy that was once like our Milky Way is being shredded as it plunges at 4.5 million... (More)
1/1/2004 STScI-2004-01 77. Images from Hubble's ACS Tell a Tale of Two Record-Breaking Galaxy Clusters Looking back in time nearly 9 billion years, an international team of astronomers found mature galaxies in a young universe. The galaxies... (More)

2003

10/2/2003 STScI-2003-28 78. Heritage Project Celebrates Five Years of Harvesting the Best Images from Hubble Space Telescope The Hubble Heritage team of astronomers, who assemble many of the NASA Hubble Space Telescope's most stunning pictures... (More)
9/4/2003 STScI-2003-24 79. Celestial Composition Amid a backdrop of far-off galaxies, the majestic dusty spiral NGC 3370 looms in the foreground in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Recent observations taken with the Advanced... (More)
5/7/2003 STScI-2003-15 80. Deepest View of Space Yields Young Stars in Andromeda Halo Relying on the deepest visible-light images ever taken in space, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have reliably measured... (More)