8/7/1996STScI-1996-27151.Giant Star Birth Region in Neighboring Galaxy
The colorful picture on the right is a Hubble telescope snapshot of a vast nebula of dust and gas called NGC 604, which lies in the neighboring spiral galaxy M33. ... (More)
7/18/1996STScI-1996-25152.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)
4/24/1996STScI-1996-11154.Hubble Spies Globular Cluster in Neighboring Galaxy
The Hubble telescope has captured a view of a globular cluster called G1, a large, bright ball of light in the center of the photograph. (More)
4/24/1996STScI-1996-10155.Hubble Space Telescope Completes Sixth Year of Exploration
A new golden era of space exploration and discovery began April 24, 1990 with the launch and deployment of the Hubble telescope. Over the past six years Hubble's... (More)
4/24/1996STScI-1996-17156.Swirling Galaxy Parents Generations of Stars in Its Center
The Hubble telescope has snapped a view of several generations of stars in the central region of the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51), located 23 million light-years... (More)
11/29/1995STScI-1995-49159.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)
4/10/1995STScI-1995-13163.Oxygen-Rich Supernova Remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud
This is a Hubble telescope image of the tattered debris of a star that exploded 3,000 years ago as a supernova. This supernova remnant, called N132D, lies 169,000... (More)
4/5/1995STScI-1995-14164.Hubble Views Distant Galaxies through a Cosmic Lens
This Hubble telescope image of a rich cluster of galaxies called Abell 2218 is a spectacular example of gravitational lensing. The arc-like pattern... (More)
3/31/1995STScI-1995-22165.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)
2/20/1995STScI-1995-10166.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)
1/19/1995STScI-1995-05167.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)
1/11/1995STScI-1995-04168.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)
12/6/1994STScI-1994-25171.Observes the Lost Ancestors to Our Milky Way Galaxy
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of the central portion of a remote cluster of galaxies (CL 0939+4713) as it looked when the universe was two-thirds... (More)
5/19/1994STScI-1994-20176.Hubble Observes the Supernova in the Whirlpool Galaxy
The Hubble telescope has returned valuable new images of supernova 1994I in the inner regions of the "Whirlpool Galaxy," M51, located 20 million light-years... (More)
4/26/1994STScI-1994-16178.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)
1/14/1994STScI-1994-12179.Hubble Provides Clearest View Yet of Supernova 1987a
This series of images of Supernova 1 987A was taken with ESA's Faint Object Camera aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, prior to and following the HST Servicing... (More)
1/13/1994STScI-1994-07183.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)
1/13/1994STScI-1994-03184.Galaxy M100 Resolution Comparison
This sequence of pictures shows successive steps in optical improvement from ground based telescopes to the newly improved Hubble Space Telescope and demonstrates the unique capability... (More)
9/9/1993STScI-1993-30187.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)
11/13/1992STScI-1992-26196.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)
6/2/1992STScI-1992-16199.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)