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2009

11/18/2009 STScI-2009-30 1. Galaxy on Edge The magnificent galaxy NGC 4710 is tilted nearly edge-on to our view from Earth. This perspective allows astronomers to easily distinguish the central bulge of stars from its pancake-flat... (More)
11/5/2009 STScI-2009-29 2. Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth in M83, the Southern Pinwheel The spectacular new camera installed on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 in May has delivered the most detailed... (More)
9/9/2009 STScI-2009-25 3. Hubble Opens New Eyes on the Universe NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, ready to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the invisible backbone of the universe. (More)
4/3/2009 STScI-2009-14 4. Hubble Celebrates the International Year of Astronomy with the Galaxy Triplet Arp 274 On April 1-2, the Hubble Space Telescope photographed the winning target in the Space Telescope Science Institute's "You Decide" competition... (More)
2/10/2009 STScI-2009-07 5. NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate the International Year of Astronomy with a National Unveiling of Spectacular Images In 1609, Galileo first turned his telescope to the heavens and gave birth to modern astronomy. To commemorate... (More)

2008

9/30/2008 STScI-2008-35 6. When It Comes to Galaxies, Diversity Is Everywhere There's an old saying in astronomy: "Galaxies are like people. They're only normal until you get to know them." That view is supported by a group of astronomers... (More)
9/16/2008 STScI-2008-33 7. Galaxy Silhouettes NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare alignment between two spiral galaxies. The outer rim of a small, foreground galaxy is silhouetted in front of a larger background galaxy. Skeletal... (More)
7/29/2008 STScI-2008-29 8. Barred Spiral Galaxies Are Latecomers to the Universe In a landmark study of more than 2,000 spiral galaxies from the largest galaxy census conducted by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers found that so-called... (More)

2007

11/29/2007 STScI-2007-41 9. Holiday Wishes from the Hubble Space Telescope Resembling festive lights on a holiday wreath, this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the nearby spiral galaxy M74 is an iconic reminder of the impending season. (More)
5/28/2007 STScI-2007-19 10. Hubble Photographs Grand Design Spiral Galaxy M81 The sharpest image ever taken of the large "grand design" spiral galaxy M81 is being released today at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. A spiral-shaped... (More)
4/3/2007 STScI-2007-15 11. 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)
1/10/2007 STScI-2007-05 12. Hubble Sees Star Cluster "Infant Mortality" Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that young stellar nurseries, called open star clusters, have very short lives. (More)

2006

6/8/2006 STScI-2006-24 13. 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)
2/28/2006 STScI-2006-10 14. 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 15. 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

9/20/2005 STScI-2005-26 16. 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)
7/28/2005 STScI-2005-21 17. 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 18. 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)
1/10/2005 STScI-2005-01 19. 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

9/2/2004 STScI-2004-23 20. 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 21. 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)
4/8/2004 STScI-2004-13 22. 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)
2/5/2004 STScI-2004-04 23. 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)
1/27/2004 STScI-2004-43 24. 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)

2003

10/2/2003 STScI-2003-28 25. 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 26. 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 27. 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)
1/8/2003 STScI-2003-04 28. 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 29. 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)
9/5/2002 STScI-2002-21 30. A Wheel within a Wheel A nearly perfect ring of hot, blue stars pinwheels about the yellow nucleus of an unusual galaxy known as Hoag's Object. This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures a face-on... (More)
6/5/2002 STScI-2002-13 31. Hubble's Infrared Camera is Back in Business — New Images Released After more than three years of inactivity, the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) has reopened its “near-infrared... (More)
4/30/2002 STScI-2002-11 32. Hubble's New Camera Delivers Breathtaking Views of the Universe Jubilant astronomers unveiled humankind's most spectacular views of the universe, courtesy of the newly installed Advanced Camera for Surveys... (More)
2/7/2002 STScI-2002-03 33. Hubble Reveals "Backwards" Spiral Galaxy Astronomers have found a spiral galaxy that may be spinning to the beat of a different cosmic drummer. To the surprise of astronomers, the galaxy, called NGC 4622, appears to be rotating... (More)

2001

11/1/2001 STScI-2001-37 34. Hubble Reveals Ultraviolet Galactic Ring The appearance of a galaxy can depend strongly on the color of the light with which it is viewed. This Hubble Heritage image of NGC 6782 illustrates a pronounced example of this effect. (More)
9/6/2001 STScI-2001-26 35. A Galaxy Blazes With Star Formation Most galaxies form new stars at a fairly slow rate, but members of a rare class known as "starburst" galaxies blaze with extremely active star formation. (More)
8/16/2001 STScI-2001-28 36. 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)
8/2/2001 STScI-2001-23 37. Hubble Photographs Warped Galaxy as Camera Passes Milestone The Hubble telescope has captured an image of an unusual edge-on galaxy, revealing remarkable details of its warped dusty disk and showing how colliding galaxies... (More)
5/31/2001 STScI-2001-16 38. Hubble Unveils a Galaxy in Living Color In this view of the center of the magnificent barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512, the Hubble telescope reveals a stunning 2,400 light-year-wide circle of infant star clusters. (More)
4/5/2001 STScI-2001-10 39. Hubble Reveals the Heart of the Whirlpool Galaxy New pictures from the Hubble telescope are giving astronomers a detailed view of the Whirlpool galaxy's spiral arms and dust clouds... (More)
3/7/2001 STScI-2001-08 40. Hubble Spies Huge Clusters of Stars Formed by Ancient Encounter Studying galactic interactions is like sifting through the forensic evidence at a crime scene. Astronomers wade through the debris of a violent encounter... (More)
3/1/2001 STScI-2001-07 41. NGC 4013: A Galaxy on the Edge The Hubble telescope has snapped this remarkable view of a perfectly "edge-on" galaxy, NGC 4013. This new Hubble picture reveals with exquisite... (More)
1/11/2001 STScI-2001-04 42. Hubble's Ultraviolet Views of Nearby Galaxies Yield Clues to Early Universe Astronomers are using these three Hubble telescope images of nearby galaxies to help tackle the question of why their distant relatives... (More)
1/9/2001 STScI-2001-02 43. Intergalactic 'Pipeline' Funnels Matter Between Colliding Galaxies This visible-light picture, taken by the Hubble telescope, reveals an intergalactic "pipeline" of material flowing between two battered galaxies... (More)

2000

11/30/2000 STScI-2000-37 44. 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)

1999

10/6/1999 STScI-1999-34 45. Starry Bulges Yield Secrets to Galaxy Growth The Hubble telescope is uncovering important new clues to a galaxy's birth and growth by peering into its heart — a bulge of millions of stars resembling a bulbous... (More)
6/3/1999 STScI-1999-25 46. Magnificent Details in a Dusty Spiral Galaxy The Key Project team used this Hubble telescope view of the magnificent spiral galaxy, NGC 4414, to help calculate the expansion rate of the universe. (More)
5/6/1999 STScI-1999-16 47. Internet Voters Get Two Galaxies in One from Hubble Located about 130 million light-years away, NGC 4650A is one of only 100 known polar-ring galaxies. Their unusual disk-ring structure is not yet understood... (More)
3/18/1999 STScI-1999-10 48. 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 49. 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)
10/21/1998 STScI-1998-28 50. Astronomers Unveil Colorful Hubble Photo Gallery A vibrant celestial photo album of some of NASA Hubble Space Telescope's most stunning views of the universe is being unveiled today on the Internet. Called the Hubble Heritage... (More)