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2006 (continued)

• 2/7/2006 STScI-2006-07 161. 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)
• 2/1/2006 STScI-2006-08 162. Lecture Series Promotes Respect in the Workplace Today's workplace for "hard-discipline" organizations, such as science, technology, engineering and medicine requires a more diverse and balanced set of skills for success... (More)
• 1/25/2006 STScI-2006-06 163. Astronomers Find Smallest Extrasolar Planet Yet Around Normal Star Using an armada of telescopes, an international team of astronomers has found the smallest planet ever detected around a normal star outside our solar system. (More)
• 1/19/2006 STScI-2006-05 164. Dusty Planetary Disks Around Two Nearby Stars Resemble Our Kuiper Belt These two bright debris disks of ice and dust appear to be the equivalent of our own solar system's Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy rocks outside... (More)
• 1/11/2006 STScI-2006-01 165. Hubble Panoramic View of Orion Nebula Reveals Thousands of Stars In one of the most detailed astronomical images ever produced, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an unprecedented look at the Orion Nebula. (More)
• 1/10/2006 STScI-2006-04 166. Monster Black Holes Grow After Galactic Mergers An analysis of the Hubble Space Telescope's deepest view of the universe offers compelling evidence that monster black holes in the centers of galaxies... (More)
• 1/9/2006 STScI-2006-03 167. Mystery Solved: High-Energy Fireworks Linked to Massive Star Cluster Call it the Bermuda Triangle of our Milky Way Galaxy: a tiny patch of sky that has been known for years to be the source of the mysterious... (More)
• 1/9/2006 STScI-2006-02 168. There's More to the North Star Than Meets the Eye By stretching the capabilities of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to the limit, astronomers have photographed the close companion of Polaris... (More)

2005

• 12/22/2005 STScI-2005-33 169. NASA's Hubble Discovers New Rings and Moons Around Uranus Even though the Voyager 2 spacecraft paid a close-up visit to Uranus in 1986, the distant planet continues revealing surprises... (More)
• 12/13/2005 STScI-2005-36 170. Astronomers Use Hubble to 'Weigh' Dog Star's Companion For astronomers, it's always been a source of frustration that the nearest white-dwarf star is buried in the glow of the brightest star in the nighttime sky. (More)