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2/10/2005 STScI-2005-07 201. American Astronomical Society Sets Goals for Improving Gender Equity in Astronomy The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has endorsed a new set of recommendations to improve the status of gender equity in astronomy. The recommendations... (More)
2/3/2005 STScI-2005-02 202. Light Continues to Echo Three Years After Stellar Outburst The Hubble Space Telescope's latest image of the star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) reveals dramatic changes in the illumination of surrounding dusty cloud structures. (More)
1/12/2005 STScI-2005-04 203. 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-2005-01 204. 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)
1/10/2005 STScI-2005-03 205. Hubble's Infrared Eyes Home in on Suspected Extrasolar Planet The Hubble Space Telescope's near-infrared vision is hot on the trail of a possible planetary companion to a relatively bright young brown dwarf located... (More)

2004

12/16/2004 STScI-2004-32 206. A New Twist on an Old Nebula Looks can be deceiving, especially when it comes to celestial objects like galaxies and nebulas. These objects are so far away that astronomers cannot see their three-dimensional... (More)
12/9/2004 STScI-2004-33 207. Spitzer and Hubble Capture Evolving Planetary Systems Two of NASA's Great Observatories, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, have provided astronomers an unprecedented look at dusty planetary... (More)
12/1/2004 STScI-2004-35 208. 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-2004-31 209. 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)
11/4/2004 STScI-2004-30 210. Hubble Spots Rare Triple Eclipse on Jupiter At first glance, Jupiter looks like it has a mild case of the measles. Five spots – one colored white, one blue, and three black – are scattered... (More)
10/27/2004 STScI-2004-34 211. Stellar Survivor from 1572 A.D. Explosion Supports Supernova Theory An international team of astronomers is announcing today that they have identified the probable surviving companion star to a titanic supernova explosion witnessed... (More)
10/6/2004 STScI-2004-29 212. NASA's Great Observatories May Unravel 400-Year Old Supernova Mystery Four hundred years ago, sky watchers, including the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler, were startled by the sudden appearance of a "new star" in the western... (More)
9/23/2004 STScI-2004-28 213. Hubble Approaches the Final Frontier: The Dawn of Galaxies Detailed analyses of mankind's deepest optical view of the universe, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), by several expert teams have at last identified... (More)
9/9/2004 STScI-2004-27 214. Dying Star Creates Fantasy-like Sculpture of Gas and Dust In this detailed view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the so-called Cat's Eye Nebula looks like the penetrating eye of the disembodied sorcerer... (More)
9/2/2004 STScI-2004-23 215. 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)
8/12/2004 STScI-2004-26 216. Hubble Peers Inside a Celestial Geode In this unusual image, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures a rare view of the celestial equivalent of a geode -- a gas cavity carved by the stellar wind and intense ultraviolet... (More)
8/5/2004 STScI-2004-25 217. 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)
7/22/2004 STScI-2004-21 218. A Day in the Lives of Galaxies Like a photographer clicking random snapshots of a crowd of people, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken a view of an eclectic mix of galaxies. In taking this picture... (More)
7/15/2004 STScI-2004-24 219. Astronomers Measure Mass of a Single Star — First Since the Sun Astronomers have directly measured the mass of a single star — the first time such a feat has been accomplished for any solitary... (More)
7/8/2004 STScI-2004-53 220. Process Astronomical Images on Your Home Computer Just Like the Experts Anyone with a desktop computer running Adobe® Photoshop® or Adobe Photoshop Elements software can try their hand at crafting astronomical... (More)
7/1/2004 STScI-2004-22 221. Hubble Studies Generations of Star Formation in Neighboring Galaxy NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the iridescent tapestry of star birth in a neighboring galaxy in this panoramic view of glowing gas, dark dust clouds... (More)
6/24/2004 STScI-2004-16 222. Hubble IMAX Film Takes Viewers on Ride Through Space and Time Take a virtual ride to the outer reaches of the universe and explore 10 billion years of galactic history, from fully formed and majestic... (More)
6/17/2004 STScI-2004-52 223. A Really Neat Close-up of Comet NEAT from Kitt Peak Observatory This image of comet C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) was taken at the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson... (More)
6/15/2004 STScI-2004-51 224. Ultra-cool Diminutive Star Weighs In The power of the some of the world's biggest telescopes has been brought to bear to directly measure the mass, for the first time, of one of the smallest stars ever seen in the universe. (More)
6/10/2004 STScI-2004-50 225. STScI Director Steven Beckwith Inducted as 2004 American Academy Fellow The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has announced the election of 178 new Fellows and 24 new Foreign Honorary Members to Academy membership. Dr. (More)
6/3/2004 STScI-2004-17 226. New Hubble Image Reveals Details in the Heart of the Trifid Nebula Three huge intersecting dark lanes of interstellar dust make the Trifid Nebula one of the most recognizable and striking star birth regions... (More)
6/2/2004 STScI-2004-49 227. Hubble Takes Faintest Spectroscopic Survey of Distant Galaxies Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have measured accurate distances to several faint, red galaxies seen in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, confirming... (More)
6/1/2004 STScI-2004-19 228. 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)
6/1/2004 STScI-2004-20 229. Hubble Refines Distance to Pleiades Star Cluster Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have helped settle a mystery that has puzzled scientists concerning the exact distance to the famous nearby star cluster... (More)
5/26/2004 STScI-2004-18 230. Saturn Seen from Far and Near As Saturn grows closer through the eyes of the Cassini spacecraft, which is hurtling toward a rendezvous with the ringed world on June 30 (July 1, Universal Time), both Cassini... (More)
5/11/2004 STScI-2004-11 231. Dying Star Sculpts Rungs of Gas and Dust Astronomers may not have observed the fabled "Stairway to Heaven," but they have photographed something almost as intriguing: ladder-like structures surrounding... (More)
5/6/2004 STScI-2004-48 232. Ethan J. Schreier to Become President of Associated Universities, Inc. The Board of Trustees of Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) has announced the appointment of Dr. Ethan J. Schreier as the next President of AUI. Schreier... (More)
5/4/2004 STScI-2004-47 233. HubbleSite.org Nominated for Best Science Web Site for the Eighth Annual Webby Awards The Webby Awards, the leading international honor for web sites and individual achievement in technology and creativity... (More)
5/3/2004 STScI-2004-46 234. Demise in Fire and Ice The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. The fiery, dying star at its center is shrouded by a blanket of icy hailstones. (More)
4/22/2004 STScI-2004-15 235. 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)
4/14/2004 STScI-2004-14 236. Hubble Observes Planetoid Sedna, Mystery Deepens Astronomers poring over 35 NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of the solar system's farthest known object, unofficially named Sedna, are surprised... (More)
4/8/2004 STScI-2004-13 237. 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)
3/9/2004 STScI-2004-07 238. Hubble's Deepest View Ever of the Universe Unveils Earliest Galaxies Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute today unveiled the deepest portrait of the visible universe ever achieved by humankind. (More)
3/4/2004 STScI-2004-10 239. Space Phenomenon Imitates Art in Universe's Version of van Gogh Painting This image resembling Vincent van Gogh's painting, "Starry Night," is Hubble's latest view of an expanding halo of light around a distant... (More)
2/20/2004 STScI-2004-12 240. New Clues About the Nature of Dark Energy: Einstein May Have Been Right After All The good news from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is that Einstein was right — maybe. A strange... (More)
2/19/2004 STScI-2004-09 241. Supernova Shock Wave Is Producing a Spectacular New Light Show Seventeen years ago, astronomers spotted the brightest stellar explosion ever seen since the one observed by Johannes Kepler 400 years ago. (More)
2/15/2004 STScI-2004-08 242. 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-2004-04 243. 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)
2/4/2004 STScI-2004-45 244. New Hubble Study Reveals How Black Holes Get Their Kicks When black holes collide, look out! The "kick" from an enormous burst of gravitational radiation that occurs during the collision... (More)
2/3/2004 STScI-2004-06 245. 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)
2/2/2004 STScI-2004-44 246. Oxygen and Carbon Found in Atmosphere of an Extrasolar Planet NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected, for the first time ever, the presence of oxygen and carbon in the atmosphere of a planet outside... (More)
1/27/2004 STScI-2004-43 247. 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)
1/22/2004 STScI-2004-05 248. The Colorful Lives of the Outer Planets Atmospheric features on Uranus and Neptune are revealed in images taken with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph and the Advanced Camera for Surveys... (More)
1/15/2004 STScI-2004-03 249. 2004 Van Biesbroeck Prize Awarded to Doxsey Citing "his outstanding, unselfish dedication to making the Hubble Space Telescope one of the most scientifically productive telescopes of all time," the American Astronomical... (More)
1/12/2004 STScI-2004-42 250. Mining for Cosmic Treasures NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped an unparalleled image of a wide swath of the sky, unveiling 10,000 galaxies, which could help astronomers understand how large galaxies... (More)
1/7/2004 STScI-2004-41 251. Supernova Survivor: First Supernova Companion Star Found An international team of astronomers has, for the first time, observed a stellar "survivor" to emerge from a double star system involving an exploded supernova. (More)
1/6/2004 STScI-2004-02 252. 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-2004-01 253. 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

12/4/2003 STScI-2003-30 254. Firestorm of Star Birth Seen in a Local Galaxy This festively colorful nebula, called NGC 604, is one of the largest known seething cauldrons of star birth seen in a nearby galaxy. NGC 604 is similar... (More)
11/20/2003 STScI-2003-34 255. Vote for your Favorite Hubble Wide Field/Planetary Camera 2 Picture To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, you're invited... (More)
11/7/2003 STScI-2003-33 256. Thompson and NICMOS Team Win Muhlmann Award The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) has awarded its 2003 Maria and Eric Muhlmann Award to Professor Rodger I. Thompson (University of Arizona)... (More)
11/6/2003 STScI-2003-31 257. Hubble Photographs Turbulent Neighborhood Near Eruptive Star Dramatic dark dust knots and complex structures are sculpted by the high-velocity stellar winds and high-energy radiation from the ultra-luminous variable... (More)
10/30/2003 STScI-2003-32 258. Megastar-Birth Cluster is Biggest, Brightest and Hottest Ever Seen A mysterious arc of light found behind a distant cluster of galaxies has turned out to be the biggest, brightest, and hottest star-forming... (More)
10/2/2003 STScI-2003-28 259. 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)
9/25/2003 STScI-2003-29 260. Hubble Uncovers Smallest Moons Yet Seen Around Uranus Astronomers have discovered two of the smallest moons yet found around Uranus. The new moons, uncovered by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope... (More)
9/10/2003 STScI-2003-27 261. NASA Approves James Webb Space Telescope Mirror Architecture NASA today announced a major milestone in the development of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the selection of a beryllium-based mirror technology for the telescope's... (More)
9/9/2003 STScI-2003-23 262. The Slant on Saturn's Rings This is a series of images of Saturn, as seen at many different wavelengths, when the planet's rings were at their maximum tilt of 27 degrees toward Earth. Saturn experiences seasonal... (More)
9/6/2003 STScI-2003-25 263. Farthest, Faintest Solar System Objects Found Beyond Neptune Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered three of the faintest and smallest objects ever detected beyond Neptune. (More)
9/5/2003 STScI-2003-26 264. Hubble Assists Rosetta Comet Mission Results from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope played a major role in preparing ESA's ambitious Rosetta mission for its new target, comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/C-G). (More)
9/4/2003 STScI-2003-24 265. 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)
8/27/2003 STScI-2003-22 266. Mars: Closest Encounter These two images, taken 11 hours apart with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, reveal two nearly opposite sides of Mars. Hubble snapped these photos as the red planet was making its closest approach... (More)
8/7/2003 STScI-2003-21 267. Too Close for Comfort This Hubble Space Telescope view of the core of one of the nearest globular star clusters, called NGC 6397, resembles a treasure chest of glittering jewels. The cluster is located 8,200 light-years... (More)
7/10/2003 STScI-2003-19 268. Oldest Known Planet Identified NASA's Hubble Space Telescope precisely measured the mass of the oldest known planet in our Milky Way galaxy. At an estimated age of 13 billion years, the... (More)
7/3/2003 STScI-2003-20 269. Celestial Fireworks Resembling the puffs of smoke and sparks from a summer fireworks display in this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, these delicate filaments are actually sheets of debris from a stellar... (More)
6/19/2003 STScI-2003-18 270. The Secret Lives of Galaxies Unveiled in Deep Survey Two of NASA's Great Observatories, bolstered by the largest ground-based telescopes around the world, are beginning to harvest... (More)
6/5/2003 STScI-2003-16 271. Supernova Shock Wave Paints Cosmic Portrait Remnants from a star that exploded thousands of years ago created a celestial abstract portrait, as captured in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Pencil Nebula. Officially... (More)
5/15/2003 STScI-2003-17 272. Brighter Neptune Suggests a Planetary Change of Seasons Springtime is blooming on Neptune! This might sound like an oxymoron because Neptune is the farthest and coldest of the major planets. But observations... (More)
5/9/2003 STScI-2003-11 273. Iridescent Glory of Nearby Planetary Nebula Showcased on Astronomy Day This photograph of the coil-shaped Helix Nebula is one of the largest and most detailed celestial images ever made. The composite picture is a seamless... (More)
5/7/2003 STScI-2003-15 274. 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)
5/1/2003 STScI-2003-14 275. Freewheeling Galaxies Collide in a Blaze of Star Birth A dusty spiral galaxy appears to be rotating on edge, like a pinwheel, as it slides through the larger, bright galaxy NGC 1275, in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope... (More)
4/24/2003 STScI-2003-13 276. Hubble Captures a Perfect Storm of Turbulent Gases Resembling the fury of a raging sea, this image actually shows a bubbly ocean of glowing hydrogen gas and small amounts of other elements such as oxygen and sulfur. (More)
4/10/2003 STScI-2003-12 277. Far-Flung Supernovae Shed Light on Dark Universe New Hubble Space Telescope observations of a pair of very distant exploding stars, called Type Ia supernovae, provide new clues about the accelerating universe and its mysterious... (More)
4/3/2003 STScI-2003-09 278. Rainbow Image of a Dusty Star Resembling a rippling pool illuminated by underwater lights, the Egg Nebula offers astronomers a special look at the normally invisible dust shells swaddling an aging star. (More)
3/26/2003 STScI-2003-10 279. Hubble Watches Light from Mysterious Erupting Star Reverberate Through Space In January 2002, a dull star in an obscure constellation suddenly became 600,000 times more luminous than our Sun, temporarily making it the brightest... (More)
3/12/2003 STScI-2003-08 280. Too Close for Comfort: Hubble Discovers an Evaporating Planet Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have observed for the first time the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system evaporating into space. (More)
3/6/2003 STScI-2003-07 281. Hubble Resolves a Blaze of Stars in a Galaxy's Core The central region of the small galaxy NGC 1705 blazes with the light of thousands of young and old stars in... (More)
2/10/2003 STScI-2003-06 282. Close-up of M27, the Dumbbell Nebula An aging star's last hurrah is creating a flurry of glowing knots of gas that appear to be streaking through space in this close-up image of the Dumbbell Nebula... (More)
1/9/2003 STScI-2003-05 283. Scientists Find Faint Objects with Hubble that May Have Ended the Universe's 'Dark Ages' Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope believe they are seeing the conclusion... (More)
1/9/2003 STScI-2003-03 284. Hubble Probes the Heart of a Nearby Quasar The Hubble Space Telescope's new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) has provided the clearest view yet in visible light of the nearby quasar, 3C 273 [image at right]. (More)
1/8/2003 STScI-2003-04 285. 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)
1/7/2003 STScI-2003-01 286. Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space Takes Hubble Deeper into the Universe The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has used a natural "zoom lens" in space to boost its view of the distant... (More)
1/6/2003 STScI-2003-02 287. Hubble Reveals Complex Circumstellar Disk NASA Hubble Space Telescope's new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) has given astronomers their clearest view yet of the dust disk around a young, 5-million-year-old star. (More)

2002

12/19/2002 STScI-2002-16 288. A Tiny Galaxy is Born New detailed images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show a "late-blooming" galaxy, a small, distorted system of gas and stars that still appears to be in the process of development... (More)
12/12/2002 STScI-2002-22 289. Hubble Watches Galaxies Engage in Dance of Destruction NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing a grouping of galaxies engaging in a slow dance of destruction that will last for billions of years. The galaxies... (More)
12/5/2002 STScI-2002-29 290. Hubble Photographs 'Double Bubble' in Neighboring Galaxy A unique peanut-shaped cocoon of dust, called a reflection nebula, surrounds a cluster of young, hot stars in this view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The "double bubble,"... (More)
12/3/2002 STScI-2002-27 291. Hubble Makes Precise Measure of Extrasolar World's True Mass An international team of astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to help make a precise measurement of the mass of a planet outside our solar system. (More)
11/21/2002 STScI-2002-28 292. Hands-On Book of Hubble Images Allows the Visually Impaired to "Touch the Universe" A new book of majestic images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope brings the wonders of our universe to the fingertips... (More)
11/18/2002 STScI-2002-30 293. Fast-Flying Black Hole Yields Clues to Supernova Origin A nearby black hole is hurtling like a cannonball through the disk of our galaxy. The detection of this speed demon is the best evidence yet, some astronomers... (More)
11/7/2002 STScI-2002-25 294. An Old Star Gives Up the Ghost NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has caught a glimpse of a colorful cosmic ghost, the glowing remains of a dying star called NGC 6369. The glowing apparition is known to amateur... (More)
10/9/2002 STScI-2002-26 295. Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Astronomer for NASA-Funded Research Riccardo Giacconi, the "father of X-ray astronomy," has received the Nobel Prize in physics for "pioneering contributions to astrophysics,"... (More)
10/7/2002 STScI-2002-17 296. Hubble Spots an Icy World Far Beyond Pluto NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has measured the largest object discovered in the solar system since the discovery of Pluto 72 years ago. Approximately... (More)
10/3/2002 STScI-2002-23 297. 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)
9/19/2002 STScI-2002-24 298. Space Movie Reveals Shocking Secrets of the Crab Pulsar Just when it seemed like the summer movie season had ended, two of NASA's Great Observatories have produced their own action movie. Multiple observations... (More)
9/17/2002 STScI-2002-18 299. Hubble Discovers Black Holes in Unexpected Places Medium-size black holes actually do exist, according to the latest findings from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, but scientists had to look in some unexpected... (More)
9/11/2002 STScI-2002-20 300. NASA Announces Contract for Next-Generation Space Telescope Named After Space Pioneer NASA has selected TRW to build the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST), a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. This space-based observatory... (More)