2003

• 12/4/2003 STScI-2003-30 211. 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-2003-34 212. 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-2003-33 213. 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-2003-31 214. 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-2003-32 215. 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-2003-28 216. 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-2003-29 217. 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-2003-27 218. 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-2003-23 219. 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-2003-25 220. 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)