2003 (continued)

• 3/26/2003 STScI-2003-10 241. 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-2003-08 242. 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-2003-07 243. 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-2003-06 244. 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-2003-05 245. 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-2003-03 246. 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-2003-04 247. 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-2003-01 248. 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-2003-02 249. 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-2002-16 250. 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)