2008

• 8/11/2008 STScI-2008-31 1. Hubble Unveils Colorful and Turbulent Star-Birth Region on 100,000th Orbit Milestone In commemoration of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope completing its 100,000th orbit in its 18th year of exploration and discovery, scientists... (More)

2007

• 10/2/2007 STScI-2007-34 2. Star Cluster Bursts into Life in New Hubble Image Thousands of sparkling young stars are nestled within the giant nebula NGC 3603. This stellar "jewel box" is one of the most massive young star clusters... (More)
• 4/24/2007 STScI-2007-16 3. The Carina Nebula: Star Birth in the Extreme In celebration of the 17th anniversary of the launch and deployment of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers is releasing one of the largest panoramic... (More)
• 1/8/2007 STScI-2007-04 4. Hubble Observes Infant Stars in Nearby Galaxy This new image taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope depicts bright, blue, newly formed stars that are blowing a cavity in the center of a star-forming... (More)
• 1/8/2007 STScI-2007-03 5. Astronomers Map a Hypergiant Star's Massive Outbursts Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory, Kameula, Hawaii, astronomers have learned that the gaseous outflow from one of the brightest super-sized... (More)

2006

• 12/19/2006 STScI-2006-55 6. Celestial Season's Greetings from Hubble Swirls of gas and dust reside in this ethereal-looking region of star formation imaged by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This majestic view of LH 95, located in the Large Magellanic... (More)
• 12/11/2006 STScI-2006-54 7. Heavyweight Stars Light Up Nebula NGC 6357 The small open star cluster Pismis 24 lies in the core of the large emission nebula NGC 6357 in Scorpius, about 8,000 light-years away from Earth. Some of the stars in this cluster... (More)
• 8/23/2006 STScI-2006-41 8. Wispy Dust and Gas Paint Portrait of Starbirth This active region of star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), as photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, unveils wispy clouds of hydrogen... (More)
• 7/31/2006 STScI-2006-35 9. Extraterrestrial Fireworks NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of a cosmic explosion that is quite similar to fireworks on Earth. In the nearby galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, a massive star has exploded... (More)
• 4/4/2006 STScI-2006-13 10. Nearby Dust Clouds in the Milky Way NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed dense knots of dust and gas in our Milky Way Galaxy. This cosmic dust is a concentration of elements that are responsible... (More)
• 1/11/2006 STScI-2006-01 11. 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)

2005

• 11/10/2005 STScI-2005-35 12. Young Stars Sculpt Gas with Powerful Outflows This image of star cluster NGC 346 and its surrounding star-formation region was taken in July 2004 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. (More)
• 4/25/2005 STScI-2005-12 13. 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)
• 1/12/2005 STScI-2005-04 14. 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)

2004

• 8/12/2004 STScI-2004-26 15. 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)
• 7/1/2004 STScI-2004-22 16. 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)
• 6/3/2004 STScI-2004-17 17. 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)

2003

• 12/4/2003 STScI-2003-30 18. 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)
• 11/6/2003 STScI-2003-31 19. 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)
• 6/5/2003 STScI-2003-16 20. 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)
• 4/24/2003 STScI-2003-13 21. 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)

2002

• 12/5/2002 STScI-2002-29 22. 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)
• 6/5/2002 STScI-2002-13 23. 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)
• 5/9/2002 STScI-2002-12 24. Gaseous Streamers Flutter in Stellar Breeze N44C is the designation for a region of ionized hydrogen gas surrounding an association of young stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a nearby, small companion... (More)
• 3/6/2002 STScI-2002-05 25. A Bow Shock Near a Young Star The Hubble Space Telescope continues to reveal various stunning and intricate treasures that reside within the nearby, intense star-forming... (More)
• 1/3/2002 STScI-2002-01 26. Thackeray's Globules in IC 2944 Strangely glowing dark clouds float serenely in this remarkable and beautiful image taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. These dense, opaque dust clouds — known as "globules" —... (More)

2001

• 12/19/2001 STScI-2001-34 27. Hubble Sends Season's Greetings from the Cosmos to Earth Looking like a colorful holiday card, this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a vibrant green and red... (More)
• 12/6/2001 STScI-2001-39 28. A Giant Star Factory in Neighboring Galaxy NGC 6822 Resembling curling flames from a campfire, this magnificent nebula in a neighboring galaxy is giving astronomers new insight... (More)
• 7/26/2001 STScI-2001-21 29. Hubble's Panoramic Portrait of a Vast Star-Forming Region NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a panoramic portrait of a vast, sculpted landscape of gas and dust where thousands of stars are being born. This fertile... (More)
• 4/26/2001 STScI-2001-13 30. 'Survivor' Planets: Astronomers Witness First Steps of Planet Growth - and Destruction Planet formation is a hazardous process. New pictures from the Hubble telescope are giving astronomers the first direct visual evidence... (More)
• 4/24/2001 STScI-2001-12 31. By Popular Demand: Hubble Observes the Horsehead Nebula Rising from a sea of dust and gas like a giant seahorse, the Horsehead nebula is one of the most photographed objects in the sky. The Hubble telescope took a close-up... (More)
• 3/28/2001 STScI-2001-11 32. Massive Infant Stars Rock their Cradle Extremely intense radiation from newly born, ultra-bright stars has blown a glowing spherical bubble in the nebula N83B, also known as NGC 1748. A new Hubble telescope... (More)

2000

• 10/5/2000 STScI-2000-30 33. Hubble Peeks into a Stellar Nursery in a Nearby Galaxy The Hubble telescope has peered deep into a neighboring galaxy to reveal details of the formation of new stars. Hubble's target was a newborn star cluster... (More)
• 8/24/2000 STScI-2000-19 34. Hubble Spies Brown Dwarfs in Nearby Stellar Nursery Probing deep within a neighborhood stellar nursery, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope uncovered a swarm of newborn brown dwarfs. The orbiting observatory's near-infrared... (More)
• 7/13/2000 STScI-2000-23 35. Hubble Watches Star Tear Apart its Neighborhood The Hubble telescope has snapped a view of a stellar demolition zone in our Milky Way Galaxy: a massive star, nearing the end of its life, tearing apart the shell of surrounding... (More)
• 3/2/2000 STScI-2000-10 36. Hubble Takes a Close-up View of a Reflection Nebula in Orion Just weeks after NASA astronauts repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in December 1999, the Hubble Heritage Project snapped this picture... (More)
• 2/3/2000 STScI-2000-06 37. Light and Shadow in the Carina Nebula When 19th century astronomer Sir John Herschel spied a swirling cloud of gas with a hole punched through it, he dubbed it the Keyhole Nebula. Now the Hubble telescope... (More)
• 1/13/2000 STScI-2000-04 38. An Expanding Bubble in Space A star 40 times more massive than the Sun is blowing a giant bubble of material into space. In this colorful picture, the Hubble telescope has captured a glimpse of the expanding bubble... (More)

1999

• 11/9/1999 STScI-1999-42 39. The Trifid Nebula: Stellar Sibling Rivalry This Hubble telescope image of the Trifid Nebula reveals a stellar nursery being torn apart by radiation from a nearby, massive star. The picture also provides a peek at embryonic... (More)
• 9/29/1999 STScI-1999-33 40. Hubble Captures a Grand View of the Birth of "Hefty" Stars Pictures taken in infrared and visible light by the Hubble telescope recount a vivid story of the turbulent birthing process of massive stars. (More)
• 6/10/1999 STScI-1999-23 41. A Butterfly-Shaped "Papillon" Nebula Yields Secrets of Massive Star Birth Here is a Hubble telescope view of a turbulent cauldron of star birth called N159, which is taking place 170,000 light-years away in our satellite galaxy... (More)
• 6/1/1999 STScI-1999-20 42. Hubble Snapshot Captures Life Cycle of Stars In this stunning picture of the giant galactic nebula NGC 3603, the Hubble telescope's crisp resolution captures various stages... (More)
• 4/1/1999 STScI-1999-12 43. Multiple Generations of Stars in the Tarantula Nebula In the most active starburst region in the local universe resides a cluster of brilliant, massive stars, known to astronomers as Hodge 301. ... (More)

1998

• 11/5/1998 STScI-1998-38 44. Great Balls of Fire! Hubble Sees Bright Knots Ejected From Brilliant Star Resembling an aerial fireworks explosion, this dramatic Hubble telescope picture of the energetic star WR124 reveals that it is surrounded... (More)
• 10/21/1998 STScI-1998-28 45. 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)
• 7/23/1998 STScI-1998-25 46. Nearby Massive Star Cluster Yields Insights into Early Universe The Hubble telescope has taken a "family portrait" of young, ultra-bright stars nested in their embryonic cloud of glowing gases. The celestial maternity... (More)

1997

• 10/8/1997 STScI-1997-33 47. Hubble Identifies What May Be the Most Luminous Star Known Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have identified what may be the most luminous star known ? a celestial mammoth that releases up to 10 million... (More)
• 6/9/1997 STScI-1997-16 48. Hubble Snaps "Family Portrait" The Hubble telescope's infrared camera has peered into the Cone Nebula, revealing a stunning picture of six babies, Sun-like stars surrounding their mother, a bright, massive star. (More)
• 5/12/1997 STScI-1997-13 49. Hubble Captures the Heart of the Orion Nebula The Hubble telescope's infrared vision is providing a dramatic new look at the beautiful Orion Nebula, which contains the nearest nursery for massive stars. ... (More)

1996

• 1/22/1997 STScI-1996-38 50. Giant "Twisters" and Star Wisps in the Lagoon Nebula This Hubble telescope snapshot unveils a pair of one-half, light-year-long interstellar "twisters" ? eerie funnels and twisted-rope structures... (More)
• 8/7/1996 STScI-1996-27 51. Giant Star Birth Region in Neighboring Galaxy The colorful picture on the right is a Hubble telescope snapshot of a vast nebula of dust and gas called NGC 604, which lies in the neighboring spiral galaxy M33. ... (More)

1995

• 11/29/1995 STScI-1995-49 52. HST's Greatest Hits 1990-1995 Hubble Space Telescope evokes a new sense of awe and wonder about the infinite richness of our universe in dramatic, unprecedented pictures of celestial objects. Like a traveler sharing... (More)
• 11/20/1995 STScI-1995-45 53. Panoramic Hubble Picture Surveys Star Birth, Proto-Planetary Systems in the Great Orion Nebula This spectacular color panorama of the center of the Orion Nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual... (More)
• 11/2/1995 STScI-1995-44 54. Embryonic Stars Emerge from Interstellar "Eggs" Eerie, dramatic pictures from the Hubble telescope show newborn stars emerging from "eggs" — not the barnyard variety — but rather, dense, compact pockets of interstellar... (More)
• 4/10/1995 STScI-1995-13 55. Oxygen-Rich Supernova Remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud This is a Hubble telescope image of the tattered debris of a star that exploded 3,000 years ago as a supernova. This supernova remnant, called N132D, lies 169,000... (More)
• 2/20/1995 STScI-1995-11 56. Hubble's Close-Up View of a Shock Wave from a Stellar Explosion This Hubble telescope image shows a small portion of a nebula called the "Cygnus Loop." This nebula is an expanding blast wave from a stellar... (More)

1994

• 6/13/1994 STScI-1994-24 57. Hubble Confirms Abundance of Protoplanetary Disks around Newborn Stars Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that the planet-making process is common in the Milky Way Galaxy. ... (More)
• 1/14/1994 STScI-1994-10 58. Hubble Probes the Great Orion Nebula A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a region of the Great Nebula in Orion, as imaged by the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. (More)
• 1/14/1994 STScI-1994-09 59. Hubble Observes a Star On the Brink of Destruction A NASA Hubble Space Telescope "natural color" image of the material surrounding the star Eta Carinae, as imaged by the Wide Fuel Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC-2). (More)
• 1/13/1994 STScI-1994-04 60. Hubble's Improved Optics Reveal Incredible Detail in Giant Cloud of Gas and Dust An image of a star-forming region in the 30 Doradus nebula, surrounding the dense star cluster R136. The image was obtained... (More)
• 1/13/1994 STScI-1994-05 61. Hubble Space Telescope Images of a Bright Star in the Large Magellanic Cloud These three images are of a very bright (Wolf-Rayet) star, Melnick 34, located in the giant star-forming region called 30 Doradus... (More)

1993

• 1/6/1993 STScI-1993-01 62. Hubble Reveals New Details in a Supernova's Blast Wave This is an image of a small portion of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant, taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope... (More)

1992

• 12/16/1992 STScI-1992-29 63. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Discovers Protoplanetary Disks Around Newly Formed Stars NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the strongest evidence yet that many stars form planetary systems. Dr. C. Robert O'Dell of Rice University... (More)

1990

• 10/4/1990 STScI-1990-22 64. Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope Discovers Jet Structure In The Orion Nebula This photograph, made with the Wide Field Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, reveals the detailed structure of a newly discovered... (More)
• 10/4/1990 STScI-1990-26 65. "Window-Curtain" Structure of the Orion Nebula Revealed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Recent images made with the Wide Field Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the structure of a thin sheet of gas located... (More)
• 10/4/1990 STScI-1990-24 66. Orion / HST vs. Ground This composite image shows the location of a one-light-year square region in the Orion Nebula which was imaged by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The area is near the edge of a cavity of ionized... (More)
• 8/13/1990 STScI-1990-09 67. Hubble Space Telescope Photographs Extragalactical Stellar Nursery NASA is releasing today a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) photograph of the most remarkable star forming region in the Local Group of Galaxies, 30 Doradus. The photograph... (More)