2007 (continued)

• 1/8/2007 STScI-2007-03 81. 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)
• 1/7/2007 STScI-2007-01 82. Hubble Maps the Cosmic Web of "Clumpy" Dark Matter in 3-D An international team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has created a three-dimensional map that provides... (More)
• 1/7/2007 STScI-2007-02 83. Hubble Observations Provide Insight into Planet Birth Hubble observed a "blizzard" of particles in a disk around a young star revealing the process by which planets grow from tiny dust grains. The particles... (More)

2006

• 12/19/2006 STScI-2006-55 84. 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 85. 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)
• 11/16/2006 STScI-2006-52 86. Hubble Finds Evidence for Dark Energy in the Young Universe Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that dark energy is not a new constituent of space, but rather has been present... (More)
• 11/2/2006 STScI-2006-51 87. Host Galaxy Cluster to Largest Known Radio Eruption This is a new composite image of galaxy cluster MS0735.6+7421, located about 2.6 billion light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis. (More)
• 10/31/2006 STScI-2006-53 88. Hubble Servicing Mission 4 NASA announced today plans for a fifth servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Shuttle astronauts will visit the telescope to extend and improve the observatory's capabilities through... (More)
• 10/26/2006 STScI-2006-50 89. Hubble's Latest Views of Light Echo from Star V838 Monocerotis These are the most recent NASA Hubble Space Telescope views of an unusual phenomenon in space called a light echo. Light from a star that erupted... (More)
• 10/24/2006 STScI-2006-33 90. Hubble Yields Direct Proof of Stellar Sorting in a Globular Cluster NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the best observational evidence to date that globular clusters sort out stars according... (More)
• 10/19/2006 STScI-2006-48 91. Mars May Be Cozy Place for Hardy Microbes A class of especially hardy microbes that live in some of the harshest Earthly environments could flourish on cold Mars and other chilly planets, according to a research... (More)
• 10/16/2006 STScI-2006-46 92. Super Star Clusters in the Antennae Galaxies This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of the collision, billions... (More)
• 10/12/2006 STScI-2006-45 93. Hubble Captures Galaxy in the Making Images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have provided a dramatic glimpse of a large and massive galaxy under assembly by the merging of smaller, lighter galaxies. Astrophysicists... (More)
• 10/9/2006 STScI-2006-32 94. Hubble Observations Confirm that Planets Form from Disks Around Stars NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, in collaboration with ground-based observations, has provided definitive evidence for the existence of the nearest extrasolar... (More)
• 10/4/2006 STScI-2006-34 95. Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our Milky Way galaxy. (More)
• 10/3/2006 STScI-2006-49 96. JWST Project Scientist Wins Nobel Prize for Physics John C. Mather, a senior astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and senior project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)... (More)
• 9/28/2006 STScI-2006-47 97. Hubble Discovers Dark Cloud in the Atmosphere of Uranus Just as we near the end of the hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean, winds whirl and clouds churn 2 billion miles away in the atmosphere of Uranus, forming... (More)
• 9/21/2006 STScI-2006-12 98. NASA's Hubble Finds Hundreds of Young Galaxies in Early Universe Astronomers analyzing two of the deepest views of the cosmos made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered a gold mine of galaxies... (More)
• 9/13/2006 STScI-2006-44 99. Tracing the Evolution of the First Galaxies in the Universe A systematic search for the first bright galaxies to form in the early universe has revealed a dramatic jump in the number of such galaxies... (More)
• 9/7/2006 STScI-2006-31 100. Planet Or Failed Star? NASA's Hubble Telescope Photographs One of Smallest Stellar Companions Ever Seen Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have photographed one of the smallest objects... (More)