2007 (continued)

• 10/2/2007 STScI-2007-34 51. 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)
• 9/11/2007 STScI-2007-33 52. Hubble Captures Stars Going Out in Style The colorful, intricate shapes in these NASA Hubble Space Telescope images reveal how the glowing gas ejected by dying Sun-like stars evolves dramatically over time. (More)
• 9/6/2007 STScI-2007-31 53. Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes Find "Lego-Block" Galaxies in Early Universe NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes have joined forces to discover nine of the smallest, faintest, most compact galaxies ever observed... (More)
• 8/23/2007 STScI-2007-32 54. Going, Going, Gone: Hubble Captures Uranus's Rings on Edge This series of images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows how the ring system around the distant planet Uranus appears at ever more oblique (shallower)... (More)
• 8/22/2007 STScI-2007-22 55. Hubble Teams with Google to Bring the Cosmos Down to Earth Imagine cruising the heavens from your desktop and seeing all the spectacular images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Exploding... (More)
• 8/2/2007 STScI-2007-30 56. Uncovering the Veil Nebula NASA's Hubble Space Telescope photographed three magnificent sections of the Veil Nebula -- the shattered remains of a supernova that exploded thousands of years ago. This series of images provides... (More)
• 7/19/2007 STScI-2007-28 57. Astronomers Find Highly Elliptical Disk Around Young Star Dust and debris parade in an extremely misshapen ring around the young star, HD 15115. The disk, seen edge-on with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope... (More)
• 7/17/2007 STScI-2007-29 58. Gruber Cosmology Prize Awarded to STScI Dark Energy Discoverers Four astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md. are on two teams sharing the $500,000 2007 Gruber Cosmology Prize for their discovery... (More)
• 7/3/2007 STScI-2007-26 59. Stellar Fireworks Are Ablaze in Galaxy NGC 4449 On July 4, fireworks blaze over the skies of American cities in the annual Independence Day celebrations. But nearly 12.5 million light-years... (More)
• 6/28/2007 STScI-2007-25 60. Hubble Catches Jupiter Changing Its Stripes Massive Jupiter is undergoing dramatic atmospheric changes that have never been seen before with the keen "eye" of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. (More)
• 6/20/2007 STScI-2007-27 61. Hubble Images of Asteroids Help Astronomers Prepare for Spacecraft Visit These Hubble Space Telescope images of Vesta and Ceres show two of the most massive asteroids in the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter. (More)
• 6/14/2007 STScI-2007-24 62. Astronomers Measure Mass of Largest Dwarf Planet NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has teamed up with the W.M. Keck Observatory to precisely measure the mass of Eris, the largest member of a new class of dwarf planets... (More)
• 5/29/2007 STScI-2007-23 63. STScI Appoints New Mission Head for the James Webb Space Telescope The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) has appointed Dr. Kathryn Flanagan as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Mission Head. (More)
• 5/28/2007 STScI-2007-19 64. Hubble Photographs Grand Design Spiral Galaxy M81 The sharpest image ever taken of the large "grand design" spiral galaxy M81 is being released today at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. A spiral-shaped... (More)
• 5/15/2007 STScI-2007-17 65. Hubble Finds Ring of Dark Matter Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a ghostly ring of dark matter that formed long ago during a titanic collision between two massive galaxy clusters. (More)
• 5/7/2007 STScI-2007-21 66. Institute Educator Will Lead Workshop for British Queen Queen Elizabeth II will learn about NASA education tomorrow, May 8, when she visits NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Bonnie Eisenhamer... (More)
• 5/2/2007 STScI-2007-18 67. Hubble Finds Multiple Stellar 'Baby Booms' in a Globular Cluster Astronomers have long thought that globular star clusters had a single "baby boom" of stars early in their lives and then settled into a quiet existence. (More)
• 5/1/2007 STScI-2007-20 68. HubbleSite Wins Top International Honor The Webby Awards, the leading international honor for the Internet, has selected HubbleSite.org for the Best Science Website of 2007. HubbleSite also won the accompanying People's... (More)
• 4/24/2007 STScI-2007-16 69. 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)
• 4/3/2007 STScI-2007-15 70. Hubble's View of Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1672 This NASA Hubble Space Telescope view of the nearby barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672 unveils details in the galaxy’s star-forming clouds and dark bands of interstellar dust. (More)
• 3/20/2007 STScI-2007-13 71. Saturn Stars in Three Hubble Movies Photogenic Saturn has now become a movie star. Astronomers have woven NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of Saturn, its rings, and several of its moons into three movies. (More)
• 3/6/2007 STScI-2007-06 72. Hubble Pans Across Heavens to Harvest 50,000 Evolving Galaxies Several hundred images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have been woven together into a rich tapestry of at least 50,000 galaxies. The Hubble view is yielding... (More)
• 3/2/2007 STScI-2007-12 73. Hubble Sees 'Comet Galaxy' Being Ripped Apart By Galaxy Cluster NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, in collaboration with several other ground- and space- based telescopes, has captured... (More)
• 3/1/2007 STScI-2007-11 74. Hubble Monitors Jupiter in Support of the New Horizons Flyby NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has recently taken images of Jupiter in support of the New Horizons Mission. The images were taken with Hubble's... (More)
• 2/22/2007 STScI-2007-10 75. NASA's Hubble Telescope Celebrates SN 1987A's 20th Anniversary Twenty years ago, astronomers witnessed one of the brightest stellar explosions in more than 400 years. The titanic supernova... (More)
• 2/13/2007 STScI-2007-09 76. The Colorful Demise of a Sun-like Star This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the colorful "last hurrah" of a star like our Sun. The star is ending its life by casting... (More)
• 2/5/2007 STScI-2007-08 77. Hubble Illuminates Cluster of Diverse Galaxies This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the diverse collection of galaxies in a galaxy cluster called Abell S0740, located more than 450 million light-years away in the constellation... (More)
• 1/31/2007 STScI-2007-07 78. Hubble Probes Layer-cake Structure of Alien World's Atmosphere The powerful vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to study for the first time the layer-cake structure of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting... (More)
• 1/10/2007 STScI-2007-05 79. Hubble Sees Star Cluster "Infant Mortality" Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that young stellar nurseries, called open star clusters, have very short lives. (More)
• 1/8/2007 STScI-2007-04 80. 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 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)