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2009

3/17/2009 STScI-2009-12 1. Quadruple Saturn Moon Transit Snapped by Hubble Saturn's comparatively paper-thin rings are tilted edge on to Earth every 15 years. Because the orbits of Saturn's major satellites are in the ring plane, too, this alignment... (More)

12/18/2008 STScI-2008-42 2. Hubble Catches Jupiter's Largest Moon Going to the 'Dark Side' NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has caught Jupiter's moon Ganymede playing a game of "peek-a-boo." In this crisp Hubble image, Ganymede... (More)

3/20/2007 STScI-2007-13 3. 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)

8/31/2006 STScI-2006-42 4. Hubble Captures a Rare Eclipse on Uranus This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image is a never-before-seen astronomical alignment of a moon traversing the face of Uranus, and its accompanying shadow. (More)
6/22/2006 STScI-2006-29 5. Pluto's Two Small Moons Officially Named Nix and Hydra A pair of small moons that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope discovered orbiting Pluto now have official names: Nix and Hydra. Photographed... (More)
3/10/2006 STScI-2006-15 6. Hubble's Latest Look at Pluto's Moons Supports a Common Birth The latest NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of Pluto's two newly discovered satellites reveal that the new moons have the same color as Charon. (More)
2/22/2006 STScI-2006-09 7. Hubble Confirms New Moons of Pluto Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the presence of two new moons around the distant planet Pluto. The moons were first discovered... (More)

10/31/2005 STScI-2005-19 8. NASA's Hubble Reveals Possible New Moons Around Pluto NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted two possible new moons orbiting Pluto, the ninth planet in our solar system. If confirmed, the candidate moons could provide... (More)
10/19/2005 STScI-2005-29 9. NASA's Hubble Looks for Possible Moon Resources NASA has enlisted the Hubble Space Telescope's unique "vision" capabilities for making a new class of science observations of the Moon that support future human exploration. (More)

11/4/2004 STScI-2004-30 10. Hubble Spots Rare Triple Eclipse on Jupiter At first glance, Jupiter looks like it has a mild case of the measles. Five spots – one colored white, one blue, and three black – are scattered... (More)