2011

• 7/20/2011 STScI-2011-23 1. NASA's Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto These two images, taken about a week apart by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, show four moons orbiting the distant, icy dwarf planet Pluto. The green circle in both snapshots... (More)
• 7/12/2011 STScI-2011-19 2. Neptune Completes Its First Circuit Around The Sun Since Its Discovery These four images of Neptune were taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during the planet's 16-hour rotation. The snapshots were taken at roughly... (More)
• 4/28/2011 STScI-2011-13 3. NASA's SWIFT and Hubble Probe Asteroid Collision Debris Late last year, astronomers noticed an asteroid named Scheila had unexpectedly brightened, and it was sporting short-lived plumes. Data from NASA's Swift satellite... (More)

2010

• 10/13/2010 STScI-2010-34 4. Hubble Finds that a Bizarre X-Shaped Intruder Is Linked to an Unseen Asteroid Collision Last January astronomers thought they had witnessed a fresh collision between two asteroids... (More)
• 10/8/2010 STScI-2010-33 5. NASA Mission to Asteroid Gets Help from Hubble Space Telescope NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of the large asteroid Vesta that will help scientists refine plans for the Dawn spacecraft's rendezvous... (More)
• 10/5/2010 STScI-2010-35 6. Hubble Probes Comet 103P/Hartley 2 in Preparation for DIXI/EPOXI Flyby Hubble Space Telescope observations of comet 103P/Hartley 2, taken on September 25, are helping in the planning for a November... (More)
• 9/13/2010 STScI-2010-32 7. Hubble Harvests Distant Solar System Objects This is an artist's concept of a craggy piece of solar system debris that belongs to a class of bodies called trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). (More)
• 6/16/2010 STScI-2010-20 8. Mysterious Flash on Jupiter Left No Debris Cloud Detailed observations made by the Wide Field Camera 3 on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found an answer to the flash of light seen June 3 on Jupiter. (More)
• 6/3/2010 STScI-2010-16 9. Hubble Images Suggest Rogue Asteroid Smacked Jupiter Without warning, a mystery object struck Jupiter on July 19, 2009, leaving a dark bruise the size of the Pacific Ocean. The spot first caught the eye of an amateur astronomer... (More)
• 2/15/2010 STScI-2010-09 10. Hubble Captures Saturn's Double Light Show In January and March 2009, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took advantage of a rare opportunity to record Saturn when its rings were edge-on, resulting... (More)