2005 (continued)

• 11/3/2005 STScI-2005-34 21. Mars Kicks Up the Dust as it Makes Closest Approach to Earth NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped this picture of Mars on October 28, within a day of its closest approach... (More)
• 10/31/2005 STScI-2005-19 22. 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 23. 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)
• 9/7/2005 STScI-2005-27 24. Largest Asteroid May Be 'Mini Planet' with Water Ice Observations of Ceres, the largest known asteroid, have revealed that the object may be a "mini planet," sharing many characteristics of the rocky, terrestrial... (More)
• 9/1/2005 STScI-2005-22 25. Hubble Makes Movie of Neptune's Dynamic Atmosphere NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the distant blue-green world, Neptune, and its satellites in this portrait. Astronomers used Hubble’s assortment of filters to pinpoint... (More)
• 7/4/2005 STScI-2005-17 26. Hubble Captures Deep Impact's Collision with Comet NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the dramatic effects of the collision early July 4 between an 820-pound projectile released by the Deep Impact spacecraft... (More)
• 6/27/2005 STScI-2005-16 27. Hubble Captures Outburst from Comet Targeted By Deep Impact In a dress rehearsal for the rendezvous between NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft and comet 9P/Tempel 1, the Hubble Space Telescope captured dramatic... (More)
• 6/2/2005 STScI-2005-18 28. NASA's Space Eyes Focus on Deep Impact Target On July 4, NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft will attempt an extraordinarily daring encounter with the far-flung comet Tempel 1 hurtling through space at tens of thousands... (More)
• 2/16/2005 STScI-2005-06 29. Saturn's Auroras Defy Scientists' Expectations The dancing light of the auroras on Saturn behaves in ways different from how scientists have thought possible for the last 25 years. New research by a team of astronomers... (More)

2004

• 11/11/2004 STScI-2004-31 30. Hubble Tracks Asteroid's Sky Trek While analyzing NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of the Sagittarius dwarf irregular galaxy (SagDIG), an international team of astronomers led by Simone Marchi, Yazan Momany... (More)
• 11/4/2004 STScI-2004-30 31. 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)
• 6/17/2004 STScI-2004-52 32. A Really Neat Close-up of Comet NEAT from Kitt Peak Observatory This image of comet C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) was taken at the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson... (More)
• 5/26/2004 STScI-2004-18 33. Saturn Seen from Far and Near As Saturn grows closer through the eyes of the Cassini spacecraft, which is hurtling toward a rendezvous with the ringed world on June 30 (July 1, Universal Time), both Cassini... (More)
• 4/14/2004 STScI-2004-14 34. Hubble Observes Planetoid Sedna, Mystery Deepens Astronomers poring over 35 NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of the solar system's farthest known object, unofficially named Sedna, are surprised... (More)
• 1/22/2004 STScI-2004-05 35. The Colorful Lives of the Outer Planets Atmospheric features on Uranus and Neptune are revealed in images taken with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph and the Advanced Camera for Surveys... (More)

2003

• 9/25/2003 STScI-2003-29 36. Hubble Uncovers Smallest Moons Yet Seen Around Uranus Astronomers have discovered two of the smallest moons yet found around Uranus. The new moons, uncovered by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope... (More)
• 9/9/2003 STScI-2003-23 37. The Slant on Saturn's Rings This is a series of images of Saturn, as seen at many different wavelengths, when the planet's rings were at their maximum tilt of 27 degrees toward Earth. Saturn experiences seasonal... (More)
• 9/6/2003 STScI-2003-25 38. Farthest, Faintest Solar System Objects Found Beyond Neptune Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered three of the faintest and smallest objects ever detected beyond Neptune. (More)
• 9/5/2003 STScI-2003-26 39. Hubble Assists Rosetta Comet Mission Results from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope played a major role in preparing ESA's ambitious Rosetta mission for its new target, comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/C-G). (More)
• 8/27/2003 STScI-2003-22 40. Mars: Closest Encounter These two images, taken 11 hours apart with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, reveal two nearly opposite sides of Mars. Hubble snapped these photos as the red planet was making its closest approach... (More)