2012

• 4/17/2012 STScI-2012-01 1. Hubble's 22nd Anniversary Image Shows Turbulent Star-making Region Several million young stars are vying for attention in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a raucous stellar breeding ground in 30 Doradus, located... (More)

2011

• 11/22/2011 STScI-2011-35 2. NASA's Hubble Finds Stellar Life and Death in a Globular Cluster A new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows globular cluster NGC 1846, a spherical collection of hundreds of thousands... (More)

2010

• 10/26/2010 STScI-2010-28 3. Hubble Data Used to Look 10,000 Years into the Future The globular star cluster Omega Centauri has caught the attention of sky watchers ever since the ancient astronomer Ptolemy first catalogued... (More)

2009

• 12/15/2009 STScI-2009-32 4. Hubble's Festive View of a Grand Star-Forming Region Just in time for the holidays: a Hubble Space Telescope picture postcard of hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds. The festive portrait... (More)
• 9/9/2009 STScI-2009-25 5. Hubble Opens New Eyes on the Universe NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, ready to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the invisible backbone of the universe. (More)

2008

• 12/4/2008 STScI-2008-40 6. A Celestial Snow Globe of Stars Like a whirl of shiny flakes sparkling in a snow globe, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope catches an instantaneous glimpse of many hundreds of thousands... (More)
• 8/5/2008 STScI-2008-30 7. Globular Clusters Tell Tale of Star Formation in Nearby Galaxy Metropolis Globular star clusters, dense bunches of hundreds of thousands of stars, have some of the oldest surviving stars in the universe. (More)
• 4/2/2008 STScI-2008-14 8. Astronomers Find Suspected Medium-Size Black Hole in Omega Centauri The core of the spectacular globular cluster Omega Centauri glitters with the combined light of 2 million stars. The entire cluster contains 10 million... (More)

2007

• 12/4/2007 STScI-2007-42 9. How White Dwarfs Get Their 'Kicks' NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is providing strong evidence that white dwarfs, the burned-out relics of stars, are given a "kick" when they form. The sharp vision of Hubble's Advanced... (More)
• 5/2/2007 STScI-2007-18 10. 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)

2006

• 10/24/2006 STScI-2006-33 11. 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)
• 8/17/2006 STScI-2006-37 12. Hubble Sees Faintest Stars in a Globular Cluster NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered what astronomers are reporting as the dimmest stars ever seen in any globular star cluster. Globular clusters are spherical... (More)

2005

• 3/9/2005 STScI-2005-05 13. Hubble Weighs in on the Heaviest Stars in the Galaxy Unlike humans, stars are born with all the weight they will ever have. A human's birth weight varies by just a few pounds... (More)

2003

• 8/7/2003 STScI-2003-21 14. Too Close for Comfort This Hubble Space Telescope view of the core of one of the nearest globular star clusters, called NGC 6397, resembles a treasure chest of glittering jewels. The cluster is located 8,200 light-years... (More)
• 7/10/2003 STScI-2003-19 15. Oldest Known Planet Identified NASA's Hubble Space Telescope precisely measured the mass of the oldest known planet in our Milky Way galaxy. At an estimated age of 13 billion years, the... (More)

2002

• 9/17/2002 STScI-2002-18 16. Hubble Discovers Black Holes in Unexpected Places Medium-size black holes actually do exist, according to the latest findings from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, but scientists had to look in some unexpected... (More)
• 4/24/2002 STScI-2002-10 17. Hubble Uncovers Oldest "Clocks" in Space to Read Age of Universe Pushing the limits of its powerful vision, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the oldest burned-out stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. (More)

2001

• 10/4/2001 STScI-2001-33 18. Peering into the Core of a Globular Cluster Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to peer into the center of a dense swarm of stars called Omega Centauri. Located some 17,000 light-years... (More)
• 7/26/2001 STScI-2001-21 19. Hubble's Panoramic Portrait of a Vast Star-Forming Region NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a panoramic portrait of a vast, sculpted landscape of gas and dust where thousands of stars are being born. This fertile... (More)
• 7/10/2001 STScI-2001-25 20. Hubble Snaps Picture of Remarkable Double Cluster These two dazzling clusters of stars, called NGC 1850, are found in one of our neighboring galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The photo's centerpiece is a young, "globular-like"... (More)