3/16/2000STScI-2000-0571.Hubble Finds Young Stars in Cosmic Dance
This composite image, made with two cameras aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows a pair of 12 light-year-long jets of gas blasted... (More)
2/16/2000STScI-2000-1172.Onset of Titanic Collision Lights Up Supernova Ring
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a ringside seat to a never before seen violent celestial "main attraction" unfolding in a galaxy 169,000 light-years... (More)
1/15/2000STScI-2000-0273.Beta Pictoris Disk Hides Giant Elliptical Ring System
The planetary dust disk around the nearby star Beta Pictoris is dynamically "ringing like a bell," say astronomers investigating Hubble telescope images. The "clapper"... (More)
1/13/2000STScI-2000-0474.An Expanding Bubble in Space
A star 40 times more massive than the Sun is blowing a giant bubble of material into space. In this colorful picture, the Hubble telescope has captured a glimpse of the expanding bubble... (More)
10/7/1999STScI-1999-3576.Hubble Heritage Project's First Anniversary
To mark the first anniversary of the Hubble Heritage Project, we present four Hubble telescope images of nebulae surrounding stars in our own Milky Way Galaxy. ... (More)
8/12/1999STScI-1999-2478.Bloated Stars Swallow Giant Planets
The phrase "big fish eat little fish" may hold true when it comes to planets and stars. Perhaps as many as 100 million of the Sun-like stars in our galaxy harbor close-orbiting... (More)
6/2/1999STScI-1999-2180.Hubble Picture Adds to Planet-Making Recipe
The Hubble telescope has snapped a nearly face-on view of a swirling disk of dust and gas surrounding a developing star called AB Aurigae. The image, taken in visible... (More)