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2009

11/5/2009 STScI-2009-29 1. Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth in M83, the Southern Pinwheel The spectacular new camera installed on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 in May has delivered the most detailed... (More)
5/10/2009 STScI-2009-21 2. Hubble Photographs a Planetary Nebula to Commemorate Decommissioning of Super Camera The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. (More)
4/21/2009 STScI-2009-18 3. Hubble Celebrates Its 19th Anniversary with a "Fountain of Youth" Over the past 19 years Hubble has taken dozens of exotic pictures of galaxies going "bump in the night" as they collide with each other and have a variety... (More)
4/3/2009 STScI-2009-14 4. Hubble Celebrates the International Year of Astronomy with the Galaxy Triplet Arp 274 On April 1-2, the Hubble Space Telescope photographed the winning target in the Space Telescope Science Institute's "You Decide" competition... (More)
3/17/2009 STScI-2009-12 5. 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)
1/15/2009 STScI-2009-05 6. Hubble Snaps a Splendid Planetary Nebula The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged striking details of the famed planetary nebula designated NGC 2818, which lies in the southern constellation of Pyxis (the Compass). The spectacular... (More)

2008

12/4/2008 STScI-2008-40 7. 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)
11/20/2008 STScI-2008-38 8. Hubble Resolves Puzzle about Loner Starburst Galaxy Astronomers have long puzzled over why a small, nearby, isolated galaxy is pumping out new stars faster than any galaxy in our local neighborhood. (More)
10/2/2008 STScI-2008-34 9. A Celestial Landscape in Celebration of 10 Years of Stunning Hubble Heritage Images The landmark 10th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's Hubble Heritage Project is being celebrated with a 'landscape'... (More)
9/16/2008 STScI-2008-33 10. Galaxy Silhouettes NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare alignment between two spiral galaxies. The outer rim of a small, foreground galaxy is silhouetted in front of a larger background galaxy. Skeletal... (More)