2004 (continued)

• 6/3/2004 STScI-2004-17 21. New Hubble Image Reveals Details in the Heart of the Trifid Nebula Three huge intersecting dark lanes of interstellar dust make the Trifid Nebula one of the most recognizable and striking star birth regions... (More)
• 6/2/2004 STScI-2004-49 22. Hubble Takes Faintest Spectroscopic Survey of Distant Galaxies Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have measured accurate distances to several faint, red galaxies seen in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, confirming... (More)
• 6/1/2004 STScI-2004-19 23. Spitzer Leads NASA's Great Observatories to Uncover Black Holes, Other Hidden Objects in the Distant Universe Astronomers unveiled the deepest images from NASA's new Spitzer Space Telescope today, and announced the detection... (More)
• 6/1/2004 STScI-2004-20 24. Hubble Refines Distance to Pleiades Star Cluster Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have helped settle a mystery that has puzzled scientists concerning the exact distance to the famous nearby star cluster... (More)
• 5/26/2004 STScI-2004-18 25. 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)
• 5/11/2004 STScI-2004-11 26. Dying Star Sculpts Rungs of Gas and Dust Astronomers may not have observed the fabled "Stairway to Heaven," but they have photographed something almost as intriguing: ladder-like structures surrounding... (More)
• 5/6/2004 STScI-2004-48 27. Ethan J. Schreier to Become President of Associated Universities, Inc. The Board of Trustees of Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) has announced the appointment of Dr. Ethan J. Schreier as the next President of AUI. Schreier... (More)
• 5/4/2004 STScI-2004-47 28. HubbleSite.org Nominated for Best Science Web Site for the Eighth Annual Webby Awards The Webby Awards, the leading international honor for web sites and individual achievement in technology and creativity... (More)
• 5/3/2004 STScI-2004-46 29. Demise in Fire and Ice The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. The fiery, dying star at its center is shrouded by a blanket of icy hailstones. (More)
• 4/22/2004 STScI-2004-15 30. The Lure of the Rings Resembling a diamond-encrusted bracelet, a ring of brilliant blue star clusters wraps around the yellowish nucleus of what was once a normal spiral... (More)
• 4/14/2004 STScI-2004-14 31. 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)
• 4/8/2004 STScI-2004-13 32. Hubble Sees Stars as Numerous as Grains of Sand in Nearby Galaxy What appear as individual grains of sand on a beach in the image obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are actually myriads... (More)
• 3/9/2004 STScI-2004-07 33. Hubble's Deepest View Ever of the Universe Unveils Earliest Galaxies Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute today unveiled the deepest portrait of the visible universe ever achieved by humankind. (More)
• 3/4/2004 STScI-2004-10 34. Space Phenomenon Imitates Art in Universe's Version of van Gogh Painting This image resembling Vincent van Gogh's painting, "Starry Night," is Hubble's latest view of an expanding halo of light around a distant... (More)
• 2/20/2004 STScI-2004-12 35. New Clues About the Nature of Dark Energy: Einstein May Have Been Right After All The good news from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is that Einstein was right — maybe. A strange... (More)
• 2/19/2004 STScI-2004-09 36. Supernova Shock Wave Is Producing a Spectacular New Light Show Seventeen years ago, astronomers spotted the brightest stellar explosion ever seen since the one observed by Johannes Kepler 400 years ago. (More)
• 2/15/2004 STScI-2004-08 37. Hubble and Keck Team Up to Find Farthest Known Galaxy in Universe An international team of astronomers may have set a new record in discovering what is the most distant known galaxy in the universe. Located... (More)
• 2/5/2004 STScI-2004-04 38. An Abrasive Collision Gives One Galaxy a "Black Eye" A collision of two galaxies has left a merged star system with an unusual appearance as well as bizarre internal motions. Messier 64 (M64) has a spectacular... (More)
• 2/4/2004 STScI-2004-45 39. New Hubble Study Reveals How Black Holes Get Their Kicks When black holes collide, look out! The "kick" from an enormous burst of gravitational radiation that occurs during the collision... (More)
• 2/3/2004 STScI-2004-06 40. Supernova Blast Bonanza in Nearby Galaxy The nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 1569 is a hotbed of vigorous star birth activity which blows huge bubbles that riddle the main body of the galaxy. The galaxy's "star factories"... (More)