8/23/2006STScI-2006-4121.Wispy Dust and Gas Paint Portrait of Starbirth
This active region of star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), as photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, unveils wispy clouds of hydrogen... (More)
8/21/2006STScI-2006-3922.NASA Finds Direct Proof of Dark Matter
Dark matter and normal matter have been wrenched apart by the tremendous collision of two large clusters of galaxies. This composite image shows the galaxy cluster 1E 0657-56... (More)
8/17/2006STScI-2006-3723.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)
8/15/2006STScI-2006-4024.STScI Astrophysicist Shares 2006 Gruber Cosmology Prize
Astrophysicist Michael G. Hauser (Space Telescope Science Institute deputy director and adjunct professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the Johns Hopkins University... (More)
8/8/2006STScI-2006-3825.Hubble Identifies Stellar Companion to Distant Planet
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has for the first time identified the parent star of a distant planet (system name OGLE-2003-BLG-235L/MOA-2003-BLG-53L) discovered... (More)
7/31/2006STScI-2006-3526.Extraterrestrial Fireworks
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of a cosmic explosion that is quite similar to fireworks on Earth. In the nearby galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, a massive star has exploded... (More)
6/13/2006STScI-2006-2631.Hubble Eyes Star Birth in the Extreme
Staring into the crowded, dusty core of two merging galaxies, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a region where star formation has gone wild. (More)
6/8/2006STScI-2006-2432.Hubble Sees Galaxy on Edge
This is a unique view of the disk galaxy NGC 5866 tilted nearly edge-on to our line-of-sight. Hubble's sharp vision reveals a crisp dust lane dividing the galaxy into two halves. (More)
5/16/2006STScI-2006-2135.Astronomer Wins Top Prize for Creating Black Hole Web Site
Explore the world of black holes in an award-winning Web site created by a team led by Roeland van der Marel, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science... (More)
5/4/2006STScI-2006-1937.Hubble Snaps Baby Pictures of Jupiter's "Red Spot Jr."
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers their most detailed view yet of a second red spot emerging on Jupiter. For the first time in history, astronomers... (More)
4/27/2006STScI-2006-1838.Hubble Provides Spectacular Detail of a Comet's Breakup
Hubble Space Telescope is providing astronomers with extraordinary views of Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3. The fragile comet is rapidly disintegrating as it approaches... (More)
4/24/2006STScI-2006-1439.Happy Sweet Sixteen, Hubble Telescope!
To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 16 years of success, the two space agencies involved in the project, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), are releasing... (More)
4/18/2006STScI-2006-1740.Magellanic Gemstones in the Southern Sky
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed images to date of the open star clusters NGC 265 and NGC 290 in the Small Magellanic Cloud -- two sparkling... (More)