2006 (continued)

• 8/23/2006 STScI-2006-41 21. 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)
• 8/21/2006 STScI-2006-39 22. 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)
• 8/17/2006 STScI-2006-37 23. 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)
• 8/15/2006 STScI-2006-40 24. 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)
• 8/8/2006 STScI-2006-38 25. 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)
• 7/31/2006 STScI-2006-35 26. 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)
• 7/12/2006 STScI-2006-36 27. Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys Resumes Exploring the Universe After a brief hiatus, the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, probing the far reaches... (More)
• 6/27/2006 STScI-2006-25 28. Hubble Reveals Two Dust Disks Around Nearby Star Beta Pictoris Detailed images of the nearby star Beta Pictoris, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, confirm the existence of not one but two dust disks encircling... (More)
• 6/22/2006 STScI-2006-29 29. Pluto's Two Small Moons Officially Named Nix and Hydra A pair of small moons that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope discovered orbiting Pluto now have official names: Nix and Hydra. Photographed... (More)
• 6/21/2006 STScI-2006-27 30. Dark Energy Co-Discoverer Adam Riess Shares Shaw Prize in Astronomy for 2006 Astronomer Adam Riess, of the Space Telescope Science Institute and the Johns Hopkins University, and two colleagues, have been awarded... (More)
• 6/13/2006 STScI-2006-26 31. 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)
• 6/8/2006 STScI-2006-24 32. 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)
• 5/23/2006 STScI-2006-23 33. Hubble Captures a "Five-Star" Rated Gravitational Lens NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first-ever picture of a group of five star-like images of a single distant quasar. (More)
• 5/18/2006 STScI-2006-22 34. Astronomers Use Innovative Technique to Find Extrasolar Planet An international team of professional and amateur astronomers, using simple off-the-shelf equipment to trawl the skies for planets outside our solar system... (More)
• 5/16/2006 STScI-2006-21 35. 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)
• 5/10/2006 STScI-2006-20 36. Hubble Finds that Earth is Safe from One Class of Gamma-ray Burst Homeowners may have to worry about floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes destroying their homes, but at least they can remove long-duration... (More)
• 5/4/2006 STScI-2006-19 37. 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)
• 4/27/2006 STScI-2006-18 38. 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)
• 4/24/2006 STScI-2006-14 39. 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)
• 4/18/2006 STScI-2006-17 40. 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)