2002 (continued)

• 9/5/2002 STScI-2002-21 41. A Wheel within a Wheel A nearly perfect ring of hot, blue stars pinwheels about the yellow nucleus of an unusual galaxy known as Hoag's Object. This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures a face-on... (More)
• 6/5/2002 STScI-2002-13 42. Hubble's Infrared Camera is Back in Business — New Images Released After more than three years of inactivity, the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) has reopened its “near-infrared... (More)
• 4/30/2002 STScI-2002-11 43. Hubble's New Camera Delivers Breathtaking Views of the Universe Jubilant astronomers unveiled humankind's most spectacular views of the universe, courtesy of the newly installed Advanced Camera for Surveys... (More)
• 2/7/2002 STScI-2002-03 44. Hubble Reveals "Backwards" Spiral Galaxy Astronomers have found a spiral galaxy that may be spinning to the beat of a different cosmic drummer. To the surprise of astronomers, the galaxy, called NGC 4622, appears to be rotating... (More)

2001

• 11/1/2001 STScI-2001-37 45. Hubble Reveals Ultraviolet Galactic Ring The appearance of a galaxy can depend strongly on the color of the light with which it is viewed. This Hubble Heritage image of NGC 6782 illustrates a pronounced example of this effect. (More)
• 9/6/2001 STScI-2001-26 46. A Galaxy Blazes With Star Formation Most galaxies form new stars at a fairly slow rate, but members of a rare class known as "starburst" galaxies blaze with extremely active star formation. (More)
• 8/16/2001 STScI-2001-28 47. Burst of Star Formation Drives Bubble in Galaxy's Core These NASA Hubble Space Telescope snapshots reveal dramatic activities within the core of the galaxy NGC 3079, where... (More)
• 8/2/2001 STScI-2001-23 48. Hubble Photographs Warped Galaxy as Camera Passes Milestone The Hubble telescope has captured an image of an unusual edge-on galaxy, revealing remarkable details of its warped dusty disk and showing how colliding galaxies... (More)
• 5/31/2001 STScI-2001-16 49. Hubble Unveils a Galaxy in Living Color In this view of the center of the magnificent barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512, the Hubble telescope reveals a stunning 2,400 light-year-wide circle of infant star clusters. (More)
• 4/5/2001 STScI-2001-10 50. Hubble Reveals the Heart of the Whirlpool Galaxy New pictures from the Hubble telescope are giving astronomers a detailed view of the Whirlpool galaxy's spiral arms and dust clouds... (More)
• 3/7/2001 STScI-2001-08 51. Hubble Spies Huge Clusters of Stars Formed by Ancient Encounter Studying galactic interactions is like sifting through the forensic evidence at a crime scene. Astronomers wade through the debris of a violent encounter... (More)
• 3/1/2001 STScI-2001-07 52. NGC 4013: A Galaxy on the Edge The Hubble telescope has snapped this remarkable view of a perfectly "edge-on" galaxy, NGC 4013. This new Hubble picture reveals with exquisite... (More)
• 1/11/2001 STScI-2001-04 53. Hubble's Ultraviolet Views of Nearby Galaxies Yield Clues to Early Universe Astronomers are using these three Hubble telescope images of nearby galaxies to help tackle the question of why their distant relatives... (More)
• 1/9/2001 STScI-2001-02 54. Intergalactic 'Pipeline' Funnels Matter Between Colliding Galaxies This visible-light picture, taken by the Hubble telescope, reveals an intergalactic "pipeline" of material flowing between two battered galaxies... (More)

2000

• 11/30/2000 STScI-2000-37 55. Hubble Captures an Extraordinary and Powerful Active Galaxy The Hubble telescope has taken a snapshot of a nearby active galaxy known as Circinus. This active galaxy belongs to a class of mostly spiral galaxies called Seyferts... (More)

1999

• 10/6/1999 STScI-1999-34 56. Starry Bulges Yield Secrets to Galaxy Growth The Hubble telescope is uncovering important new clues to a galaxy's birth and growth by peering into its heart — a bulge of millions of stars resembling a bulbous... (More)
• 6/3/1999 STScI-1999-25 57. Magnificent Details in a Dusty Spiral Galaxy The Key Project team used this Hubble telescope view of the magnificent spiral galaxy, NGC 4414, to help calculate the expansion rate of the universe. (More)
• 5/6/1999 STScI-1999-16 58. Internet Voters Get Two Galaxies in One from Hubble Located about 130 million light-years away, NGC 4650A is one of only 100 known polar-ring galaxies. Their unusual disk-ring structure is not yet understood... (More)
• 3/18/1999 STScI-1999-10 59. Hubble's Infrared Galaxy Gallery Astronomers have used the Hubble telescope to produce an infrared "photo essay" of spiral galaxies. By penetrating the dust clouds swirling around the centers of these galaxies, the telescope's... (More)

1998

• 12/3/1998 STScI-1998-42 60. Behind a Dusty Veil Lies a Cradle of Star Birth NGC 253 is a large, almost edge-on spiral galaxy, and is one of the nearest galaxies beyond our local neighborhood of galaxies. ... (More)