2/13/2007STScI-2007-09261.The Colorful Demise of a Sun-like Star
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the colorful "last hurrah" of a star like our Sun. The star is ending its life by casting... (More)
2/5/2007STScI-2007-08262.Hubble Illuminates Cluster of Diverse Galaxies
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the diverse collection of galaxies in a galaxy cluster called Abell S0740, located more than 450 million light-years away in the constellation... (More)
1/31/2007STScI-2007-07263.Hubble Probes Layer-cake Structure of Alien World's Atmosphere
The powerful vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to study for the first time the layer-cake structure of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting... (More)
1/10/2007STScI-2007-05264.Hubble Sees Star Cluster "Infant Mortality"
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that young stellar nurseries, called open star clusters, have very short lives. (More)
1/8/2007STScI-2007-03265.Astronomers Map a Hypergiant Star's Massive Outbursts
Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory, Kameula, Hawaii, astronomers have learned that the gaseous outflow from one of the brightest super-sized... (More)
1/8/2007STScI-2007-04266.Hubble Observes Infant Stars in Nearby Galaxy
This new image taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope depicts bright, blue, newly formed stars that are blowing a cavity in the center of a star-forming... (More)
1/7/2007STScI-2007-02268.Hubble Observations Provide Insight into Planet Birth
Hubble observed a "blizzard" of particles in a disk around a young star revealing the process by which planets grow from tiny dust grains. The particles... (More)
2006
12/19/2006STScI-2006-55269.Celestial Season's Greetings from Hubble
Swirls of gas and dust reside in this ethereal-looking region of star formation imaged by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This majestic view of LH 95, located in the Large Magellanic... (More)
12/11/2006STScI-2006-54270.Heavyweight Stars Light Up Nebula NGC 6357
The small open star cluster Pismis 24 lies in the core of the large emission nebula NGC 6357 in Scorpius, about 8,000 light-years away from Earth. Some of the stars in this cluster... (More)