4/4/2006STScI-2006-13251.Nearby Dust Clouds in the Milky Way
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed dense knots of dust and gas in our Milky Way Galaxy. This cosmic dust is a concentration of elements that are responsible... (More)
3/15/2006STScI-2006-11252.Astronomers Measure Precise Mass of a Binary Brown Dwarf
This is an artist's concept of a pair of eclipsing brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs are mysterious celestial objects that fall somewhere between the smallest... (More)
2/22/2006STScI-2006-09255.Hubble Confirms New Moons of Pluto
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the presence of two new moons around the distant planet Pluto. The moons were first discovered... (More)
2/7/2006STScI-2006-07256.Hubble Snaps Images of a Pinwheel-Shaped Galaxy
This dramatic spiral galaxy is one of the latest viewed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Stunning details of the face-on spiral galaxy, cataloged as NGC 1309, are captured... (More)
2/1/2006STScI-2006-08257.Lecture Series Promotes Respect in the Workplace
Today's workplace for "hard-discipline" organizations, such as science, technology, engineering and medicine requires a more diverse and balanced set of skills for success... (More)
1/10/2006STScI-2006-04261.Monster Black Holes Grow After Galactic Mergers
An analysis of the Hubble Space Telescope's deepest view of the universe offers compelling evidence that monster black holes in the centers of galaxies... (More)
1/9/2006STScI-2006-02263.There's More to the North Star Than Meets the Eye
By stretching the capabilities of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to the limit, astronomers have photographed the close companion of Polaris... (More)
12/13/2005STScI-2005-36265.Astronomers Use Hubble to 'Weigh' Dog Star's Companion
For astronomers, it's always been a source of frustration that the nearest white-dwarf star is buried in the glow of the brightest star in the nighttime sky. (More)
12/1/2005STScI-2005-37266.A Giant Hubble Mosaic of the Crab Nebula
The Crab Nebula is a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese astronomers recorded this violent... (More)
11/17/2005STScI-2005-32268.Hubble, Sloan Quadruple Number of Known Optical Einstein Rings
Astronomers have combined two powerful astronomical assets, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, to identify 19 new "gravitationally... (More)
11/10/2005STScI-2005-35269.Young Stars Sculpt Gas with Powerful Outflows
This image of star cluster NGC 346 and its surrounding star-formation region was taken in July 2004 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. (More)
10/31/2005STScI-2005-19271.NASA's Hubble Reveals Possible New Moons Around Pluto
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted two possible new moons orbiting Pluto, the ninth planet in our solar system. If confirmed, the candidate moons could provide... (More)
10/19/2005STScI-2005-29272.NASA's Hubble Looks for Possible Moon Resources
NASA has enlisted the Hubble Space Telescope's unique "vision" capabilities for making a new class of science observations of the Moon that support future human exploration. (More)
9/14/2005STScI-2005-13276.Black Hole in Search of a Home
A team of European astronomers has used two of the most powerful astronomical facilities available, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's... (More)
9/7/2005STScI-2005-27278.Largest Asteroid May Be 'Mini Planet' with Water Ice
Observations of Ceres, the largest known asteroid, have revealed that the object may be a "mini planet," sharing many characteristics of the rocky, terrestrial... (More)
9/1/2005STScI-2005-22279.Hubble Makes Movie of Neptune's Dynamic Atmosphere
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the distant blue-green world, Neptune, and its satellites in this portrait. Astronomers used Hubble’s assortment of filters to pinpoint... (More)
8/31/2005STScI-2005-24280.Hubble Space Telescope Begins "Two-Gyro" Science Operations
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope entered a new era of science operations this week, when engineers shut down one of the three operational gyroscopes aboard the observatory. (More)
8/9/2005STScI-2005-23281.FITS for Fun -- Create Spectacular Pictures in Minutes
With the release of version 2 of the ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator image processing software, it's now even easier and faster to create stunning... (More)
8/4/2005STScI-2005-20282.Hubble Spies a Zoo of Galaxies
Gazing deep into the universe, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spied a menagerie of galaxies. Located within the same tiny region of space, these numerous galaxies display... (More)
7/28/2005STScI-2005-21283.Hubble Pinpoints Doomed Star that Explodes as Supernova
Amidst the glitter of billions of stars in the majestic spiral galaxy called the Whirlpool (M51), a massive star abruptly ends its life in a brilliant flash of light. (More)
7/4/2005STScI-2005-17284.Hubble Captures Deep Impact's Collision with Comet
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the dramatic effects of the collision early July 4 between an 820-pound projectile released by the Deep Impact spacecraft... (More)
6/22/2005STScI-2005-10286.Elusive Planet Reshapes a Ring Around Neighboring Star
The top view, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is the most detailed visible-light image ever taken of a narrow, dusty ring around the nearby star Fomalhaut... (More)
6/13/2005STScI-2005-08287.New Director Appointed at Space Telescope
Dr. Mattias (Matt) Mountain has been appointed director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, the science operations center for NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope... (More)
6/7/2005STScI-2005-15288.Supernova Remnant Menagerie
A violent and chaotic-looking mass of gas and dust is seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image of a nearby supernova remnant. Denoted N 63A, the object is the remains of a massive... (More)
6/2/2005STScI-2005-18289.NASA's Space Eyes Focus on Deep Impact Target
On July 4, NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft will attempt an extraordinarily daring encounter with the far-flung comet Tempel 1 hurtling through space at tens of thousands... (More)
3/31/2005STScI-2005-11291.Hubble Spies Cosmic Dust Bunnies
Like dust bunnies that lurk in corners and under beds, surprisingly complex loops and blobs of cosmic dust lie hidden in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1316. (More)
3/3/2005STScI-2005-09293.The Impending Destruction of NGC 1427A
What happens when a galaxy falls in with the wrong crowd? The irregular galaxy NGC 1427A is a spectacular example of the resulting stellar rumble. Under the gravitational... (More)
2/16/2005STScI-2005-06294.Saturn's Auroras Defy Scientists' Expectations
The dancing light of the auroras on Saturn behaves in ways different from how scientists have thought possible for the last 25 years. New research by a team of astronomers... (More)
2/3/2005STScI-2005-02297.Light Continues to Echo Three Years After Stellar Outburst
The Hubble Space Telescope's latest image of the star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) reveals dramatic changes in the illumination of surrounding dusty cloud structures. (More)
1/12/2005STScI-2005-04298.Hubble Finds Infant Stars in Neighboring Galaxy
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered for the first time a population of embryonic stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a companion... (More)