2003 (continued)

• 1/6/2003 STScI-2003-02 381. Hubble Reveals Complex Circumstellar Disk NASA Hubble Space Telescope's new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) has given astronomers their clearest view yet of the dust disk around a young, 5-million-year-old star. (More)

2002

• 12/19/2002 STScI-2002-16 382. A Tiny Galaxy is Born New detailed images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show a "late-blooming" galaxy, a small, distorted system of gas and stars that still appears to be in the process of development... (More)
• 12/12/2002 STScI-2002-22 383. Hubble Watches Galaxies Engage in Dance of Destruction NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing a grouping of galaxies engaging in a slow dance of destruction that will last for billions of years. The galaxies... (More)
• 12/5/2002 STScI-2002-29 384. Hubble Photographs 'Double Bubble' in Neighboring Galaxy A unique peanut-shaped cocoon of dust, called a reflection nebula, surrounds a cluster of young, hot stars in this view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The "double bubble,"... (More)
• 12/3/2002 STScI-2002-27 385. Hubble Makes Precise Measure of Extrasolar World's True Mass An international team of astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to help make a precise measurement of the mass of a planet outside our solar system. (More)
• 11/21/2002 STScI-2002-28 386. Hands-On Book of Hubble Images Allows the Visually Impaired to "Touch the Universe" A new book of majestic images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope brings the wonders of our universe to the fingertips... (More)
• 11/18/2002 STScI-2002-30 387. Fast-Flying Black Hole Yields Clues to Supernova Origin A nearby black hole is hurtling like a cannonball through the disk of our galaxy. The detection of this speed demon is the best evidence yet, some astronomers... (More)
• 11/7/2002 STScI-2002-25 388. An Old Star Gives Up the Ghost NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has caught a glimpse of a colorful cosmic ghost, the glowing remains of a dying star called NGC 6369. The glowing apparition is known to amateur... (More)
• 10/9/2002 STScI-2002-26 389. Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Astronomer for NASA-Funded Research Riccardo Giacconi, the "father of X-ray astronomy," has received the Nobel Prize in physics for "pioneering contributions to astrophysics,"... (More)
• 10/7/2002 STScI-2002-17 390. Hubble Spots an Icy World Far Beyond Pluto NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has measured the largest object discovered in the solar system since the discovery of Pluto 72 years ago. Approximately... (More)