4/4/2006STScI-2006-1321.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)
11/10/2005STScI-2005-3523.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)
1/12/2005STScI-2005-0425.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)
2004
8/12/2004STScI-2004-2626.Hubble Peers Inside a Celestial Geode
In this unusual image, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures a rare view of the celestial equivalent of a geode -- a gas cavity carved by the stellar wind and intense ultraviolet... (More)
12/4/2003STScI-2003-3029.Firestorm of Star Birth Seen in a Local Galaxy
This festively colorful nebula, called NGC 604, is one of the largest known seething cauldrons of star birth seen in a nearby galaxy. NGC 604 is similar... (More)
6/5/2003STScI-2003-1631.Supernova Shock Wave Paints Cosmic Portrait
Remnants from a star that exploded thousands of years ago created a celestial abstract portrait, as captured in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Pencil Nebula. Officially... (More)
4/24/2003STScI-2003-1332.Hubble Captures a Perfect Storm of Turbulent Gases
Resembling the fury of a raging sea, this image actually shows a bubbly ocean of glowing hydrogen gas and small amounts of other elements such as oxygen and sulfur. (More)
2002
12/5/2002STScI-2002-2933.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)
5/9/2002STScI-2002-1235.Gaseous Streamers Flutter in Stellar Breeze
N44C is the designation for a region of ionized hydrogen gas surrounding an association of young stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a nearby, small companion... (More)
3/6/2002STScI-2002-0536.A Bow Shock Near a Young Star
The Hubble Space Telescope continues to reveal various stunning and intricate treasures that reside within the nearby, intense star-forming... (More)
1/3/2002STScI-2002-0137.Thackeray's Globules in IC 2944
Strangely glowing dark clouds float serenely in this remarkable and beautiful image taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. These dense, opaque dust clouds — known as "globules" —... (More)
7/26/2001STScI-2001-2140.Hubble's Panoramic Portrait of a Vast Star-Forming Region
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a panoramic portrait of a vast, sculpted landscape of gas and dust where thousands of stars are being born. This fertile... (More)