9/11/2007STScI-2007-3331.Hubble Captures Stars Going Out in Style
The colorful, intricate shapes in these NASA Hubble Space Telescope images reveal how the glowing gas ejected by dying Sun-like stars evolves dramatically over time. (More)
8/2/2007STScI-2007-3032.Uncovering the Veil Nebula
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope photographed three magnificent sections of the Veil Nebula -- the shattered remains of a supernova that exploded thousands of years ago. This series of images provides... (More)
4/24/2007STScI-2007-1633.The Carina Nebula: Star Birth in the Extreme
In celebration of the 17th anniversary of the launch and deployment of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers is releasing one of the largest panoramic... (More)
2/13/2007STScI-2007-0934.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)
1/8/2007STScI-2007-0435.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)
1/8/2007STScI-2007-0336.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)
2006
12/19/2006STScI-2006-5537.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-2006-5438.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)