2002 (continued)

• 1/3/2002 STScI-2002-01 71. 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)

2001

• 12/19/2001 STScI-2001-34 72. Hubble Sends Season's Greetings from the Cosmos to Earth Looking like a colorful holiday card, this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a vibrant green and red... (More)
• 12/6/2001 STScI-2001-39 73. A Giant Star Factory in Neighboring Galaxy NGC 6822 Resembling curling flames from a campfire, this magnificent nebula in a neighboring galaxy is giving astronomers new insight... (More)
• 7/26/2001 STScI-2001-21 74. 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)
• 4/26/2001 STScI-2001-13 75. 'Survivor' Planets: Astronomers Witness First Steps of Planet Growth - and Destruction Planet formation is a hazardous process. New pictures from the Hubble telescope are giving astronomers the first direct visual evidence... (More)
• 4/24/2001 STScI-2001-12 76. By Popular Demand: Hubble Observes the Horsehead Nebula Rising from a sea of dust and gas like a giant seahorse, the Horsehead nebula is one of the most photographed objects in the sky. The Hubble telescope took a close-up... (More)
• 3/28/2001 STScI-2001-11 77. Massive Infant Stars Rock their Cradle Extremely intense radiation from newly born, ultra-bright stars has blown a glowing spherical bubble in the nebula N83B, also known as NGC 1748. A new Hubble telescope... (More)
• 2/1/2001 STScI-2001-05 78. Astro-Entomology? Ant-like Space Structure Previews Death of Our Sun From ground-based telescopes, this cosmic object -- the glowing remains of a dying, Sun-like star -- resembles the head and thorax of a garden-variety ant. (More)

2000

• 12/6/2000 STScI-2000-36 79. Ghostly Reflections in the Pleiades This ghostly apparition is actually an interstellar cloud caught in the process of destruction by strong radiation from a nearby hot star. This haunting picture, snapped... (More)
• 10/5/2000 STScI-2000-30 80. Hubble Peeks into a Stellar Nursery in a Nearby Galaxy The Hubble telescope has peered deep into a neighboring galaxy to reveal details of the formation of new stars. Hubble's target was a newborn star cluster... (More)