2013

• 4/23/2013 STScI-2013-14 1. Hubble Captures Comet ISON Comet ISON is potentially the "comet of the century" because around the time the comet makes its closest approach to the Sun, on November 28, it may briefly become brighter than the full Moon. (More)

2011

• 4/28/2011 STScI-2011-13 2. NASA's SWIFT and Hubble Probe Asteroid Collision Debris Late last year, astronomers noticed an asteroid named Scheila had unexpectedly brightened, and it was sporting short-lived plumes. Data from NASA's Swift satellite... (More)

2010

• 10/5/2010 STScI-2010-35 3. Hubble Probes Comet 103P/Hartley 2 in Preparation for DIXI/EPOXI Flyby Hubble Space Telescope observations of comet 103P/Hartley 2, taken on September 25, are helping in the planning for a November... (More)
• 2/2/2010 STScI-2010-07 4. Suspected Asteroid Collision Leaves Odd X-Pattern of Trailing Debris Something awfully curious is happening 100 million miles from Earth in the asteroid belt. There's a newly discovered object that superficially... (More)

2007

• 11/15/2007 STScI-2007-40 5. Hubble Zooms In on Heart of Mystery Comet NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has probed the bright core of Comet 17P/Holmes, which, to the delight of sky watchers, mysteriously brightened by nearly a millionfold... (More)

2006

• 4/27/2006 STScI-2006-18 6. Hubble Provides Spectacular Detail of a Comet's Breakup Hubble Space Telescope is providing astronomers with extraordinary views of Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3. The fragile comet is rapidly disintegrating as it approaches... (More)

2005

• 7/4/2005 STScI-2005-17 7. 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)
• 6/27/2005 STScI-2005-16 8. Hubble Captures Outburst from Comet Targeted By Deep Impact In a dress rehearsal for the rendezvous between NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft and comet 9P/Tempel 1, the Hubble Space Telescope captured dramatic... (More)
• 6/2/2005 STScI-2005-18 9. 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)

2004

• 6/17/2004 STScI-2004-52 10. A Really Neat Close-up of Comet NEAT from Kitt Peak Observatory This image of comet C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) was taken at the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson... (More)

2003

• 9/5/2003 STScI-2003-26 11. Hubble Assists Rosetta Comet Mission Results from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope played a major role in preparing ESA's ambitious Rosetta mission for its new target, comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/C-G). (More)

2001

• 5/17/2001 STScI-2001-14 12. Astronomers Puzzled over Comet LINEAR's Missing Pieces Astronomers analyzing debris from a comet that broke apart last summer spied pieces as small as smoke-sized particles and as large as football-field-sized fragments. (More)

2000

• 8/7/2000 STScI-2000-27 13. Hubble Discovers Missing Pieces of Comet Linear To the surprise and delight of astronomers, the Hubble telescope discovered a small armada of "mini-comets" left behind from what some scientists had prematurely thought... (More)
• 7/28/2000 STScI-2000-26 14. Hubble Sees Comet Linear Blow its Top Lackluster comet LINEAR (C/1999 S4) unexpectedly threw astronomers a curve. Using the Hubble telescope, researchers were surprised to catch the icy comet in a brief, violent... (More)

1998

• 3/27/1998 STScI-1998-13 15. Comet Hyakutake The Hubble telescope has probed the inner regions of Comet Hyakutake. This picture captures sunlight scattered by dust particles in the comet's inner coma. ... (More)

1996

• 3/27/1996 STScI-1996-14 16. Hubble Probes Inner Region of Comet Hyakutake The Hubble telescope snapped pictures of comet Hyakutake March 25, 1996, when the comet was just 9.3 million miles from Earth. ... (More)

1995

• 11/29/1995 STScI-1995-49 17. HST's Greatest Hits 1990-1995 Hubble Space Telescope evokes a new sense of awe and wonder about the infinite richness of our universe in dramatic, unprecedented pictures of celestial objects. Like a traveler sharing... (More)
• 10/10/1995 STScI-1995-41 18. Hubble Sees Material Ejected from Comet Hale-Bopp These Hubble telescope pictures of comet Hale-Bopp show a remarkable "pinwheel" pattern and a blob of free-flying debris near its center. (More)
• 6/14/1995 STScI-1995-26 19. Hubble Identifies a Long-Sought Population of Comets Beyond Neptune The Hubble telescope has detected a long-sought population of comets dwelling at the icy fringe of the solar system. The observation, which is the astronomical... (More)
• 3/4/1995 STScI-1995-15 20. Comet Fragment Slams into Jupiter In July 1994, 21 chunks of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which had broken apart a year earlier, slammed into Jupiter. The Hubble telescope recorded this spectacular event. ... (More)

1994

• 9/29/1994 STScI-1994-43 21. Evolution of the P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 "Gang of Four" Region This series of eight NASA Hubble Space Telescope "snapshots" shows the evolution of the P-Q complex, also called the "gang of four' region, of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy... (More)
• 9/29/1994 STScI-1994-44 22. Jupiter's Upper Atmospheric Winds Revealed in Ultraviolet Images by Hubble Telescope These four NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter, as seen in visible (violet) and far-ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths, show the remarkable... (More)
• 9/29/1994 STScI-1994-46 23. Month Long Evolution of the D/G Jupiter Impact Sites from Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 This series of snapshots, taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows evolution of the comet P/Shoemaker-Levy... (More)
• 9/29/1994 STScI-1994-47 24. Jupiter Mapping Traces Changes in Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact Sites This series of color-composite maps of Jupiter, assembled from images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, allows astronomers to trace changes... (More)
• 9/29/1994 STScI-1994-48 25. Hubble Observations Shed New Light on Jupiter Collision In the weeks following comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9's spectacular July collision with Jupiter, a team of Hubble telescope astronomers has pored over imaging and spectroscopic... (More)
• 7/23/1994 STScI-1994-35 26. Hubble Ultraviolet Image of Multiple Comet Impacts on Jupiter Ultraviolet image of Jupiter taken by the Wide Field Camera of the Hubble Space Telescope. The image shows Jupiter's atmosphere at a wavelength of 2550 Angstroms... (More)
• 7/23/1994 STScI-1994-38 27. Hubble Shows Evolution of Ejecta from the "A" Comet Impact Site This series of images, which spans more than five days beginning at 5:33 p.m. EDT on July 16, 1994, was obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's... (More)
• 7/22/1994 STScI-1994-34 28. Color Hubble Image of Multiple Comet Impacts on Jupiter Image of Jupiter with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's Planetary Camera. Eight impact sights are visible. From left to right are the E/F complex (barely visible... (More)
• 7/21/1994 STScI-1994-33 29. Color Hubble Image of Large Comet Impact on Jupiter This Hubble telescope image of the giant planet Jupiter reveals the impact sites of two fragments from comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Twenty-one... (More)
• 7/20/1994 STScI-1994-32 30. Hubble Image of Large Comet Impact on Jupiter These images of Jupiter, by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, reveal the impact sites of fragments "D" and "G" from Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. The upper right corners... (More)
• 7/18/1994 STScI-1994-31 31. Jupiter's Comet Collision Sites As Seen in Visible and Ultraviolet Light This comparison of visible light (blue) and far-ultraviolet (FUV) images of Jupiter taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera-2 (WFPC-2)... (More)
• 7/17/1994 STScI-1994-28 32. Hubble Image of Comet Shoemaker-Levy First Fragment Impact With Jupiter This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter's cloudtops was taken at 5:32 EDT on July 16, 1994, shortly after the impact of the first fragment... (More)
• 7/17/1994 STScI-1994-29 33. Astronomers View Comet Impact with Jupiter Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute huddle around monitors to get a glimpse of images from fragment A of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9's collision with Jupiter... (More)
• 7/17/1994 STScI-1994-30 34. Hubble Sees Comet Fireball on Limb of Jupiter Sequence of images showing evidence for a plume near the terminator of Jupiter at the time of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9's fragmnet A impact with Jupiter in July 1994. (More)
• 7/7/1994 STScI-1994-26 35. Photo Illustration of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 & Planet Jupiter This is a composite photo, assembled from separate images of Jupiter and cornet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9, as imaged by the Wide Field & Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), aboard. (More)
• 5/18/1994 STScI-1994-21 36. Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 "Gang Of Four" This is a composite HST image taken in visible light showing the temporal evolution of the brightest region of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9. In this false-color representation, different... (More)
• 2/8/1994 STScI-1994-13 37. Hubble Space Telescope view of a Comet on a Collision Course with Jupiter These images of Comet P/Shoemaker- Levy 9 (1993e) fragments were made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The cometary... (More)

1990

• 10/4/1990 STScI-1990-19 38. Comet Levy NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed the inner core surrounding the icy nucleus of Comet Levy more clearly than can be done with ground-based telescopes... (More)