2010

• 7/6/2010 STScI-2010-22 1. Starburst Cluster Shows Celestial Fireworks Like a July 4 fireworks display, a young, glittering collection of stars looks like an aerial burst. The cluster is surrounded by clouds of interstellar gas and dust—the raw material... (More)
• 5/11/2010 STScI-2010-14 2. Hubble Catches Heavyweight Runaway Star Speeding from 30 Doradus A blue-hot star, 90 times more massive than our Sun, is hurtling across space fast enough to make a round trip from Earth to the Moon in merely two hours. (More)

2009

• 12/15/2009 STScI-2009-32 3. Hubble's Festive View of a Grand Star-Forming Region Just in time for the holidays: a Hubble Space Telescope picture postcard of hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds. The festive portrait... (More)
• 1/15/2009 STScI-2009-05 4. Hubble Snaps a Splendid Planetary Nebula The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged striking details of the famed planetary nebula designated NGC 2818, which lies in the southern constellation of Pyxis (the Compass). The spectacular... (More)

2008

• 7/10/2008 STScI-2008-25 5. What's My Age? Mystery Star Cluster Has 3 Different Birthdays Imagine having three clocks in your house, each chiming at a different time. Astronomers have found the equivalent of three out-of-sync "clocks" in the ancient... (More)

2007

• 1/10/2007 STScI-2007-05 6. Hubble Sees Star Cluster "Infant Mortality" Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that young stellar nurseries, called open star clusters, have very short lives. (More)
• 1/8/2007 STScI-2007-04 7. 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)

2006

• 12/19/2006 STScI-2006-55 8. 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)
• 4/18/2006 STScI-2006-17 9. Magellanic Gemstones in the Southern Sky NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed images to date of the open star clusters NGC 265 and NGC 290 in the Small Magellanic Cloud -- two sparkling... (More)
• 1/9/2006 STScI-2006-03 10. Mystery Solved: High-Energy Fireworks Linked to Massive Star Cluster Call it the Bermuda Triangle of our Milky Way Galaxy: a tiny patch of sky that has been known for years to be the source of the mysterious... (More)

2005

• 11/10/2005 STScI-2005-35 11. 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)
• 3/9/2005 STScI-2005-05 12. Hubble Weighs in on the Heaviest Stars in the Galaxy Unlike humans, stars are born with all the weight they will ever have. A human's birth weight varies by just a few pounds... (More)
• 1/12/2005 STScI-2005-04 13. 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

• 6/1/2004 STScI-2004-20 14. Hubble Refines Distance to Pleiades Star Cluster Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have helped settle a mystery that has puzzled scientists concerning the exact distance to the famous nearby star cluster... (More)

2001

• 7/26/2001 STScI-2001-21 15. 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)

1999

• 9/29/1999 STScI-1999-33 16. Hubble Captures a Grand View of the Birth of "Hefty" Stars Pictures taken in infrared and visible light by the Hubble telescope recount a vivid story of the turbulent birthing process of massive stars. (More)
• 9/16/1999 STScI-1999-30 17. Hubble Spies Giant Star Clusters Near Galactic Center Penetrating 25,000 light-years of obscuring dust and myriad stars, the Hubble telescope has provided the clearest view yet of a pair of the largest young clusters... (More)
• 4/1/1999 STScI-1999-12 18. Multiple Generations of Stars in the Tarantula Nebula In the most active starburst region in the local universe resides a cluster of brilliant, massive stars, known to astronomers as Hodge 301. ... (More)

1994

• 1/13/1994 STScI-1994-04 19. Hubble's Improved Optics Reveal Incredible Detail in Giant Cloud of Gas and Dust An image of a star-forming region in the 30 Doradus nebula, surrounding the dense star cluster R136. The image was obtained... (More)

1992

• 4/1/1992 STScI-1992-11 20. Clearest View Yet of Massive Star Cluster A new image processing technique has yielded the clearest view yet of an extraordinary star cluster located about 169,000 light years from Earth. The new technique... (More)

1990

• 8/13/1990 STScI-1990-09 21. Hubble Space Telescope Photographs Extragalactical Stellar Nursery NASA is releasing today a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) photograph of the most remarkable star forming region in the Local Group of Galaxies, 30 Doradus. The photograph... (More)
• 6/22/1990 STScI-1990-06 22. ESA's Faint Object Camera First Images The European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, has successfully taken its first engineering test pictures of the heavens. (More)
• 5/20/1990 STScI-1990-04 23. HST WC/PC First Light Image On the right is part of the first image taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) Wide Field/Planetary Camera. It is shown with a ground-based picture from a Las Campanas... (More)