2005

• 11/10/2005 STScI-2005-35 21. 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 22. 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 23. 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 24. 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)

2003

• 8/7/2003 STScI-2003-21 25. Too Close for Comfort This Hubble Space Telescope view of the core of one of the nearest globular star clusters, called NGC 6397, resembles a treasure chest of glittering jewels. The cluster is located 8,200 light-years... (More)
• 7/10/2003 STScI-2003-19 26. Oldest Known Planet Identified NASA's Hubble Space Telescope precisely measured the mass of the oldest known planet in our Milky Way galaxy. At an estimated age of 13 billion years, the... (More)

2002

• 9/17/2002 STScI-2002-18 27. Hubble Discovers Black Holes in Unexpected Places Medium-size black holes actually do exist, according to the latest findings from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, but scientists had to look in some unexpected... (More)
• 4/24/2002 STScI-2002-10 28. Hubble Uncovers Oldest "Clocks" in Space to Read Age of Universe Pushing the limits of its powerful vision, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the oldest burned-out stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. (More)

2001

• 10/4/2001 STScI-2001-33 29. Peering into the Core of a Globular Cluster Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to peer into the center of a dense swarm of stars called Omega Centauri. Located some 17,000 light-years... (More)
• 7/26/2001 STScI-2001-21 30. 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)
• 7/10/2001 STScI-2001-25 31. Hubble Snaps Picture of Remarkable Double Cluster These two dazzling clusters of stars, called NGC 1850, are found in one of our neighboring galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The photo's centerpiece is a young, "globular-like"... (More)
• 6/27/2001 STScI-2001-20 32. Hint of Planet-Sized Drifters Bewilders Hubble Scientists Piercing the heart of a globular star cluster, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope uncovered tantalizing clues to what could be a strange and unexpected population of wandering... (More)

2000

• 10/31/2000 STScI-2000-33 33. Astronomers Ponder Lack of Planets in Globular Cluster Astronomers using the Hubble telescope made the first broad search for planets far beyond our local stellar neighborhood. They trained Hubble's... (More)
• 8/3/2000 STScI-2000-25 34. A Dying Star in Globular Cluster M15 The globular cluster M15 is shown in this color image obtained with the Hubble telescope. Lying some 40,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus... (More)

1999

• 9/29/1999 STScI-1999-33 35. 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 36. 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)
• 7/1/1999 STScI-1999-26 37. Hubble Images a Swarm of Ancient Stars This stellar swarm is M80 (NGC 6093), one of the densest of the 147 known globular star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. Located about 28,000 light-years... (More)
• 4/1/1999 STScI-1999-12 38. 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)

1998

• 4/9/1998 STScI-1998-16 39. Hubble Finds That Even Massive Stars Just Fade Away Pinpointing the rapidly fading ember of a recently burned-out star, the Hubble telescope is giving astronomers a better estimate... (More)

1997

• 10/29/1997 STScI-1997-35 40. Hubble Catches Up with a Blue Straggler Star Astronomers have long been mystified by observations of a few hot, bright, apparently young stars residing in well-established communities where most of their neighbors... (More)