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*Description*: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing a grouping of galaxies engaging in a slow dance of destruction that will last for billions of years. The galaxies are so tightly packed together that More

*Description*: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing a grouping of galaxies engaging in a slow dance of destruction that will last for billions of years. The galaxies are so tightly packed together that More

Technical facts about this news release: About this Object Object Name: Rosette Nebula; NGC 2237 Object Description: Emission nebula Position (J2000): R.A. 06h 32.3m Dec. 05° 03' Constellation: Monoceros Dist More

Technical facts about this news release: About this Object Object Name: Rosette Nebula; NGC 2237 Object Description: Emission nebula Position (J2000): R.A. 06h 32.3m Dec. 05° 03' Constellation: Monoceros Dist More

Technical facts about this news release: About this Object Object Name: Rosette Nebula; NGC 2237 Object Description: Emission nebula Position (J2000): R.A. 06h 32.3m Dec. 05° 03' Constellation: Monoceros Dist More

Technical facts about this news release: About this Object Object Name: Rosette Nebula; NGC 2237 Object Description: Emission nebula Position (J2000): R.A. 06h 32.3m Dec. 05° 03' Constellation: Monoceros Dist More

*Description*: This loose collection of stars is actually a dwarf irregular galaxy, called Holmberg IX. It resides just off the outer edge of M81, a large spiral galaxy in Ursa Major. This image was taken with More

*Description*: A nearly perfect ring of hot, blue stars pinwheels about the yellow nucleus of an unusual galaxy known as Hoag's Object. This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures a face-on view of More

*Description*: A nearly perfect ring of hot, blue stars pinwheels about the yellow nucleus of an unusual galaxy known as Hoag's Object. This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures a face-on view of More

*Description*: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has obtained the most detailed and highest resolution optical images of the radio galaxy PKS 0521-36. The observations were made with the European Space Agency's Fa More

*Description*: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has obtained the most detailed and highest resolution optical images of the radio galaxy PKS 0521-36. The observations were made with the European Space Agency's Fa More

*Description*: This image showcases Hubble Space Telescope's first high-resolution ultraviolet and visible imaging of the Apollo 17 landing region within the Taurus-Littrow valley of the Moon. Humans last walk More

*Description*: This image showcases Hubble Space Telescope's first high-resolution ultraviolet and visible imaging of the Apollo 17 landing region within the Taurus-Littrow valley of the Moon. Humans last walk More

*Description*: This is the first image-based surface map of the solar system's most remote planet, Pluto. This map was assembled by computer image processing software from four separate images of Pluto's disk More

*Description*: This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the geologically active trailing hemisphere of the Jovian moon lo. The ultraviolet light image as taken with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Ca More

*Description*: This black and white picture of Jupiter, taken in green light at 1:14 a.m. on the 11th March, 1991 by the Planetary Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows a wealth of fine detail in the More

*Description*: This is the first true-color photograph of the giant planet Jupiter from the Wide Field Planetary Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. All features in this image are cloud formations in the More

*Description*: Resembling the puffs of smoke and sparks from a summer fireworks display in this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, these delicate filaments are actually sheets of debris from a stellar e More

*Description*: This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the geologically active trailing hemisphere of the Jovian moon lo. The ultraviolet light image as taken with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Ca More

Gravitational Lensing in Galaxy Cluster Abell 370 The Hubble Space Telescope's newly repaired Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) has peered nearly 5 billion light-years away to resolve intricate details in the g More

*Description*: Resembling the puffs of smoke and sparks from a summer fireworks display in this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, these delicate filaments are actually sheets of debris from a stellar e More

Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: HD 44179, "Red Rectangle" Object Description: Bipolar proto-planetary nebula Position (J2000): R.A. 06h 19m 58s.22 Dec. -10° 38' 14".7 Con More

*Description*: Glittering stars and wisps of gas create a breathtaking backdrop for the self-destruction of a massive star, called supernova 1987A, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy. Astronomers i More

*Description*:> Interview segment with Dr. Harry Ferguson, Associate Astronomer at Space Telescope Science Institute. Clip references what the GOODS survey is and the role in the project of the Hubble's Advan More

*Description*: The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), located only 160,000 light-years from Earth, is the nearest galaxy outside the Milky Way in which stars are actively being formed. With its high resolution, the More

*Description*: Artist's rendition of the core of M31 that shows a ring of older red stars and a disk of young blue stars. Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: M31, Andro More

*Description*: Hubble's variable nebula is named (like the Hubble telescope itself) after the American astronomer Edwin P. Hubble, who carried out some of the early studies of this object. It is a fan-shaped c More

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*Description*: Artist's rendition of the core of M31 that shows a ring of older red stars and a disk of young blue stars. Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: M31, Andro More

*Description*: The Chandra Deep Field-North image was made by observing an area of the sky over half the size of the full moon for 23 days. It is the most sensitive or "deepest" X-ray exposure ever made. By co More

*Description*: On April 6, 1994 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was performing a detailed study of the Sun's nearest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri, using the Fine Guidance Sensors to search for small More

*Description*: In its first glimpse of the heavens following the successful December 1999 servicing mission, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a majestic view of a planetary nebula, the glowing remain More

*Description*: In its first glimpse of the heavens following the successful December 1999 servicing mission, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a majestic view of a planetary nebula, the glowing remain More

*Description*: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has peered at a small area within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) to provide the deepest color picture ever obtained in that satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. More

*Description*: The NASA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 snapped this wide view of the nearby barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512. A wispy bar of material can barely be seen slicing vertica More

*Description*: Astronomers have combined information from the NASA Hubble Space Telescope's visible- and infrared-light cameras to show the hearts of four spiral galaxies peppered with ancient populations of s More

*Description*: Hubble Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 mosaic of crater Copernicus. Hubble's crisp bird's-eye view clearly shows the ray pattern of bright dust ejected out of the crater over 1 billion years a More

Technical facts about this news release: About this Object Object Name: SN1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud Object Description: Supernova Remnant Position (J2000): R.A. 05h 35m 28.03s Dec. -69° 16' 11.79" ( More

*Description*: A "true color" composite image of the LMC HII region N159 as seen by WFPC2, based on images taken with filters Halpha, (red), [OIII], (green), and Hbeta, (blue). The Papillon nebula (N159-5) is More

*Description*: This troupe of four galaxies, known as Hickson Compact Group 87 (HCG 87), is performing an intricate dance orchestrated by the mutual gravitational forces acting between them. The dance is a slo More

*Description*: The NASA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 snapped this wide view of the nearby barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512. A wispy bar of material can barely be seen slicing vertica More

*Description*: NGC 2346, in contrast to the first two young objects, is a so-called "planetary nebula," which is ejected from Sun-like stars which are near the ends of their lives. NGC 2346 is remarkable becau More

*Description*: 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-ye More

*Description*: The object shown in these NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope images is a remarkable example of a star going through death throes just as it dramatically transforms itself from a normal red giant st More

*Description*: The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), located only 160,000 light-years from Earth, is the nearest galaxy outside the Milky Way in which stars are actively being formed. With its high resolution, the More

*Description*: 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 from Earth, M80 contains hundreds of th More

*Description*: This illustration shows that the Kuiper Belt is shaped like a disk [see inset diagram] and resides within the shell-like structure of the Oort Cloud. Located on the outskirts of the solar system More

*Description*:> Interview segment with Dr. Harry Ferguson, Associate Astronomer at Space Telescope Science Institute. Clip references what the GOODS survey is and the role in the project of the Hubble's Advan More

Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: NGC 4603 Object Description: Spiral Galaxy Position (J2000): R.A. 12h 40m 55.70s Dec. -40° 58' 34.0" Constellation: Centaurus Distance: 10 More

Technical facts about this news release: About this Object Object Name: 47 Tucanae, NGC 104 Object Description: Globular Cluster Position (J2000): R.A. 00h 24m 06.21s Dec. -72° 05' 00.5" Constellation: Tucana More

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*Description*: A NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) view of the magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 4603, the most distant galaxy in which a special class of pulsating stars called Cepheid variables have been found. More

Technical facts about this news release: About this Object Object Name: SN1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud Object Description: Supernova Remnant Position (J2000): R.A. 05h 35m 28.03s Dec. -69° 16' 11.79" ( More

Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name R.A. Position (J2000) Dec. Position (J2000) GRB980703 23h 59m 5s.00 +08¯_¯_ 33' 36".0 GRB990705 05h 09m 52s.00 -72¯_¯_ 08' 0".0 GRB990712 2 More

*Description*: Hubble's variable nebula is named (like the Hubble telescope itself) after the American astronomer Edwin P. Hubble, who carried out some of the early studies of this object. It is a fan-shaped c More

*Description*: Astronomers have used the NASA Hubble Space Telescope to produce an infrared "photo essay" of spiral galaxies. By penetrating the dust clouds swirling around the centers of these galaxies, the t More

*Description*: This beautiful, eerie silhouette of dark dust clouds against the glowing nucleus of the elliptical galaxy NGC 1316 may represent the aftermath of a 100 million year old cosmic collision between More

*Description*: A "true color" composite image of the LMC HII region N159 as seen by WFPC2, based on images taken with filters Halpha, (red), [OIII], (green), and Hbeta, (blue). The Papillon nebula (N159-5) is More

*Description*: The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest view yet of the most famous of all planetary nebulae: the Ring Nebula (M57). In this October 1998 image, the telescope has looked down a More

*Description*: On April 6, 1994 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was performing a detailed study of the Sun's nearest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri, using the Fine Guidance Sensors to search for small More

*Description*: A NASA Hubble Space Telescope view of a turbulent cauldron of starbirth, called N159, taking place 170,000 light-years away in our satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Torrential More

*Description*: This troupe of four galaxies, known as Hickson Compact Group 87 (HCG 87), is performing an intricate dance orchestrated by the mutual gravitational forces acting between them. The dance is a slo More

Technical facts about this news release: About this Object Object Name: 47 Tucanae, NGC 104 Object Description: Globular Cluster Position (J2000): R.A. 00h 24m 06.21s Dec. -72° 05' 00.5" Constellation: Tucana More

Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name R.A. Position (J2000) Dec. Position (J2000) GRB980703 23h 59m 5s.00 +08¯_¯_ 33' 36".0 GRB990705 05h 09m 52s.00 -72¯_¯_ 08' 0".0 GRB990712 2 More

*Description*: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has peered at a small area within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) to provide the deepest color picture ever obtained in that satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. More

*Description*: This is a mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. Japanese and C More

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*Description*: In this stunning picture of the giant galactic nebula NGC 3603, the crisp resolution of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures various stages of the life cycle of stars in one single view. To t More

*[top left] - *:This radio image of the galaxy M87, taken with the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope in February 1989, shows giant bubble-like structures where radio emission is thought to be powered by th More

Technical facts about this news release: About this Object Object Name: Thackeray's Globules in IC 2944 Object Type: Dark clouds in the HII star-forming region, IC 2944 Position (J2000): R.A. 11h 38m 23s Dec. More

*Description*: A closeup view of Copernicus' terraced walls. Hubble can resolve features as small as 280 feet across. Technical facts about this news release: Back to entire collection [ http://hubblesit More

*Description*: This composite radio light image and rendition of our galaxy as seen in visible light shows enigmatic "high-velocity clouds" of gas high above the plane of the Milky Way which rain gas into the More

*Description*: This beautiful, eerie silhouette of dark dust clouds against the glowing nucleus of the elliptical galaxy NGC 1316 may represent the aftermath of a 100 million year old cosmic collision between More

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 from Earth, M80 contains hundreds of thousands of stars More

*Description*: HH 32 is an excellent example of a "Herbig-Haro object," which is formed when young stars eject jets of material back into interstellar space. This object, about 1,000 light-years from Earth, is More

*Description*: This composite image of the Crab Nebula uses data from three of NASA's Great Observatories. The Chandra X-ray image is shown in light blue, the Hubble Space Telescope optical images are in green More

*Description*: [left]: The discovery image of the Martian polar storm as seen in blue light (410 nm). The storm is located near 65 deg. N latitude and 85 deg. W longitude, and is more than 1000 miles (1600 km) More

Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name R.A. Position (J2000) Dec. Position (J2000) GRB980703 23h 59m 5s.00 +08¯_¯_ 33' 36".0 GRB990705 05h 09m 52s.00 -72¯_¯_ 08' 0".0 GRB990712 2 More

*Description*: NGC 2440 is another planetary nebula ejected by a dying star, but it has a much more chaotic structure than NGC 2346. The central star of NGC 2440 is one of the hottest known, with a surface tem More

Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name R.A. Position (J2000) Dec. Position (J2000) GRB980703 23h 59m 5s.00 +08¯_¯_ 33' 36".0 GRB990705 05h 09m 52s.00 -72¯_¯_ 08' 0".0 GRB990712 2 More

*Description*: This composite image of the Crab Nebula uses data from three of NASA's Great Observatories. The Chandra X-ray image is shown in light blue, the Hubble Space Telescope optical images are in green More

*Description*:> The Lynx arc is 1 million times brighter than the well-known Orion Nebula, a nearby prototypical star-birth region visible with small telescopes. The newly identified megastar-birth cluster co More

Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: NGC 4603 Object Description: Spiral Galaxy Position (J2000): R.A. 12h 40m 55.70s Dec. -40° 58' 34.0" Constellation: Centaurus Distance: 10 More

*Description*: In 1995, the majestic spiral galaxy NGC 4414 was imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the HST Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. An international team of astronomers, le More

*Description*: 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-ye More

Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: HD 44179, "Red Rectangle" Object Description: Bipolar proto-planetary nebula Position (J2000): R.A. 06h 19m 58s.22 Dec. -10° 38' 14".7 Con More

*Description*: This illustration shows that the Kuiper Belt is shaped like a disk [see inset diagram] and resides within the shell-like structure of the Oort Cloud. Located on the outskirts of the solar system More

*Description*:> The Lynx arc is 1 million times brighter than the well-known Orion Nebula, a nearby prototypical star-birth region visible with small telescopes. The newly identified megastar-birth cluster co More

*Description*: This is a mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. Japanese and C More

*Description*: In this stunning picture of the giant galactic nebula NGC 3603, the crisp resolution of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures various stages of the life cycle of stars in one single view. To t More

Technical facts about this news release: About this Object Object Name: Thackeray's Globules in IC 2944 Object Type: Dark clouds in the HII star-forming region, IC 2944 Position (J2000): R.A. 11h 38m 23s Dec. More

*Description*: When 17th-century astronomers first turned their telescopes to Jupiter, they noted a conspicuous reddish spot on the giant planet. This Great Red Spot is still present in Jupiter's atmosphere, m More

*Description*: The Chandra Deep Field-North image was made by observing an area of the sky over half the size of the full moon for 23 days. It is the most sensitive or "deepest" X-ray exposure ever made. By co More

*Description*: The group of galaxies ? or "galaxy cluster" ? catalogued as MS1054-03 is 8 billion light-years away, one of the most distant known so far. Although hundreds of galaxies appear in the NASA/ESA Hu More

*Description*: This is a unique NASA Hubble Space Telescope view of the disk galaxy NGC 5866 tilted nearly edge-on to our line-of-sight. Hubble's sharp vision reveals a crisp dust lane dividing the galaxy int More

*Description*: This active region of star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), as photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, unveils wispy clouds of hydrogen and oxygen that swirl and mix with du More

*Description*: Thousands of sparkling young stars are nestled within the giant nebula NGC 3603. This stellar "jewel box" is one of the most massive young star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. NGC 3603 is a p More

*Description*: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped an image of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 just days before the Deep Impact spacecraft is scheduled to rendezvous with the comet. This image, taken on the morning of More