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*Description*: This Hubble Space Telescope image provides a detailed look at a brilliant "fireworks show" at the center of a collision between two galaxies. Hubble has uncovered over 1,000 bright, young star c More

*Description*: High speed gas from a supernova explosion slams into dark cooler clouds of interstellar material. Shocked and heated by this tidal wave of energy, the clouds glow in bright, neon-like colors. (I More

*Description*: This NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of the central portion of a remote cluster of galaxies (CL 0939+4713) as it looked when the universe was two-thirds of its present age. Hubble's high More

*Description*: A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a previously unknown small group of galaxies estimated to be three billion light-years away.* They existed when the universe was only about 80% its present More

*Description*: The European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera on board NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the most detailed image ever taken of the gravitational lens G2237 + 0305?som More

*Description*: The boxes in this color image identify 18 sub-galactic sized objects in a Hubble Space Telescope survey of faint galaxies. All the boxed objects are at the same distance from Eather (11 billion More

*Description*: A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a region of the Great Nebula in Orion, as imaged by the Wale Field Planetary Camera 2. This is one of the nearest regions of very recent star formation (3 More

*Description*: This is an image of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula located about 8,000 light-years away, taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Th More

Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: AM 0644-741, Lindsay-Shapley Ring Galaxy Object Description: Ring Galaxy Position (J2000): R.A. 6h 43m 16s.59 Dec. -74° 14' 22".23 Constel More

Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: V838 Monocerotis Object Description: Nova-like variable star and surrounding light echo Position (J2000): R.A. 07h 04m 04.8s Dec. ?03° 50' More

*Description*: This is the first direct image of a star other than the Sun, made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Called Alpha Orionis, or Betelgeuse, it is a red supergiant star marking the shoulder of the More

*Description*: An image of the Supergiant Shell LMC-4 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, taken with the Curtis Schmidt telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) as part of the Magellanic Clouds E More

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Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: V838 Monocerotis Object Description: Nova-like variable star and surrounding light echo Position (J2000): R.A. 07h 04m 04.8s Dec. ?03° 50' More

*Description*: A Hubble Space Telescope observation of the star Eta Carinae, made with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WF/PC). An eruptive variable star, Eta Carinae has expelled a large amount of gas int More

Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Mars Object Description: Closest Approach 2003 Distance from the Sun: The semi-major axis of Mars' orbit about the sun is 1.52 Astronomica More

*Description*: This photo mosaic, which shows a field of distant galaxies, is a computer enhanced reproduction of a picture taken 4 March 1994 with the repaired Hubble Space Telescope. It combines 16 exposures More

Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Tycho Supernova, SN1572 Object Description: Supernova Remnant Position (J2000): R.A. 00h 25m 08s.07 Dec. +64° 09' 55".7 Constellation: Cas More

*Description*: This is an enlargement of a NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the "brightest nucleus" in a string of approximately 20 objects that comprise comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9. The comet is hurtling tow More

*Description*: When astronomer Heidi Hammel saw the first raw images downlinked from the telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, she exclaimed, "In my dreams we couldn't have gotten any better!" Shown in th More

*Description*: This NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image reveals a pair of one-half light-year long interstellar "twisters" ? eerie funnels and twisted-rope structures (upper left) ? in the heart of the Lag More

*Description*:> A flight through the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, the most distant visible-light view of the universe. The redshifts of 5,333 galaxies were converted to distances to assemble a 3-D model of the da More

*Description*: High speed gas from a supernova explosion slams into dark cooler clouds of interstellar material. Shocked and heated by this tidal wave of energy, the clouds glow in bright, neon-like colors. (I More

*Description*: A NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HS1) image of a tepidly ballooning bubble of gas blasted off a star. The shell surrounds Nova Cygni 1992 which erupted on February 19, 1992. The shell is so young More

Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: SN 2005cs in M51 Object Description: Supernova Position (J2000): R.A. 13h 29m 52.85s Dec. +47° 10' 36.3" Constellation: Canes Venatici Dis More

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*Description*: This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture of a recently-formed "planetary nebula," known as Hen 1357. This expanding cloud of gas was ejected from the aging star in the center. Much of the g More

*Description*: This composite image is a view of the colorful Helix Nebula taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Mosaic II Camera on the 4-meter telescope at C More

*Description*: An image of the Supergiant Shell LMC-4 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, taken with the Curtis Schmidt telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) as part of the Magellanic Clouds E More

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*Description*: In this view of the core of galaxy NGC 1068, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals far more detail than has ever been seen from the ground. This picture was taken through a narrow band filter wi More

Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: V838 Monocerotis Object Description: Nova-like variable star and surrounding light echo Position (J2000): R.A. 07h 04m 04.8s Dec. ?03° 50' More

*Description*: The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) simultaneously records, in unprecedented detail, the velocities of hundreds of gas knots streaming at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour from More

*Description*: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this close-up of the red planet Mars when it was just 34,648,840 miles (55,760,220 km) away. This color image was assembled from a series of exposures taken be More

*Description*: The explosion of a massive star blazes with the light of 200 million Suns in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. The arrow at top right points to the stellar blast, called a supernova. The s More

*Description*: This picture of M64 is a color composite of CCD images from the 0.9-meter telescope of the Kitt Peak National Observatory, near Tucson, Arizona, taken in January 1997. The image has been rotated More

*Description*: This picture of M64 is a color composite of CCD images from the 0.9-meter telescope of the Kitt Peak National Observatory, near Tucson, Arizona, taken in January 1997. The image has been rotated More

*Description*: The image on the right is a portion of the first image returned by the Wide Field Planetary Camera on the Hubble Space Telescope. On the left is a ground based image of the same area of the sky. More

*Description*: The European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera on board NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided a fascinating close-up view of Supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Since they firs More

*Description*:> Dissolve sequence of the 5 epochs of the light echo of star V838 Mon. Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: V838 Monocerotis Object Description: Nova-like More

*Description*: This image of the core of the nearby spiral galaxy M51, taken with the Wide Field Planetary camera (in PC mode) on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows a striking , dark "X" silhouetted across t More

*Description*: Six amateur astronomers will have a rare opportunity to use NASA'S Hubble Space Telescope to conduct original research. Officials at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) announced today More

*Description*: 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 Las Campanas, Chile, Observator More

*Description*: This Hubble Space Telescope view of galaxy NGC 7457, was taken on August 17, 1990 with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera. The picture on the left with high contrast shows the central portion o More

*Description*:> Interview segment with Sangeeta Malhotra, Astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Clip references what the team expects to discover with the Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys gri More

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*Description*: Chandra has imaged the glowing shell created by the destruction of a massive star. X-rays from Chandra (blue), combined with optical (green) and radio (red) data, reveal new details in the super More

*Description*: (four-frame comparison) Hubble Space Telescope provides a detailed look at the core of the giant spiral galaxy M51. These images, taken at different wavelengths of light, reveal complex struct More

*Description*: The boxes in this color image identify 18 sub-galactic sized objects in a Hubble Space Telescope survey of faint galaxies. All the boxed objects are at the same distance from Eather (11 billion More

*Description*: Chandra's image of N63A shows material heated to about ten million degrees Celsius by a shock wave generated by the supernova explosion. The fluffy crescent-shaped X-ray features that appear aro More

*Description*: This image shows a small portion of a nebula called the "Cygnus Loop." Covering a region on the sky six times the diameter of the full Moon, the Cygnus Loop is actually the expanding blastwave f More

*Description*:> A flight through the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, the most distant visible-light view of the universe. The redshifts of 5,333 galaxies were converted to distances to assemble a 3-D model of the da More

*Description*: In this detailed view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the so-called Cat's Eye Nebula looks like the penetrating eye of the disembodied sorcerer Sauron from the film adaptation of "The Lord o More

*Description*: The prolific number of eruptions by the recurrent nova T Pyxidis has attracted the attention of many telescopes. [LEFT] The image on the left, taken by a ground-based telescope, shows shells of More

*Description*: A picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1068, taken with the 0.9-m telescope at Kitt Peak National observatory shows the bright nucleus. The inset is an HST WFPC narrow band image which shows More

*Description*: The energy source needed to create and maintain the galactic let in galaxy PKS 0521-36 is generated deep within the core of the galaxy, and is far too small to resolved. The favored mechanism be More

*Description*: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has obtained the clearest pictures ever of our solar system's most distant and enigmatic object: the planet Pluto. The observations were made with the European Spac More

*Description*: Exposures taken through separate red, green, and blue filters and used to create a color image of Mars (lower right). The red filter shows the best surface detail. Because Mars' atmosphere scatt More

*Description*: A NASA Hubble Space Telescope "true color" mosaic image of a small portion of the Orion Nebula, taken the Wide Field and Planetary Camera (in wide field mode). Hubble shows a wealth of detail n More

*Description*: The image at top right shows Jovian aurora observed on February 8, 1992, by the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera (FOC) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST). This is the first di More

*Description*: Cutaway of view of Ceres shows the differentiated layers of the asteroid. Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Ceres, 1 Ceres Object Description: Minor Bo More

*Description*: The Green (V band) image (left) shows the field around the quasar 3c 273 (courtesy Matthew Colless, David Schade and the CFHT). The optical jet can be seen SW of the quasar. The blue (B band) im More

*Description*: This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a portion of a remote cluster of galaxies (CL 0939+4713) that existed when the universe was two-thirds of its present age (redshift z = 0.4). Hubbl More

*Description*: This is a 2.7 X 2.7 arc minute view of star cluster R136 as seen from a ground-based telescope under exceptional observing conditions. Star images are as small as 0.6 arc second. Technical More

*Description*: The Hubble Space Telescope achieved its 100,000th exposure June 22 with a snapshot of a quasar that is about 9 billion light-years from Earth. The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 clicked this More

*Description*: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has shown us that the shrouds of gas surrounding dying, sunlike stars (called planetary nebulae) come in a variety of strange shapes, from an "hourglass" to a "butt More

*Description*: Globular Cluster NGC 6397 taken in red light by the UK Schmidt Telescope of the Anglo-Australian Telescope. The green rectangle to the left and below the bright central of the cluster shows the More

*Description*: This image, taken by an amateur astronomer, shows the location of Comet Holmes on Oct. 28. Superimposed on this image is a graphic showing the comet's path from Sept. 30 to Nov. 25. Technic More

*Description*: This graph schematically plots two populations of stars Hubble has seen in a neighboring star cluster. The graph, a simplified version of the original data, plots stellar brightness (vertical ax More

*Description*: 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 region in the Small Magellanic Cloud. More

*Description*: This Hubble telescope image of a dense swarm of stars shows the central region of the globular cluster NGC 2808. Astronomers were surprised when Hubble spied three generations of cluster stars More

Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: V838 Monocerotis Object Description: Nova-like variable star and surrounding light echo Position (J2000): R.A. 07h 04m 04.8s Dec. -03° 50' More

*Description*:> Camera move on ACS image of "The Mice." Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: UGC 10214 (Arp 188, "Tadpole Galaxy") Object Description: Peculiar Galaxy Po More

Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: V838 Monocerotis Object Description: Nova-like variable star and surrounding light echo Position (J2000): R.A. 07h 04m 04.8s Dec. ?03° 50' More

*Description*: HST ACS/HRC B, V, I composite of microlensing target OGLE-2003-BLG-235/MOA-2003-BLG-53. Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: OGLE-2003-BLG-235L/MOA-2003-B More

*Description*: An image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals clusters of infant stars that formed in a ring around the core of the barred-spiral galaxy NGC 4314. This stellar nursery, whose inhabitants w More

*Description*: Looking like a child's pinwheel ready to be set a spinning by a gentle breeze, this dramatic spiral galaxy is one of the latest viewed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Stunning details of the f More

*Description*: A detailed look at the V838 Mon light echo from September 2006, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: V838 Monocerot More

*Description*: NGC 5866 is an edge-on galaxy that is tilted to our line-of-sight. It is classified as an S0 lenticular, due to its flat stellar disk and large ellipsoidal bulge. NGC 5866 lies in the Northern c More

*Description*: Michael G. Hauser, Deputy Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute since 1995 and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore More

Technical facts about this news release: NGC 265: About this Object Object Name: NGC 265 Object Description: Star Cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud Position (J2000): R.A. 00h 47m 11s.1 Dec. -73° 28' 40".1 More

Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Mars Object Description: Planet Distance from the Sun: The semi-major axis of Mars' orbit about the sun is 1.52 Astronomical Units (A.U.) More

*Description*: This image of galaxy cluster MS 0735.6+7421 was taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in February 2006. The Advanced Camera for Surveys image shows dozens of galaxies bound together by gravit More

Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: MS 0735.6+7421 Object Description: Galaxy Cluster Position (J2000): R.A. 07h 41m 50.20s Dec. +74° 14' 51.00" Constellation: Camelopardalis More

*Description*: This image, taken by an amateur astronomer, shows the location of Comet Holmes on Oct. 28. Superimposed on this image is a graphic showing the comet's path from Sept. 30 to Nov. 25. Technic More

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Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: M4 (NGC 6121) Object Description: Globular Cluster Position (J2000): R.A. 16h 23m 35.4s Dec. -26° 31' 31.9" Constellation: Scorpius Distan More

*Description*: Several thousand never-before-seen spiral, elliptical and colliding galaxies snap into view in this Hubble Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) image. Technical facts about this news relea More

*Description*: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has recently obtained images of the planetary nebula NGC 6369. This object is known to amateur astronomers as the "Little Ghost Nebula," because it appears as a sma More

Technical facts about this news release: About this Object Object Name: Bow Shock Around LL Orionis Object Description: Bow Shock around T-Tauri Star in the Orion Nebula Position (J2000): R.A. 05h 35m 05.64s D More

Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: V838 Monocerotis Object Description: Nova-like object Position (J2000): R.A. 07h 04m 05s Dec. ?03° 50' 50" Constellation: Monoceros Distan More

Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Quaoar, 2002 LM60 Object Description: Kuiper Belt Object Position (J2000): On July 5, 2002 R.A. 16h 36m 18s Dec. ?14° 48' 0" Constellation More

*Description*: Hold the pickles; hold the lettuce. Space is serving up giant hamburgers. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a photograph of a strange object that bears an uncanny resemblance to a hambur More

*Description*: Among the thousands of galaxies in this image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field are the 36 so-called "tadpole" galaxies identified recently by astronomers. The green squares mark these galaxies, wh More

*Description*: Location of details cropped from the full HST/ACS Orion Nebula image (yellow rectangles). The blue outline shows the border of the mosaic produced from individual ACS/WFC fields. Technical More

Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Mars Object Description: Planet Distance from the Sun: The semi-major axis of Mars' orbit about the sun is 1.52 Astronomical Units (A.U.) More

Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Description: Host Galaxies of Distant Supernovae About the Data Data Description: Optical data from several HST proposals were used. These inclu More

*Description*: This architectural rendering shows a cut-away view of the renovated Einstein Planetarium at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air & Space Museum. Part of the planetarium dome has been remov More