NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Resolves a Dark "x" Across the Nucleus o...
*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
First ESA Faint Object Camera Science Images Pluto - the "Double Plane...
*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
The Carina Nebula: Star Birth in the Extreme
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Carina Nebula, NGC 3372 Object Description: Emission Nebula in the Milky Way Galaxy Position (J2000): R.A. 10h 44m Dec. -59° 53' Constella... More
Giant Radio Jet Coming from Wrong Kind of Galaxy
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: 0313-192 Object Description: Radio Galaxy Position (J2000): R.A. 03h 15m 52.10s Dec. -19° 06' 44.00" Constellation: Eridanus Distance: 900... More
Hubble Sees Star Cluster "Infant Mortality
*Description*: This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the central region of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1313. Hubble was used to resolve stars within the galaxy to do a census of various classes of st... More
Bigger, Better Catalog Unveils Half a Billion Celestial Objects
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
The Carina Nebula: Star Birth in the Extreme
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Carina Nebula, NGC 3372 Object Description: Emission Nebula in the Milky Way Galaxy Position (J2000): R.A. 10h 44m Dec. -59° 53' Constella... More
STScI Preparing a Desktop Universe For Astronomers
Technical facts about this news release: Back to entire collection [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/index/598/ ] Next release [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1993/11/ ] P... More
Hubble Spies Huge Clusters of Stars Formed by Ancient Encounter
Technical facts about this news release: About this Object Object Name: M82 (NGC 3034) Object Description: Irregular Galaxy Position (J2000): R.A. 09h 55m 52.22s Dec. +69° 40' 46.9" Constellation: Ursa Major ... More
Hubble Space Telescope Celestial Fireworks
*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
HST WC/PC First Light Image. NASA public domain image colelction.
*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
The Violent Lives of Galaxies: Caught in the Cosmic Dark Matter Web
*Description*: Astronomers assembled this photo by combining a visible-light image of the Abell 901/902 supercluster taken with the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope in La Silla, Chile, with a dark matter map derive... More
NASA's Hubble Finds Hundreds of Young Galaxies in Early Universe
*Description*: This view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The snapshot includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes, and colors. The smallest, reddest galaxies may be among ... More
Bigger, Better Catalog Unveils Half a Billion Celestial Objects
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
Very Long Baseline Array Reveals Formation Region of Giant Cosmic Jet ...
*[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
Spitzer and Hubble Team Up to Find "Big Baby" Galaxies in the Newborn ...
*Description*: The galaxy, named HUDF-JD2, was pinpointed among approximately 10,000 others in a small area of sky called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF). This is the deepest image of the universe ever made... More
Hubble Space Telescope Finds a Double Nucleus in the Andromeda Galaxy
*Description*: [Right] - HST View of Galactic Nucleus A NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of a "double nucleus" in the giant spiral galaxy in Andromeda, M31. Each of the two light-peaks contains a few... More
Spitzer and Hubble Team Up to Find "Big Baby" Galaxies in the Newborn ...
*Description*: The galaxy, named HUDF-JD2, was pinpointed among approximately 10,000 others in a small area of sky called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF). This is the deepest image of the universe ever made... More
Hubble Identifies Stellar Companion to Distant Planet
*Description*: [bottom left text] Hubble Space telescope observed and identified the host star to a gravitationally lensed planet first discovered in 2003 by ground-based telescopes. [left box] A foreground r... More
Panoramic Hubble Picture Surveys Star Birth, Proto-Planetary Systems i...
*Description*: This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The picture, seamles... More
Hubble Reveals Stellar Fireworks Accompanying Galaxy Collisions
*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
Hubble Probes the Great Orion Nebula
*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
Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: SWEEPS fields Object Description: Stellar Field Near the Galactic Bulge Position (J2000): R.A. 17h 59m 00s Dec. -29 ° 12' 00" Constellatio... More
Internal Heat Drives Jupiter's Giant Storm Eruption
*Description*: The background image is from Hubble Space Telescope and shows the turbulent pattern generated by the two plumes on May 11, 2007 (upper left part of Jupiter). The two bright plumes detach in the ... More
Hubble Sees Star Cluster "Infant Mortality
*Description*: This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the central region of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1313. Hubble was used to resolve stars within the galaxy to do a census of various classes of st... More
A Journey Through Space and Time
NASA set out on a monumental journey with the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope in April 1990. Since then, it has captured the minds and imaginations of people around the world. To celebrate the telescope's ... More
Hubble Finds that "Blue Blobs" in Space Are Orphaned Clusters of Stars
*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
Hubble Heritage Project's First Anniversary
*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
The Carina Nebula: Star Birth in the Extreme
*Description*: A towering "mountain" of cold hydrogen gas laced with dust is the site of new star formation in the Carina Nebula. The great gas pillar is being eroded by the ultraviolet radiation from the hott... More
Hubble Panoramic View of Orion Nebula Reveals Thousands of Stars
*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
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Produces Clear Color Photo of Jupiter
*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
Hubble Space Telescope Discovers a Double Nucleus in the Core of an Ac...
*Description*: A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the core of the Seyfert galaxy Markarian 315 reveals two nuclei located approximately 6,000 light-years apart. (Seyfert galaxies are a class of spiral gala... More
Close-up of M27, the Dumbbell Nebula
*Description*: Ground-based image of Dumbbell taken with KPNO WIYN 3.5m telescope in H-alpha, [O III], and [O I] filters. WIYN Dumbbell Nebula Photo Page [ http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im0780.html ] ... More
Hubble Panoramic View of Orion Nebula Reveals Thousands of Stars
*Description*: A new image from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes looks more like an abstract painting than a cosmic snapshot. The magnificent masterpiece shows the Orion nebula in an explosion of inf... More
Hubble Provides Multiple Views of How to Feed a Black Hole
*Description*: This NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture resolves, for the first time, one of the smallest stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. Called Gliese 623b or Gl623b, the diminutive star (right of center) is t... More
Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: SWEEPS fields Object Description: Stellar Field Near the Galactic Bulge Position (J2000): R.A. 17h 59m 00s Dec. -29 ° 12' 00" Constellatio... More
Celestial Season's Greetings from Hubble
*Description*: Swirls of gas and dust reside in this ethereal-looking region of star formation imaged by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This majestic view, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), reveals ... More
The Carina Nebula: Star Birth in the Extreme
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Carina Nebula, NGC 3372 Object Description: Emission Nebula in the Milky Way Galaxy Position (J2000): R.A. 10h 44m Dec. -59° 53' Constella... More
Hubble Sees Galaxy on Edge. NASA public domain image colelction.
*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
Hubble Space Telescope Captures First Direct Image of a Star
*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
Hubble Takes Major Step in Determining the Age of the Universe
Technical facts about this news release: Back to entire collection [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/index/595/ ] Next release [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1993/16/ ] P... More
The Violent Lives of Galaxies: Caught in the Cosmic Dark Matter Web
*Description*: Astronomers assembled this photo by combining a visible-light image of the Abell 901/902 supercluster taken with the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope in La Silla, Chile, with a dark matter map derive... More
Hubble Observes Infant Stars in Nearby Galaxy
*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
Astronomers Track Down Asteroids in Hubble Archive
*Description*: Astronomers Karl Stapelfeldt and Robin Evans have tracked down about 100 small asteroids by hunting through more than 28,000 archival images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and ... More
A Really Neat Close-up of Comet NEAT from Kitt Peak Observatory
*Description*: This image of comet C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) was taken at the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Ariz., on May 7, 2004. The image was captured with the Mosaic I cam... More
World's Most Powerful Telescopes Team Up With a Lens in Nature to Disc...
*Description*: [LEFT] A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy cluster CL1358+62 has uncovered a gravitationally-lensed image of a more distant galaxy located far beyond the cluster. The gravitational... More
New Clues About the Nature of Dark Energy: Einstein May Have Been Righ...
Technical facts about this news release: About the Data Data Description: The datasets used for these results are from the HST programs: 9425 and 9583: Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) 9352: ... More
Hubble Finds that "Blue Blobs" in Space Are Orphaned Clusters of Stars
*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
Hubble Panoramic View of Orion Nebula Reveals Thousands of Stars
*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
Wispy Dust and Gas Paint Portrait of Starbirth
*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
Dying Star Creates Fantasy-like Sculpture of Gas and Dust
*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
Hubble Witnesses the Final Blaze of Glory of Sun-Like Stars
*Description*: [Top left] - IC 3568 lies in the constellation Camelopardalis at a distance of about 9,000 light-years, and has a diameter of about 0.4 light-years (or about 800 times the diameter of our solar ... More
Massive Black Holes Dwell in Most Galaxies, According to Hubble Census
*Description*: The three galaxies above are believed to contain central, supermassive black holes. The galaxy NGC 4486B (lower-left) shows a double nucleus (lower-right). The images of NGC 3377 and NGC 4486B a... More
Hubble Identifies Stellar Companion to Distant Planet
*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
A Bright Ring of Star Birth around a Galaxy's Core
*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
Hubble's Latest Views of Light Echo from Star V838 Monocerotis
*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
Host Galaxy Cluster to Largest Known Radio Eruption
*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
Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter
*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
Hubble Approaches the Final Frontier: The Dawn of Galaxies
*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
Dying Star Creates Fantasy-like Sculpture of Gas and Dust
*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
NASA Hubble Space Telescope Photographs Jupiter Aurora
*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
Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: SWEEPS fields Object Description: Stellar Field Near the Galactic Bulge Position (J2000): R.A. 17h 59m 00s Dec. -29 ° 12' 00" Constellatio... More
Hubble Identifies Stellar Companion to Distant Planet
*Description*: [bottom left text] Hubble Space telescope observed and identified the host star to a gravitationally lensed planet first discovered in 2003 by ground-based telescopes. [left box] A foreground r... More
Hubble Pans Across Heavens to Harvest 50,000 Evolving Galaxies
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Extended Groth Strip, EGS Object Description: Optical Survey Position (J2000): R.A. 14h 17m Dec. +52° 30' Constellation: Ursa Major Dimens... More
Giant Radio Jet Coming from Wrong Kind of Galaxy
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: 0313-192 Object Description: Radio Galaxy Position (J2000): R.A. 03h 15m 52.10s Dec. -19° 06' 44.00" Constellation: Eridanus Distance: 900... More
Close-up of M27, the Dumbbell Nebula
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: NGC 6853, M27, Dumbbell Nebula Object Description: Planetary Nebula Position (J2000): R.A. 19h 59m 36.26s Dec. +22° 43' 15.6" Constellatio... More
Hubble Catches Jupiter Changing Its Stripes
*Description*: Full field image of Jupiter taken with WFPC2 on March 25, 2007. Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Jupiter Object Description: Planet Distance: The semi... More
Hubble Panoramic View of Orion Nebula Reveals Thousands of Stars
*Description*: A new image from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes looks more like an abstract painting than a cosmic snapshot. The magnificent masterpiece shows the Orion nebula in an explosion of inf... More
HST's First Observation Of Jupiter
*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
Merger of Two White Dwarf Stars
*Description*: This artist's illustration shows three steps in the merger of a pair of white dwarf stars. The illustration depicts how planets may form around massive white dwarfs and is based upon theoretical... More
Hubble Reveals Stellar Fireworks Accompanying Galaxy Collisions
Technical facts about this news release: Back to entire collection [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/index/416/ ] Next release [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1997/33/ ] P... More
Hubble's Deepest View of the Universe Unveils Bewildering Galaxies acr...
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Hubble Deep Field Object Description: Galaxy Field Position (J2000): R.A. 12h 36m 49.50s Dec. +62° 12' 58.0" Constellation: Ursa Major Dis... More
Hubble Celebrates 15th Anniversary with Spectacular New Images
*Description*: This wide-field image of the Eagle Nebula was taken at the National Science Foundation's 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak with the NOAO Mosaic CCD camera. Technical facts about this news re... More
Hubble Ultraviolet Image of Multiple Comet Impacts on Jupiter
*Description*: 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 after many impacts by fragments ... More
Hubble Finds 'Tenth Planet' is Slightly Larger than Pluto
*Description*: This is a photo illustration of the largest known Kuiper Belt objects. "Xena," officially catalogued at 2003 UB313, is slightly larger than Pluto. Technical facts about this news release: ... More
Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy
*Description*: This is an artist's impression of a unique type of exoplanet discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope. The planet is so close it to its star that it completes an orbit in 10.5 hours. The plane... More
Hubble Sees Star Cluster "Infant Mortality
*Description*: This is a view of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1313 taken with the the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile on Dec. 16, 2003 through various broad-band (B, R, z) a... More
Stellar Survivor from 1572 A.D. Explosion Supports Supernova Theory
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
The Hubble Reveals the Evolving Core of a Dense Star Cluster
Technical facts about this news release: Back to entire collection [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/index/650/ ] Next release [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1990/23/ ] P... More
Stellar Survivor from 1572 A.D. Explosion Supports Supernova Theory
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
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Resolves a Planetary Nebula in the Large...
*Description*: The NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has imaged N66, a planetary nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud (a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way galaxy). The image was obtained at 10:41 p.m. EDT ... More
Hubble Celebrates 15th Anniversary with Spectacular New Images
*Description*: This wide-field image of the Eagle Nebula was taken at the National Science Foundation's 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak with the NOAO Mosaic CCD camera. It shows the areas seen in greater deta... More
A New Twist on an Old Nebula. NASA public domain image colelction.
*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
Stellar Survivor from 1572 A.D. Explosion Supports Supernova Theory
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
Mars: Closest Encounter. NASA public domain image colelction.
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
Internal Heat Drives Jupiter's Giant Storm Eruption
*Description*: An image of Jupiter in visible-light from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) on May 11, 2007 showing the turbulent pattern generated by the two plumes at the upper left part of Jupiter. Te... More
Hubble Captures a "Five-Star" Rated Gravitational Lens
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: SDSS J1004+4112 Object Description: Galaxy cluster gravitational lens Position (J2000): R.A. 10h 04m 11s.84 Dec. +41° 12' 50".4 Constellat... More
Fast-Flying Black Hole Yields Clues to Supernova Origin
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: GRO J1655-40 Object Description: Black Hole X-ray Binary Position (J2000): R.A. 16h 54m 00.14s Dec. -39° 50' 44.9" Constellation: Scorpius... More
Hubble Finds 'Tenth Planet' is Slightly Larger than Pluto
*Description*: This is a photo illustration of the largest known Kuiper Belt objects. "Xena," officially catalogued at 2003 UB313, is slightly larger than Pluto. Technical facts about this news release: ... More
Hubble Hunts Down Binary Objects at the Fringe of Our Solar System
*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
Hubble Snapshot Captures Life Cycle of Stars
*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
Hubble Finds a Young Planetary Nebula
*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
A New Twist on an Old Nebula. NASA public domain image colelction.
*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
The Spiral Galaxy M100 as Seen With the Hubble's Improved Vision
Technical facts about this news release: Back to entire collection [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/index/578/ ] Next release [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1994/06/ ] P... More
Fireworks Near a Black Hole in the Core of Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4151
*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
Hubble Finds Evidence of Stellar Close Encounters: Bright Blue Stars a...
*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
An Abrasive Collision Gives One Galaxy a "Black Eye
*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
An Abrasive Collision Gives One Galaxy a "Black Eye
*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
The Resolving Power of the Hubble Space Telescope
*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
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Resolves a Dark "x" Across the Nucleus o...
*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