2013

• 5/23/2013 STScI-2013-13 1. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Reveals the Ring Nebula's True Shape The distinctive shape of the Ring Nebula, the glowing shroud around a dying Sun-like star, makes it a popular celestial object that appears... (More)
• 4/19/2013 STScI-2013-12 2. Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color Unlike other celestial objects there is no question how the Horsehead Nebula got its name. This iconic silhouette of a horse's head and neck pokes up mysteriously... (More)
• 3/5/2013 STScI-2013-09 3. Gravitational Lens Creates Cartoon of Space Invader The universe is eerie enough without giving us an apparition of a 1980s video game alien attacker. This oddball-looking object is really a mirage created by the gravitational... (More)
• 2/5/2013 STScI-2013-06 4. Amateur and Professional Astronomers Team Up to Create a Cosmological Masterpiece Working with astronomical image processors at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., renowned astrophotographer Robert Gendler... (More)

2012

• 12/18/2012 STScI-2012-49 5. A Cosmic Holiday Ornament, Hubble-Style 'Tis the season for holiday decorating and tree-trimming. Not to be left out, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have photographed a festive-looking nearby planetary... (More)
• 11/29/2012 STScI-2012-47 6. A Multi-Wavelength View of Radio Galaxy Hercules A Spectacular jets powered by the gravitational energy of a supermassive black hole in the core of the elliptical galaxy Hercules A illustrate the combined imaging... (More)
• 9/6/2012 STScI-2012-38 7. Odd Galaxy Couple on Space Voyage Two very different galaxies drift through space together in this image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The peculiar galaxy pair is called Arp 116. Arp 116 is composed... (More)
• 7/3/2012 STScI-2012-30 8. NASA's Hubble Views a Cosmic Skyrocket Resembling a Fourth of July skyrocket, Herbig-Haro 110 is a geyser of hot gas from a newborn star that splashes up against and ricochets from the dense core of a cloud of molecular... (More)
• 6/14/2012 STScI-2012-29 9. Chance Alignment Between Galaxies Mimics a Cosmic Collision NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows a rare view of a pair of overlapping galaxies, called NGC 3314. The two galaxies look as if they are colliding, but they are actually... (More)

2011

• 12/15/2011 STScI-2011-38 10. Hubble Serves Up a Holiday Snow Angel The bipolar star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106, or S106 for short, looks like a soaring, celestial snow angel. The outstretched "wings"... (More)