2004 (continued)

• 1/12/2004 STScI-2004-42 401. Mining for Cosmic Treasures NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped an unparalleled image of a wide swath of the sky, unveiling 10,000 galaxies, which could help astronomers understand how large galaxies... (More)
• 1/7/2004 STScI-2004-41 402. Supernova Survivor: First Supernova Companion Star Found An international team of astronomers has, for the first time, observed a stellar "survivor" to emerge from a double star system involving an exploded supernova. (More)
• 1/6/2004 STScI-2004-02 403. Too Fast, Too Furious: A Galaxy's Fatal Plunge Trailing 200,000-light-year-long streamers of seething gas, a galaxy that was once like our Milky Way is being shredded as it plunges at 4.5 million... (More)
• 1/1/2004 STScI-2004-01 404. Images from Hubble's ACS Tell a Tale of Two Record-Breaking Galaxy Clusters Looking back in time nearly 9 billion years, an international team of astronomers found mature galaxies in a young universe. The galaxies... (More)

2003

• 12/4/2003 STScI-2003-30 405. Firestorm of Star Birth Seen in a Local Galaxy This festively colorful nebula, called NGC 604, is one of the largest known seething cauldrons of star birth seen in a nearby galaxy. NGC 604 is similar... (More)
• 11/20/2003 STScI-2003-34 406. Vote for your Favorite Hubble Wide Field/Planetary Camera 2 Picture To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, you're invited... (More)
• 11/7/2003 STScI-2003-33 407. Thompson and NICMOS Team Win Muhlmann Award The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) has awarded its 2003 Maria and Eric Muhlmann Award to Professor Rodger I. Thompson (University of Arizona)... (More)
• 11/6/2003 STScI-2003-31 408. Hubble Photographs Turbulent Neighborhood Near Eruptive Star Dramatic dark dust knots and complex structures are sculpted by the high-velocity stellar winds and high-energy radiation from the ultra-luminous variable... (More)
• 10/30/2003 STScI-2003-32 409. Megastar-Birth Cluster is Biggest, Brightest and Hottest Ever Seen A mysterious arc of light found behind a distant cluster of galaxies has turned out to be the biggest, brightest, and hottest star-forming... (More)
• 10/2/2003 STScI-2003-28 410. Heritage Project Celebrates Five Years of Harvesting the Best Images from Hubble Space Telescope The Hubble Heritage team of astronomers, who assemble many of the NASA Hubble Space Telescope's most stunning pictures... (More)
• 9/25/2003 STScI-2003-29 411. Hubble Uncovers Smallest Moons Yet Seen Around Uranus Astronomers have discovered two of the smallest moons yet found around Uranus. The new moons, uncovered by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope... (More)
• 9/10/2003 STScI-2003-27 412. NASA Approves James Webb Space Telescope Mirror Architecture NASA today announced a major milestone in the development of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the selection of a beryllium-based mirror technology for the telescope's... (More)
• 9/9/2003 STScI-2003-23 413. The Slant on Saturn's Rings This is a series of images of Saturn, as seen at many different wavelengths, when the planet's rings were at their maximum tilt of 27 degrees toward Earth. Saturn experiences seasonal... (More)
• 9/6/2003 STScI-2003-25 414. Farthest, Faintest Solar System Objects Found Beyond Neptune Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered three of the faintest and smallest objects ever detected beyond Neptune. (More)
• 9/5/2003 STScI-2003-26 415. Hubble Assists Rosetta Comet Mission Results from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope played a major role in preparing ESA's ambitious Rosetta mission for its new target, comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/C-G). (More)
• 9/4/2003 STScI-2003-24 416. Celestial Composition Amid a backdrop of far-off galaxies, the majestic dusty spiral NGC 3370 looms in the foreground in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Recent observations taken with the Advanced... (More)
• 8/27/2003 STScI-2003-22 417. Mars: Closest Encounter These two images, taken 11 hours apart with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, reveal two nearly opposite sides of Mars. Hubble snapped these photos as the red planet was making its closest approach... (More)
• 8/7/2003 STScI-2003-21 418. 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-2003-19 419. 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)
• 7/3/2003 STScI-2003-20 420. Celestial Fireworks 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... (More)
• 6/19/2003 STScI-2003-18 421. The Secret Lives of Galaxies Unveiled in Deep Survey Two of NASA's Great Observatories, bolstered by the largest ground-based telescopes around the world, are beginning to harvest... (More)
• 6/5/2003 STScI-2003-16 422. Supernova Shock Wave Paints Cosmic Portrait Remnants from a star that exploded thousands of years ago created a celestial abstract portrait, as captured in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Pencil Nebula. Officially... (More)
• 5/15/2003 STScI-2003-17 423. Brighter Neptune Suggests a Planetary Change of Seasons Springtime is blooming on Neptune! This might sound like an oxymoron because Neptune is the farthest and coldest of the major planets. But observations... (More)
• 5/9/2003 STScI-2003-11 424. Iridescent Glory of Nearby Planetary Nebula Showcased on Astronomy Day This photograph of the coil-shaped Helix Nebula is one of the largest and most detailed celestial images ever made. The composite picture is a seamless... (More)
• 5/7/2003 STScI-2003-15 425. Deepest View of Space Yields Young Stars in Andromeda Halo Relying on the deepest visible-light images ever taken in space, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have reliably measured... (More)
• 5/1/2003 STScI-2003-14 426. Freewheeling Galaxies Collide in a Blaze of Star Birth A dusty spiral galaxy appears to be rotating on edge, like a pinwheel, as it slides through the larger, bright galaxy NGC 1275, in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope... (More)
• 4/24/2003 STScI-2003-13 427. Hubble Captures a Perfect Storm of Turbulent Gases Resembling the fury of a raging sea, this image actually shows a bubbly ocean of glowing hydrogen gas and small amounts of other elements such as oxygen and sulfur. (More)
• 4/10/2003 STScI-2003-12 428. Far-Flung Supernovae Shed Light on Dark Universe New Hubble Space Telescope observations of a pair of very distant exploding stars, called Type Ia supernovae, provide new clues about the accelerating universe and its mysterious... (More)
• 4/3/2003 STScI-2003-09 429. Rainbow Image of a Dusty Star Resembling a rippling pool illuminated by underwater lights, the Egg Nebula offers astronomers a special look at the normally invisible dust shells swaddling an aging star. (More)
• 3/26/2003 STScI-2003-10 430. Hubble Watches Light from Mysterious Erupting Star Reverberate Through Space In January 2002, a dull star in an obscure constellation suddenly became 600,000 times more luminous than our Sun, temporarily making it the brightest... (More)
• 3/12/2003 STScI-2003-08 431. Too Close for Comfort: Hubble Discovers an Evaporating Planet Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have observed for the first time the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system evaporating into space. (More)
• 3/6/2003 STScI-2003-07 432. Hubble Resolves a Blaze of Stars in a Galaxy's Core The central region of the small galaxy NGC 1705 blazes with the light of thousands of young and old stars in... (More)
• 2/10/2003 STScI-2003-06 433. Close-up of M27, the Dumbbell Nebula An aging star's last hurrah is creating a flurry of glowing knots of gas that appear to be streaking through space in this close-up image of the Dumbbell Nebula... (More)
• 1/9/2003 STScI-2003-05 434. Scientists Find Faint Objects with Hubble that May Have Ended the Universe's 'Dark Ages' Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope believe they are seeing the conclusion... (More)
• 1/9/2003 STScI-2003-03 435. Hubble Probes the Heart of a Nearby Quasar The Hubble Space Telescope's new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) has provided the clearest view yet in visible light of the nearby quasar, 3C 273 [image at right]. (More)
• 1/8/2003 STScI-2003-04 436. Giant Radio Jet Coming from Wrong Kind of Galaxy These are composite images of the galaxy 0313-192, the first spiral galaxy known to be producing a giant radio-emitting jet. The image at left represents... (More)
• 1/7/2003 STScI-2003-01 437. Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space Takes Hubble Deeper into the Universe The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has used a natural "zoom lens" in space to boost its view of the distant... (More)
• 1/6/2003 STScI-2003-02 438. Hubble Reveals Complex Circumstellar Disk NASA Hubble Space Telescope's new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) has given astronomers their clearest view yet of the dust disk around a young, 5-million-year-old star. (More)

2002

• 12/19/2002 STScI-2002-16 439. A Tiny Galaxy is Born New detailed images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show a "late-blooming" galaxy, a small, distorted system of gas and stars that still appears to be in the process of development... (More)
• 12/12/2002 STScI-2002-22 440. Hubble Watches Galaxies Engage in Dance of Destruction 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... (More)
• 12/5/2002 STScI-2002-29 441. Hubble Photographs 'Double Bubble' in Neighboring Galaxy A unique peanut-shaped cocoon of dust, called a reflection nebula, surrounds a cluster of young, hot stars in this view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The "double bubble,"... (More)
• 12/3/2002 STScI-2002-27 442. Hubble Makes Precise Measure of Extrasolar World's True Mass An international team of astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to help make a precise measurement of the mass of a planet outside our solar system. (More)
• 11/21/2002 STScI-2002-28 443. Hands-On Book of Hubble Images Allows the Visually Impaired to "Touch the Universe" A new book of majestic images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope brings the wonders of our universe to the fingertips... (More)
• 11/18/2002 STScI-2002-30 444. Fast-Flying Black Hole Yields Clues to Supernova Origin A nearby black hole is hurtling like a cannonball through the disk of our galaxy. The detection of this speed demon is the best evidence yet, some astronomers... (More)
• 11/7/2002 STScI-2002-25 445. An Old Star Gives Up the Ghost NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has caught a glimpse of a colorful cosmic ghost, the glowing remains of a dying star called NGC 6369. The glowing apparition is known to amateur... (More)
• 10/9/2002 STScI-2002-26 446. Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Astronomer for NASA-Funded Research Riccardo Giacconi, the "father of X-ray astronomy," has received the Nobel Prize in physics for "pioneering contributions to astrophysics,"... (More)
• 10/7/2002 STScI-2002-17 447. Hubble Spots an Icy World Far Beyond Pluto NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has measured the largest object discovered in the solar system since the discovery of Pluto 72 years ago. Approximately... (More)
• 10/3/2002 STScI-2002-23 448. Odd Couple Widely Separated by Time and Space Appearances can be deceiving. In this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, an odd celestial duo, the spiral galaxy NGC 4319 [center] and a quasar called Markarian... (More)
• 9/19/2002 STScI-2002-24 449. Space Movie Reveals Shocking Secrets of the Crab Pulsar Just when it seemed like the summer movie season had ended, two of NASA's Great Observatories have produced their own action movie. Multiple observations... (More)
• 9/17/2002 STScI-2002-18 450. 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)
• 9/11/2002 STScI-2002-20 451. NASA Announces Contract for Next-Generation Space Telescope Named After Space Pioneer NASA has selected TRW to build the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST), a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. This space-based observatory... (More)
• 9/5/2002 STScI-2002-21 452. A Wheel within a Wheel 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... (More)
• 8/1/2002 STScI-2002-19 453. Hubble Astronomers Feast on an Interstellar Hamburger 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... (More)
• 7/3/2002 STScI-2002-15 454. Colorful Fireworks Finale Caps a Star's Life Glowing gaseous streamers of red, white, and blue — as well as green and pink — illuminate the heavens like Fourth of July fireworks. The colorful streamers... (More)
• 6/13/2002 STScI-2002-14 455. Beauty in the Eye of Hubble The Hubble telescope reveals a rainbow of colors in this dying star, called IC 4406. Like many other so-called planetary nebulae, IC 4406 exhibits a high degree of symmetry. (More)
• 6/5/2002 STScI-2002-13 456. Hubble's Infrared Camera is Back in Business — New Images Released After more than three years of inactivity, the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) has reopened its “near-infrared... (More)
• 5/9/2002 STScI-2002-12 457. Gaseous Streamers Flutter in Stellar Breeze N44C is the designation for a region of ionized hydrogen gas surrounding an association of young stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a nearby, small companion... (More)
• 4/30/2002 STScI-2002-11 458. Hubble's New Camera Delivers Breathtaking Views of the Universe Jubilant astronomers unveiled humankind's most spectacular views of the universe, courtesy of the newly installed Advanced Camera for Surveys... (More)
• 4/24/2002 STScI-2002-10 459. 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)
• 4/17/2002 STScI-2002-04 460. Hubble Hunts Down Binary Objects at the Fringe of Our Solar System The Hubble Space Telescope is hot on the trail of a puzzling new class of solar system object that might be called a Pluto "mini-me."... (More)
• 4/9/2002 STScI-2002-09 461. Hubble Astronomer Creates Spectacular Galaxy Collision Visualization for the National Air and Space Museum Someday our Milky Way Galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy may come crashing together in a horrendous collision... (More)
• 4/4/2002 STScI-2002-07 462. A Galaxy That's All Wound Up Tightly wound, almost concentric, arms of dark dust encircle the bright nucleus of the galaxy NGC 2787 in this Hubble Space Telescope image. In astronomer Edwin Hubble's... (More)
• 3/21/2002 STScI-2002-08 463. Test Your Skills as a 'Galaxy Hunter' Journey to the deepest regions of space and wrestle with the cosmic giants called galaxies. In "Galaxy Hunter," students can go online... (More)
• 3/6/2002 STScI-2002-05 464. A Bow Shock Near a Young Star The Hubble Space Telescope continues to reveal various stunning and intricate treasures that reside within the nearby, intense star-forming... (More)
• 2/15/2002 STScI-2002-06 465. New Instrument Package to Expand Space Telescope's Vision NASA's Servicing Mission 3B for the Hubble Space Telescope will give the orbiting observatory a new camera that will significantly increase Hubble's abilities... (More)
• 2/7/2002 STScI-2002-03 466. Hubble Reveals "Backwards" Spiral Galaxy Astronomers have found a spiral galaxy that may be spinning to the beat of a different cosmic drummer. To the surprise of astronomers, the galaxy, called NGC 4622, appears to be rotating... (More)
• 1/8/2002 STScI-2002-02 467. Stellar 'Fireworks Finale' Came First in the Young Universe The deepest views of the cosmos from the Hubble Space Telescope yield clues that the very first stars may have burst into the universe as brilliantly and spectacularly... (More)
• 1/3/2002 STScI-2002-01 468. Thackeray's Globules in IC 2944 Strangely glowing dark clouds float serenely in this remarkable and beautiful image taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. These dense, opaque dust clouds — known as "globules" —... (More)

2001

• 12/19/2001 STScI-2001-34 469. Hubble Sends Season's Greetings from the Cosmos to Earth Looking like a colorful holiday card, this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a vibrant green and red... (More)
• 12/6/2001 STScI-2001-39 470. A Giant Star Factory in Neighboring Galaxy NGC 6822 Resembling curling flames from a campfire, this magnificent nebula in a neighboring galaxy is giving astronomers new insight... (More)
• 11/27/2001 STScI-2001-38 471. Hubble Makes First Direct Measurements of Atmosphere on World Around another Star Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have made the first direct detection of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a star outside... (More)
• 11/1/2001 STScI-2001-37 472. Hubble Reveals Ultraviolet Galactic Ring The appearance of a galaxy can depend strongly on the color of the light with which it is viewed. This Hubble Heritage image of NGC 6782 illustrates a pronounced example of this effect. (More)
• 10/29/2001 STScI-2001-35 473. $10 Million NSF Grant to Fund "National Virtual Observatory" The National Virtual Observatory (NVO) will unite astronomical databases of many earthbound and orbital observatories, taking advantage of the latest computer technology... (More)
• 10/23/2001 STScI-2001-36 474. AURA's OPUS Software Licensed to Celera Genomics The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA) has reached an agreement with Celera Genomics Group, an Applera Corporation business in Rockville... (More)
• 10/11/2001 STScI-2001-31 475. Scientists Track "Perfect Storm" on Mars A pair of eagle-eyed NASA spacecraft — the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) and Hubble Space Telescope — are giving amazed astronomers a ringside seat to the biggest... (More)
• 10/5/2001 STScI-2001-32 476. Gravitational Lens Helps Hubble and Keck Discover Galaxy Building Block A very small, faint galaxy -- possibly one of the long sought "building blocks" of present-day galaxies -- has been discovered by a collaboration between... (More)
• 10/4/2001 STScI-2001-33 477. 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)
• 9/12/2001 STScI-2001-29 478. Ancient Black Hole Speeds Through Sun's Galactic Neighborhood, Devouring Companion Star Data from the Space Telescope Science Institute's Digitized Sky Survey has played an important supporting role in helping radio and X-ray astronomers... (More)
• 9/6/2001 STScI-2001-26 479. A Galaxy Blazes With Star Formation Most galaxies form new stars at a fairly slow rate, but members of a rare class known as "starburst" galaxies blaze with extremely active star formation. (More)
• 8/16/2001 STScI-2001-28 480. Burst of Star Formation Drives Bubble in Galaxy's Core These NASA Hubble Space Telescope snapshots reveal dramatic activities within the core of the galaxy NGC 3079, where... (More)
• 8/9/2001 STScI-2001-27 481. New View of Primordial Helium Traces the Structure of Early Universe NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite has given astronomers their best glimpse yet at the ghostly... (More)
• 8/2/2001 STScI-2001-23 482. Hubble Photographs Warped Galaxy as Camera Passes Milestone The Hubble telescope has captured an image of an unusual edge-on galaxy, revealing remarkable details of its warped dusty disk and showing how colliding galaxies... (More)
• 7/26/2001 STScI-2001-21 483. 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)
• 7/19/2001 STScI-2001-22 484. Star Clusters Born in the Wreckage of Cosmic Collisions In the beginning of the 1946 holiday film classic "It's a Wonderful Life," angelic figures take on the form of a famous group of compact galaxies... (More)
• 7/12/2001 STScI-2001-19 485. Magnetic Fields Weave Rings Around Stars There are stars with planets. Stars with companion stars. Stars with pancake-shaped disks of rocky debris. But how about young, hot, hefty stars embedded in large inner tube-shaped... (More)
• 7/10/2001 STScI-2001-25 486. 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)
• 7/5/2001 STScI-2001-24 487. Hubble Captures Best View of Mars Ever Obtained From Earth Frosty white water ice clouds and swirling orange dust storms above a vivid rusty landscape reveal Mars as a dynamic planet in this sharpest... (More)
• 6/27/2001 STScI-2001-20 488. 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)
• 6/7/2001 STScI-2001-15 489. A Change of Seasons on Saturn Looming like a giant flying saucer in our outer solar system, Saturn puts on a show as the planet and its magnificent ring system nod majestically over the course of its 29-year... (More)
• 6/4/2001 STScI-2001-18 490. Bigger, Better Catalog Unveils Half a Billion Celestial Objects It's a very big universe out there, and an astronomer's work is never done when it comes to simply counting and cataloging... (More)
• 6/4/2001 STScI-2001-17 491. Build Your Own Space Scrapbook Want to learn more about your favorite star or galaxy? NASA Hubble Space Telescope pictures and other information about thousands of stars and galaxies... (More)
• 5/31/2001 STScI-2001-16 492. Hubble Unveils a Galaxy in Living Color In this view of the center of the magnificent barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512, the Hubble telescope reveals a stunning 2,400 light-year-wide circle of infant star clusters. (More)
• 5/17/2001 STScI-2001-14 493. Astronomers Puzzled over Comet LINEAR's Missing Pieces Astronomers analyzing debris from a comet that broke apart last summer spied pieces as small as smoke-sized particles and as large as football-field-sized fragments. (More)
• 4/26/2001 STScI-2001-13 494. 'Survivor' Planets: Astronomers Witness First Steps of Planet Growth - and Destruction Planet formation is a hazardous process. New pictures from the Hubble telescope are giving astronomers the first direct visual evidence... (More)
• 4/24/2001 STScI-2001-12 495. By Popular Demand: Hubble Observes the Horsehead Nebula Rising from a sea of dust and gas like a giant seahorse, the Horsehead nebula is one of the most photographed objects in the sky. The Hubble telescope took a close-up... (More)
• 4/5/2001 STScI-2001-10 496. Hubble Reveals the Heart of the Whirlpool Galaxy New pictures from the Hubble telescope are giving astronomers a detailed view of the Whirlpool galaxy's spiral arms and dust clouds... (More)
• 4/2/2001 STScI-2001-09 497. Blast from the Past: Farthest Supernova Ever Seen Sheds Light on Dark Universe Gazing to the far reaches of space and time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope identified the farthest stellar explosion... (More)
• 3/28/2001 STScI-2001-11 498. Massive Infant Stars Rock their Cradle Extremely intense radiation from newly born, ultra-bright stars has blown a glowing spherical bubble in the nebula N83B, also known as NGC 1748. A new Hubble telescope... (More)
• 3/7/2001 STScI-2001-08 499. Hubble Spies Huge Clusters of Stars Formed by Ancient Encounter Studying galactic interactions is like sifting through the forensic evidence at a crime scene. Astronomers wade through the debris of a violent encounter... (More)
• 3/1/2001 STScI-2001-07 500. NGC 4013: A Galaxy on the Edge The Hubble telescope has snapped this remarkable view of a perfectly "edge-on" galaxy, NGC 4013. This new Hubble picture reveals with exquisite... (More)