2003

• 9/5/2003 STScI-2003-26 11. 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)

2001

• 5/17/2001 STScI-2001-14 12. 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)

2000

• 8/7/2000 STScI-2000-27 13. Hubble Discovers Missing Pieces of Comet Linear To the surprise and delight of astronomers, the Hubble telescope discovered a small armada of "mini-comets" left behind from what some scientists had prematurely thought... (More)
• 7/28/2000 STScI-2000-26 14. Hubble Sees Comet Linear Blow its Top Lackluster comet LINEAR (C/1999 S4) unexpectedly threw astronomers a curve. Using the Hubble telescope, researchers were surprised to catch the icy comet in a brief, violent... (More)

1998

• 3/27/1998 STScI-1998-13 15. Comet Hyakutake The Hubble telescope has probed the inner regions of Comet Hyakutake. This picture captures sunlight scattered by dust particles in the comet's inner coma. ... (More)

1996

• 3/27/1996 STScI-1996-14 16. Hubble Probes Inner Region of Comet Hyakutake The Hubble telescope snapped pictures of comet Hyakutake March 25, 1996, when the comet was just 9.3 million miles from Earth. ... (More)

1995

• 11/29/1995 STScI-1995-49 17. HST's Greatest Hits 1990-1995 Hubble Space Telescope evokes a new sense of awe and wonder about the infinite richness of our universe in dramatic, unprecedented pictures of celestial objects. Like a traveler sharing... (More)
• 10/10/1995 STScI-1995-41 18. Hubble Sees Material Ejected from Comet Hale-Bopp These Hubble telescope pictures of comet Hale-Bopp show a remarkable "pinwheel" pattern and a blob of free-flying debris near its center. (More)
• 6/14/1995 STScI-1995-26 19. Hubble Identifies a Long-Sought Population of Comets Beyond Neptune The Hubble telescope has detected a long-sought population of comets dwelling at the icy fringe of the solar system. The observation, which is the astronomical... (More)
• 3/4/1995 STScI-1995-15 20. Comet Fragment Slams into Jupiter In July 1994, 21 chunks of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which had broken apart a year earlier, slammed into Jupiter. The Hubble telescope recorded this spectacular event. ... (More)