Science Features
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Hubble Sees A Spiral Within a Spiral
05.25.12 - ESO 498-G5's spiral arms wind all the way into the center, so its core looks like a bit like a miniature spiral galaxy.
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Hubble Spies Edge-on Beauty
05.18.12 - Hubble caught this close up of the northern half of NGC891, approximately 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Andromeda.
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A Supernova Cocoon Breakthrough
05.15.12 - Observations with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory may help astronomers understand why some supernovas are much more powerful than others.
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Hubble to Use Moon as Mirror to See Venus Transit
05.04.12 - Hubble cannot look at the sun directly, so astronomers are planning to point the telescope at the Earth's moon, using it as a mirror to capture reflected sunlight that is filtered through Venus's atmosphere.
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Hubble Sees the Eye of the Storm in Galaxy Cluster
05.04.12 - Zooming into the central part of a galaxy cluster — one of the largest structures of the Universe — is rather like looking at the eye of the storm.
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Black Hole Outburst in Spiral Galaxy M83
04.30.12 - Chandra has discovered an extraordinary black hole outburst in spiral galaxy M83, located about 15 million light years from Earth.
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Egg Nebula's 'Searchlight' Beams
04.27.12 - This Hubble image of the Egg Nebula shows one of the best views to date of the brief but dramatic end phase in a star's life.
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Hubble Peeks inside a Stellar Cloud
04.20.12 - These bright stars shine through what looks like a haze in the night sky as part of a young stellar grouping in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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Hubble Spots Aurorae on the Planet Uranus
04.18.12 - These are among the first clear images, taken from the distance of Earth, to show aurorae on the planet Uranus.
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Hubble's View of a Turbulent Star-Making Region
04.17.12 - Young stars are vying for attention in this image of a raucous stellar breeding ground in 30 Doradus, located in the Tarantula Nebula.
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Hubble Sees Messier 70: Tight and Bright
04.13.12 - Having so many shining stars piled atop one another makes globular clusters a popular target for amateur skywatchers and scientists.
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A Spiral Galaxy in Hydra
04.06.12 - This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 4980, a spiral galaxy in the southern constellation of Hydra.
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Hubble Spies Edge-on Spiral Galaxy
03.30.12 - NGC 2683 is a spiral galaxy seen almost edge-on, giving it the shape of a classic science fiction spaceship.
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Hubble Sees Glittering Jewels of Messier 9
03.23.12 - This ball of stars is too faint to see with the naked eye, yet Hubble can see over 250,000 individual stars shining in it.
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Stellar Voyage of a Butterfly-like Planetary Nebula
03.16.12 - The breathtaking butterfly-like planetary nebula NGC 6881 is visible here in an image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
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Quasars Acting as Gravitational Lenses
03.15.12 - Quasars, which act as gravitational lenses, amplify and distort images of galaxies aligned behind them.
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Cassini Spies Wave Rattling Jet Stream on Jupiter
03.12.12 - New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet's jet streams, an interaction that also takes place in Earth's atmosphere.
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Hubble Image of Galaxies' El Dorado
03.09.12 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the galaxy NGC 1483. NGC 1483 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the southern constellation of Dorado.
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Dark Matter Core Defies Explanation
03.02.12 - This composite image shows the distribution of dark matter, galaxies, and hot gas in the core of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 520.
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Antlia Dwarf Galaxy Peppers the Sky with Stars
03.02.12 - The myriad faint stars that comprise the Antlia Dwarf galaxy are more than 4 million light-years from Earth.
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Preview of a Forthcoming Supernova
02.24.12 - In 1843, Eta Carinae was the second-brightest star in the night sky. By the 20th century, it was invisible to the naked eye.
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Hubble Discovers Waterworld Planet
02.21.12 - Even stars that appear static are subject to change -- some because the gas disc from their death throes periodically obscure their brilliance.
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A Black Hole and a Cannibal Galaxy
02.16.12 - This edge-on galaxy, called ESO 243-49, is home to a mid-sized black hole that may have been stripped off of a cannibalized dwarf galaxy.
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A Sheep in Wolf-Rayet's Clothing
02.17.12 - Even stars that appear static are subject to change -- some because the gas disc from their death throes periodically obscure their brilliance.
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Transforming Galaxies
02.10.12 - Markarian 779 has a distorted appearance because it is likely the product of a recent galactic merger between two spirals.
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Young Stars at Home in Ancient Cluster
02.08.12 - Looking like a hoard of gems fit for an emperor's collection, this deep sky object called NGC 6752 is in fact far more worthy of admiration.
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Hubble Observes NGC 1073
02.06.12 - Hubble has imaged the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, which is found in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster).
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Hubble Zooms in on a Magnified Galaxy
02.02.12 - Thanks to the presence of a natural "zoom lens" in space, Hubble got a uniquely close-up look at the brightest "magnified" galaxy yet discovered.
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NASA's Hubble Breaks New Ground with Distant Supernova Discovery
01.11.12 - Three images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal the emergence of an exploding star, called a supernova.
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Hubble Solves Mystery on Source of Supernova in Nearby Galaxy
01.11.12 - The decades-long search for Type Ia supernovae progenitors has taken on special importance due to their use in measuring the acceleration of the universe.
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Hubble Finds Rare Ultra-Blue Stars
01.11.12 - Peering deep inside the hub of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, Hubble has uncovered a large, rare population of hot, bright stars.
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Hubble Zooms in on Double Nucleus in Andromeda Galaxy
01.11.12 - A new Hubble Space Telescope image centers on the 100-million-solar-mass black hole at the hub of the neighboring spiral Andromeda galaxy, the only galaxy outside the Milky Way visible to the naked eye.
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Hubble Pinpoints Farthest Protocluster of Galaxies Ever Seen
01.10.12 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the most distant grouping of a cluster of galaxies in the initial stages of development ever observed in the early universe.
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NASA Telescopes Help Find Rare Galaxy at Dawn of Time
12.21.11 - A remote, blob-shaped galaxy has been found bursting with stars by NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes.
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Hubble Serves Up a Holiday Snow Angel
12.06.11 - NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope presents a festive holiday greeting in the form of a soaring, celestial snow angel.
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Hubble Racks Up 10,000 Science Papers
12.06.11 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope becomes one of the most prolific astronomical endeavors in history after racking up 10,000 scientific papers.
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Hubble Finds Stellar Life and Death
11.22.11 - A new Hubble image shows a collection of hundreds of thousands of stars in a dwarf galaxy neighbor of the Milky Way.
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Galaxies: The Ultimate Recyclers
11.17.11 - New Hubble observations are expanding astronomers' understanding of how galaxies recycle immense volumes of hydrogen gas and heavy elements.
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NASA's Hubble Observes Young Dwarf Galaxies Bursting With Stars
11.10.11 - Using its near-infrared vision to peer 9 billion years back in time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered an extraordinary population of young dwarf galaxies brimming with star formation.
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Astronomers Pin Down Galaxy Collision Rate
10.27.11 - The merger rate is one of the fundamental measures of galaxy evolution, yielding clues to how galaxies bulked up over time through encounters with other galaxies.
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Ambitious Hubble Survey Obtaining New Dark Matter Census
10.13.11 - A Hubble survey of 25 galactic clusters reveals the most comprehensive data to date on the distribution dark matter by observing the visual distortion or lensing due to invisible matter in the clusters.
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Planets Found in Decade-Old Hubble Data
10.06.11 - A painstaking re-analysis of Hubble Space Telescope images from 1998 has uncovered two extrasolar planets that went undetected at the time.
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Space Telescopes Reveal Secrets of Turbulent Black Hole
09.29.11 - A fleet of spacecraft including the Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered unprecedented details in the surroundings of a black hole.
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Low-Mass Galaxies Can Harbor Supermassive Black Holes
09.15.11 - Using the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3, astronomers have found supermassive black holes growing in surprisingly small galaxies.
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Hubble Sees Supersonic Jets from Young Stars
08.31.11 - New movies created from years of Hubble still images provide new details about the stellar birthing process, showing energetic jets of glowing gas ejected from young stars.
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Hubble Offers a Dazzling 'Necklace'
08.11.11 - A giant cosmic necklace glows brightly in Hubble's latest image.
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Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto
07.20.11 - Hubble Space Telescope's keen vision has found yet another moon (the fourth) orbiting the distant, icy dwarf planet Pluto.
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Hubble's Neptune Anniversary Pictures
07.12.11 - Neptune has completed its first full orbit since it was discovered nearly 165 years ago. Hubble commemorated the event with "anniversary pictures."
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NASA's Hubble Makes One Millionth Science Observation
07.05.11 - On July 4, 2011, Hubble logged its one millionth science observation during a search for water in an exoplanet's atmosphere 1,000 light-years away.
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Pandora’s Cluster — Clash of the Titans
06.22.11 - Pandora's Cluster appears to be the result of a simultaneous pile-up of at least four separate, smaller galaxy clusters about 350 million years ago.
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Firestorm of Star Birth in Centaurus A
06.16.11 - Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Hubble’s panchromatic vision, stretching from ultraviolet through near-infrared wavelengths, reveals the vibrant glow of young, blue star clusters and a glimpse into regions normally obscured by the dust.
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New Supernova Remnant Lights Up
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are witnessing the unprecedented transition of a supernova to a supernova remnant, where light from an exploding star in a neighboring galaxy, the Large...
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NASA's Hubble Finds Rare 'Blue Straggler' Stars in Milky Way's Hub
05.25.11 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found a rare class of oddball stars called blue stragglers in the hub of our Milky Way, the first detected within our galaxy's bulge.
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Hubble Views the Star That Changed the Universe
05.23.11 - Though the universe is filled with billions upon billions of stars, the discovery of a single variable star in 1923 altered the course of modern astronomy.
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Star-Formation Laboratory
The dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 is ablaze with young stars and gas clouds. Located around 10 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs), the galaxy's close proximity,...
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Swift and Hubble Probe Asteroid Collision Debris
04.28.11 - On Dec. 11, 2010,asteroid Scheila flared twice as bright as expected. Hubble and Swift captured the aftermath of this deep space collision.
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Hubble Marks 21st B-day with 'Rose'
04.20.11 - For its 21st birthday in April 2011, the Hubble Space Telescope gave astronomers a "rose" of galaxies.
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NASA Telescopes Help Discover Surprisingly Young Galaxy
04.12.11 - Astronomers have uncovered one of the youngest galaxies in the distant universe, with stars that formed 13.5 billion years ago, a mere 200 million years after the Big Bang.
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Hubble Rules Out Dark Energy Alternative
03.14.11 - Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have ruled out an alternate theory on the nature of dark energy after recalculating the expansion rate of the universe.
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Majestic Disk of Stars
The Hubble Space Telescope revealed this majestic disk of stars and dust lanes in this view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2841.
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Hubble Spots Farthest Object Yet Seen
01.26.11 - Hubble has spotted what astronomers believe is the most distant object ever seen in the universe.
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The Two-faced Whirlpool Galaxy
01.13.11 - These images by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show off two dramatically different views of the spiral galaxy M51, dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy.
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Gravity Gives Astronomers a Boost
01.12.11 - Astronomers who survey galaxies in the distant universe are getting some unexpected help from gravity, according to a new study.
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Hubble Snaps Image of Space Oddity
01.10.11 - An unusual, ghostly green blob of gas dubbed Hanny's Voorwerp (Hanny's Object in Dutch) appears to float near a normal-looking spiral galaxy.
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NASA's Hubble Finds that Puny Stars Pack a Big Punch
01.10.11 - A deep survey of more than 200,000 stars in our Milky Way galaxy has unveiled the sometimes petulant behavior of tiny red dwarf stars.
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Hubble Supernova Bubble Resembles Holiday Ornament
12.14.10 - A delicate sphere of gas, photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, floats serenely in the depths of space like a glass holiday ornament.
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Hubble Captures New 'Life' in an Ancient Galaxy
11.18.10 - New Hubble observations are showing that elliptical galaxies, once thought to be billions of years past their heydays, still have some youthful vigor left.
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Dark Matter Map Yields Clues to Galaxy Cluster Growth
11.12.10 - Astronomers using the Hubble took advantage of a cosmic magnifying glass to create a detailed map of dark matter in the universe.
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Hubble Data Used to Look 10,000 Years into the Future
10.26.10 - A precise measurement of star motions in giant clusters can yield insights into how stellar groupings formed in the early universe - and how their individual stars move.
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Pinwheel of Star Birth
10.19.10 - Though the universe is full of spiral-shaped galaxies, no two look exactly the same. This face-on view is striking for its rich tapestry of star birth.
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Hubble Captures Aftermath of Asteroid Collision
10.13.10 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first snapshots of a suspected asteroid collision. The images show a bizarre X-shaped object at the head of a comet-like trail of material.
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NASA Mission to Asteroid Gets Help From Hubble
10.08.10 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of the large asteroid Vesta that will help refine plans for the Dawn spacecraft's rendezvous with Vesta in July 2011.
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Hubble Uncovers an Overheated Early Universe
10.07.10 - During the universe's early years, fierce radiation blasts from active galaxies stunted the growth of some small galaxies for some 500 million years.
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Hubble Probes Comet 103P/Hartley 2
10.05.10 - Hubble's observations of comet 103P Hartley 2 are helping in the planning for the flyby of the comet by NASA's DIXI spacecraft.
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Cosmic Ice Sculptures
09.16.10 - In the cold vacuum of space, there is no edible ice cream, but there is radiation from massive stars that is carving away at cold molecular clouds.
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'Island Universe' in the Coma Cluster
08.10.10 - A long-exposure Hubble image shows a majestic face-on spiral galaxy located deep within the Coma Cluster of galaxies, 320 million light-years away.
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A Galactic Spectacle
08.05.10 - Chandra, Hubble and Spitzer have pooled resources to view a beautiful collision within the Antennae Galaxies.
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Hyperfast Star Booted From Milky Way
07.22.10 - A hundred million years ago, a triple-star system was traveling through the bustling center of the Milky Way when it made a life-changing misstep.
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NASA Finds Super-Hot Planet with Comet-Like Tail
07.15.10 - Astronomers using Hubble have found a gas-giant planet outside our solar system that is so hot its atmosphere is escaping into space, giving it a peculiar comet-like tail.
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Starburst Cluster Shows Celestial Fireworks
07.06.10 - Like a July 4 fireworks display a young, glittering collection of stars seen by Hubble resemble an aerial burst.
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Mysterious Flash on Jupiter Left No Debris Cloud
06.16.10 - Detailed observations made by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found an answer to the flash of light seen June 3 on Jupiter.
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CH Cyg: Codependent Stellar Living
06.09.10 - A new Chandra image shows the symbiotic system known as CH Cyg, located only about 800 light years from Earth.
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Hubble Finds a Star Eating a Planet
05.20.10 - The planet WASP 12b is so close to its sunlike star that it may only have another 10 million years left before it is completely devoured.
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Hubble Images Suggest Rogue Asteroid Smacked Jupiter
06.03.10 - Without warning, a mystery object struck Jupiter on July 19, 2009, leaving a dark bruise the size of the Pacific Ocean.
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Hubble Sees 'Out of Whack' Planetary System
05.24.10 - Astronomers are reporting today the discovery of a planetary system way out of tilt, where the orbits of two planets are at a steep angle to each other.
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Astronomers Nab Runaway Star
05.11.10 - A heavy runaway star is rushing away from a nearby stellar nursery at more than 250,000 miles an hour, a speed that will get you to the Moon and back in two hours.
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Hubble Camera Arrives in Time for JPL Open House
05.11.10 - The historic Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, built by JPL for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, has arrived at JPL in advance of this weekend's annual Open House.
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Hubble Celebrates 20 Years of Astonishing Discoveries
04.23.10 - The Hubble Space Telescope roared into space 20 years ago to begin a career rewriting what we know about the universe around us.
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New Images Showcase 20 Years of Hubble
04.22.10 - NASA is releasing a new Hubble photo of a small portion of one of the largest known star-birth regions in the galaxy, the Carina Nebula, to celebrate the 20th Anniversary.
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Small Companion to Brown Dwarf
04.06.10 - Discovery of a planet-like object circling a brown dwarf is the right size for a planet, estimated to be 5-10 times the mass of Jupiter, but formed in record time.
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Exploring the Carina Nebula by Touch
03.30.10 - A new, embossed Hubble image of the Carina Nebula allows visually impaired people to feel what they cannot see and form a picture of the nebula in their minds.
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Experience Hubble's Universe in 3-D
03.19.10 - The cinematic space odysseys are part of the new Imax film "Hubble 3D," which opens today at select Imax theaters worldwide.
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Jurassic Space: Ancient Galaxies Come Together
02.18.10 - A group of small, ancient galaxies are on their way to building a new galaxy after waiting 10 billion years to get the chance.
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New Hubble Maps of Pluto Show Surface Changes
02.04.10 - The images show an icy and dark molasses-colored, mottled world that is undergoing seasonal changes in its surface color and brightness.
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Suspected Asteroid Crash Leaves Odd Debris Trail
02.02.10 - The Hubble has observed a mysterious debris pattern that suggests a head-on collision between two asteroids. Such a smashup has never before been seen.
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Hubble Catches End of Star-Making Party
01.14.10 - Galaxies throughout the universe are ablaze with star birth. But for a nearby, small spiral galaxy, the star-making party is almost over.
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Galaxy History Revealed in Colorful Hubble View
01.05.10 - More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this unprecedented view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly.
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Hubble Reaches the "Undiscovered Country" of Primeval Galaxies
01.05.10 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has broken the distance limit for galaxies and uncovered a primordial population of compact and ultra-blue galaxies that have never been seen before.
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Massive Black Hole Implicated in Stellar Destruction
01.04.10 - New results from Chandra suggest that a stellar remnant has been ripped apart by a massive black hole.
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Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen
12.16.09 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris that encircles the outer rim of the solar system beyond Neptune.
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Hubble's Festive View of a Grand Star-Forming Region
12.15.09 - Just in time for the holidays: a Hubble Space Telescope picture postcard of hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds.
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Hubble Unveils Never-Before-Seen Galaxies
12.08.09 - The Hubble Telescope has made the deepest image of the universe ever taken in near-infrared light, showing galaxies never before seen.
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Crab Nebula: A Cosmic Icon
11.23.09 - Data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory provides clues about the workings of the mighty Crab Nebula.
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Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy
11.10.09 - NASA is unveiling a new view of the turbulent heart of our Milky Way galaxy, as seen by three of the agency's space-based observatories.
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Hubble Showcases Star Birth in Southern Pinwheel
11.05.09 - The spectacular new camera installed on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 in May has delivered the most detailed view of star birth in the graceful, curving arms of the nearby spiral galaxy M83.
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Hyperactive Galaxies in the Early Universe
08.05.09 - Fast-moving stars shed new light on how these distant galaxies, which are a fraction the size of our Milky Way, may have evolved into the full-grown galaxies seen around us today.
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Hubble Captures Rare Jupiter Collision
07.24.09 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the sharpest visible-light picture yet of atmospheric debris from an object that collided with Jupiter on July 19.
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Hubble Photographs Nebula to Honor Retiring of Camera
05.11.09 - In tribute to Hubble's longest-running optical camera, a planetary nebula has been imaged as WFPC2's final "pretty picture."
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Refined Hubble Constant Narrows in on Dark Energy
05.07.09 - Whatever dark energy is, explanations for it have less wiggle room following a Hubble Space Telescope observation.
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Dwarf Galaxy Starbursts: A Global Affair
04.30.09 - Starbursts light up regions of space for a short time before winking out. But these fleeting stellar fireworks displays are only pieces of the story.
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Hubble Celebrates Its 19th Anniversary
04.21.09 - To commemorate the Hubble Space Telescope's 19 years of historic, trailblazing science, the orbiting telescope has photographed a peculiar system of galaxies known as Arp 194.
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Hubble Sees Spectacular Black Hole Flaring
04.14.09 - A flare-up in a jet of matter blasting from a monster black hole is giving astronomers an incredible light show.
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Hubble Images Contest-Winning Triplet Galaxy
04.03.09 - Hubble photographed the winning target in the Space Telescope Science Institute's "You Decide" competition: a group of galaxies called Arp 274.
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Hubble Finds Hidden Exoplanet in Archival Data
04.01.09 - A powerful image-processing technique may allow astronomers to discover extrasolar planets lurking in over a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope archival data.
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Hubble Finds Rare Progenitor to a Supernova
03.23.09 - Hubble has identified a star that was one million times brighter than Earth's sun before it exploded as a supernova in 2005.
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Hubble Snaps Saturn Moon Transit
03.17.09 - On Feb. 24, 2009, the Hubble Space Telescope took a photo sequence of four moons of Saturn passing in front of their parent planet.
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Dark Matter and Dwarf Galaxies
03.12.09 - The Hubble Space Telescope has photographed three galaxies in the process of colliding.
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Trio of Galaxies Mix It Up
03.03.09 - The Hubble Space Telescope has photographed three galaxies in the process of colliding.
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Hubble Snaps Images of a Nebula Within a Cluster
01.15.09 - The unique planetary nebula NGC 2818 is nested inside the open star cluster NGC 2818A. Both the cluster and the nebula reside over 10,000 light-years away, in the southern constellation Pyxis (the Compass).
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Hubble Finds Stars That 'Go Ballistic'
01.07.08 - Hubble images reveal 14 young, runaway stars plowing through regions of dense interstellar gas, creating brilliant arrowhead structures and trailing tails of glowing gas.
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Star Light, Star Bright, Its Explanation is Out of Sight
01.06.09 - A mysterious flash of light from somewhere near or far in the universe is still keeping astronomers in the dark long after it was first detected in 2006.
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Hubble Views Galactic Core in Unprecedented New Detail
01.05.09 - Researchers are getting a new detailed look at our galaxy's core, thanks to the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes.
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Brown Dwarfs Don't Hang Out With Stars
01.05.09 - Brown dwarfs just got more elusive, based on a study of 233 nearby multiple-star systems by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
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Hubble Finds Carbon Dioxide on an Extrasolar Planet
12.09.08 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star.
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Jupiter's Largest Moon Goes to the 'Dark Side'
12.18.08 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has caught Jupiter's moon, Ganymede, playing a game of "peek-a-boo."
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A Celestial Snow Globe of Stars
12.04.08 - Hubble has captured an instantaneous glimpse of many hundreds of thousands of stars moving about in the M13 globular cluster.
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Hubble Solves Starburst Galaxy Puzzle
11.20.08 - Hubble has helped astronomers determine why a small, nearby, isolated galaxy pumps out new stars faster than any other in our local neighborhood.
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Hubble Sees Planet Orbiting Another Star
11.13.08 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star.
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Hubble Scores a Perfect Ten
10.30.08 - Just a few days after the orbiting observatory was brought back online, Hubble aimed its sights on a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies.
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Celebrating 10 Years of Hubble Heritage Images
10.02.08 - The landmark 10th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's Hubble Heritage Project is being celebrated with a "landscape" image from the cosmos.
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Diversity in Galaxies
09.30.08 - There's an old saying in astronomy: Galaxies are like people. They're only normal until you get to know them.
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Galaxy Silhouettes
09.16.08 - These Hubble images offer an unprecedented view of a planetary game of Pac-Man among three red spots clustered together in Jupiter's atmosphere.
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Hubble Sees Magnetic Monster in Erupting Galaxy
08.20.08 - Hubble has found an answer to a long-standing puzzle by examining a strong magnetic field around the active galaxy NGC 1275.
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Hubble Unveils Colorful Star Nursery on 100,000th Orbit
08.11.08 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of a nebula near star cluster NGC 2074 on Aug. 10, 2008, the day before the observatory completed its 100,00th orbit of Earth.
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Globular Clusters Tell Tale of Star Formation
07.29.08 - A new study of globular clusters has found evidence that these hardy pioneers are likely to form in dense areas, where star birth occurs at a rapid rate.
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Barred Spiral Galaxies Are Latecomers to the Universe
07.29.08 - Astronomers have found that so-called barred spiral galaxies were far less plentiful 7 billion years ago than they are today, in the local universe.
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Three Red Spots Mix it Up on Jupiter
07.17.08 - These Hubble images offer an unprecedented view of a planetary game of Pac-Man among three red spots clustered together in Jupiter's atmosphere.
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Mystery Star Cluster Has 3 Different Birthdays
07.10.08 - Astronomers have found the equivalent of three out-of-sync "clocks" in the ancient open star cluster NGC 6791.
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Hubble Sees Stars and a Stripe in Celestial Fireworks
07.01.08 - Hubble captures a very thin section of a supernova remnant caused by a stellar explosion that occurred more than 1,000 years ago.
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The Coma Cluster
06.10.08 - The Coma Cluster is one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe.
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Hubble Finds Missing Matter
05.20.08 - Astronomers say they have found about half of the universe's "missing" normal matter, called baryons, in the space between galaxies.
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Compact Galaxies in Early Universe Pack a Big Punch
04.30.08 - Astronomers used Hubble and the W.M. Keck Observatory to study the galaxies as they existed 11 billion years ago.
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Cosmic Collisions Galore!
04.24.08 - Astronomy textbooks typically present galaxies as staid, solitary, and majestic island worlds of glittering stars, but galaxies have a wild side.
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Hubble Pinpoints Record-Breaking Explosion
04.10.08 - The Hubble photographed a gamma-ray burst that holds the record for being the intrinsically brightest naked-eye object ever seen from Earth.
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Scientists Find Black Hole in Omega Centauri
04.02.08 - A well-known star cluster that glitters with the light of millions of stars may have a mysterious dark object tugging at its core.
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Hubble Sees Organic Molecule on Distant Planet
03.19.08 - The Hubble Space Telescope has found methane in the atmosphere of a gas giant more than 60 light-years away.
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The Last Confessions of a Dying Star
03.04.08 - The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of planetary nebula NGC 2371, the glowing remains of a sun-like star.
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Hubble Discovers 67 New 'Lensed' Galaxies
02.20.08 - Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have compiled a large catalog of gravitational lenses in the distant universe.
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Astronomers Uncover One of the Youngest and Brightest Galaxies in the Early Universe
02.12.08 - NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, with a boost from a natural “zoom lens,” have uncovered what may be one of the youngest and brightest galaxies ever seen in the middle of the cosmic “dark ages,” just 700 million years after the beginning of our universe.
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Giant Storm Eruption at Jupiter Unearths a Buried Past
01.24.08 - Scientists around the globe have observed an astonishing and rare change in Jupiter's atmosphere -- a huge disturbance churning in the middle northern latitudes of the planet as two giant storms erupted.
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Hubble Finds Rare Double Ring in Space
01.10.08 - Hubble has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other.
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Hubble Uncovers Giant Space 'Moth'
01.10.08 - A structure resembling a giant moth floating in space is giving astronomers new insight into planetary system formation.
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The Violent Lives of Galaxies
01.10.08 - Astronomers are using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as part of a quest to understand the violent lives of galaxies.
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'Blue Blobs' in Space Are Orphaned Clusters of Stars
01.08.08 - Hubble finds 'blue blobs' are brilliant blue clusters of stars born in the swirls and eddies of a galactic smashup 200 million years ago.
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Mars, Up-Close and Personal
12.18.07 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this close-up of the red planet when it was "only" 55 million miles away.
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How White Dwarf Stars Get Their 'Kicks'
12.04.07 - The Hubble is providing strong evidence that the burned-out relics of stars are given a "kick" when they form.
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Holiday Wishes from the Hubble Space Telescope
11.29.07 - This Hubble image of galaxy M74 resembles festive lights on a holiday wreath.
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Hubble Zooms in on Heart of Mystery Comet
11.15.07 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has probed the bright core of Comet 17P/Holmes, which mysteriously brightened by nearly a millionfold in October.
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Dancing With the Stars Takes on a Whole New Twist →
10.30.07 - Two galaxies perform an intricate dance in this new picture taken by the JPL-built and designed Wide Field and Planetary 2 Camera, onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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Hubble Spies Shells of Sparkling Stars Around Quasar
10.26.07 - The Hubble photos show shells of stars around a bright quasar, known as MC2 1635+119, which dominates the center of the galaxy.
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Hubble Finds 'Dorian Gray' Galaxy
10.16.07 - Hubble has found a mysterious galaxy that seems to age rapidly like the painting in the 'Portrait of Dorian Gray.'
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Hubble Captures Stars Going out in Style
09.11.07 - The colorful, intricate shapes in these NASA Hubble Space Telescope images reveal how the glowing gas ejected by dying Sun-like stars evolves dramatically over time.
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'Lego-Block' Galaxies in Early Universe
09.06.07 - Joining forces, the two telescopes discovered nine of the smallest, faintest, most compact galaxies ever observed in the distant universe
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Hubble Camera Snags Rare View of Uranus Rings
08.23.07 - A rare image of the ring system of the planet Uranus has been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, using the onboard JPL-built and designed Wide Field Planetary Camera 2.
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Hubble, Google Bring the Cosmos Down to Earth
08.22.07 - Exploding star and faraway galaxy images from the Hubble Space Telescope are now just a mouse click away through 'Sky' in Google Earth.
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Hubble Discovers Lopsided Star
07.19.07 - Hubble finds dust and debris parading in an extremely misshapen ring around a young star.
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Stellar Fireworks Are Ablaze in Galaxy NGC 4449
07.03.07 - At nearly 12.5 million light-years away, the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449 has stellar "fireworks" going off all the time.
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Hubble Catches Jupiter Changing Its Stripes
06.28.07 - Massive Jupiter is undergoing dramatic atmospheric changes under the keen eye of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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Hubble Helps Prepare For Dawn's Asteroid Mission
06.20.07 - Hubble's images of two massive asteroids will help astronomers plan for the Dawn spacecraft’s tour of them in 2011.
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Astronomers Measure Dwarf Planet Eris
06.14.07 - The Hubble group has teamed up with the Keck Observatory to precisely measure the mass of Eris, the largest member of a new class of dwarf planets in our solar system.
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Hubble Photographs Grand Design Spiral Galaxy M81
05.28.07 - Hubble's sharpest image of spiral galaxy M81 is released at the Spring 2007 American Astronomical Society Meeting.
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Hubble Finds Ghostly Ring of Dark Matter
05.15.07 - Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a ghostly ring of dark matter that formed long ago during a titanic collision between two galaxy clusters.
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Happy Birthday Hubble
04.24.07 - To celebrate Hubble's birthday a team of astronomers is releasing one of the largest panoramic images ever taken with Hubble's cameras.
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Saturn Stars in Three Hubble Movies
03.20.07 - Photogenic Saturn has now become a movie star. Astronomers have woven NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of Saturn, its rings, and several of its moons into three movies.
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Hubble Sees 'Comet Galaxy' Being Ripped Apart by Galaxy Cluster
03.02.07 - The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a galaxy being ripped apart by a galaxy cluster's gravitational field and harsh environment.
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Hubble Supports New Horizons Jupiter Flyby
03.01.07 - Hubble took images of the planet Jupiter in support of the New Horizons flyby.
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Hubble Illuminates Cluster of Diverse Galaxies
02.06.07 - This image feature shows the diverse collection of galaxies in the cluster Abell S0740 that is over 450 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Centaurus.
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Hubble Sees Star Cluster "Infant Mortality"
01.31.07 - Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble have discovered that young stellar nurseries have very short lives.
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Hubble Maps 'Clumpy' Dark Matter in 3-D
01.07.07 - The Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers their first direct look at the large web like distribution of dark matter in the universe.
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Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Away
10.04.06 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our Milky Way galaxy.
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Pluto and Its Moons
06.23.06 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has confirmed the presence of two moons around the distant planet Pluto.
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Fragmenting Comet Won't Hit Earth
04.27.06 - Hubble reveals several dozen mini-fragments trailing behind the main fragment of Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3.
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Happy Sweet Sixteen, Hubble!
04.24.06 - Over its 16-year history, Hubble has taken many hundreds of images that have expanded our knowledge of the universe.
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Hubble Finds 'Tenth Planet' Slightly Larger Than Pluto
04.11.06 - Though previous observations suggested that Xena's diameter was about 30 percent greater than Pluto, Hubble observations show Xena's diameter as 1,490 miles.
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Galactic Dust Bunnies
Hubble spies opaque, dark knots of gas called "Bok globules" in the Milky Way.
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Hubble's Largest Galaxy Portrait Ever
02.28.06 - The largest and most detailed photo of a spiral galaxy ever released.
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Hubble Confirms Pluto's New Moons
02.22.06 - Anxiously awaited follow-up observations confirm the presence of two new moons around Pluto.
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Hubble Finds More Moons, Rings at Uranus
12.22.05
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Hubble Spots Possible New Moons Around Pluto
10.31.05
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Hubble Prospects for Lunar Resources
10.19.05 - NASA scientists are using the Hubble Space Telescope to hunt for resources on the lunar surface.
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'Big Baby' Galaxies in Newborn Universe
09.27.05 - NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes have teamed up to "weigh" the stars in several distant galaxies.
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Hats Off to Space Day!
05.04.05 - NASA salutes Space Day, observed this year on May 5, with a new dramatic image of the Sombrero galaxy.
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Happy 15th, Hubble!
04.25.05 - NASA released new views of the Eagle Nebula, and spiral galaxy M51, known as the Whirlpool Galaxy.
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Hubble Celebrates an Anniversary →
04.23.04 - April marks 14 years of enoying Hubble's enchanted images.
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Hubble Digs Deeply, Toward Big Bang
03.09.04 - The Hubble Ultra Deep Field looks back in time to the cosmic "dark ages."
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The Farthest Known Galaxy in the Universe
02.17.04 - Scientists spotted this galaxy 13 billion light-years away using the combined power of the Hubble and Keck Telescopes
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Two Hubbles Achieve Great Heights
01.22.04 - Named for astronomer Dr. Edwin Hubble, Hubble Space Telescope's discoveries continue to excite the imagination
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Hats Off to the Sombrero
10.02.03 - Hubble's new image of the Sombrero galaxy celebrates the Hubble Heritage team's five-year anniversary.
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Hubble Gets the 'GOODS'
06.19.03 - The Hubble Space Telescope has conducted a galactic "census," the most ambitious study of the early universe it has yet undertaken.
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Pencil Nebula Scribbles Notes from Past
06.05.03 - Astronomers today are studying the remnants of a supernova that occurred about 11,000 years ago.
Hubble Accomplishments
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Age of the Universe →
Thanks in part to the Hubble Space Telescope, we know the universe is 13.7 billion years old.
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At Galaxies' Cores →
Nearly all galaxies may harbor supermassive black holes.
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How Planets Form
The Hubble Space Telescope has helped scientists determine the process of how planets are born.
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Extrasolar Organic Matter
The Hubble Space Telescope detected the first organic molecule discovered on a planet outside our solar system.
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Dark Energy →
The Hubble Space Telescope detected a distant supernova that suggests the universe only recently began speeding up.
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Plutonian Moons
Hubble has found three moons around dwarf planet Pluto.
World Book at NASA
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Edwin P. Hubble
The work of American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the size and structure of the universe.
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Galaxy
A galaxy is a system of stars, dust, and gas held together by gravity.
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Nebula
A nebula is a cloud of dust particles and gases in space.
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Planet
A planet is a large, round heavenly body that orbits a star and shines with light reflected from the star.
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Space Exploration
Space exploration is our human response to curiosity about Earth, the moon, the planets, the sun and other stars, and the galaxy.