heic0619
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News Release: Star on a Hubble diet
11-Dec-2006: High-resolution observations from Hubble have shed light on the real mass of a star previously believed to be amongst the heaviest known in our Milky Way. Originally, the mass of the star was thought ...
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heic0618
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News Release: New Hubble Servicing Mission to upgrade instruments
31-Oct-2006: After more than a decade of fascinating discoveries, The Hubble Space Telescope will soon be given the new beginning that it deserves. Today, NASA has decided to approve a Space Shuttle mission to rep...
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heic0617
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Photo Release: Latest views of the V838 Monocerotis light echo from Hubble
26-Oct-2006: Hubble has returned to the intriguing V838 Monocerotis many times since its initial outburst in 2002 to follow the evolution of its light echo. Two new images provide the most astonishing views of V83...
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heic0616
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News Release: Hubble yields direct proof of stellar sorting in a globular cluster
24-Oct-2006: A seven year study with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the best observational evidence yet that globular clusters sort out stars according to their mass, governed by...
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heic0615
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Photo Release: Colliding galaxies make love, not war
17-Oct-2006: A new Hubble image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. As the two galaxies smash together, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars...
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heic0614
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News Release: Flies in a spider's web: Galaxy caught in the making
12-Oct-2006: New Hubble images have provided a dramatic glimpse of a large massive galaxy under assembly as smaller galaxies merge. This has commonly been thought to be the way galaxies grew in the young Universe,...
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heic0613
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News Release: Hubble observations confirm that planets form from disks around stars
09-Oct-2006: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in collaboration with ground-based observatories, has at last confirmed what philosopher Emmanuel Kant and scientists have long predicted: that planets form from d...
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heic0612
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News Release: Hubble finds 16 candidate extrasolar planets far across our Galaxy
04-Oct-2006: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates that are orbiting a variety of distant stars. In accomplishing this, Hubble looked farther into our Milky Way galaxy ...
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heic0611
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News Release: Hubble finds hundreds of young galaxies in the early Universe
21-Sep-2006: Astronomers analyzing two of the deepest views of the cosmos made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered a gold mine of galaxies, more than 500 that existed less than a billion years ...
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heic0610
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News Release: Planet or failed star? Hubble photographs one of the smallest stellar companions ever seen
07-Sep-2006: Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have photographed one of the smallest objects ever seen around a normal star beyond our Sun. Weighing in at 12 times the mass of Jupiter, the obje...
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heic0609
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Photo Release: Cassiopeia A - The colourful aftermath of a violent stellar death
29-Aug-2006: A new image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides a detailed look at the tattered remains of a supernova explosion known as Cassiopeia A (Cas A). It is the youngest known remnant fro...
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heic0608
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News Release: Hubble sees faintest stars in a globular cluster
17-Aug-2006: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered what astronomers are reporting as the dimmest stars ever seen in any globular star cluster.
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heic0607
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Photo Release: Large and small stars in harmonious coexistence
14-Aug-2006: The latest photo from the Hubble Space Telescope, presented at the 2006 General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Prague this week, shows a star forming region in the Large Magellani...
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heic0606
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Photo Release: Hubble captures a 'five-star' rated gravitational lens
23-May-2006: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first-ever picture of a distant quasar lensed into five images. In addition the image holds a treasure of lensed galaxies and even a supernova.
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heic0605
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News Release: Hubble provides spectacular view of ongoing comet breakup
27-Apr-2006: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is providing astronomers with extraordinary views of comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 as it disintegrates before our eyes. Recent Hubble images have uncovered many ...
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heic0604
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Photo Release: Happy sweet sixteen, Hubble Space Telescope
24-Apr-2006: To celebrate the NASA-ESA Hubble Space Telescope's 16 years of success, the two space agencies are releasing this mosaic image of the magnificent starburst galaxy, Messier 82 (M82). It is the sharpest...
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heic0603
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Photo Release: Magellanic gemstones in the southern sky
18-Apr-2006: Hubble has captured the most detailed images to date of the open star clusters NGC 265 and NGC 290 in the Small Magellanic Cloud - two sparkling sets of gemstones in the southern sky.
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heic0602
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Photo Release: Largest ever Hubble galaxy portrait - stunning HD image of Pinwheel Galaxy
28-Feb-2006: This new Hubble image reveals the gigantic Pinwheel galaxy, one of the best known examples of "grand design spirals", and its supergiant star-forming regions in unprecedented detail. The image is the ...
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heic0601
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News Release: Hubble panoramic view of Orion Nebula reveals thousands of stars
11-Jan-2006: In one of the most detailed astronomical images ever produced, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is offering an unprecedented look at the Orion Nebula. This turbulent star-formation region is one of...
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