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2007 (continued)

1/10/2007 STScI-2007-05 11. Hubble Sees Star Cluster "Infant Mortality" Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that young stellar nurseries, called open star clusters, have very short lives. (More)

6/8/2006 STScI-2006-24 12. Hubble Sees Galaxy on Edge This is a unique view of the disk galaxy NGC 5866 tilted nearly edge-on to our line-of-sight. Hubble's sharp vision reveals a crisp dust lane dividing the galaxy into two halves. (More)
2/28/2006 STScI-2006-10 13. Hubble's Largest Galaxy Portrait Offers a New High-Definition View Giant galaxies weren’t assembled in a day. Neither was this Hubble Space Telescope image of the face-on spiral galaxy Messier 101 (M101). It is the largest... (More)
2/7/2006 STScI-2006-07 14. Hubble Snaps Images of a Pinwheel-Shaped Galaxy This dramatic spiral galaxy is one of the latest viewed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Stunning details of the face-on spiral galaxy, cataloged as NGC 1309, are captured... (More)

9/20/2005 STScI-2005-26 15. Hubble Finds Mysterious Disk of Blue Stars Around Black Hole Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have identified the source of a mysterious blue light surrounding a supermassive black hole in our neighboring... (More)
7/28/2005 STScI-2005-21 16. Hubble Pinpoints Doomed Star that Explodes as Supernova Amidst the glitter of billions of stars in the majestic spiral galaxy called the Whirlpool (M51), a massive star abruptly ends its life in a brilliant flash of light. (More)
4/25/2005 STScI-2005-12 17. Hubble Celebrates 15th Anniversary with Spectacular New Images During the 15 years NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has orbited the Earth, it has taken more than 700,000 photos of the cosmos; images that have awed, astounded... (More)
1/10/2005 STScI-2005-01 18. A Poster-Size Image of the Beautiful Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300 One of the largest Hubble Space Telescope images ever made of a complete galaxy is being unveiled today at the American Astronomical Society meeting... (More)

9/2/2004 STScI-2004-23 19. A Bright Supernova in the Nearby Galaxy NGC 2403 The explosion of a massive star blazes with the light of 200 million Suns in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. The arrow at top right points to the stellar... (More)
8/5/2004 STScI-2004-25 20. Hubble Images Majestic Cousin of the Milky Way Our Sun and solar system are embedded in a broad pancake of stars deep within the disk of the Milky Way galaxy. Even from a distance, it is impossible... (More)