1/12/2005STScI-2005-0431.Hubble Finds Infant Stars in Neighboring Galaxy
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered for the first time a population of embryonic stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a companion... (More)
2004
12/16/2004STScI-2004-3232.A New Twist on an Old Nebula
Looks can be deceiving, especially when it comes to celestial objects like galaxies and nebulas. These objects are so far away that astronomers cannot see their three-dimensional... (More)
8/12/2004STScI-2004-2634.Hubble Peers Inside a Celestial Geode
In this unusual image, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures a rare view of the celestial equivalent of a geode -- a gas cavity carved by the stellar wind and intense ultraviolet... (More)
5/11/2004STScI-2004-1137.Dying Star Sculpts Rungs of Gas and Dust
Astronomers may not have observed the fabled "Stairway to Heaven," but they have photographed something almost as intriguing: ladder-like structures surrounding... (More)
5/3/2004STScI-2004-4638.Demise in Fire and Ice
The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. The fiery, dying star at its center is shrouded by a blanket of icy hailstones. (More)
12/4/2003STScI-2003-3040.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)