heic0516
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News Release: Astronomers use Hubble to ‘weigh' Dog Star's companion
13-Dec-2005: White dwarfs are important to theories of both stellar and cosmological evolution. New results published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society provide for the first time an accurate...
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heic0515
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Photo Release: Most detailed image of the Crab Nebula
01-Dec-2005: A new Hubble image - among the largest ever produced with the Earth-orbiting observatory - gives the most detailed view so far of the entire Crab Nebula. The Crab is arguably the single most interest...
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heic0514
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Photo Release: Young stars sculpt gas with powerful outflows
10-Nov-2005: This Hubble Space Telescope view shows one of the most dynamic and intricately detailed star-forming regions in space, located 210,000 light-years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite...
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heic0513
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News Release: Spitzer and Hubble find a ‘big baby' galaxy in the newborn Universe
27-Sep-2005: Two space observatories, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, have teamed up to "weigh" the stars in several very distant galaxies. One of these galaxies is not only...
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heic0512
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News Release: Hubble finds mysterious disk of blue stars around a black hole
20-Sep-2005: Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have identified the source of a mysterious blue light surrounding a supermassive black hole in our neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Though the...
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heic0511
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News Release: Black hole in search of a home
14-Sep-2005: The detection of a super massive black hole without a massive host galaxy is the surprising result from a large Hubble and VLT study of quasars. This is the first convincing discovery of such an objec...
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heic0510
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News Release: FITS for fun - create spectacular pictures in minutes
08-Aug-2005: With the release of version 2 of the popular ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator image processing software it is now easier and faster than ever before to create colour images from raw observations ...
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heic0509
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Photo Release: Hubble captures Deep Impact's collision with a comet
04-Jul-2005: This series of Hubble Space Telescope images captures the ejection of a bright plume of dust following the July 4 collision between an 370 kilogram projectile released by the Deep Impact spacecraft an...
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heic0508
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Photo Release: Hubble captures outburst from comet targeted by Deep Impact
27-Jun-2005: In a dress rehearsal for the rendezvous between NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft and comet 9P/Tempel 1, the Hubble Space Telescope captured dramatic images of a new jet of dust streaming from the icy com...
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heic0507
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Photo Release: Supernova remnant menagerie
07-Jun-2005: A violent and chaotic-looking mass of gas and dust is seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image of a nearby supernova remnant. Denoted N 63A, the object is the remains of a massive star that exploded,...
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heic0506
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News Release: Hubble celebrates 15th anniversary with spectacular new images
25-Apr-2005: During the 15 years that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has orbited the Earth, it has taken three-quarters of a million photos of the cosmos - images that have awed, astounded and even confounded...
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heic0505
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News Release: Hubble's 15th Anniversary - an opportunity too good to miss!
14-Apr-2005: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is one of the biggest scientific projects of all time and is approaching the 15th anniversary of its launch. To mark the event on 24 April, the European Space Agenc...
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heic0504
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News Release: Saturn's aurorae defy scientists' expectations
16-Feb-2005: The dancing light of the auroras on Saturn behaves in ways different from how scientists have thought possible for the last 25 years. New research by a team of US and European planetary scientists led...
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heic0503
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Photo Release: Light continues to echo three years after stellar outburst
03-Feb-2005: The Hubble Space Telescope's latest image of the star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) reveals dramatic changes in the illumination of surrounding dusty cloud structures. The effect, called a light echo, h...
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heic0502
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Photo Release: Hubble finds infant stars in neighbouring galaxy
12-Jan-2005: Hubble astronomers have uncovered, for the first time, a population of infant stars in the Milky Way satellite galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC, visible to the naked eye in the southern constel...
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heic0501
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News Release: Hubble's infrared eyes home in on suspected extrasolar planet
10-Jan-2005: Unique follow up observations carried out with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope are providing important supporting evidence for the existence of a candidate planetary companion to a relatively brig...
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