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heic0906 — Photo Release

Hubble celebrates 19th anniversary with fountain of youth

21 April 2009: To commemorate the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's 19 years of success, the orbiting telescope has photographed a peculiar system of galaxies known as Arp 194. This interacting group contains several galaxies along with a "cosmic fountain" of stars, gas and dust that stretches over 100 000 light years.

heic0905 — Photo Release

Dramatically backlit dust in giant galaxy

7 April 2009: A new Hubble image highlights striking swirling dust lanes and glittering globular clusters in oddball galaxy NGC 7049.

heic0904 — Photo Release

Four of Saturn's moons parade by their parent

17 March 2009: A new Hubble image shows four of Saturn's moons circling the ringed planet

heic0903 — Science Release

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides new evidence for dark matter around small galaxies

12 March 2009: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a strong new line of evidence that galaxies are embedded in halos of dark matter.

heic0902 — Photo Release

Stars forced to relocate near the Southern Fish

3 March 2009: A new Hubble image shows three galaxies locked in a gravitational tug-of-war that may result in the eventual demise of one of them.

heic0901 — Photo Release

Exceptionally deep view of strange galaxy

5 February 2009: A spectacular new image of an unusual spiral galaxy in the Coma Galaxy Cluster has been created from data taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. It reveals fine details of the galaxy, NGC 4921, as well as an extraordinary rich background of more remote galaxies stretching back to the early Universe.

heic0823 — Science Release

Hubble finds carbon dioxide on an extrasolar planet

9 December 2008: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This is an important step along the trail of finding the chemical biotracers of extraterrestrial life, as we know it.

heic0822 — Photo Release

Hubble captures outstanding views of mammoth stars

25 November 2008: Two of our Galaxy's most massive stars have been scrutinised in an impressive view by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. They have, until recently, been shrouded in mystery, but the new image shows them in greater detail than ever before.

heic0821 — Science Release

Hubble directly observes planet orbiting Fomalhaut

13 November 2008: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible light snapshot of a planet circling another star.

heic0820 — Photo Release

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is back in business

30 October 2008: The Hubble Space Telescope is back in business with a snapshot of the fascinating galaxy pair Arp 147.

heic0819 — Science Release

When it comes to galaxies, diversity is everywhere

30 September 2008: A group of galaxies in our cosmic backyard has given astronomers clues about how stars form. A thorough survey using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed around 14 million stars in 69 galaxies. Some galaxies were found to be full of ancient stars, while others are like sun-making factories.

heic0818 — Science Release

Clash of clusters provides new dark matter clue

27 August 2008: A powerful collision between galaxy clusters has been captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This clash of clusters provides striking evidence for dark matter and insight into its properties.

heic0817 — Science Release

Hubble sees magnetic monster in erupting galaxy

20 August 2008: The Hubble Space Telescope has found the answer to a long-standing puzzle by resolving giant but delicate filaments shaped by a strong magnetic field around the active galaxy NGC 1275. It is the most striking example of the influence of these immense tentacles of extragalactic magnetic fields, say researchers.

heic0816 — Photo Release

Hubble unveils colourful star birth region on 100 000th orbit milestone

11 August 2008: In commemoration of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope completing its 100 000th orbit around the Earth in its 18th year of exploration and discovery, scientists have aimed Hubble to take a snapshot of a dazzling region of celestial birth and renewal.

heic0815 — Science Release

Globular clusters tell tale of star formation in nearby galaxy metropolis

5 August 2008: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has identified thousands of more than 5 billion year-old globular clusters in the Virgo cluster of galaxies. One of the results of these discoveries led astronomers to understand more about the life and evolution of cannibal galaxies.

heic0814 — Science Release

Lenses galore - Hubble finds large sample of very distant galaxies

24 July 2008: New Hubble Space Telescope observations of six spectacular galaxy clusters acting as gravitational lenses have given significant insights into the early stages of the Universe. Scientists have found the largest sample of very distant galaxies seen to date: ten promising candidates thought to lie at a distance of 13 billion light-years (~redshift 7.5).

heic0813 — Photo Release

Hubble's sweeping view of the Coma Galaxy Cluster

10 June 2008: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the Universe.

heic0812 — Science Release

The Antennae Galaxies move closer

9 May 2008: New research on the Antennae Galaxies using the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows that this benchmark pair of interacting galaxies is in fact much closer than previously thought - 45 million light-years instead of 65 million light-years.

heic0811 — Science Release

Compact galaxies in early Universe pack a big punch

29 April 2008: Using the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer onboard of the Hubble NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have made observations of young, surprisingly compact galaxies, each only 5,000 light-years across, but weighing 200 billion times the mass of the Sun.

heic0810 — Photo Release

Galaxies gone wild!

24 April 2008: Fifty nine new images of colliding galaxies make up the largest collection of Hubble images ever released together. As this astonishing Hubble atlas of interacting galaxies illustrates, galaxy collisions produce a remarkable variety of intricate structures.

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