Hubble views an old and mysterious cluster [heic1321] 14 November 2013 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best ever image of the globular cluster Messier 15, a gathering of very old stars that orbits the centre of the Milky Way. This glittering cluster contains over 100 000 stars, and could also hide a rare type of black hole at its centre. Read more

When is a comet not a comet? [heic1320] 07 November 2013 Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed a unique and baffling object in the asteroid belt that looks like a rotating lawn sprinkler or badminton shuttlecock. While this object is on an asteroid-like orbit, it looks like a comet, and is sending out tails of dust into space. Read more

Most distant gravitational lens helps weigh galaxies [heic1319] 17 October 2013 An international team of astronomers has found the most distant gravitational lens yet - a galaxy that, as predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, deflects and intensifies the light of an even more distant object. Read more

Soft shells and strange star clusters [heic1318] 10 October 2013 The beautiful, petal-like shells of galaxy PGC 6240 are captured here in intricate detail by the Hubble Space Telescope, set against a sky full of distant background galaxies. Read more

New Hubble image of galaxy cluster Abell 1689 [heic1317] 12 September 2013 This new image from Hubble is one of the best ever views of the massive galaxy cluster Abell 1689, and shows the phenomenon of gravitational lensing with unprecedented clarity. Read more