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| Hubble sees magnetic monster in active galaxy [heic0817] |
| 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. |
| Date: 20 Aug 2008 |
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| Hubble unveils colourful star birth region on its 100 000th orbit milestone [heic0816] |
| In commemoration of the ESA/NASA 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. |
| Date: 11 Aug 2008 |
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| Globular clusters tell tale of star formation in nearby galaxy metropolis [heic0815] |
| The ESA/NASA Hubble Space Telescope has identified thousands of ancient globular clusters in the Virgo cluster of galaxies, many of them more than 5000 million years old. These discoveries improve our understanding of the life and evolution of cannibal galaxies. |
| Date: 05 Aug 2008 |
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| Lenses galore - Hubble finds large sample of very distant galaxies [heic0814] |
| 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 (a redshift of ~ 7.5). |
| Date: 24 Jul 2008 |
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| Hubble's sweeping view of the Coma Galaxy Cluster [heic0813] |
| 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.
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| Date: 10 Jun 2008 |
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| The Antennae Galaxies found to be closer to us [heic0812] |
| New research on the Antennae Galaxies using the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows that this proto-typical pair of interacting galaxies is in fact much closer to us than previously thought - at 45 million light-years instead of 65 million light-years. |
| Date: 09 May 2008 |
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| Compact galaxies in early Universe pack a big punch [heic0811] |
| 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 5000 light-years across, but weighing 200 thousand million times the mass of the Sun. |
| Date: 29 Apr 2008 |
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| Galaxies gone wild - A Hubble atlas of interacting galaxies [heic0810] |
| 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. |
| Date: 24 Apr 2008 |
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| Black hole found in omega Centauri [heic0809] |
| Omega Centauri has been known as an unusual globular cluster for a long time. A new result obtained by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Observatory reveals that the explanation behind omega Centauri's peculiarities may be a black hole hidden in its centre. One implication of the discovery is that it is very likely that omega Centauri is not a globular cluster at all, but a dwarf galaxy stripped of its outer stars, as some scientists have suspected for a few years. |
| Date: 02 Apr 2008 |
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| Exploding star in NGC 2397 [heic0808] |
| The latest image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a sharp view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2397. This image also shows a rare Hubble view of the early stages of a supernova - SN 2006bc, discovered in March 2006. |
| Date: 31 Mar 2008 |
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| Hubble finds first organic molecule on extrasolar planet [heic0807] |
| The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough is an important step in eventually identifying signs of life on a planet outside our Solar System. |
| Date: 19 Mar 2008 |
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| Hubble discovers 67 gravitationally lensed galaxies in the distant Universe [heic0806] |
| Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have compiled a large catalogue of galaxy-galaxy lens candidates in the distant Universe. The catalogue contains 67 previously unknown gravitationally lens systems around foreground elliptical and lenticular galaxies. This sample demonstrates the rich diversity of strong gravitational lenses. If this sample is representative, there would be nearly half a million similar gravitational lenses in total over the whole sky. |
| Date: 19 Feb 2008 |
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| Hubble finds strong contender for galaxy distance record [heic0805] |
| The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, with a boost from a gravitational lens, has found the strongest evidence so far for a galaxy with a redshift significantly above 7. It is likely to be one of the youngest and brightest galaxies ever seen, in the middle the cosmic dark ages just 700 million years after the Big Bang. |
| Date: 12 Feb 2008 |
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| Gargantuan galaxy NGC 1132 - a cosmic fossil? [heic0804] |
| The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the galaxy NGC 1132 which is, most likely, a cosmic fossil - the aftermath of an enormous multi-galactic pile-up, where the carnage of collision after collision has built up a brilliant but fuzzy giant elliptical galaxy far outshining typical galaxies. |
| Date: 06 Feb 2008 |
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| Hubble finds double Einstein ring [heic0803] |
| The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. The double-ring pattern is caused by the bending of light from two distant galaxies that both lie behind a foreground massive galaxy. |
| Date: 10 Jan 2008 |
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| The violent lives of galaxies: caught in the cosmic matter web [heic0802] |
| Astronomers are using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to dissect one of the largest structures in the Universe as part of a quest to understand the violent lives of galaxies. Hubble is providing indirect evidence of unseen dark matter tugging on galaxies in the crowded, rough-and-tumble environment of a massive supercluster of hundreds of galaxies. |
| Date: 10 Jan 2008 |
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| Hubble finds that 'blue blobs' in space are orphaned clusters of stars [heic0801] |
| Hubble has revealed that mysterious "blue blobs" in a structure called Arp's Loop between the galaxies M81 and M82 are blue clusters of stars less than 200 million years old with many stars as young as, and even younger than, 10 million years. |
| Date: 09 Jan 2008 |
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| Hazy red sunset on extrasolar planet [heic0720] |
| The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers a fascinating new insight into the atmosphere of a planet in orbit around another star. The observations provide evidence of the presence of hazes in the atmosphere of the planet HD 189733b. |
| Date: 11 Dec 2007 |
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| Hubble captures grand-design spiral galaxy M74 [heic0719] |
| Messier 74, also called NGC 628, is a stunning example of a grand-design spiral galaxy that is viewed by Earth observers nearly face-on. Its perfectly symmetrical spiral arms emanate from the central nucleus and are dotted with clusters of young blue stars. |
| Date: 29 Nov 2007 |
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| Hubble zooms in on heart of mystery comet [heic0718] |
| The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has probed the bright core of Comet 17P/Holmes which, to the delight of sky watchers, mysteriously brightened by nearly a million-fold in a 24-hour period beginning 23 October 2007. |
| Date: 15 Nov 2007 |
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