Images From Hubble Space TelescopeNASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the planet UrUNITED STATES: NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the planet Uranus taken 14 August 1994, reveals the planet's rings and bright clouds and a high altitude haze above the planet's south pole. Hubble resolves several of Uranus' rings, including the outermost Epsilon ring. (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeStorm Engulfs the Planet Mars395823 01: (FILE PHOTO) A comparison image of the planet Mars reveals October 11, 2001 that a global dust storm has engulfed the planet. The storm is comprised of fine dust and obscures all surface features. This image was captured by the Hubble Telescope. (Photo by NASA/Getty Images)(Photo by NASA/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeNew Galazy is Discovered395823 02: (FILE PHOTO) NASA researchers have discovered a small distant galaxy located approximately 13.4 billion light-years away from our planet. This image was captured by the Hubble Telescope. (Photo by NASA/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeOmega Centauri Star Cluster395823 03: (FILE PHOTO) Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to peer into the center of a dense swarm of stars called Omega Centauri. Omega Centauri is a massive globular star cluster, containing several million stars swirling in locked orbits around a common center of gravity. The stars are packed so densely in the cluster's core that it is difficult for ground-based telescopes to make out individual stars. This image was captured by the Hubble Telescope. (Photo by NASA/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Telescope Captures Galaxy Collision381207 01: An image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, released by NASA November 2, 2000, shows a striking example of a galaxy collision more than 200 million light year away, in NGC 6745. The yellowish center of the photo shows a large spiral galaxy with its core still intact, colliding with a smaller galaxy seen in the bright blue sections of the image. The blue light shows the distinct path taken by the smaller galaxy during the encounter, as the galaxies did not merely interact gravitationally as they passed one another, but actually collided. (Photo by NASA/Newsmakers)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Photo Shows Destruction of Interstellar Cloud383068 01: This image captured by NASA''s Hubble Space Telescope shows a dark interstellar cloud being destroyed by the passage of one of the brightest stars in the Pleiades star cluster. In this photo released December 8, 2000, the star is seen reflecting light off the surface of pitch black clouds of cold gas laced with dust. These clouds are called reflection nebulae. (Photo by NASA/Newsmakers)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeChandra and Hubble Image of X-Ray Emission Halo390506 01: This composite image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope shows the first halo of X-ray emission detected around a young cluster of stars, known as the Arches cluster. The photo was released on June 6, 2001 by NASA. The Chandra data is seen as the diffuse blue emission in the inset box and represents the 60-million-degree gas that envelopes the multitude of young stars in the cluster. This image overlays a Hubble Space Telescope infrared image of the same region, in which some of the individual stars in the cluster can be seen as point-like sources. Both the X-ray and infrared observations are then shown in context of the spectacular filamentary structures that appear in radio wavelengths displayed in red. (Photo by NASA via Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeOrion nebulaN365890 01: A spectacular color panorama of the center of the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The picture, seamlessly composited from a mosaic of 15 separate fields, covers an area of sky about five percent of the area covered by the full moon. (Courtesy of NASA)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeA nebula in the constellation OrionN366041 01: Just weeks after NASA astronauts repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in December, 1999, the Hubble Heritage Project snapped this picture of NGC 1999, a nebula in the constellation Orion. The Heritage astronomers, in collaboration with scientists in Texas and Ireland, used Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) to obtain the color image. (Courtesy of NASA)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeHUBBLE's 10TH ANNIVERSARY368100 01: FILE PHOTO: The Pistol Star Nebula as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope October 8, 1997. The Hubble celebrates its 10th anniversary on April 24, 2000. (Photo courtesy NASA)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeNASA's HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE CAPTURES ''ESKIMO''N365573 01: Hubble resumes gazing at the Heavens by taking a look at the "Eskimo" Nebula In its first glimpse of the heavens following the successful December 1999 servicing mission March 6, 2000. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a majestic view of a planetary nebula, the glowing remains of a dying, sun-like star. This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed the "Eskimo" Nebula because, when viewed through ground-based telescopes, it resembles a face surrounded by a fur parka. (Photo by NASA)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Images Of Warped Disk Galaxy392767 01: (UNDATED PHOTO) A Hubble telescope edge-on view of the ESO 510-G13 galaxy is seen in this undated NASA photograph. The image shows the galaxy''s warped dusty disk and shows how colliding galaxies spawn the formation of new generations of stars. The dust and spiral arms of normal spiral galaxies, like our own Milky Way, appear flat when viewed edge-on. This galaxy by contrast has an unusual twisted disk structure. (Photo courtesy of NASA via Getty Images)(Photo courtesy of NASA via Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeBurst of Star Formation Drives Bubble in Galaxy''s Core393310 01: These NASA Hubble Space Telescope snapshots reveal a white bubble of activity within the core of the galaxy NGC 3079, as hot gas is rises from glowing matter. The picture at left shows the bubble in the center of the galaxy''s disk. The structure is more than 3,000 light-years wide and rises 3,500 light-years above the galaxy''s disk. The smaller photo at right is a close-up view of the bubble. Astronomers suspect that the bubble is being blown by "winds" (high-speed streams of particles) released during a burst of star formation. The two white dots just above the bubble are probably stars in the galaxy. (Photo courtesy NASA/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Captures Image Of Merging GalaxiesIN SPACE - JUNE 26: This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a group of galaxies called the Seyfert's Sextet on June 26, 2000. Although the name of this grouping suggests that there are six, there are in reality only four galaxies in the group that are slowly merging into one. (Photo by NASA/Getty Images)Credit: NASA/Getty Images
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeNASA Studies Starburst Galaxies394162 03: This montage shows two sets of Chandra X-ray Observatory images (L) and Hubble Space Telescope images (R) of the giant galaxy clusters Abell 2390 and MS2137.3-2353. The clusters are located 2.5 and 3.1billion light years from Earth respectively. The X-ray emission comes from the multimillion-degree gas that fills the clusters. Chandra provides detailed temperature maps for this gas and allows astronomers to precisely determine the masses of the clusters. Most of the mass is in the form of dark matter. (Photo by NASA/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeNebula N83B Element Interplay387208 01: Extremely intense radiation from newly born, ultra-bright stars has blown a glowing spherical bubble in the nebula N83B, also known as NGC 1748, March 28, 2001. A new Hubble telescope image has helped to decipher the complex interplay of gas and radiation of a star-forming region in the nearby galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The image graphically illustrates just how these massive stars sculpt their environment by generating powerful winds that alter the shape of the parent gaseous nebula. These processes are also seen in our Milky Way in regions like the Orion Nebula. (Photo courtesy of NASA/Newsmakers)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeCone NebulaIN SPACE - JUNE 5: An image of the tip of the Cone Nebula, which is about half a light-year long as taken by the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as it penetrated layers of dust in a star-forming cloud to uncover a dense, craggy edifice of dust and gas, released June 5, 2002. The entire nebula is 7 light-years long. The Cone resides in a turbulent star-forming region, located 2,500 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. (Photo by NASA/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeCone NebulaIN SPACE - JUNE 5: An image of the tip of the Cone Nebula, which is about half a light-year long as taken by the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, released June 5, 2002. The entire nebula is 7 light-years long. The Cone resides in a turbulent star-forming region, located 2,500 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. (Photo by NASA/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Horsehead Nebula Image388345 01: An close-up image of the Horsehead nebula taken from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals the cloud's intricate structure and resemblance to a giant seahorse, April 24, 2001. The detailed view of the horse's head was released in celebration of the the orbiting observatory's eleventh anniversary. (Photo Courtesy of NASA/Newsmakers)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Telescope Image of the Whirlpool Galaxy387524 01: New pictures from the Hubble telescope, made available April 5, 2001 are giving astronomers a detailed view of the Whirlpool galaxy's spiral arms and dust clouds, which are the birth sites of massive and luminous stars. This galaxy, also called M51 or NGC 5194, is having a close encounter with a nearby companion galaxy, NGC 5195, just off the upper edge of this image. The companion's gravitational influence is triggering star formation in the Whirlpool, as seen by the numerous clusters of bright, young stars [highlighted in red]. (Photo courtesy NASA/The Hubble Heritage Team/Newsmakers)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Picture of Galaxy NGC 4013386160 01: An image produced by the Hubble telescope of the perfectly "edge-on" galaxy, or NGC 4013 , March 1, 2001. This new Hubble picture reveals, with great detail, huge clouds of dust and gas extending along, as well as far above, the galaxy's main disk. NGC 4013 is a spiral galaxy, similar to the Milky Way, lying some 55 million light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Ursa Major. Viewed face-on, it would look like a nearly circular pinwheel, but NGC 4013 happens to be seen edge-on from our vantage point. Even at 55 million light-years, the galaxy is larger than Hubble's field of view, and the image shows only a little more than half of the object, albeit with unprecedented detail. (Photo Courtesy of NASA/Newsmakers)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Spies Most Distant Supernova387401 01: The Hubble Space Telescope has spied the most distant supernova ever, an 11 billion year old exploding star whose existence suggests that a repulsive "dark energy" is spurring the expansion of the universe. Astronomers saw the supernova in 1997 but did not know until recently that it was the furthest and therefore the oldest of its kind ever observed, scientists said April 2, 2001 in a briefing at NASA headquarters. The photo at bottom left is a close-up view of that region where the supernova dwells. The white arrow points to the exploding star's home galaxy, a faint elliptical. Its redness is due to the billions of old stars residing there. The picture at bottom right shows the supernova itself, distinguished by the white dot in the center. (Photo courtesy of NASA/Newsmakers)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopePlanet Formation Process388402 01: According to observations made by astronomers, planet formation is a hazardous and violent process, April 26, 2001. These four snapshots, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on February 26, 1998 and January 11, 1999, show dust disks around embryonic stars in the Orion Nebula being "blowtorched" by a blistering flood of ultraviolet radiation from the region's brightest star. Within these disks are the seeds of planets. The doomed systems look like hapless comets, with wayward tails of gas boiling off the withering, pancake-shaped disks. (Photo courtesy of NASA/Newsmakers)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Reveals "Backwards" Spiral Galaxy400704 01: This image shows NGC 4622 and its outer pair of winding arms full of new stars, shown in blue. The galaxy NGC 4622 appears to be rotating in the opposite direction to what was expected. Pictures from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope helped astronomers determine that the galaxy may be spinning clockwise by showing which side of the galaxy is closer to Earth. This Hubble telescope photo of the oddball galaxy is presented by the Hubble Heritage team. (Photo Courtesy of NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeAdvanced Camera Will Give Hubble A New View Of The Universe401273 01: A simulated image of how the universe will look through the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), a new camera for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which will offer deeper, wider and faster views of outer space than the current generation of cameras on Hubble, February 15, 2002. The combination of ACS's improved sensitivity and larger field of view is expected to produce a tenfold improvement in discovery efficiency for Hubble. (Photo Courtesy of NASA and the ACS Science Team/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeNASA Hubble Space Telescope image of black holeN362953 02: Isolated stellar-mass black holes are seen in this Hubble photo taken June 15, 1999 adrift among the stars in our galaxy. Two international teams of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes in Australia and Chili have discovered the first examples of this extraterrestrial phenomenon. (Photo by NASA)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeHUBBLE's 10TH ANNIVERSARY368100 02: FILE PHOTO: The Stingray Nebula as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope April 2, 1998. the Hubble celebrates its 10th anniversary on April 24, 2000. (Photo courtesy NASA)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeHubble-X Gas Cloud Space Image383909 01: This Hubble space telescope image released January 4, 2001 shows the Hubble-X, a glowing gas cloud in one of the most active star-forming regions in galaxy NGC 6822. The galaxy lies 1.6 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius, one of the Milky Way's closest neighbors. This hotbed of star birth is similar to the fertile regions in the Orion Nebula in our Milky Way Galaxy, but on a vastly greater scale. The intense star birth in Hubble-X occurred about 4 million years ago, a small fraction of the approximate 10-billion-year age of the universe. (Photo by NASA/Newsmakers)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Image of "Ant Nebula"385221 01: A Hubble Space Telescope image released February 1, 2001 of the so-called "ant nebula" (Menzel 3, or Mz3) reveals the "ant's" body as a pair of fiery lobes protruding from a dying star. The Hubble images directly challenge old ideas about the last stages in the lives of stars. By observing Sun-like stars as they approach their deaths, the Hubble Heritage image of Mz3, along with pictures of other planetary nebulae, shows that our Sun's fate probably will be more interesting, complex, and striking than astronomers imagined just a few years ago. (Photo by NASA/Newsmakers)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Space Telescope Images Complete Image Of Spiral Galaxy Ngc 4414 The IF 352524 001 Space 1999 Hubble Space Telescope Images Complete Image Of Spiral Galaxy Ngc 4414 The Image Was Obtained With Hubble'S Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (Wfpc2) Through Three Different Color Filters. Based On Their Discovery And Careful Brightness Measurements Of Variable Stars In Ngc 4414, The Key Project Astronomers Were Able To Make An Accurate Determination Of The Distance To The Galaxy. The Resulting Distance To Ngc 4414, 19.1 Megaparsecs Or About 60 Million Light-Years, Along With Similarly Determined Distances To Other Nearby Galaxies, Contributes To Astronomers' Overall Knowledge Of The Rate Of Expansion Of The Universe. The Hubble Constant (H0) Is The Ratio Of How Fast Galaxies Are Moving Away From Us To Their Distance From Us. This Astronomical Value Is Used To Determine Distances, Sizes, And The Intrinsic Luminosities For Many Objects In Our Universe, And The Age Of The Universe Itself. (Photo By Nasa/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeNasa Hubble Space Telescope Shows The Spiral Galaxy Ngc 4603 The Most Distant Galaxy In Which A SA Nasa Hubble Space Telescope Shows The Spiral Galaxy Ngc 4603, The Most Distant Galaxy In Which A Special Class Of Pulsating Stars Called Cepheid Variables Have Been Found. It Is Associated With The Centaurus Cluster, One Of The Most Massive Assemblages Of Galaxies In The Nearby Universe. The Universe Is A Youthful 12 Billion Years Old -- Not 20 Billion, As Astronomers Once Believed -- And That Is Old Enough To Support The Theory That The Big Bang Started It All, Scientists Said Tuesday. (Photo By Nasa/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeHUBBLE's FIRST DIRECT LOOK AT POSSIBLE PLANET AROUND ANOTHER STARHUBBLE's FIRST DIRECT LOOK AT POSSIBLE PLANET AROUND ANOTHER STAR. This NASA Hubble Telescope near-infrared image of newborn binary stars (image center) reveals a long thin nebula pointing toward a faint companion object (bottom left) which could be the first extrasolar planet to be imaged directly released by NASA May 28, 1998.
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Space Telescope ImageThis Hubble Space Telescope Image Provides A Detailed Look At A Brilliant "Fireworks Show" At The Center Of A Collision Between Two Galaxies. Hubble Has Uncovered Over 1,000 Bright, Young Star Clusters Bursting To Life As A Result Of The Head-On Wreck. [Left] A Ground-Based Telescopic View Of The Antennae Galaxies (Known Formally As Ngc 4038/4039) - So Named Because A Pair Of Long Tails Of Luminous Matter, Formed By The Gravitational Tidal Forces Of Their Encounter, Resembles An Insect'S Antennae. The Galaxies Are Located 63 Million Light-Years Away In The Southern Constellation Corvus. [Right] The Respective Cores Of The Twin Galaxies Are The Orange Blobs, Left And Right Of Image Center, Crisscrossed By Filaments Of Dark Dust. A Wide Band Of Chaotic Dust, Called The Overlap Region, Stretches Between The Cores Of The Two Galaxies. The Sweeping Spiral-Like Patterns, Traced By Bright Blue Star Clusters, Shows The Result Of A Firestorm Of Star Birth Activity Which Was Triggered By The Collision. This Natural-Color Image Is A Composite Of Four Separately Filtered Images Taken With The Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (Wfpc2), On January 20, 1996. Resolution Is 15 Light-Years Per Pixel (Picture Element). (Photo By Getty Images/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeHead On Collision Between Two Spiral GalaxiesThese Four Close-Up Views Are Taken From A Head-On Collision Between Two Spiral Galaxies, Called The Antennae Galaxies, Seen At Image Center. The Scale Bar At The Top Of Each Image Is 1,500 Light-Years Across. [Left Images] The Collision Triggers The Birth Of New Stars In Brilliant Blue Star Clusters, The Brightest Of Which Contains Roughly A Million Stars. The Star Clusters Are Blue Because They Are Very Young, The Youngest Being Only A Few Million Years Old, A Mere Blink Of The Eye On The Astronomical Time Scale. [Right Images] These Close-Up Views Of The Cores Of Each Galaxy Show Entrapped Dust And Gas Funneled Into The Center. The Nucleus Of Ngc 4038 (Lower Right) Is Obscured By Dust Which Dims And Reddens Starlight By Scattering The Shorter, Bluer Wavelengths. This Is Also The Reason The Young Star Clusters In The Dusty Regions Appear Red Instead Of Blue. This Natural-Color Image Is A Composite Of Four Separately Filtered Images Taken With The Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (Wfpc2), On January 20, 1996. Resolution Is 15 Light-Years Per Pixel (Picture Element). (Photo By Getty Images/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeOne Of The Intrinsically Brightest Stars In Our Galaxy Appears As The Bright White Dot In The CenterOne Of The Intrinsically Brightest Stars In Our Galaxy Appears As The Bright White Dot In The Center Of This Image Taken With Nasa'S Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble'S Near Infrared Camera And Multi-Object Spectrometer (Nicmos) Was Needed To Take The Picture, Because The Star Is Hidden At The Galactic Center, Behind Obscuring Dust. Nicmos' Infrared Vision Penetrated The Dust To Reveal The Star, Which Is Glowing With The Radiance Of 10 Million Suns. The Image Also Shows One Of The Most Massive Stellar Eruptions Ever Seen In Space. The Radiant Star Has Enough Raw Power To Blow Off Two Expanding Shells (Magenta) Of Gas Equal To The Mass Of Several Of Our Suns. The Largest Shell Is So Big (4 Light-Years) It Would Stretch Nearly All The Way From Our Sun To The Next Nearest Star. The Outbursts Seen By Hubble Are Estimated To Be Only 4,000 And 6,000 Years Old, Respectively. Despite Such A Tremendous Mass Loss, Astronomers Estimate The Extraordinary Star May Presently Be 100 Times More Massive Than Our Sun, And May Have Started With As Much As 200 Solar Masses Of Material, But It Is Violently Shedding Much Of Its Mass. The Star Is 25,000 Light-Years Away In The Direction Of The Constellation Sagittarius. Despite Its Great Distance, The Star Would Be Visible To The Naked Eye As A Modest 4Th Magnitude Object If It Were Not For The Dust Between It And The Earth. This False-Colored Image Is A Composite Of Two Separately Filtered Images Taken With The Nicmos, On September 13,1997. The Field Of View Is 4.8 Light-Years Across, At The Star'S Distance Of 25,000 Light-Years. Resolution Is 0.075 Arc Seconds Per Pixel. (Photo By Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeThis image released 07 October, 2004 bySPACE, SPACE: This image released 07 October, 2004 by NASA shows Kepler's supernova remnant produced by combining data from NASA's three Great Observatories -- the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Kepler's supernova was first seen 400 years ago by sky watchers, including famous astronomer Johannes Kepler. The combined image unveils a bubble-shaped shroud of gas and dust that is 14 light-years wide and is expanding at 4 million miles per hour (2,000 kilometers per second). AFP PHOTO/NASA (Photo credit should read HO/AFP/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeThis Hubble Space Telescope image released by NASAWASHINGTON, : This Hubble Space Telescope image released by NASA's Hubble Heritage team 04 February shows the self-destruction of a massive star called supernova 1987-A (C) in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a near-by galaxy. Astronomers in the Southern hemisphere witnessed the explosion of this star on 23 February, 1987. The supernova remnant is surrounded by inner and outer rings of material. This is a three-color composite image of the supernova and its neighboring region taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 02 in September 1994, February 1996 and July of 1997. AFP PHOTO NASA/HUBBLE HERITAGE TEAM (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeThis image, taken 17 November 1995 with the HubbleNOVEMBER 17: This image, taken 17 November 1995 with the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals the faintest object ever seen around a star beyond our Sun, and the first clear detection of a brown dwarf star. The brown dwarf (C), called GL229B, orbits the red dwarf star Gliese 229 (L). The brown dwarf is about 20-50 times the mass of Jupiter, but is so dense it is about the same diameter as Jupiter (80,000 miles). GL229B is at least four billion miles from its companion star. The diagonal line is a diffraction spike produced by the telescope's optical system. NASA/HUBBLE (Photo credit should read GOLIMOWSK/AFP/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeThis is a Hubble Space Telescope "family portrait"DECEMBER 4: This is a Hubble Space Telescope "family portrait" of the four largest moons of Jupiter, released 10 October, first observed by the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei nearly four centuries ago. Located approximately one-half billion miles away, the moons are so small that, in visible light, they appear as fuzzy disks in the largest ground-based telescopes. Over the past year Hubble has charted new volcanic activity on Io's active surface, a faint oxygen atmosphere on the moon Europa, identified ozone on the surface of Ganymede and shown fresh ice on the surface of Callisto that may indicate impacts from micrometeorites and charged particles from Jupiter's magnetosphere. The Galileo probe is due to land on Jupiter 07 December. NASA/AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read NOL/AFP/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeThis combo released 04 October 2006 by t-, SPACE: This combo released 04 October 2006 by the European Space Agency shows two images of one-half of the Hubble Space Telescope. A seam of stars at the centre of the Milky Way has shown astronomers that an entirely new class of planets closely orbiting distant suns is waiting to be explored, according to a paper published 04 October 2006. The green circles identify nine stars that are orbited by planets with periods of a few days. Planets so close to their stars with such short orbital periods are called "hot Jupiters." These are considered "candidate" exoplanets - planets that orbit stars other than our own - because most of them are too faint to allow for spectroscopic observations that would allow for a precise measure of the planet?s mass. The bottom frame identifies one of two stars in the field where astronomers were able to spectroscopically measure the star?s back-and-forth wobble due to the pull of the planet. The planet turns out to be less than 3.8 Jupiter masses. AFP PHOTO NASA/ESA/K. SAHU (STScI) AND THE SWEEPS SCIENCE TEAM (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopePicture released 04 October 2006 by the-, SPACE: Picture released 04 October 2006 by the European Space Agency shows one-half of the Hubble Space Telescope field of view. A seam of stars at the centre of the Milky Way has shown astronomers that an entirely new class of planets closely orbiting distant suns is waiting to be explored, according to a paper published 04 October 2006. An international team of astronomers, using a camera aboard NASA's Hubble telescope, delved into a zone of the Milky Way known as the "galactic bulge", thus called because it is rich in stars and in the gas and dust which go to make up stars and planets. The finding opens up a new area of investigation for space scientists probing extrasolar planets - planets that orbit stars other than our own. AFP PHOTO NASA/ESA/K. SAHU (STScI) AND THE SWEEPS SCIENCE TEAM (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeThis combo released 04 October 2006 by t-, SPACE: This combo released 04 October 2006 by the European Space Agency shows two images of one-half of the Hubble Space Telescope field of view. A seam of stars at the centre of the Milky Way has shown astronomers that an entirely new class of planets closely orbiting distant suns is waiting to be explored, according to a paper published 04 October 2006. The green circles identify nine stars that are orbited by planets with periods of a few days. Planets so close to their stars with such short orbital periods are called "hot Jupiters." These are considered "candidate" exoplanets - planets that orbit stars other than our own - because most of them are too faint to allow for spectroscopic observations that would allow for a precise measure of the planet?s mass. The bottom frame identifies one of two stars in the field where astronomers were able to spectroscopically measure the star?s back-and-forth wobble due to the pull of the planet. The planet turns out to be less than 3.8 Jupiter masses. AFP PHOTO NASA/ESA/K. SAHU (STScI) AND THE SWEEPS SCIENCE TEAM (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopePicture released 04 October 2006 by the-, SPACE: Picture released 04 October 2006 by the European Space Agency shows one-half of the Hubble Space Telescope field of view with nine stars that are orbited by planets with periods of a few days. Planets so close to their stars with such short orbital periods are called "hot Jupiters. These are considered "candidate" exoplanets - planets that orbit stars other than our own - because most of them are too faint to allow for spectroscopic observations that would allow for a precise measure of the planet?s mass. A seam of stars at the centre of the Milky Way has shown astronomers that an entirely new class of planets closely orbiting distant suns is waiting to be explored, according to a paper published 04 October 2006. An international team of astronomers, using a camera aboard NASA's Hubble telescope, delved into a zone of the Milky Way known as the "galactic bulge", thus called because it is rich in stars and in the gas and dust which go to make up stars and planets. The finding opens up a new area of investigation for space scientists probing extrasolar planets. AFP PHOTO NASA/ESA/K. SAHU (STScI) AND THE SWEEPS SCIENCE TEAM (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopePicture released 04 October 2006 by the-, SPACE: Picture released 04 October 2006 by the European Space Agency shows an artist's impression of a unique type of exoplanet discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope. This image presents a purely speculative view of what such a "hot Jupiter" (word dedicated to planets so close to their stars with such short orbital periods) might look like. A seam of stars at the centre of the Milky Way has shown astronomers that an entirely new class of planets closely orbiting distant suns is waiting to be explored, according to a paper published 04 October 2006. An international team of astronomers, using a camera aboard NASA's Hubble telescope, delved into a zone of the Milky Way known as the "galactic bulge", thus called because it is rich in stars and in the gas and dust which go to make up stars and planets. The finding opens up a new area of investigation for space scientists probing extrasolar planets - planets that orbit stars other than our own. AFP PHOTO NASA/ESA/K. SAHU (STScI) AND THE SWEEPS SCIENCE TEAM (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeA photo released by the NASA/ESA HubbleA photo released by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on February 5, 2009 of an unusual spiral galaxy in the Coma Galaxy Cluster in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices, the hair of Queen Berenice. The cluster, also known as Abell 1656, is about 320 million light-years from Earth and contains more than 1000 members. The brightest galaxies, including NGC 4921 shown here, were discovered back in the late 18th century by William Herschel. AFP PHOTO/NASA/ESA Hubble (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeSpace New Hubble Images Uncover Important Clues About The Galaxy's Origins And BeginninF 358487 006 Space New Hubble Images Uncover Important Clues About The Galaxy's Origins And Beginnings. (Photo By Nasa/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeSpace New Hubble Images Uncover Important Clues About The Galaxy's Origins And BeginninF 358487 005 Space New Hubble Images Uncover Important Clues About The Galaxy's Origins And Beginnings. (Photo By Nasa/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeCarina Nebula (NGC 3372)N365905 01: Previously unseen details of a mysterious, complex structure within the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) are revealed by this image of the "Keyhole Nebula," obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The picture is a montage assembled from four different April 1999 telescope pointings with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. The picture is dominated by a large, approximately circular feature, which is part of the Keyhole Nebula, about 8000 light-years from Earth. The Carina Nebula also contains several other stars that are among the hottest and most massive known, each about ten times as hot, and 100 times as massive as the sun. (Courtesy of NASA)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeThis NASA Hubble Space Telescope image rSPACE, SPACE: This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image released 04 December, 2003 shows a festively colored nebula, called NGC 604, one of the largest known seething cauldrons of star birth in a nearby galaxy. NGC 604 is similar to familiar star-birth regions in our Milky Way galaxy, such as the Orion Nebula, but it is vastly larger in extent and contains many more recently formed stars. This monstrous star-birth region contains more than 200 brilliant blue stars within a cloud of glowing gases some 1,300 light-years across, nearly 100 times the size of the Orion Nebula. The bright stars in NGC 604 are extremely young by astronomical standards, having formed a mere 3 million years ago. AFP PHOTO/HO NASA/The Hubble Heritage Team /(AURA/STScI) (Photo credit should read NASA/AFP/Getty Images)
Images From Hubble Space TelescopeDeep Space Image Of Celestial Star Factory A Nasa Hubble Space Telescope ImagF 334 814 001 09/04/98 Deep Space Image Of Celestial Star Factory A Nasa Hubble Space Telescope Image Of Star Cluster N81. 50 Young Bright Baby Stars Pack A Tiny Region Of Space. The Radiation Given Off By These Stars Makes The Nebula Glow. (Photo By Nasa/Getty Images)-
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