[ { "date": "January 1 2019", "image": "january-1-2019-galaxy-leo-iv.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Leo IV", "caption": "Leo IV is one of more than a dozen ultra-faint dwarf galaxies near the Milky Way. These galaxies are dominated by dark matter, an invisible substance that makes up most of the universe's mass.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2012/26/3054-Image.html", "year": 2012 }, { "date": "January 2 2019", "image": "january-2-2019-galaxy-cluster-sdss-j1004-4112.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster SDSS J1004+4112", "caption": "This picture captures a galaxy cluster called SDSS J1004+4112 that's so massive that its gravity bends light from galaxies behind it. The light of a distant quasar (the brilliant core of an active galaxy) has been bent around the cluster, appearing in five places in this image.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2006/23/1929-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "January 3 2019", "image": "january-3-2019-ngc-4302-and-ngc-4298.png", "name": "NGC 4302 and NGC 4298", "caption": "This image captures two spiral galaxies. They look quite different because we see them from different angles. The edge-on galaxy (on the left) is called NGC 4302, and the other is NGC 4298.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2017/14/4019-Image.html", "year": 2017 }, { "date": "January 4 2019", "image": "january-4-2019-saturn-in-infrared.jpg", "name": "Saturn in Infrared", "caption": "This false-color image of Saturn captures infrared light reflecting off the planet. The image also captures two of Saturn's moons, Dione in the lower left and Tethys in the upper right.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1998/18/659-Image.html", "year": 1998 }, { "date": "January 5 2019", "image": "january-5-2019-galaxy-ngc-2841.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 2841", "caption": "Young, blue stars and dark lanes of dust trace the winding arms of NGC 2841. Winds from the young stars may have cleared out the gas needed for additional star birth and halted star formation in the spiral galaxy.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2011/06/2821-Image.html", "year": 2010 }, { "date": "January 6 2019", "image": "january-6-2019-interacting-galaxies-arp-220.jpg", "name": "Interacting Galaxies Arp 220", "caption": "Arp 220 is the result of a collision between two spiral galaxies that began 700 millions years ago. Located about 250 million light-years from Earth, it is one of the nearest galaxy mergers to our planet.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/16/2314-Image.html", "year": 2006 }, { "date": "January 7 2019", "image": "january-7-2019-galaxy-ngc-2841.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 2841", "caption": "Young, blue stars and dark lanes of dust trace the winding arms of NGC 2841. Winds from the young, super-hot stars may have cleared out the gas needed for additional star birth and halted star formation in the spiral galaxy.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2011/06/2821-Image.html", "year": 2010 }, { "date": "January 8 2019", "image": "january-8-2019-galaxy-ngc-2976.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 2976", "caption": "This picture shows the inner region of NGC 2976, located roughly 11 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Despite the lack of well-defined arms visible in this image, NGC 2976 is a spiral galaxy.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/05/2682-Image.html", "year": 2007 }, { "date": "January 9 2019", "image": "january-9-2019-galaxy-ngc-1427a.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 1427A", "caption": "This image captures NGC 1427A, an irregular dwarf galaxy that is warped by the gravitational influence of its larger galactic neighbors in the Fornax galaxy cluster.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2005/09/1662-Image.html", "year": 2003 }, { "date": "January 10 2019", "image": "january-10-2019-galaxy-centaurus-a.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Centaurus A", "caption": "This image captures a turbulent firestorm of star birth along a nearly edge-on dust disk girdling nearby galaxy Centaurus A. Brilliant clusters of young, blue stars lie along the edge of the dark dust lane.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1998/14/637-Image.html", "year": 1998 }, { "date": "January 11 2019", "image": "january-11-2019-ngc-2392.jpg", "name": "NGC 2392", "caption": "NGC 2392 contains the glowing remains of a dying Sun-like star. The bright, central region is material being blown away by the nebula's central star.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2000/07/940-Image.html", "year": 2000 }, { "date": "January 12 2019", "image": "january-12-2019-andromeda-galaxy.jpg", "name": "Andromeda Galaxy", "caption": "Over 100 million stars are on display in this portion of the Andromeda galaxy, located over 2 million light-years away. This portrait of our galactic neighbor is the largest image yet assembled by Hubble.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2015/news-2015-02.html", "year": 2011 }, { "date": "January 13 2019", "image": "january-13-2019-andromeda-galaxy.jpg", "name": "Andromeda Galaxy", "caption": "Over 100 million stars are on display in this portion of the Andromeda galaxy, located over 2 million light-years away. This portrait of our galactic neighbor is the largest image yet assembled by Hubble.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2015/news-2015-02.html", "year": 2011 }, { "date": "January 14 2019", "image": "january-14-2019-galaxy-ngc-2768.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 2768", "caption": "NGC 2768 is an elliptical galaxy located 65 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy hosts a supermassive black hole, fueling jets of material in its active center.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2015/news-2015-28.html", "year": 2003 }, { "date": "January 15 2019", "image": "january-15-2019-galaxy-ngc-4710.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 4710", "caption": "The magnificent galaxy NGC 4710 is tilted nearly edge-on to our view from Earth. This perspective allows the central bulge of stars to be easily distinguished from the galaxy's pancake-flat disk of stars, dust and gas.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/30/2643-Image.html", "year": 2006 }, { "date": "January 16 2019", "image": "january-16-2019-lindsay-shapley-ring-galaxy.jpg", "name": "Lindsay-Shapley Ring Galaxy", "caption": "The striking blue ring of the Lindsay-Shapely Ring Galaxy (AM 0644-741) is comprised of brilliant star clusters. About 150,000 light-years across, the ring structure is larger than our galaxy, the Milky Way.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/15/1520-Image.html", "year": 2004 }, { "date": "January 17 2019", "image": "january-17-2019-supernova-1987a.png", "name": "Supernova 1987A", "caption": "The remnant of Supernova 1987A, located in a neighboring galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud, appears at the center of this image. The red, gaseous clouds that surround it fuel a firestorm of new star formation.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2017/08/3987-Image.html", "year": 2017 }, { "date": "January 18 2019", "image": "january-18-2019-galaxy-ngc-4163.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 4163", "caption": "This swarm of stars is the dwarf galaxy NGC 4163, located 10 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici. Irregularly shaped red blobs are regions of active star formation.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/19/2556-Image.html", "year": 2004 }, { "date": "January 19 2019", "image": "january-19-2019-whirlpool-galaxy.jpg", "name": "Whirlpool Galaxy", "caption": "This image provides a close-up of some of the winding arms in the Whirlpool galaxy. Tracing the arms of the spiral galaxy are red-colored clouds of hydrogen gas, which are giving birth to new stars.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2005/21/1731-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "January 20 2019", "image": "january-20-2019-whirlpool-galaxy.jpg", "name": "Whirlpool Galaxy", "caption": "This image provides a close-up of some of the winding arms in the Whirlpool galaxy. Tracing the arms of the spiral galaxy are red-colored clouds of hydrogen gas, which are giving birth to new stars.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2005/21/1731-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "January 21 2019", "image": "january-21-2019-reflection-nebula-ngc-1999.jpg", "name": "Reflection Nebula NGC 1999", "caption": "NGC 1999 is a reflection nebula. It does not emit any visible light of its own but shines only because the light from the star just to the left of the center illuminates the nebula's dust.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2000/10/952-Image.html", "year": 2000 }, { "date": "January 22 2019", "image": "january-22-2019-whirlpool-galaxy.jpg", "name": "Whirlpool Galaxy", "caption": "This image captures the winding arms of the Whirlpool galaxy. It highlights the galaxy's graceful, curving arms, pink star-forming regions and brilliant blue strands of star clusters.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2011/03/2809-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "January 23 2019", "image": "january-23-2019-asteroid-ceres.jpg", "name": "Asteroid Ceres", "caption": "The largerst known asteriod, Ceres, is approximately 590 miles across, about the size of Texas. It resides with tens of thousands of other asteroids in the main asteroid belt.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2005/27/1763-Image.html", "year": 2004 }, { "date": "January 24 2019", "image": "january-24-2019-jupiter-and-moons.jpg", "name": "Jupiter and Moons", "caption": "Three of Jupiter's moons cast their shadows on the planet. Callisto and Io are visible in the lower left and upper right, respectively, but Europa (whose shadow is on Jupiter's left edge) is out of the frame.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2015/05/3488-Image.html", "year": 2015 }, { "date": "January 25 2019", "image": "january-25-2019-galaxy-ngc-4013.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 4013", "caption": "A dark band of dust bisects the spiral galaxy NGC 4013. This edge-on galaxy is located 55 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2001/07/1022-Image.html", "year": 2000 }, { "date": "January 26 2019", "image": "january-26-2019-comet-332p-ikeya-murakami.jpg", "name": "Comet 332P/Ikeya-Murakami", "caption": "This image reveals the ancient comet 332P/Ikeya-Murakami disintegrating as it approaches the Sun. It is one of the sharpest views ever captured of an icy comet breaking apart.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2016/35/3785-Image.html", "year": 2016 }, { "date": "January 27 2019", "image": "january-27-2019-comet-332p-ikeya-murakami.jpg", "name": "Comet 332P/Ikeya-Murakami", "caption": "This image reveals the ancient comet 332P/Ikeya-Murakami disintegrating as it approaches the Sun. It is one of the sharpest views ever captured of an icy comet breaking apart.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2016/35/3784-Image.html", "year": 2016 }, { "date": "January 28 2019", "image": "january-28-2019-comet-ikeya-murakami.jpg", "name": "Comet Ikeya-Murakami", "caption": "This image reveals the ancient comet 332P/Ikeya-Murakami disintegrating as it approached the Sun in 2016. The comet debris consists of building-size chunks near the center of the image. The main nucleus of the comet is the bright object at lower left.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2016/35/3784-Image.html", "year": 2016 }, { "date": "January 29 2019", "image": "january-29-2019-galaxy-ngc-2787.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 2787", "caption": "Galaxy NGC 2787 is located 24 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. Arms of dark dust encircle the galaxy's bright center. The points of light scattered around the galaxy are huge collections of old stars known as globuar clusters.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2002/07/1164-Image.html", "year": 1999 }, { "date": "January 30 2019", "image": "january-30-2019-galaxy-ngc-5584.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 5584", "caption": "The brilliant, blue glow of young stars traces the graceful spiral arms of galaxy NGC 5584. Thin, dark dust lanes appear to be flowing from the yellowish core, where older stars reside.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2011/08/2824-Image.html?news=true", "year": 2010 }, { "date": "January 31 2019", "image": "january-31-2019-starfield-in-the-large-magellanic-cloud.jpg", "name": "Starfield in the Large Magellanic Cloud", "caption": "Over 10,000 stars appear in this image, which covers a region about 130 light-years wide in a nearby galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. The faintest stars in the picture are some 100 million times dimmer than the human eye can see.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1999/44/922-Image.html", "year": 1996 }, { "date": "February 1 2019", "image": "february-1-2019-carina-nebula-pillars.jpg", "name": "Carina Nebula Pillars", "caption": "These cosmic pinnacles lie within a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula. Infant stars buried inside the pillars fire off jets of gas that stream away from the towering peaks.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/13/2707-Image.html", "year": 2010 }, { "date": "February 2 2019", "image": "february-2-2019-carina-nebula-pillars.jpg", "name": "Carina Nebula Pillars", "caption": "These cosmic pinnacles lie within a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula. Infant stars buried inside the pillars fire off jets of gas that stream away from the towering peaks.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/13/2707-Image.html", "year": 2010 }, { "date": "February 3 2019", "image": "february-3-2019-bow-shock-around-ll-orionis.jpg", "name": "Bow Shock Around LL Orionis", "caption": "Named for the crescent-shaped wave made by a ship as it moves through water, a bow shock can be created in space when streams of gas collide. This image captures the bow shock around the star LL Orionis.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2002/05/1149-Image.html", "year": 1995 }, { "date": "February 4 2019", "image": "february-4-2019-galaxy-cluster-macs-j0717-5-3745.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster MACS J0717.5+3745", "caption": "Nearly every object in this image is a distant galaxy in the cluster MACS J0717.5+3745. Some faint arcs and streaks in the image are even farther galaxies whose light has been bent by the powerful gravity of the massive cluster.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2013/44/3251-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "February 5 2019", "image": "february-5-2019-asteroid-6478-gault.png", "name": "Asteroid (6478) Gault", "caption": "Hubble viewed the gradual self-destruction of the asteroid (6478) Gault caused by the long-term effects of sunlight. Dusty material ejected from the asteroid formed two comet-like tails 500,000 and 3,000 miles long.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2019/22/4379-Image.html", "year": 2019 }, { "date": "February 6 2019", "image": "february-6-2019-planetary-nebula-ngc-2440.jpg", "name": "Planetary Nebula NGC 2440", "caption": "Planetary nebula NGC 2440 is a relic of a star once like our Sun that has cast off its outer layers of gas, forming a colorful cocoon around the star's remaining core.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/09/2058-Image.html", "year": 2007 }, { "date": "February 7 2019", "image": "february-7-2019-thackeray-s-globules.jpg", "name": "Thackeray's Globules", "caption": "These dense, dark dust clouds, named \"Thackeray's globules\" after astronomer A.D. Thackeray, are silhouetted against stars and bright gas clouds of the star-forming region IC 2944. The largest globule is actually two separate, overlapping clouds.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2002/01/1127-Image.html", "year": 1999 }, { "date": "February 8 2019", "image": "february-8-2019-monkey-head-nebula.jpg", "name": "Monkey Head Nebula", "caption": "This image reveals carved knots of gas and dust in a small portion of the Monkey Head Nebula. The nebula is a star-forming region that hosts dusky dust clouds silhouetted against glowing gas.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2014/18/3336-Image.html", "year": 2014 }, { "date": "February 9 2019", "image": "february-9-2019-monkey-head-nebula.jpg", "name": "Monkey Head Nebula", "caption": "This image reveals carved knots of gas and dust in a small portion of the Monkey Head Nebula. The nebula is a star-forming region that hosts dusky dust clouds silhouetted against glowing gas.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2014/18/3336-Image.html", "year": 2014 }, { "date": "February 10 2019", "image": "february-10-2019-brown-dwarf-candidate-chxr-73-b.jpg", "name": "Brown Dwarf Candidate CHXR 73 B", "caption": "The bright spot at lower right is a suspected brown dwarf, an object bigger than a planet but smaller than a star. Named CHXR 73 B, it orbits a red dwarf star dubbed CHXR 73, which is much less massive than the Sun.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2006/31/1946-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "February 11 2019", "image": "february-11-2019-thackeray-s-globules.jpg", "name": "Thackeray's Globules", "caption": "These dense, dark dust clouds, named \"Thackeray's globules\" after astronomer A.D. Thackeray, are silhouetted against stars and bright gas clouds of the star-forming region IC 2944. The largest globule is actually two separate, overlapping clouds.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2002/01/1127-Image.html", "year": 2001 }, { "date": "February 12 2019", "image": "february-12-2019-lagoon-nebula.png", "name": "Lagoon Nebula", "caption": "This image zooms into the heart of a vast star-forming region called the Lagoon Nebula. A massive young star at the center of the image is blasting radiation and stellar winds, carving shapes into the surrounding gas and dust.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2018/21/4150-Image.html", "year": 2018 }, { "date": "February 13 2019", "image": "february-13-2019-nebula-sharpless-2-106.jpg", "name": "Nebula Sharpless 2-106", "caption": "This star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106, looks like a celestial angel. The \"wings\" of the nebula are twin lobes of hot gas that stretch outward from a massive, young star near the center of the image.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2011/38/2932-Image.html", "year": 2011 }, { "date": "February 14 2019", "image": "february-14-2019-colliding-galaxies-arp-272.jpg", "name": "Colliding Galaxies Arp 272", "caption": "Arp 272 is a collision between two spiral galaxies, linked by their swirling arms. The galaxies are members of the Hercules Galaxy cluster and are located roughly 450 million light-years from Earth.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/16/2334-Image.html", "year": 2007 }, { "date": "February 15 2019", "image": "february-15-2019-galaxy-i-zwicky-18.jpg", "name": "Galaxy I Zwicky 18", "caption": "This image captures the irregular dwarf galaxy I Zwicky 18 and a companion galaxy to its upper right. The two galaxies are interacting, triggering star formation in I Zwicky 18.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/35/1621-Image.html", "year": 1998 }, { "date": "February 16 2019", "image": "february-16-2019-antennae-galaxies.jpg", "name": "Antennae Galaxies", "caption": "The two merging spiral galaxies that comprise the Antennae galaxies began their interaction only a few hundred million years ago. Over the course of the merger, billions of stars will be formed.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2006/46/1995-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "February 17 2019", "image": "february-17-2019-dwarf-galaxy-kiso-5639.jpg", "name": "Dwarf Galaxy Kiso 5639", "caption": "Hubble captured a firestorm of star birth lighting up one end of this dwarf galaxy. Called Kiso 5639, it is a member of a class of \"tadpole\" galaxies so named because of their bright heads and elongated tails.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2016/23/3754-Image.html", "year": 2015 }, { "date": "February 18 2019", "image": "february-18-2019-herbig-haro-24.jpg", "name": "Herbig-Haro 24", "caption": "A partially obscured, newborn star near the center of this image is shooting twin jets into the surrounding gas and dust. The shocks from the collision light up patches of nebulosity collectively called Herbig-Haro 24.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2015/42/3656-Image.html", "year": 2014 }, { "date": "February 19 2019", "image": "february-19-2019-monkey-head-nebula.jpg", "name": "Monkey Head Nebula", "caption": "This image reveals carved knots of gas and dust in a small portion of the Monkey Head Nebula. The nebula is a star-forming region that hosts dusky dust clouds silhouetted against glowing gas.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2014/18/3336-Image.html", "year": 2014 }, { "date": "February 20 2019", "image": "february-20-2019-monkey-head-nebula.jpg", "name": "Monkey Head Nebula", "caption": "This image reveals carved knots of gas and dust in a small portion of the Monkey Head Nebula. The nebula is a star-forming region that hosts dusky dust clouds silhouetted against glowing gas.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2014/18/3336-Image.html", "year": 2014 }, { "date": "February 21 2019", "image": "february-21-2019-monkey-head-nebula.jpg", "name": "Monkey Head Nebula", "caption": "This image reveals carved knots of gas and dust in a small portion of the Monkey Head Nebula. The nebula is a star-forming region that hosts dusky dust clouds silhouetted against glowing gas.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2014/18/3336-Image.html", "year": 2014 }, { "date": "February 22 2019", "image": "february-22-2019-spiral-galaxy-ngc-1313.jpg", "name": "Spiral Galaxy NGC 1313", "caption": "This image resolves stars in the center of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1313. The galaxy is roughly 14 million light-years away in the constellation Reticulum.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/05/2044-Image.html", "year": 2004 }, { "date": "February 23 2019", "image": "february-23-2019-galaxies-in-the-goods-north-field.png", "name": "Galaxies in the GOODS-North Field", "caption": "This image captures about 15,000 galaxies stretching back through 11 billion years of cosmic history. Hubble examined this part of the sky, located near the Big Dipper and called the GOODS-North field, as part of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS).", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2018/35/4219-Image.html", "year": 2013 }, { "date": "February 24 2019", "image": "february-24-2019-saturn-and-moons.jpg", "name": "Saturn and Moons", "caption": "In this image, four moons of Saturn are passing in front of the giant planet. The large, orange moon Titan casts a large shadow on the northern pole. Smaller moons Mimas, Dione and Enceladus appear as white dots.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/12/2508-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "February 25 2019", "image": "february-25-2019-mars.jpg", "name": "Mars", "caption": "This image captures springtime in the northern hemisphere of Mars. The northern polar ice cap has receded to its core of solid water-ice several hundred miles across. Morning clouds appear along the planet's western (left) limb.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1995/16/280-Image.html?news=true", "year": 1995 }, { "date": "February 26 2019", "image": "february-26-2019-bubble-nebula.jpg", "name": "Bubble Nebula", "caption": "An enormous bubble is being blown into space by a super-hot, massive star. The Bubble Nebula is roughly seven light-years across and is located 7,100 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2016/13/3725-Image.html", "year": 2016 }, { "date": "February 27 2019", "image": "february-27-2019-little-ghost-nebula.jpg", "name": "Little Ghost Nebula", "caption": "The Little Ghost Nebula appears as a small, ghostly cloud surrounding a dying star. It is found in the constellation Ophiuchus between 2,000 and 5,000 light-years away.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2002/25/1251-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "February 28 2019", "image": "february-28-2019-galactic-center.jpg", "name": "Galactic Center", "caption": "This infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a population of massive stars and complex structures in the hot ionized gas that swirls around the galactic core.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/02/2453-Image.html", "year": 2008 }, { "date": "February 29 2019", "image": "february-29-2019-sweeps-star-field.jpg", "name": "SWEEPS Star Field", "caption": "Hubble peered into the crowded central bulge of our galaxy 26,000 light-years away and collected information for 180,000 stars as part of a survey called the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS).", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2011/news-2011-16.html", "year": 2004 }, { "date": "March 1 2019", "image": "march-1-2019-galaxy-cluster-rcs2-032727-132623.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster RCS2 032727-132623", "caption": "The light from a distant galaxy, nearly 10 billion light-years away, has been warped into arcs and streaks by the gravity of galaxy cluster RCS2 032727-132623. The cluster acts as a gravitational lens, bending and amplifying light from the background galaxy.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2012/08/2977-Image.html", "year": 2011 }, { "date": "March 2 2019", "image": "march-2-2019-pluto-system.jpg", "name": "Pluto System", "caption": "This image, taken through a red filter, captures Pluto and three of its satellites. The largest object in the image is Pluto and the second largest is Charon. Two smaller moons appear below them.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2006/15/1893-Image.html", "year": 2006 }, { "date": "March 3 2019", "image": "march-3-2019-globular-cluster-ngc-6397.jpg", "name": "Globular Cluster NGC 6397", "caption": "This image captures about 200 stars in the globular cluster NGC 6397. The density of this star cluster is so low that Hubble can see right through the cluster and resolve far more-distant background galaxies behind it.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1994/41/198-Image.html", "year": 1994 }, { "date": "March 4 2019", "image": "march-4-2019-galaxy-fornax-a.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Fornax A", "caption": "The dust lanes and star clusters of this giant elliptical galaxy, known as Fornax A, give evidence that the galaxy formed from a past merger of two gas-rich galaxies. It is also one of the strongest sources of radio emission in the sky.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2005/11/1671-Image.html", "year": 2003 }, { "date": "March 5 2019", "image": "march-5-2019-galaxy-ngc-1512.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 1512", "caption": "The core of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512 is unique for its stunning 2,400-light-year-wide circle of infant star clusters, called a \"circumnuclear\" starburst ring. Starbursts are episodes of vigorous star formation.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2001/16/1059-Image.html", "year": 1999 }, { "date": "March 6 2019", "image": "march-6-2019-beta-pictoris-disk.jpg", "name": "Beta Pictoris Disk", "caption": "In 1984, Beta Pictoris was the very first star discovered to be surrounded by a bright disk of light-scattering dust and debris. Planets are thought to form in such disks, and astronomers have discovered two planets orbiting Beta Pictoris.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2015/06/3492-Image.html", "year": 2012 }, { "date": "March 7 2019", "image": "march-7-2019-saturn-in-ultraviolet.jpg", "name": "Saturn in Ultraviolet", "caption": "This false-color image of Saturn, taken in ultraviolet light, reveals details in the hazes and clouds of the planet's atmosphere that are not easy or possible to see in visible light.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2003/23/1391-Image.html", "year": 2003 }, { "date": "March 8 2019", "image": "march-8-2019-einstein-ring-sdss-j120540.jpg", "name": "Einstein Ring SDSS J120540", "caption": "Einstein rings like this form when two galaxies are almost perfectly aligned, one behind the other, and the gravitational field of the closer galaxy bends the light from the more-distant galaxy into bright arcs around itself.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2005/32/1788-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "March 9 2019", "image": "march-9-2019-galaxy-cluster-abell-2261.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster Abell 2261", "caption": "The giant elliptical galaxy in the center of this image is the most massive and brightest member of galaxy cluster Abell 2261. More than a million light-years wide, the galaxy is about 10 times bigger than our Milky Way galaxy.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2012/24/3049-Image.html", "year": 2011 }, { "date": "March 10 2019", "image": "march-10-2019-mars.jpg", "name": "Mars", "caption": "This stunning portrait of Mars was taken just before the planet made one of its closest approaches to Earth (passing about 60 million miles from us). This view was taken on the last day of spring in the planet's northern hemisphere.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1997/09/471-Image.html", "year": 1997 }, { "date": "March 11 2019", "image": "march-11-2019-southern-crab-nebula.png", "name": "Southern Crab Nebula", "caption": "An aging red giant star is shedding its outer layers to produce the Southern Crab Nebula. The \"legs\" are likely to be the places where the outflowing material slams into surrounding gas and dust.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2019/15/4384-Image.html", "year": 2019 }, { "date": "March 12 2019", "image": "march-12-2019-einstein-ring-sdss-j125028-25-052349.jpg", "name": "Einstein Ring SDSS J125028.25+052349", "caption": "Einstein rings like this form when two galaxies are almost perfectly aligned, one behind the other, and the gravitational field of the closer galaxy bends the light from the more-distant galaxy into bright arcs around itself.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2005/32/1788-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "March 13 2019", "image": "march-13-2019-galaxy-ngc-3310.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 3310", "caption": "There are several hundred star clusters in the starburst galaxy NGC 3310. They appear in this image as the bright, blue clumps that trace the galaxy's spiral arms.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2001/26/1094-Image.html", "year": 1997 }, { "date": "March 14 2019", "image": "march-14-2019-interacting-galaxies-arp-297.jpg", "name": "Interacting Galaxies Arp 297", "caption": "Arp 297 is a pair of interacting galaxies that consists of NGC 5754, the large spiral at the top, and NGC 5752, the smaller companion at the bottom left. NGC 5754's internal structure has hardly been disturbed, but it does have some kinked arms just beyond its inner ring.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/16/2308-Image.html", "year": 1999 }, { "date": "March 15 2019", "image": "march-15-2019-interacting-galaxies-arp-81.jpg", "name": "Interacting Galaxies Arp 81", "caption": "Arp 81 is a pair of interacting galaxies consisting of NGC 6621 (center) and NGC 6622 (left). The encounter has pulled a long tail out of NGC 6621 that has now wrapped behind the pair.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/16/2328-Image.html", "year": 1999 }, { "date": "March 16 2019", "image": "march-16-2019-supernova-didius.jpg", "name": "Supernova Didius", "caption": "Supernova Didius, named after a Roman emperor, is the white dot in the center of this image. The bright blob at upper left is the core of the supernova's host galaxy. The supernova is so far away, we see it as it appeared 7 billion years ago.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2014/21/3346-Image.html", "year": 2012 }, { "date": "March 17 2019", "image": "march-17-2019-red-rectangle-nebula.jpg", "name": "Red Rectangle Nebula", "caption": "This image reveals details of one of the most unusual nebulas known in our Milky Way. Cataloged as HD 44179, this nebula is more commonly called the \"Red Rectangle\" because of its unique shape and color.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/11/1497-Image.html", "year": 1999 }, { "date": "March 18 2019", "image": "march-18-2019-pinwheel-galaxy.jpg", "name": "Pinwheel Galaxy", "caption": "The Pinwheel galaxy has a pancake-like shape that we view face-on. This perspective shows off the spiral structure that gives the galaxy its nickname.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/07/2477-Image.html", "year": 1994 }, { "date": "March 19 2019", "image": "march-19-2019-galaxy-m83.jpg", "name": "Galaxy M83", "caption": "This image of spiral galaxy M83 captures thousands of star clusters, hundreds of thousands of individual stars, and \"ghosts\" of dead stars called supernova remnants.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2014/04/3293-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "March 20 2019", "image": "march-20-2019-colliding-galaxies-ngc-6745.jpg", "name": "Colliding Galaxies NGC 6745", "caption": "This image captures the collision of two galaxies. The larger spiral galaxy, NGC 6745, boasts an intact nucleus as it interacts with the smaller, passing galaxy that is nearly out of the frame to the lower right.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2000/34/1007-Image.html", "year": 1996 }, { "date": "March 21 2019", "image": "march-21-2019-colliding-galaxies-ngc-6745.jpg", "name": "Colliding Galaxies NGC 6745", "caption": "This image captures the collision of two galaxies. The larger spiral galaxy, NGC 6745, boasts an intact nucleus as it interacts with the smaller, passing galaxy that is nearly out of the frame to the lower right.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2000/34/1007-Image.html", "year": 1996 }, { "date": "March 22 2019", "image": "march-22-2019-saturn.jpg", "name": "Saturn", "caption": "This image of Saturn captures details in the hazes and clouds of the planet's atmosphere. The view is so sharp that it also reveals individual ringlets in Saturn's ring system.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/18/1545-Image.html", "year": 2004 }, { "date": "March 23 2019", "image": "march-23-2019-dwarf-galaxy-holmberg-ix.jpg", "name": "Dwarf Galaxy Holmberg IX", "caption": "This loose collection of stars is actually a dwarf irregular galaxy, called Holmberg IX. Of the more than 20,000 stars that can be resolved in this image, only about 10 percent are considered to be old stars.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/02/2236-Image.html", "year": 2006 }, { "date": "March 24 2019", "image": "march-24-2019-galactic-center.jpg", "name": "Galactic Center", "caption": "This infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a population of massive stars and complex structures in the hot ionized gas that swirls around the galactic core.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/02/2453-Image.html", "year": 2008 }, { "date": "March 25 2019", "image": "march-25-2019-interstellar-bubble-n44f.jpg", "name": "Interstellar Bubble N44F", "caption": "This circular feature on the left side of this image is an interstellar bubble called N44F. It is being inflated by a torrent of fast-moving particles from an exceptionally hot star once buried inside this cold, dense cloud.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/26/1577-Image.html", "year": 2000 }, { "date": "March 26 2019", "image": "march-26-2019-star-rs-puppis.jpg", "name": "Star RS Puppis", "caption": "The bright star RS Puppis is swaddled in a cocoon of reflective dust illuminated by the glittering star. The star is 10 times more massive than our Sun and is 200 times larger.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2013/51/3263-Image.html", "year": 2010 }, { "date": "March 27 2019", "image": "march-27-2019-galaxy-m81.jpg", "name": "Galaxy M81", "caption": "The arms of the \"grand design\" spiral galaxy M81 are filled with young, bluish, hot stars. The greenish regions in the image are bright, gaseous clouds where new stars are forming.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/19/2127-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "March 28 2019", "image": "march-28-2019-ghost-head-nebula.jpg", "name": "Ghost Head Nebula", "caption": "The Ghost Head Nebula is a star-forming region in a nearby galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. The two bright areas (the \"eyes of the ghost\") are very hot, glowing blobs of hydrogen and oxygen.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2001/34/1118-Image.html", "year": 2000 }, { "date": "March 29 2019", "image": "march-29-2019-galaxy-m82.jpg", "name": "Galaxy M82", "caption": "Galaxy M82 is remarkable for its bright blue disk, webs of shredded clouds, and fiery-looking plumes of glowing hydrogen blasting out of its central region. In M82, stars are being born 10 times faster than they are inside our Milky Way galaxy.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2006/14/1876-Image.html", "year": 2006 }, { "date": "March 30 2019", "image": "march-30-2019-four-faces-of-mars.jpg", "name": "Four Faces of Mars", "caption": "Four sides of Mars are captured in these Hubble images taken over the course of a day. Mars has rotated about ninety degrees between each view.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1997/15/481-Image.html", "year": 1997 }, { "date": "March 31 2019", "image": "march-31-2019-interacting-galaxies-am-0500-620.jpg", "name": "Interacting Galaxies AM 0500-620", "caption": "AM 0500-620 includes a pair of galaxies, with one spiral galaxy seen nearly face-on that is partially backlit by a background galaxy. These interacting galaxies are located 350 million light-years away in the constellation Dorado.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/16/2326-Image.html", "year": 1997 }, { "date": "April 1 2019", "image": "april-1-2019-eagle-nebula-pillars.jpg", "name": "Eagle Nebula Pillars", "caption": "Hubble's view of the \"Pillars of Creation\" in the Eagle Nebula displays three giant columns of cold gas giving birth to new stars. The pillars are bathed in the scorching ultraviolet light from a cluster of young, massive stars beyond the top of the image.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1995/44/351-Image.html", "year": 1995 }, { "date": "April 2 2019", "image": "april-2-2019-interacting-galaxies-arp-274.jpg", "name": "Interacting Galaxies Arp 274", "caption": "Arp 274 is a system of three galaxies that appear to be partially overlapping. Two of the galaxies are rapidly forming new stars, evident in the bright blue knots strung along the arms of the galaxy on the right and along the small galaxy on the left.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/14/2523-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "April 3 2019", "image": "april-3-2019-jupiter.png", "name": "Jupiter", "caption": "This image of Jupiter was taken when the planet was closest to Earth in 2017. The Great Red Spot appears on the left side, along with a smaller, reddish storm in the lower right dubbed \"Red Spot Jr.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2017/15/4012-Image.html", "year": 2017 }, { "date": "April 4 2019", "image": "april-4-2019-galaxy-pair-ngc-3314.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Pair NGC 3314", "caption": "This image shows a pair of galaxies called NGC 3314. Through a chance alignment, a face-on spiral galaxy lies precisely in front of another, larger spiral. This provides a view of dark material within the front galaxy, seen because it is silhouetted against the galaxy behind it.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2000/14/958-Image.html", "year": 1999 }, { "date": "April 5 2019", "image": "april-5-2019-galactic-center.jpg", "name": "Galactic Center", "caption": "This infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a population of massive stars and complex structures in the hot ionized gas that swirls around the galactic core.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/02/2453-Image.html", "year": 2008 }, { "date": "April 6 2019", "image": "april-6-2019-galaxy-eso-510-g13.jpg", "name": "Galaxy ESO 510-G13", "caption": "Usually, when a spiral galaxy appears edge-on, its dust and spiral arms appear flat. The warping of the disk in ESO 510-G13 suggests this galaxy has recently undergone a collision with a nearby galaxy and is in the process of swallowing it.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2001/23/1089-Image.html", "year": 2001 }, { "date": "April 7 2019", "image": "april-7-2019-30-doradus-nebula.jpg", "name": "30 Doradus Nebula", "caption": "This is a close-up view of a star-birth region called the 30 Doradus Nebula. The giant stellar factory lies 170,000 light-years away inside a nearby galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud. The image reveals glowing clouds of hydrogen and dark filamentary structures of dust.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2014/02/3286-Image.html", "year": 2013 }, { "date": "April 8 2019", "image": "april-8-2019-galaxy-ngc-4650a.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 4650A", "caption": "About 130 million light-years away, NGC 4650A is one of only 100 known polar-ring galaxies, which feature a ring of stars encircling a disk. Polar rings might form when two galaxies collide, with one galaxy becoming the inner disk and the other forming the ring.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1999/16/800-Image.html", "year": 1999 }, { "date": "April 9 2019", "image": "april-9-2019-jupiter-and-ganymede.jpg", "name": "Jupiter and Ganymede", "caption": "This image shows Jupiter and its large moon Ganymede as the moon peeks out from behind the planet. Composed of rock and ice, Ganymede is the largest moon in our solar system.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/42/2440-Image.html", "year": 2007 }, { "date": "April 10 2019", "image": "april-10-2019-circinus-galaxy.jpg", "name": "Circinus Galaxy", "caption": "Resembling a swirling witch's cauldron of glowing vapors, the black-hole-powered core of the Circinus galaxy appears in this image. Much of the gas in the spiral galaxy's disk is concentrated in two rings.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2000/37/1010-Image.html", "year": 1999 }, { "date": "April 11 2019", "image": "april-11-2019-galactic-center.jpg", "name": "Galactic Center", "caption": "This infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a population of massive stars and complex structures in the hot ionized gas that swirls around the galactic core.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/02/2453-Image.html", "year": 2008 }, { "date": "April 12 2019", "image": "april-12-2019-hanny-s-voorwerp.jpg", "name": "Hanny's Voorwerp", "caption": "This image shows a ghostly green blob of gas that appears to float near a normal-looking spiral galaxy. The bizarre object, dubbed Hanny's Voorwerp, is the visible part of a 300,000-light-year-long streamer of gas stretching around the galaxy, called IC 2497.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2011/01/2803-Image.html", "year": 2010 }, { "date": "April 13 2019", "image": "april-13-2019-galaxy-cluster-abell-2261.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster Abell 2261", "caption": "The giant elliptical galaxy in the center of this image is the most massive and brightest member of galaxy cluster Abell 2261. More than a million light-years wide, the galaxy is about 10 times bigger than our Milky Way galaxy.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2012/24/3049-Image.html", "year": 2011 }, { "date": "April 14 2019", "image": "april-14-2019-galaxy-eso-99-4.jpg", "name": "Galaxy ESO 99-4", "caption": "ESO 99-4 is a galaxy with a highly peculiar shape. It is probably the remnant of an earlier merger process that has deformed it, leaving the main body largely obscured by dark bands of dust.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/16/2322-Image.html", "year": 2006 }, { "date": "April 15 2019", "image": "april-15-2019-veil-nebula.jpg", "name": "Veil Nebula", "caption": "In this small piece of the Veil Nebula, wisps of gas are part of what remains of a star that was once 20 times more massive than our Sun. A fast-moving blast wave from the star's explosion is plowing into a wall of interstellar gas, causing it to glow.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2015/29/3620-Image.html", "year": 2015 }, { "date": "April 16 2019", "image": "april-16-2019-veil-nebula.jpg", "name": "Veil Nebula", "caption": "In this small piece of the Veil Nebula, wisps of gas are part of what remains of a star that was once 20 times more massive than our Sun. A fast-moving blast wave from the star's explosion is plowing into a wall of interstellar gas, causing it to glow.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2015/29/3620-Image.html?itemsPerPage=100&page=2&filterUUID=8a87f02e-e18b-4126-8133-2576f4fdc5e2&news=true", "year": 2015 }, { "date": "April 17 2019", "image": "april-17-2019-galaxy-cluster-abell-2261.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster Abell 2261", "caption": "The giant elliptical galaxy in the center of this image is the most massive and brightest member of galaxy cluster Abell 2261. More than a million light-years wide, the galaxy is about 10 times bigger than our Milky Way galaxy.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2012/24/3049-Image.html", "year": 2011 }, { "date": "April 18 2019", "image": "april-18-2019-globular-cluster-m79.png", "name": "Globular Cluster M79", "caption": "The globular star cluster M79 is located 41,000 light-years from Earth. It contains about 150,000 stars packed into an area measuring only 118 light-years across. Its stars are some of the oldest in our galaxy.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2017/37/4096-Image.html", "year": 1997 }, { "date": "April 19 2019", "image": "april-19-2019-asteroid-p-2010-a2.jpg", "name": "Asteroid P/2010 A2", "caption": "Hubble imaged a tail flowing from this peculiar asteroid, dubbed P/2010 A2. Scientists suspect the debris was produced by a collision with another asteroid.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/34/2780-Image.html", "year": 2010 }, { "date": "April 20 2019", "image": "april-20-2019-galactic-center.jpg", "name": "Galactic Center", "caption": "This infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a population of massive stars and complex structures in the hot ionized gas that swirls around the galactic core.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/02/2453-Image.html", "year": 2008 }, { "date": "April 21 2019", "image": "april-21-2019-jupiter.jpg", "name": "Jupiter", "caption": "This image of Jupiter was taken by the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program, a long-term project that uses Hubble to capture global maps of the outer planets every year. The Great Red Spot appears in the lower right.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2016/24/3758-Image.html", "year": 2014 }, { "date": "April 22 2019", "image": "april-22-2019-30-doradus-nebula.jpg", "name": "30 Doradus Nebula", "caption": "This is the inner part of the 30 Doradus Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. The bright cluster of stars at left is known as R136.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2001/21/1080-Image.html", "year": 2000 }, { "date": "April 23 2019", "image": "april-23-2019-galactic-center.jpg", "name": "Galactic Center", "caption": "This infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a population of massive stars and complex structures in the hot ionized gas that swirls around the galactic core.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/02/2453-Image.html", "year": 2008 }, { "date": "April 24 2019", "image": "april-24-2019-cygnus-loop-supernova-remnant.jpg", "name": "Cygnus Loop Supernova Remnant", "caption": "This image captures a small portion of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant. The Cygnus Loop marks the edge of a bubble-like, expanding blast wave from a colossal stellar explosion that occurred about 15,000 years ago.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1993/01/90-Image.html?news=true", "year": 1991 }, { "date": "April 25 2019", "image": "april-25-2019-two-red-spots-on-jupiter.jpg", "name": "Two Red Spots on Jupiter", "caption": "This image captures a second \"red spot\" (lower left) that emerged alongside the bigger and more famous Great Red Spot (right) on Jupiter. The new storm is roughly one-half the size of the Great Red Spot.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2006/19/1913-Image.html", "year": 2006 }, { "date": "April 26 2019", "image": "april-26-2019-galactic-center.jpg", "name": "Galactic Center", "caption": "This infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a population of massive stars and complex structures in the hot ionized gas that swirls around the galactic core.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/02/2453-Image.html", "year": 2008 }, { "date": "April 27 2019", "image": "april-27-2019-supernova-remnant-n-49.jpg", "name": "Supernova Remnant N 49", "caption": "N 49 is a supernova remnant in a neighboring galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. The delicate filaments are sheets of debris from a stellar explosion whose light would have reached Earth thousands of years ago.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2003/20/1379-Image.html", "year": 1999 }, { "date": "April 28 2019", "image": "april-28-2019-galaxy-cluster-sdss-j1004-4112.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster SDSS J1004+4112", "caption": "This picture captures a galaxy cluster called SDSS J1004+4112 that's so massive that its gravity bends light from galaxies behind it. The light of a distant quasar (the brilliant core of an active galaxy) has been bent around the cluster, appearing in five places in this image.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2006/23/1929-Image.html", "year": 2004 }, { "date": "April 29 2019", "image": "april-29-2019-nebula-n-180b.jpg", "name": "Nebula N 180B", "caption": "N 180B is an active region of star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy orbiting our Milky Way. This particular region contains some of the brightest known star clusters.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2006/41/1983-Image.html", "year": 1998 }, { "date": "April 30 2019", "image": "april-30-2019-star-v838-monocerotis.jpg", "name": "Star V838 Monocerotis", "caption": "In 2002, a dim star suddenly became 600,000 times more luminous than our Sun, temporarily making it the brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy. This image of V838 Monocerotis captures its \"light echo.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2003/10/1306-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "May 1 2019", "image": "may-1-2019-galaxy-ngc-3982.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 3982", "caption": "This image captures the face-on spiral galaxy NGC 3982. Its arms are lined with pink star-forming regions of glowing hydrogen, blue newborn star clusters, and dark dust lanes that provide the raw material for future generations of stars.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/36/2795-Image.html", "year": 2000 }, { "date": "May 2 2019", "image": "may-2-2019-star-cluster-m15.jpg", "name": "Star Cluster M15", "caption": "This dense cluster of stars is known as Messier 15 (or M15) and is located about 35,000 light-years away. The fuzzy, blue area to the left of the cluster's core is a planetary nebula, a cloud of gas that has been cast off by a dying, medium-sized star.", "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/messier-15", "year": 2006 }, { "date": "May 3 2019", "image": "may-3-2019-galaxy-eso-239-2.jpg", "name": "Galaxy ESO 239-2", "caption": "ESO 239-2 is the result of a cosmic collision between galaxies that will eventually result in a larger \"elliptical\" galaxy. The intermediate stage captured here shows a galaxy with long tails of dust and gas that envelope the galaxy's core.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/16/2329-Image.html", "year": 2006 }, { "date": "May 4 2019", "image": "may-4-2019-cat-s-eye-nebula.jpg", "name": "Cat's Eye Nebula", "caption": "Produced by a dying star, the Cat's Eye Nebula is one of the most complex planetary nebulas known. This image reveals a pattern of concentric rings around the central star. Each \"ring\" is actually the edge of a spherical bubble of material ejected by the star.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/27/1578-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "May 5 2019", "image": "may-5-2019-galactic-center.jpg", "name": "Galactic Center", "caption": "This infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a population of massive stars and complex structures in the hot ionized gas that swirls around the galactic core.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/02/2453-Image.html", "year": 2008 }, { "date": "May 6 2019", "image": "may-6-2019-stars-in-the-galactic-core.png", "name": "Stars in the Galactic Core", "caption": "These colorful stars reside at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, about 26,000 light-years from Earth. Aging red-giant stars coexist with their more plentiful younger cousins, the smaller, white, Sun-like stars, in this crowded region of our galaxy’s central hub.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2018/01/4101-Image.html", "year": 2012 }, { "date": "May 7 2019", "image": "may-7-2019-galaxy-ngc-3982.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 3982", "caption": "This image captures the face-on spiral galaxy NGC 3982. Its arms are lined with pink star-forming regions of glowing hydrogen, blue newborn star clusters, and dark dust lanes that provide the raw material for future generations of stars.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/36/2795-Image.html", "year": 2000 }, { "date": "May 8 2019", "image": "may-8-2019-comet-ison.jpg", "name": "Comet ISON", "caption": "At the time Hubble took this image, comet ISON (C/2012 S1) was hurtling toward the Sun at a whopping 48,000 miles per hour. The comet was 403 million miles from Earth, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2013/24/3197-Image.html", "year": 2013 }, { "date": "May 9 2019", "image": "may-9-2019-red-spots-on-jupiter.jpg", "name": "Red Spots on Jupiter", "caption": "This image captures three red spots in Jupiter's atmosphere. The famous Great Red Spot appears on the right, while \"Red Spot Jr.\" is to the lower left and an even smaller \"baby red spot\" appears at left.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/23/2354-Image.html?news=true", "year": 2008 }, { "date": "May 10 2019", "image": "may-10-2019-red-spots-on-jupiter.jpg", "name": "Red Spots on Jupiter", "caption": "This image captures three red spots in Jupiter's atmosphere. The famous Great Red Spot appears on the right, while \"Red Spot Jr.\" is to the lower left and an even smaller \"baby red spot\" appears at left.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/23/2354-Image.html", "year": 2008 }, { "date": "May 11 2019", "image": "may-11-2019-cone-nebula.jpg", "name": "Cone Nebula", "caption": "This image shows the tip of the Cone Nebula, a star-forming region in the constellation Monoceros. This conical pillar stretches over seven light-years and is just a small portion of a much larger star-formation complex.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2002/13/1200-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "May 12 2019", "image": "may-12-2019-star-forming-region-n11b.jpg", "name": "Star-Forming Region N11B", "caption": "This panoramic view captures an iridescent tapestry of star birth, filled with glowing gas, dark dust clouds, and young, hot stars. The star-forming region, cataloged as N11B, lies in a nearby galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/22/1565-Image.html", "year": 1999 }, { "date": "May 13 2019", "image": "may-13-2019-interacting-galaxies-iras-19297-0406.jpg", "name": "Interacting Galaxies IRAS 19297-0406", "caption": "This image shows a tumultuous collision between four galaxies located 1 billion light-years from Earth. The tangled-up galaxies, called IRAS 19297-0406, are crammed together in the center of the picture.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2002/13/1199-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "May 14 2019", "image": "may-14-2019-galaxy-cluster-abell-2744.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster Abell 2744", "caption": "Located 3.5 billion light-years away, Abell 2744 contains several hundred galaxies and might be a pile-up of at least four smaller galaxy clusters. Abell 2744’s strong gravitational field acts as a lens, brightening and magnifying the light of nearly 3,000 distant background galaxies.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/3868-Image", "year": 2013 }, { "date": "May 15 2019", "image": "may-15-2019-red-spots-on-jupiter.jpg", "name": "Red Spots on Jupiter", "caption": "This image captures three red spots in Jupiter's atmosphere. The famous Great Red Spot appears on the right, while \"Red Spot Jr.\" is to the lower left and an even smaller \"baby red spot\" appears at left.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/27/2373-Image.html", "year": 2008 }, { "date": "May 16 2019", "image": "may-16-2019-hickson-compact-group-90.jpg", "name": "Hickson Compact Group 90", "caption": "These three galaxies, called NGC 7173 (middle left), NGC 7174 (middle right) and NGC 7176 (lower right), are part of Hickson Compact Group 90, named after astronomer Paul Hickson, who cataloged small groups of galaxies like this one.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/10/2496-Image.html", "year": 2006 }, { "date": "May 17 2019", "image": "may-17-2019-galaxy-cluster-rdcs-1252-9-2927.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster RDCS 1252.9-2927", "caption": "This image captures a massive cluster of galaxies called RDCS 1252.9-2927. This galaxy cluster existed when the universe was only 5 billion years old, or about 35 percent of its present age.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/01/1436-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "May 18 2019", "image": "may-18-2019-jupiter.jpg", "name": "Jupiter", "caption": "Hubble took this image of Jupiter when the giant planet was 420 million miles from Earth. The dark spot that appears on Jupiter is the shadow of the moon Io, which appears to the upper right of the shadow.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1994/26/169-Image.html", "year": 1994 }, { "date": "May 19 2019", "image": "may-19-2019-jupiter-s-auroras.jpg", "name": "Jupiter's Auroras", "caption": "Hubble used its ultraviolet vision to observe auroras around Jupiter's north pole. Auroras are formed when charged particles in the space around the planet are accelerated along the planet's magnetic field lines and interact with gases in the atmosphere.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2016/24/3756-Image.html", "year": 2014 }, { "date": "May 20 2019", "image": "may-20-2019-galaxy-cluster-abell-2744.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster Abell 2744", "caption": "Located 3.5 billion light-years away, Abell 2744 contains several hundred galaxies and might be a pile-up of at least four smaller galaxy clusters. Abell 2744’s strong gravitational field acts as a lens, brightening and magnifying the light of nearly 3,000 distant background galaxies.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/3868-Image", "year": 2013 }, { "date": "May 21 2019", "image": "may-21-2019-nebula-ngc-1748.jpg", "name": "Nebula NGC 1748", "caption": "Extremely intense radiation from newly born, ultra-bright stars has blown a glowing, spherical bubble in the nebula NGC 1748. The average-looking star at the very center of the bubble is about 30 times more massive and almost 200,000 times brighter than our Sun.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2001/11/1039-Image.html", "year": 2000 }, { "date": "May 22 2019", "image": "may-22-2019-saturn.jpg", "name": "Saturn", "caption": "This image shows Saturn as the planet's magnificent ring system appeared edge-on to Earth. This alignment occurs about every 15 years when Earth passes through the plane of Saturn's rings. The bright dots to the left of Saturn are some of the planet's moons.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1995/news-1995-25.html", "year": 1995 }, { "date": "May 23 2019", "image": "may-23-2019-galaxy-cluster-abell-2744.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster Abell 2744", "caption": "Located 3.5 billion light-years away, Abell 2744 contains several hundred galaxies and might be a pile-up of at least four smaller galaxy clusters. Abell 2744’s strong gravitational field acts as a lens, brightening and magnifying the light of nearly 3,000 distant background galaxies.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/3868-Image", "year": 2013 }, { "date": "May 24 2019", "image": "may-24-2019-galaxy-cluster-abell-2744.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster Abell 2744", "caption": "Located 3.5 billion light-years away, Abell 2744 contains several hundred galaxies and might be a pile-up of at least four smaller galaxy clusters. Abell 2744’s strong gravitational field acts as a lens, brightening and magnifying the light of nearly 3,000 distant background galaxies.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/3868-Image", "year": 2013 }, { "date": "May 25 2019", "image": "may-25-2019-galaxy-ngc-4622.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 4622", "caption": "This image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4622. Its outer pair of winding arms is full of new stars, clumped together in blue clusters. Strangely, the galaxy appears to be rotating clockwise, the opposite direction to what astronomers expected.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2002/03/1137-Image.html", "year": 2001 }, { "date": "May 26 2019", "image": "may-26-2019-galaxy-i-zwicky-18.jpg", "name": "Galaxy I Zwicky 18", "caption": "This image captures the irregular dwarf galaxy I Zwicky 18 and a companion galaxy to its upper right. The two galaxies are interacting, triggering star formation in I Zwicky 18.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/35/1621-Image.html", "year": 2003 }, { "date": "May 27 2019", "image": "may-27-2019-galaxy-i-zwicky-18.jpg", "name": "Galaxy I Zwicky 18", "caption": "This image captures the irregular dwarf galaxy I Zwicky 18 and a companion galaxy to its upper right. The two galaxies are interacting, triggering star formation in I Zwicky 18.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/35/1621-Image.html", "year": 1998 }, { "date": "May 28 2019", "image": "may-28-2019-galaxy-i-zwicky-18.jpg", "name": "Galaxy I Zwicky 18", "caption": "This image captures the irregular dwarf galaxy I Zwicky 18 and a companion galaxy to its upper right. The two galaxies are interacting, triggering star formation in I Zwicky 18.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/35/1621-Image.html", "year": 1998 }, { "date": "May 29 2019", "image": "may-29-2019-galaxy-i-zwicky-18.jpg", "name": "Galaxy I Zwicky 18", "caption": "This image captures the irregular dwarf galaxy I Zwicky 18 and a companion galaxy to its upper right. The two galaxies are interacting, triggering star formation in I Zwicky 18.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/35/1621-Image.html", "year": 2003 }, { "date": "May 30 2019", "image": "may-30-2019-swan-nebula.jpg", "name": "Swan Nebula", "caption": "This image captures a small region within the Swan Nebula, a hotbed of star formation. The wave-like patterns of gas have been sculpted and illuminated by a torrent of ultraviolet radiation from young, massive stars, which lie outside the picture to the upper left.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2003/13/1331-Image.html", "year": 1999 }, { "date": "May 31 2019", "image": "may-31-2019-galaxy-ngc-2768.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 2768", "caption": "NGC 2768 is an elliptical galaxy located 65 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy hosts a supermassive black hole, fueling jets of material in its active center.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2015/28/3615-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "June 1 2019", "image": "june-1-2019-galaxy-i-zwicky-18.jpg", "name": "Galaxy I Zwicky 18", "caption": "This image captures the irregular dwarf galaxy I Zwicky 18 and a companion galaxy to its upper right. The two galaxies are interacting, triggering star formation in I Zwicky 18.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/35/1621-Image.html", "year": 2003 }, { "date": "June 2 2019", "image": "june-2-2019-jupiter-s-auroras.jpg", "name": "Jupiter's Auroras", "caption": "Hubble used its ultraviolet vision to observe auroras around Jupiter's north pole. Auroras are formed when charged particles in the space around the planet are accelerated along the planet's magnetic field lines and interact with gases in the atmosphere.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2016/24/3756-Image.html", "year": 2014 }, { "date": "June 3 2019", "image": "june-3-2019-galaxy-i-zwicky-18.jpg", "name": "Galaxy I Zwicky 18", "caption": "This image captures the irregular dwarf galaxy I Zwicky 18 and a companion galaxy to its upper right. The two galaxies are interacting, triggering star formation in I Zwicky 18.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/35/1621-Image.html", "year": 2003 }, { "date": "June 4 2019", "image": "june-4-2019-quasar-3c-273.jpg", "name": "Quasar 3C 273", "caption": "The quasar 3C 273 resides at the heart of a galaxy nearly 2 billion light-years away. A quasar is a brilliant source of energy at the center of a distant galaxy, and is believed to flare up when gas, dust or other material falls onto a supermassive black hole at the galaxy’s core.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2003/03/1289-Image.html", "year": 1994 }, { "date": "June 5 2019", "image": "june-5-2019-jupiter.jpg", "name": "Jupiter", "caption": "Jupiter's turbulent clouds are always changing as they encounter atmospheric disturbances while sweeping around the planet at hundreds of miles per hour. This image includes a dark, serpent-shaped structure that is actually a small tear in the cloud deck.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/25/2152-Image.html", "year": 2007 }, { "date": "June 6 2019", "image": "june-6-2019-galaxy-i-zwicky-18.jpg", "name": "Galaxy I Zwicky 18", "caption": "This image captures the irregular dwarf galaxy I Zwicky 18 and a companion galaxy to its upper right. The two galaxies are interacting, triggering star formation in I Zwicky 18.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/35/1621-Image.html", "year": 2003 }, { "date": "June 7 2019", "image": "june-7-2019-jupiter.jpg", "name": "Jupiter", "caption": "Hubble took this image of Jupiter four days after a giant meteor burned up in the planet's cloud tops. Hubble found no sign of dark debris at the site, meaning the meteor did not plunge deep enough into the atmosphere to explode and leave behind any telltale marks.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/20/2742-Image.html", "year": 2010 }, { "date": "June 8 2019", "image": "june-8-2019-sombrero-galaxy.jpg", "name": "Sombrero Galaxy", "caption": "The Sombrero galaxy's hallmark is a brilliant white core encircled by thick lanes of dust. As seen from Earth, the spiral galaxy is tilted nearly edge-on.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2003/28/1415-Image.html", "year": 2003 }, { "date": "June 9 2019", "image": "june-9-2019-galaxy-ngc-6782.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 6782", "caption": "This spiral galaxy, NGC 6782, exhibits tightly wound spiral arms and a spectacular, nearly circular bright ring surrounding its nucleus. The ring contains many recently formed hot stars.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2001/37/1122-Image.html", "year": 2001 }, { "date": "June 10 2019", "image": "june-10-2019-galaxy-ngc-7674.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 7674", "caption": "NGC 7674 is a spiral galaxy tilted nearly face-on to Earth. Faint streamers below and to the left of the galaxy have been created by gravitational interactions with companion galaxies.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/16/2297-Image.html", "year": 2006 }, { "date": "June 11 2019", "image": "june-11-2019-star-cluster-omega-centauri.jpg", "name": "Star Cluster Omega Centauri", "caption": "This view shows about 50,000 stars at the heart of Omega Centauri, a huge globular star cluster 17,000 light-years from Earth. Omega Centauri is the biggest and brightest globular cluster in the Milky Way, and one of the few that can be seen by the unaided eye.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2001/33/1117-Image.html", "year": 1997 }, { "date": "June 12 2019", "image": "june-12-2019-galaxy-cluster-abell-1689.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689", "caption": "This image shows the inner region of Abell 1689, an immense cluster of galaxies located 2.2 billion light-years away. Astronomers used Hubble to map the distrubition of dark matter in the galaxy cluster.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/26/2758-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "June 13 2019", "image": "june-13-2019-star-vy-canis-majoris.jpg", "name": "Star VY Canis Majoris", "caption": "The hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris is surrounded by clouds of gas that it has cast off in a long series of outbursts. These eruptions have formed loops, arcs and knots of material moving at various speeds and in many different directions.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/03/2039-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "June 14 2019", "image": "june-14-2019-galaxy-cluster-abell-1689.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689", "caption": "This image shows the inner region of Abell 1689, an immense cluster of galaxies located 2.2 billion light-years away. Astronomers used Hubble to map the distrubition of dark matter in the galaxy cluster.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/26/2758-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "June 15 2019", "image": "june-15-2019-globular-cluster-m22.jpg", "name": "Globular Cluster M22", "caption": "M22 is one of about 150 globular star clusters in the Milky Way. Located just 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagettarius, it is one of the closest globular clusters to Earth.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2001/20/1075-Image.html", "year": 1999 }, { "date": "June 16 2019", "image": "june-16-2019-galaxy-cluster-abell-1689.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689", "caption": "This image shows the inner region of Abell 1689, an immense cluster of galaxies located 2.2 billion light-years away. Astronomers used Hubble to map the distrubition of dark matter in the galaxy cluster.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/26/2758-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "June 17 2019", "image": "june-17-2019-stephan-s-quintet.jpg", "name": "Stephan's Quintet", "caption": "This close-up shows four of the five galaxies that make up Stephan’s Quintet. The image reveals bright, blue clusters of stars, born from the violent interactions between some of the member galaxies.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2001/22/1082-Image.html?itemsPerPage=100&page=8&filterUUID=8a87f02e-e18b-4126-8133-2576f4fdc5e2&news=true", "year": 1999 }, { "date": "June 18 2019", "image": "june-18-2019-hubble-v-nebula.jpg", "name": "Hubble-V Nebula", "caption": "Hubble-V is an active star-forming region within galaxy NGC 6822. The cloud is about 200 light-years across and contains a dense knot of dozens of ultra-hot stars, each 100,000 times brighter than our Sun.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2001/39/1126-Image.html", "year": 1996 }, { "date": "June 19 2019", "image": "june-19-2019-interacting-galaxies-am-2026-424.png", "name": "Interacting Galaxies AM 2026-424", "caption": "The colliding galaxies AM 2026-424 resemble a face. Each \"eye\" is the bright core of a galaxy, one of which slammed into another. The outline of the face is a ring of young blue stars. Other clumps of new stars form a nose and mouth.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2019/51/4574-Image", "year": 2019 }, { "date": "June 20 2019", "image": "june-20-2019-galaxy-cluster-abell-1689.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689", "caption": "This image shows the inner region of Abell 1689, an immense cluster of galaxies located 2.2 billion light-years away. Astronomers used Hubble to map the distrubition of dark matter in the galaxy cluster.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/26/2758-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "June 21 2019", "image": "june-21-2019-galaxy-cluster-abell-1689.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689", "caption": "This image shows the inner region of Abell 1689, an immense cluster of galaxies located 2.2 billion light-years away. Astronomers used Hubble to map the distrubition of dark matter in the galaxy cluster.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/26/2758-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "June 22 2019", "image": "june-22-2019-interacting-galaxies-arp-142.jpg", "name": "Interacting Galaxies Arp 142", "caption": "The interacting galaxy duo near the bottom of this image is Arp 142. The pair contains the disturbed, star-forming spiral galaxy NGC 2936 along with its elliptical companion NGC 2937 at lower left. Above them is an unrelated, bluish galaxy called UGC 5130.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2013/23/3195-Image.html", "year": 2012 }, { "date": "June 23 2019", "image": "june-23-2019-galaxies-in-the-groth-strip.jpg", "name": "Galaxies in the Groth Strip", "caption": "This field of galaxies is just a small part of a cosmic tapestry Hubble imaged as part of the All-wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey. In it are galaxies of all shapes, sizes, colors, and distances. Larger ones are nearby, while the smallest ones are far away.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/06/2046-Image.html", "year": 2004 }, { "date": "June 24 2019", "image": "june-24-2019-supernova-2002dd.jpg", "name": "Supernova 2002dd", "caption": "This image captures a stellar explosion called a supernova in a small part of the sky known as the Hubble Deep Field. The supernova, designated SN 2002dd, appears as a red dot near the center of the image.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2003/12/1327-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "June 25 2019", "image": "june-25-2019-neptune.jpg", "name": "Neptune", "caption": "Neptune is the most distant major planet in our solar system. This image reveals high-altitude clouds in the northern and southern hemispheres of the planet. These clouds are composed of methane ice crystals.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2011/19/2860-Image.html", "year": 2011 }, { "date": "June 26 2019", "image": "june-26-2019-seyfert-s-sextet.jpg", "name": "Seyfert's Sextet", "caption": "At first, Seyfert's Sextet looks like six galaxies grouped closely together. However, the small galaxy with the prominent spiral arms (right of center) is much farther away than the others, and a bright clump to the lower right is material torn from one of the other galaxies.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2002/22/1242-Image.html", "year": 2000 }, { "date": "June 27 2019", "image": "june-27-2019-galaxy-cluster-rdcs-1252-9-2927.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster RDCS 1252.9-2927", "caption": "This image captures the massive galaxy clutser RDCS 1252.9-2927. The galaxies in the cluster already existed when the universe was just 5 billion years old, or about 35 percent of its present age.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/01/1433-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "June 28 2019", "image": "june-28-2019-quasar-mc2-1635-119.jpg", "name": "Quasar MC2 1635+119", "caption": "This image shows shells of stars around a quasar known as MC2 1635+119. Quasars are among the brightest objects in the universe. They reside in the centers of galaxies and are powered by supermassive black holes.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2007/news-2007-39.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "June 29 2019", "image": "june-29-2019-pluto-system.jpg", "name": "Pluto System", "caption": "This image captures Pluto and its five moons. Pluto is the large dot at the center. Its largest moon, Charon, appears below Pluto. Moving clockwise from the left, the smaller moons are Hydra, Styx, Nyx and Kerberos.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2012/32/3083-Image.html", "year": 2012 }, { "date": "June 30 2019", "image": "june-30-2019-ant-nebula.jpg", "name": "Ant Nebula", "caption": "The Ant Nebula displays intriguing symmetrical patterns in the lobes of gas being ejected from a dying Sun-like star at its center.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2001/05/1020-Image.html", "year": 1998 }, { "date": "July 1 2019", "image": "july-1-2019-comet-shoemaker-levy-9-fragments.jpg", "name": "Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Fragments", "caption": "This image captures the brightest \"nucleus\" in a string of approximately 20 that comprised the broken-up comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. The image reveals that the bright segment is actually a group of at least four separate pieces.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1993/22/117-Image.html", "year": 1993 }, { "date": "July 2 2019", "image": "july-2-2019-necklace-nebula.jpg", "name": "Necklace Nebula", "caption": "The Necklace Nebula contains the glowing remains of an ordinary, Sun-like star shedding material at the end of its life. The nebula consists of a bright ring, measuring 12 trillion miles across, dotted with dense, bright knots of gas that resemble diamonds in a necklace.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2011/24/2886-Image.html", "year": 2011 }, { "date": "July 3 2019", "image": "july-3-2019-star-cluster-47-tucanae.jpg", "name": "Star Cluster 47 Tucanae", "caption": "This image shows the core of the globular star cluster 47 Tucanae. The entire cluster contains about a million stars, with many packed tightly in the core.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2006/33/1951-Image.html", "year": 1999 }, { "date": "July 4 2019", "image": "july-4-2019-carina-nebula.jpg", "name": "Carina Nebula", "caption": "This close-up view shows only a three-light-year-wide portion of the entire Carina Nebula, which has a diameter of over 200 light-years. Located 8,000 light-years from Earth, the nebula can be seen in the southern sky with the naked eye.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2003/31/1424-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "July 5 2019", "image": "july-5-2019-trifid-nebula.jpg", "name": "Trifid Nebula", "caption": "The Trifid Nebula is a stellar nursery criss-crossed by huge, dark lanes of dust. This image provides a close-up view of the center of the nebula, near the intersection of the dust bands, and a group of recently formed, massive, bright stars.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/17/1542-Image.html", "year": 2001 }, { "date": "July 6 2019", "image": "july-6-2019-planetary-nebula-ngc-5189.jpg", "name": "Planetary Nebula NGC 5189", "caption": "The knotty, filamentary structure of NGC 5189 formed as a dying star shed its outer layers. Interestingly, this planetary nebula has two nested structures tilted with respect to each other.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2012/49/3124-Image.html", "year": 2012 }, { "date": "July 7 2019", "image": "july-7-2019-galaxy-cluster-abell-1689.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689", "caption": "This image shows the center of Abell 1689, an immense cluster of galaxies located 2.2 billion light-years away. Astronomers used Hubble to map the distrubition of dark matter in the galaxy cluster.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2013/36/3238-Image.html", "year": 2010 }, { "date": "July 8 2019", "image": "july-8-2019-jupiter-s-spots.jpg", "name": "Jupiter's Spots", "caption": "This image provides a close look at Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot and a smaller storm dubbed \"Red Spot Jr.\" below it. To the right of the Great Red Spot is the remnant of an even smaller spot that has faded and is being consumed by the much larger storm.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/27/2370-Image.html", "year": 2008 }, { "date": "July 9 2019", "image": "july-9-2019-hoag-s-object.jpg", "name": "Hoag's Object", "caption": "A nearly perfect ring of hot, blue stars pinwheels about the yellow nucleus of an unusual galaxy known as Hoag's Object. Curiously, a background object that bears an uncanny resemblance to Hoag's Object can be seen in the gap at the one o'clock position.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2002/21/1241-Image.html", "year": 2001 }, { "date": "July 10 2019", "image": "july-10-2019-galaxy-ngc-4068.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 4068", "caption": "This image captures a starburst region in the dwarf galaxy NGC 4068. Starburst regions are areas of intense star formation.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/19/2556-Image.html", "year": 2004 }, { "date": "July 11 2019", "image": "july-11-2019-interacting-galaxies-ugc-06471-and-ugc-06472.jpg", "name": "Interacting Galaxies UGC 06471 and UGC 06472", "caption": "This image shows a cosmic collision between two galaxies, UGC 06471 and UGC 06472. The colliding galaxies are 145 million light-years from Earth. Such collisions distort the shapes of the galaxies as they merge and eventually form a larger galaxy.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2001/04/1019-Image.html?news=true", "year": 2000 }, { "date": "July 12 2019", "image": "july-12-2019-galaxy-cluster-tn-j1338-1942.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster TN J1338-1942", "caption": "The galaxy cluster TN J1338-1942 contains a massive embryonic galaxy surrounded by smaller developing galaxies. The central galaxy has spectacular radio-emitting jets, fueled by a supermassive black hole deep within the galaxy's nucleus.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2004/news-2004-01.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "July 13 2019", "image": "july-13-2019-star-cluster-ngc-346.jpg", "name": "Star Cluster NGC 346", "caption": "This image captures a dynamic star-forming region in a nearby dwarf galaxy called the Small Magellanic Cloud. At the center is a brilliant star cluster called NGC 346.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2005/35/1818-Image.html", "year": 2004 }, { "date": "July 14 2019", "image": "july-14-2019-supernova-remnant-n-49.jpg", "name": "Supernova Remnant N 49", "caption": "N 49 is a supernova remnant in a neighboring galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. The delicate filaments are sheets of debris from a stellar explosion whose light would have reached Earth thousands of years ago.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2003/20/1379-Image.html", "year": 2000 }, { "date": "July 15 2019", "image": "july-15-2019-core-of-star-cluster-omega-centauri.jpg", "name": "Core of Star Cluster Omega Centauri", "caption": "This view shows stars at the heart of Omega Centauri, one of roughly 150 globular clusters in our Milky Way galaxy. The behemoth stellar grouping is the biggest and brightest globular cluster in the Milky Way, and one of the few that can be seen by the unaided eye.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/25/2609-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "July 16 2019", "image": "july-16-2019-galaxy-eso-239-2.jpg", "name": "Galaxy ESO 239-2", "caption": "ESO 239-2 is the result of a cosmic collision between galaxies that will eventually result in a larger \"elliptical\" galaxy. The intermediate stage captured here shows a galaxy with long tails of dust and gas that envelope the galaxy's core.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/16/2329-Image.html", "year": 2006 }, { "date": "July 17 2019", "image": "july-17-2019-galaxy-ngc-300.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 300", "caption": "NGC 300 is a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way galaxy. Some of the bright blue specks in this image are young, massive stars called blue supergiants, and they are among the brightest stars seen in spiral galaxies.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/13/1509-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "July 18 2019", "image": "july-18-2019-interacting-galaxies-am-1316-241.jpg", "name": "Interacting Galaxies AM 1316-241", "caption": "AM 1316-241 is made up of two interacting galaxies: a spiral galaxy (on the left) in front of an elliptical galaxy (on the right). The starlight from the background elliptical galaxy is partially obscured by bands and filaments of dust in the foreground spiral galaxy.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/16/2305-Image.html", "year": 1997 }, { "date": "July 19 2019", "image": "july-19-2019-galaxy-ngc-300.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 300", "caption": "NGC 300 is a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way galaxy. Some of the bright blue specks in this image are young, massive stars called blue supergiants, and they are among the brightest stars seen in spiral galaxies.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/13/1509-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "July 20 2019", "image": "july-20-2019-ant-nebula.jpg", "name": "Ant Nebula", "caption": "The Ant Nebula displays intriguing symmetrical patterns in the lobes of gas being ejected from a dying Sun-like star at its center.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2001/05/1020-Image.html", "year": 1997 }, { "date": "July 21 2019", "image": "july-21-2019-antennae-galaxies.jpg", "name": "Antennae Galaxies", "caption": "The two merging spiral galaxies that comprise the Antennae galaxies began their interaction only a few hundred million years ago. Over the course of the merger, billions of stars will be formed.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2006/46/1995-Image.html", "year": 2004 }, { "date": "July 22 2019", "image": "july-22-2019-protostar-iras-20324-4057.jpg", "name": "Protostar IRAS 20324+4057", "caption": "This caterpillar-shaped knot, called IRAS 20324+4057, is a protostar that is in the process of growing from the dust and gas surrounding it. However, other bright stars are blasting ultraviolet radiation at this \"wanna-be\" star and sculpting the gas and dust into its long shape.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2013/35/3233-Image.html", "year": 2006 }, { "date": "July 23 2019", "image": "july-23-2019-impact-scar-on-jupiter.jpg", "name": "Impact Scar on Jupiter", "caption": "This image of Jupiter reveals an elongated, dark spot at lower right. The unexpected blemish was created when an asteroid plunged into Jupiter and exploded, scattering debris into the giant planet's cloud tops.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2010/news-2010-16.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "July 24 2019", "image": "july-24-2019-jupiter-and-io.jpg", "name": "Jupiter and Io", "caption": "This image shows Jupiter's volcanic moon Io passing above the turbulent clouds of the giant planet. The conspicuous black spot on Jupiter is Io's shadow. The shadow sweeps across the face of Jupiter at 17 kilometers per second.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1996/30/442-Image.html", "year": 1996 }, { "date": "July 25 2019", "image": "july-25-2019-hickson-compact-group-87.jpg", "name": "Hickson Compact Group 87", "caption": "This troupe of galaxies, known as Hickson Compact Group 87, is performing an intricate dance orchestrated by the mutual gravitational forces acting between them. The small spiral near the center could either be a member or an unrelated background object.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1999/31/868-Image.html", "year": 1999 }, { "date": "July 26 2019", "image": "july-26-2019-andromeda-galaxy.jpg", "name": "Andromeda Galaxy", "caption": "Over 100 million stars are on display in this portion of the Andromeda galaxy, located over 2 million light-years away. This portrait of our galactic neighbor is the largest image yet assembled by Hubble.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2015/news-2015-02.html", "year": 2010 }, { "date": "July 27 2019", "image": "july-27-2019-andromeda-galaxy.jpg", "name": "Andromeda Galaxy", "caption": "Over 100 million stars are on display in this portion of the Andromeda galaxy, located over 2 million light-years away. This portrait of our galactic neighbor is the largest image yet assembled by Hubble.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2015/news-2015-02.html", "year": 2010 }, { "date": "July 28 2019", "image": "july-28-2019-triangulum-galaxy.png", "name": "Triangulum Galaxy", "caption": "This mosaic captures the nearby Triangulum galaxy. Striking areas of star birth glow bright blue throughout the galaxy, particularly in beautiful nebulas of hot gas like star-forming region NGC 604 in the upper left.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2019/01/4305-Image.html", "year": 2017 }, { "date": "July 29 2019", "image": "july-29-2019-star-cluster-trumpler-14.jpg", "name": "Star Cluster Trumpler 14", "caption": "Called Trumpler 14, this cluster of stars is located 8,000 light-years away in a huge star-forming region known as the Carina Nebula. The cluster is only 500,000 years old and has one of the highest concentrations of bright, massive stars in the entire Milky Way.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2016/03/3693-Image.html", "year": 2006 }, { "date": "July 30 2019", "image": "july-30-2019-hourglass-nebula.jpg", "name": "Hourglass Nebula", "caption": "The Hourglass Nebula has been formed by a dying Sun-like star shedding its outer layers of gas. One theory suggests that the hourglass shape is produced as a fast stellar wind encounters a slowly expanding cloud that is more dense near the star’s equator than near its poles.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1996/07/397-Image.html", "year": 1995 }, { "date": "July 31 2019", "image": "july-31-2019-triangulum-galaxy.png", "name": "Triangulum Galaxy", "caption": "This mosaic captures the nearby Triangulum galaxy. Striking areas of star birth glow bright blue throughout the galaxy, particularly in beautiful nebulas of hot gas like star-forming region NGC 604 in the upper left.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2019/01/4305-Image.html", "year": 2017 }, { "date": "August 1 2019", "image": "august-1-2019-galaxy-ngc-1672.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 1672", "caption": "NGC 1672 is a barred spiral galaxy. Its arms do not twist all the way to the galaxy's center but attach to the ends of a bar of stars that extends from the nucleus. Clusters of hot, young, blue stars form along the spiral arms, while surrounding clouds of hydrogen gas glow red.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/15/2092-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "August 2 2019", "image": "august-2-2019-hubble-v-nebula.jpg", "name": "Hubble-V Nebula", "caption": "Hubble-V is an active star-forming region within galaxy NGC 6822. The cloud is about 200 light-years across and contains a dense knot of dozens of ultra-hot stars, each 100,000 times brighter than our Sun.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2001/39/1126-Image.html", "year": 1997 }, { "date": "August 3 2019", "image": "august-3-2019-impact-scar-on-jupiter.jpg", "name": "Impact Scar on Jupiter", "caption": "This image shows a scar on Jupiter. The unexpected blemish was created when an object (likely an asteroid) plunged into Jupiter and exploded, scattering debris into the giant planet's cloud tops.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2010/news-2010-16.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "August 4 2019", "image": "august-4-2019-herbig-haro-24.jpg", "name": "Herbig-Haro 24", "caption": "A partially obscured, newborn star near the center of this image is shooting twin jets into the surrounding gas and dust. The shocks from the collision light up patches of nebulosity collectively called Herbig-Haro 24.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2015/42/3656-Image.html", "year": 2001 }, { "date": "August 5 2019", "image": "august-5-2019-andromeda-galaxy.jpg", "name": "Andromeda Galaxy", "caption": "Over 100 million stars are on display in this portion of the Andromeda galaxy, located over 2 million light-years away. This portrait of our galactic neighbor is the largest image yet assembled by Hubble.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2015/news-2015-02.html", "year": 2011 }, { "date": "August 6 2019", "image": "august-6-2019-andromeda-galaxy.jpg", "name": "Andromeda Galaxy", "caption": "Over 100 million stars are on display in this portion of the Andromeda galaxy, located over 2 million light-years away. This portrait of our galactic neighbor is the largest image yet assembled by Hubble.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2015/news-2015-02.html", "year": 2011 }, { "date": "August 7 2019", "image": "august-7-2019-andromeda-galaxy.jpg", "name": "Andromeda Galaxy", "caption": "Over 100 million stars are on display in this portion of the Andromeda galaxy, located over 2 million light-years away. This portrait of our galactic neighbor is the largest image yet assembled by Hubble.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2015/news-2015-02.html", "year": 2010 }, { "date": "August 8 2019", "image": "august-8-2019-center-of-the-crab-nebula.jpg", "name": "Center of the Crab Nebula", "caption": "At the center of the Crab Nebula sits a stellar remnant called a neutron star that has about the same mass as the Sun compressed into a sphere only a few miles across. Spinning 30 times a second, the neutron star shoots out beams of energy that make it look like it's pulsating.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2016/26/3760-Image.html", "year": 2003 }, { "date": "August 9 2019", "image": "august-9-2019-andromeda-galaxy.jpg", "name": "Andromeda Galaxy", "caption": "Over 100 million stars are on display in this portion of the Andromeda galaxy, located over 2 million light-years away. This portrait of our galactic neighbor is the largest image yet assembled by Hubble.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2015/news-2015-02.html", "year": 2011 }, { "date": "August 10 2019", "image": "august-10-2019-nebula-ngc-2074.jpg", "name": "Nebula NGC 2074", "caption": "The nebula NGC 2074 is a firestorm of raw stellar creation, perhaps triggered by a nearby supernova explosion. It lies in a nearby galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 170,000 light-years away.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/31/2397-Image.html", "year": 2008 }, { "date": "August 11 2019", "image": "august-11-2019-interacting-galaxies-arp-220.jpg", "name": "Interacting Galaxies Arp 220", "caption": "Arp 220 is the result of a collision between two spiral galaxies that began 700 millions years ago. Located about 250 million light-years from Earth, it is one of the nearest galaxy mergers to our planet.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2006/26/1940-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "August 12 2019", "image": "august-12-2019-andromeda-galaxy.jpg", "name": "Andromeda Galaxy", "caption": "Over 100 million stars are on display in this portion of the Andromeda galaxy, located over 2 million light-years away. This portrait of our galactic neighbor is the largest image yet assembled by Hubble.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2015/news-2015-02.html", "year": 2010 }, { "date": "August 13 2019", "image": "august-13-2019-neptune.jpg", "name": "Neptune", "caption": "This image shows bright clouds and cloud bands wrapping around Neptune. On the giant planet, winds blow at 900 miles per hour and huge storms — some the size of Earth itself — come and go with regularity.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1998/news-1998-34.html", "year": 1996 }, { "date": "August 14 2019", "image": "august-14-2019-galaxy-ngc-1808.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 1808", "caption": "This close-up view shows a hotbed of star formation at the center of spiral galaxy NGC 1808. In the image, older stars appear yellow and young stars are blue.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1998/12/631-Image.html", "year": 1997 }, { "date": "August 15 2019", "image": "august-15-2019-triangulum-galaxy.png", "name": "Triangulum Galaxy", "caption": "This mosaic captures the nearby Triangulum galaxy. Striking areas of star birth glow bright blue throughout the galaxy, particularly in beautiful nebulas of hot gas like star-forming region NGC 604 in the upper left.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2019/01/4305-Image.html", "year": 2017 }, { "date": "August 16 2019", "image": "august-16-2019-andromeda-galaxy.jpg", "name": "Andromeda Galaxy", "caption": "Over 100 million stars are on display in this portion of the Andromeda galaxy, located over 2 million light-years away. This portrait of our galactic neighbor is the largest image yet assembled by Hubble.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2015/news-2015-02.html", "year": 2011 }, { "date": "August 17 2019", "image": "august-17-2019-supernova-in-galaxy-ngc-2403.jpg", "name": "Supernova in Galaxy NGC 2403", "caption": "This image captures a stellar explosion, called a supernova, in the galaxy NGC 2403. The supernova looks like a bright star in the upper-right corner. The brighter star near the top, and other bright stars in the image, reside within our own galaxy.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/23/1568-Image.html", "year": 2004 }, { "date": "August 18 2019", "image": "august-18-2019-asteroid-trail-past-sagittarius-dwarf-irregular-galaxy.jpg", "name": "Asteroid Trail Past Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy", "caption": "While observing the Sagittarius dwarf irregular galaxy, Hubble captured the trail of a faint asteroid that had drifted across the field of view. The trail is seen as a series of 13 reddish arcs on the right.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/31/1602-Image.html", "year": 2003 }, { "date": "August 19 2019", "image": "august-19-2019-neptune.jpg", "name": "Neptune", "caption": "Neptune is the most distant major planet in our solar system. The bright patches on the planet are clouds composed of methane ice crystals.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2013/30/3223-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "August 20 2019", "image": "august-20-2019-galaxy-m83.jpg", "name": "Galaxy M83", "caption": "This image of spiral galaxy M83 captures thousands of star clusters, hundreds of thousands of individual stars, and \"ghosts\" of dead stars called supernova remnants.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2014/04/3293-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "August 21 2019", "image": "august-21-2019-galaxy-ngc-6503.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 6503", "caption": "Most galaxies are clumped together in groups or clusters. A neighboring galaxy is never far away. But this galaxy, known as NGC 6503, has found itself in a lonely position, at the edge of a strangely empty patch of space called the Local Void.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2015/23/3586-Image.html", "year": 2013 }, { "date": "August 22 2019", "image": "august-22-2019-galaxy-ngc-4993.png", "name": "Galaxy NGC 4993", "caption": "In this galaxy, called NGC 4993, two neutron stars collided, creating gravitational waves discovered in 2017. The event produced a flash of light, called a kilonova, which appears to the upper left of center.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2017/41/4078-Image.html?news=true", "year": 2017 }, { "date": "August 23 2019", "image": "august-23-2019-galaxy-cluster-abell-2744.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster Abell 2744", "caption": "Located 3.5 billion light-years away, Abell 2744 contains several hundred galaxies and might be a pile-up of at least four smaller galaxy clusters. Abell 2744’s strong gravitational field acts as a lens, brightening and magnifying the light of nearly 3,000 distant background galaxies.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2014/01/3277-Image.html", "year": 2013 }, { "date": "August 24 2019", "image": "august-24-2019-mars.jpg", "name": "Mars", "caption": "Hubble captured this image of Mars when the planet was approximately 34.7 million miles from Earth. The dark linear feature on the left is Valles Marineris, a 2,500-mile-long system of canyons.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2003/22/1389-Image.html", "year": 2003 }, { "date": "August 25 2019", "image": "august-25-2019-herbig-haro-32.jpg", "name": "Herbig Haro 32", "caption": "HH 32 is an example of a \"Herbig-Haro object,\" which is formed when young stars eject jets of material back into interstellar space. These jets plow into the surrounding nebula, producing strong shock waves that heat the gas and cause it to glow.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1999/35/902-Image.html", "year": 1994 }, { "date": "August 26 2019", "image": "august-26-2019-hubble-ultra-deep-field.jpg", "name": "Hubble Ultra Deep Field", "caption": "This image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field includes infrared observations that allowed Hubble to peer deeper into the universe than it ever had before. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are galaxies that formed 600 million years after the big bang.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/31/2644-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "August 27 2019", "image": "august-27-2019-mars.jpg", "name": "Mars", "caption": "Hubble captured this image of Mars when the planet was at its closest to Earth in nearly 60,000 years. The solar system's largest volcano, Olympus Mons, appears near the top.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2003/22/1383-Image.html", "year": 2003 }, { "date": "August 28 2019", "image": "august-28-2019-hubble-ultra-deep-field.jpg", "name": "Hubble Ultra Deep Field", "caption": "This image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field includes infrared observations that allowed Hubble to peer deeper into the universe than it ever had before. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are galaxies that formed 600 million years after the big bang.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/31/2644-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "August 29 2019", "image": "august-29-2019-hubble-ultra-deep-field.jpg", "name": "Hubble Ultra Deep Field", "caption": "This image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field includes infrared observations that allowed Hubble to peer deeper into the universe than it ever had before. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are galaxies that formed 600 million years after the big bang.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/31/2644-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "August 30 2019", "image": "august-30-2019-hubble-ultra-deep-field.jpg", "name": "Hubble Ultra Deep Field", "caption": "This image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field includes infrared observations that allowed Hubble to peer deeper into the universe than it ever had before. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are galaxies that formed 600 million years after the big bang.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/31/2644-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "August 31 2019", "image": "august-31-2019-hubble-ultra-deep-field.jpg", "name": "Hubble Ultra Deep Field", "caption": "This image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field includes infrared observations that allowed Hubble to peer deeper into the universe than it ever had before. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are galaxies that formed 600 million years after the big bang.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/31/2644-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "September 1 2019", "image": "september-1-2019-hubble-ultra-deep-field.jpg", "name": "Hubble Ultra Deep Field", "caption": "This image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field includes infrared observations that allowed Hubble to peer deeper into the universe than it ever had before. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are galaxies that formed 600 million years after the big bang.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/31/2644-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "September 2 2019", "image": "september-2-2019-hubble-ultra-deep-field.jpg", "name": "Hubble Ultra Deep Field", "caption": "This image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field includes infrared observations that allowed Hubble to peer deeper into the universe than it ever had before. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are galaxies that formed 600 million years after the big bang.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/31/2644-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "September 3 2019", "image": "september-3-2019-galaxy-hudf-jd2.jpg", "name": "Galaxy HUDF-JD2", "caption": "The small red object at the center of this image (just above the large spiral galaxy) is one of the most distant galaxies ever seen. Called HUDF-JD2, it is one of about 10,000 galaxies found in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2005/28/1770-Image.html", "year": 2003 }, { "date": "September 4 2019", "image": "september-4-2019-nebula-n-81.jpg", "name": "Nebula N 81", "caption": "This image shows a newborn star cluster cradled within a nebula, or glowing cloud of gas, called N 81. This stellar nursery lies about 200,000 light-years away within the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy orbiting our own Milky Way.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2000/30/992-Image.html", "year": 1997 }, { "date": "September 5 2019", "image": "september-5-2019-hubble-ultra-deep-field.jpg", "name": "Hubble Ultra Deep Field", "caption": "This image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field includes infrared observations that allowed Hubble to peer deeper into the universe than it ever had before. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are galaxies that formed 600 million years after the big bang.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/31/2644-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "September 6 2019", "image": "september-6-2019-hubble-ultra-deep-field.jpg", "name": "Hubble Ultra Deep Field", "caption": "This image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field includes infrared observations that allowed Hubble to peer deeper into the universe than it ever had before. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are galaxies that formed 600 million years after the big bang.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/31/2644-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "September 7 2019", "image": "september-7-2019-hubble-x-nebula.jpg", "name": "Hubble-X Nebula", "caption": "Hubble-X is a glowing gas cloud, one of the most active star-forming regions within galaxy NGC 6822. The cloud is about 110 light-years across and contains many thousands of newly formed stars in a central cluster.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2001/01/1012-Image.html", "year": 1997 }, { "date": "September 8 2019", "image": "september-8-2019-galaxy-m81.jpg", "name": "Galaxy M81", "caption": "The arms of the \"grand design\" spiral galaxy M81 are filled with young, bluish, hot stars. The greenish regions in the image are bright, gaseous clouds where new stars are forming.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/19/2127-Image.html", "year": 2006 }, { "date": "September 9 2019", "image": "september-9-2019-v838-monocerotis-light-echo.jpg", "name": "V838 Monocerotis Light Echo", "caption": "This image captures a light echo from the star V838 Monocerotis. After the star brightened temporarily, light from that eruption began propagating outward through a dusty cloud around the star. The light reflects or \"echoes\" off the dust and then travels to Earth.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2006/50/2006-Image.html", "year": 2006 }, { "date": "September 10 2019", "image": "september-10-2019-galaxy-behind-star-cluster-ngc-6752.png", "name": "Galaxy Behind Star Cluster NGC 6752", "caption": "This image shows stars in a small part of the globular cluster NGC 6752. Near the bottom appears a background galaxy, much farther away, that astronomers found while studying this image. It's a dwarf galaxy that is nearly as old as the universe.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2019/09/4317-Image.html", "year": 2018 }, { "date": "September 11 2019", "image": "september-11-2019-goods-south-field.jpg", "name": "GOODS South Field", "caption": "More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this panoramic view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. The view covers a portion of the southern field of a galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS).", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/01/2662-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "September 12 2019", "image": "september-12-2019-galaxy-ngc-3310.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 3310", "caption": "There are several hundred star clusters in the starburst galaxy NGC 3310. They appear in this image as the bright, blue clumps that trace the galaxy's spiral arms.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2001/26/1094-Image.html", "year": 2000 }, { "date": "September 13 2019", "image": "september-13-2019-arches-cluster.jpg", "name": "Arches Cluster", "caption": "The Arches cluster is the densest known star cluster in our galaxy and resides 25,000 light-years away. In this rough-and-tumble region, huge clouds of gas collide to form behemoth stars.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2005/05/1653-Image.html", "year": 1997 }, { "date": "September 14 2019", "image": "september-14-2019-goods-south-field.jpg", "name": "GOODS South Field", "caption": "More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this panoramic view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. The view covers a portion of the southern field of a galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS).", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/01/2662-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "September 15 2019", "image": "september-15-2019-center-of-the-crab-nebula.jpg", "name": "Center of the Crab Nebula", "caption": "At the center of the Crab Nebula sits a stellar remnant called a neutron star that has about the same mass as the Sun compressed into a sphere only a few miles across. Spinning 30 times a second, the neutron star shoots out beams of energy that make it look like it's pulsating.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2016/26/3760-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "September 16 2019", "image": "september-16-2019-beta-pictoris-disk.jpg", "name": "Beta Pictoris Disk", "caption": "In 1984, Beta Pictoris was the very first star discovered to be surrounded by a bright disk of light-scattering dust and debris. Planets are thought to form in such disks, and astronomers have discovered two planets orbiting Beta Pictoris.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2015/06/3490-Image.html", "year": 1997 }, { "date": "September 17 2019", "image": "september-17-2019-galaxy-ugc-5340.png", "name": "Galaxy UGC 5340", "caption": "This image captures the dwarf galaxy UGC 5340. A pocket of rapid star birth appears in the lower right corner. This region of star formation was probably triggered by a gravitational interaction with an unseen companion galaxy.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2018/27/4162-Image.html", "year": 2014 }, { "date": "September 18 2019", "image": "september-18-2019-pinwheel-galaxy.jpg", "name": "Pinwheel Galaxy", "caption": "The Pinwheel galaxy has a pancake-like shape that we view face-on. This perspective shows off the spiral structure that gives the galaxy its nickname.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/07/2477-Image.html", "year": 1994 }, { "date": "September 19 2019", "image": "september-19-2019-reflection-nebula-ic-349.jpg", "name": "Reflection Nebula IC 349", "caption": "IC 349 is a reflection nebula in the Pleiades star cluster (often called the \"Seven Sisters\"). The eerie, wispy tendrils of an interstellar cloud are being destroyed by one of the brightest stars in the star cluster.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2000/36/1009-Image.html", "year": 1999 }, { "date": "September 20 2019", "image": "september-20-2019-goods-south-field.jpg", "name": "GOODS South Field", "caption": "More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this panoramic view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. The view covers a portion of the southern field of a galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS).", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/01/2662-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "September 21 2019", "image": "september-21-2019-goods-south-field.jpg", "name": "GOODS South Field", "caption": "More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this panoramic view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. The view covers a portion of the southern field of a galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS).", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/01/2662-Image.html", "year": 2004 }, { "date": "September 22 2019", "image": "september-22-2019-goods-south-field.jpg", "name": "GOODS South Field", "caption": "More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this panoramic view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. The view covers a portion of the southern field of a galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS).", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/01/2662-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "September 23 2019", "image": "september-23-2019-galaxy-eso-243-49.jpg", "name": "Galaxy ESO 243-49", "caption": "This edge-on galaxy, called ESO 243-49, appears to host a medium-sized black hole that might have come from a cannibalized dwarf galaxy. As massive as 20,000 Suns, the black hole lies above the galactic plane — an unusual location that suggests it originated somewhere else.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2012/11/2992-Image.html", "year": 2010 }, { "date": "September 24 2019", "image": "september-24-2019-galaxy-eso-243-49.jpg", "name": "Galaxy ESO 243-49", "caption": "This edge-on galaxy, called ESO 243-49, appears to host a medium-sized black hole that might have come from a cannibalized dwarf galaxy. As massive as 20,000 Suns, the black hole lies above the galactic plane — an unusual location that suggests it originated somewhere else.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2012/11/2992-Image.html?itemsPerPage=100&page=4&filterUUID=8a87f02e-e18b-4126-8133-2576f4fdc5e2&news=true", "year": 2010 }, { "date": "September 25 2019", "image": "september-25-2019-galaxy-ngc-1132.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 1132", "caption": "The large elliptical galaxy NGC 1132 likely formed from a group of galaxies that merged together. The galaxy is dubbed a \"fossil group\" because it contains enormous concentrations of dark matter, comparable to the dark matter found in an entire group of galaxies.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/07/2252-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "September 26 2019", "image": "september-26-2019-goods-south-field.jpg", "name": "GOODS South Field", "caption": "More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this panoramic view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. The view covers a portion of the southern field of a galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS).", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/01/2662-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "September 27 2019", "image": "september-27-2019-egg-nebula.jpg", "name": "Egg Nebula", "caption": "In the Egg Nebula, shells of dust form concentric rings around an aging star, resembling the layers of an onion. A thick dust belt, running almost vertically through the center, blocks light from the central star while twin beams of light radiate from the star.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2003/09/1305-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "September 28 2019", "image": "september-28-2019-galaxy-ngc-300.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 300", "caption": "NGC 300 is a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way galaxy. Some of the bright blue specks in this image are young, massive stars called blue supergiants, and they are among the brightest stars seen in spiral galaxies.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/13/1509-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "September 29 2019", "image": "september-29-2019-goods-south-field.jpg", "name": "GOODS South Field", "caption": "More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this panoramic view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. The view covers a portion of the southern field of a galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS).", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/01/2662-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "September 30 2019", "image": "september-30-2019-goods-south-field.jpg", "name": "GOODS South Field", "caption": "More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this panoramic view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. The view covers a portion of the southern field of a galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS).", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/01/2662-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "October 1 2019", "image": "october-1-2019-galaxy-ngc-3949.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 3949", "caption": "Like our Milky Way, the galaxy NGC 3949 has a disk full of young, blue stars peppered with pink star-birth regions. In contrast to the blue disk, the galaxy's bright center is made up of mostly older stars and appears more yellow.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/25/1576-Image.html", "year": 2001 }, { "date": "October 2 2019", "image": "october-2-2019-goods-south-field.jpg", "name": "GOODS South Field", "caption": "More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this panoramic view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. The view covers a portion of the southern field of a galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS).", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/01/2662-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "October 3 2019", "image": "october-3-2019-goods-south-field.jpg", "name": "GOODS South Field", "caption": "More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this panoramic view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. The view covers a portion of the southern field of a galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS).", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/01/2662-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "October 4 2019", "image": "october-4-2019-goods-south-field.jpg", "name": "GOODS South Field", "caption": "More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this panoramic view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. The view covers a portion of the southern field of a galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS).", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/01/2662-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "October 5 2019", "image": "october-5-2019-goods-south-field.jpg", "name": "GOODS South Field", "caption": "More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this panoramic view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. The view covers a portion of the southern field of a galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS).", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/01/2662-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "October 6 2019", "image": "october-6-2019-goods-south-field.jpg", "name": "GOODS South Field", "caption": "More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this panoramic view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. The view covers a portion of the southern field of a galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS).", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/01/2662-Image.html", "year": 2004 }, { "date": "October 7 2019", "image": "october-7-2019-goods-south-field.jpg", "name": "GOODS South Field", "caption": "More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this panoramic view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. The view covers a portion of the southern field of a galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS).", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/01/2662-Image.html", "year": 2004 }, { "date": "October 8 2019", "image": "october-8-2019-galaxy-hercules-a.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Hercules A", "caption": "At the center of this image sits a large galaxy called Hercules A that harbors a supermassive black hole more than a thousand times as massive as the one in the Milky Way's center. Radio observations reveal large jets shooting away from the galaxy's core.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2012/47/3110-Image.html", "year": 2012 }, { "date": "October 9 2019", "image": "october-9-2019-galaxy-cluster-abell-2667.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster Abell 2667", "caption": "While looking at galaxy cluster Abell 2667, astronomers found an odd-looking spiral galaxy (in the upper left corner of the image) that is plowing through the cluster and being ripped apart by the galaxy cluster's gravitational field and harsh environment.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/12/2077-Image.html", "year": 2001 }, { "date": "October 10 2019", "image": "october-10-2019-interacting-galaxies-arp-148.jpg", "name": "Interacting Galaxies Arp 148", "caption": "Arp 148 is the aftermath of an encounter between two galaxies, resulting in a ring-shaped galaxy and an elongated companion. The shapes and arrangement of the galaxies suggest that this is a snapshot of an ongoing collision.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/16/2309-Image.html", "year": 1995 }, { "date": "October 11 2019", "image": "october-11-2019-goods-south-field.jpg", "name": "GOODS South Field", "caption": "More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this panoramic view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. The view covers a portion of the southern field of a galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS).", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/01/2662-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "October 12 2019", "image": "october-12-2019-orion-nebula.jpg", "name": "Orion Nebula", "caption": "The Orion Nebula is the nearest star-forming region to Earth. Massive, young stars are shaping the nebula with their winds and radiation. Pillars of dense gas may be the homes of budding stars. The bright central region is the home of the four heftiest stars in the nebula.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2006/01/1826-Image.html", "year": 2004 }, { "date": "October 13 2019", "image": "october-13-2019-herbig-haro-24.jpg", "name": "Herbig-Haro 24", "caption": "A partially obscured, newborn star near the center of this image is shooting twin jets into the surrounding gas and dust. The shocks from the collision light up patches of nebulosity collectively called Herbig-Haro 24.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2015/42/3656-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "October 14 2019", "image": "october-14-2019-galaxy-cluster-0024-1654.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster 0024+1654", "caption": "The light from a distant galaxy, nearly 10 billion light-years away, has been warped into blue arcs and streaks by the gravity of galaxy cluster 0024+1654. The cluster's gravity acts as a lens, bending and amplifying light from the background galaxy.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1996/10/403-Image.html", "year": 1994 }, { "date": "October 15 2019", "image": "october-15-2019-supernova-remnant-e0102.jpg", "name": "Supernova Remnant E0102", "caption": "In a nearby galaxy called the Small Magellanic Cloud, a massive star exploded as a supernova and dissipated its interior into a spectacular display of colorful filaments. The supernova remnant, known as E0102, is the greenish-blue field of debris just below center.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2006/35/1964-Image.html", "year": 2003 }, { "date": "October 16 2019", "image": "october-16-2019-ring-nebula.jpg", "name": "Ring Nebula", "caption": "About a light-year across, the Ring Nebula is formed by a dying star floating in a blue haze of hot gas at its center. This image reveals elongated, dark clumps of material embedded in the gas at the edge of the nebula.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1999/01/748-Image.html", "year": 1998 }, { "date": "October 17 2019", "image": "october-17-2019-cartwheel-galaxy.jpg", "name": "Cartwheel Galaxy", "caption": "The Cartwheel galaxy's unusual appearance was created by a nearly head-on collision with a smaller galaxy. Its spoke-like structures are wisps of material connecting the galaxy’s nucleus to an outer ring of young stars.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1996/news-1996-36.html", "year": 1996 }, { "date": "October 18 2019", "image": "october-18-2019-reflection-nebula-n30b.jpg", "name": "Reflection Nebula N30B", "caption": "A unique, peanut-shaped cocoon of dust surrounds a cluster of young, hot stars in this image. This reflection nebula, named N30B, is embedded in a much larger nebula called DEM L 106. The wispy filaments of DEM L 106 fill much of the image.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2002/29/1272-Image.html", "year": 2001 }, { "date": "October 19 2019", "image": "october-19-2019-comet-siding-spring.jpg", "name": "Comet Siding Spring", "caption": "Comet Siding Spring (C/2013 A1) had a close encounter with Mars on October 19, 2014. On that date the comet passed within approximately 87,000 miles of Mars (or about one-third the distance between Earth and the Moon).", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2014/45/3444-Image.html", "year": 2014 }, { "date": "October 20 2019", "image": "october-20-2019-30-doradus-nebula.jpg", "name": "30 Doradus Nebula", "caption": "This massive, young stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides in the 30 Doradus Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/32/2649-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "October 21 2019", "image": "october-21-2019-galaxy-ngc-1569.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 1569", "caption": "The nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 1569 is a hotbed of vigorous star birth and is one of the closest \"starburst\" galaxies to us. The galaxy's \"star factories\" are manufacturing brilliant blue star clusters.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/06/1455-Image.html", "year": 1998 }, { "date": "October 22 2019", "image": "october-22-2019-horsehead-nebula.jpg", "name": "Horsehead Nebula", "caption": "The backlit wisps along the Horsehead Nebula's upper ridge are being illuminated by a young five-star system just off the top of this image, taken in infrared light. Harsh radiation from one of these bright stars is slowly evaporating the nebula.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2013/12/3165-Image.html", "year": 2012 }, { "date": "October 23 2019", "image": "october-23-2019-horsehead-nebula.jpg", "name": "Horsehead Nebula", "caption": "The backlit wisps along the Horsehead Nebula's upper ridge are being illuminated by a young five-star system just off the top of this image, taken in infrared light. Harsh radiation from one of these bright stars is slowly evaporating the nebula.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2013/12/3165-Image.html", "year": 2012 }, { "date": "October 24 2019", "image": "october-24-2019-galaxy-ngc-7714.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 7714", "caption": "The disrupted galaxy NGC 7714 displays a striking smoke-ring-like structure. The golden loop is made of Sun-like stars that have been pulled deep into space, far from the galaxy's center, by the gravity of a nearby galaxy that lies just out of view.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2015/04/3482-Image.html", "year": 2011 }, { "date": "October 25 2019", "image": "october-25-2019-30-doradus-nebula.jpg", "name": "30 Doradus Nebula", "caption": "This massive, young stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides in the 30 Doradus Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/32/2649-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "October 26 2019", "image": "october-26-2019-star-clusters-in-the-tarantula-nebula.jpg", "name": "Star Clusters in the Tarantula Nebula", "caption": "The Tarantula Nebula is an enormous star-forming region located 170,000 light-years from Earth. The collection of stars in the core of the nebula, shown here, is made up of two individual star clusters that differ in age by about a million years.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2012/35/3087-Image.html?itemsPerPage=100&page=4&filterUUID=8a87f02e-e18b-4126-8133-2576f4fdc5e2&news=true", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "October 27 2019", "image": "october-27-2019-interacting-galaxies-arp-147.jpg", "name": "Interacting Galaxies Arp 147", "caption": "Arp 147 consists of a pair of interacting galaxies. The left-most galaxy in this image appears nearly edge-on to our line of sight and features a smooth ring of starlight. The right-most galaxy exhibits a clumpy, blue ring of intense star formation.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/37/2422-Image.html", "year": 2008 }, { "date": "October 28 2019", "image": "october-28-2019-mars.jpg", "name": "Mars", "caption": "This image captures a dust storm on Mars. The dust storm, which is nearly in the middle of the planet in this image, is about 930 miles long measured diagonally.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2005/34/1803-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "October 29 2019", "image": "october-29-2019-asteroid-p-2013-r3.jpg", "name": "Asteroid P/2013 R3", "caption": "This image shows an asteroid called P/2013 R3 as it was breaking apart. The asteroid’s fragments were slowly drifting away from each other and had tails of dust pushed back by the pressure of sunlight.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2014/15/3321-Image.html", "year": 2013 }, { "date": "October 30 2019", "image": "october-30-2019-star-cluster-ngc-290.jpg", "name": "Star Cluster NGC 290", "caption": "This image features a cluster of stars called NGC 290. The star cluster resides in the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the small galaxies orbiting our Milky Way galaxy.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2006/17/1899-Image.html", "year": 2004 }, { "date": "October 31 2019", "image": "october-31-2019-nebula-ngc-281.jpg", "name": "Nebula NGC 281", "caption": "The dark knots of gas and dust in this image are called \"Bok globules,\" and they are absorbing light in the center of the nearby nebula and star-forming region called NGC 281.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2006/13/1872-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "November 1 2019", "image": "november-1-2019-globular-cluster-ngc-2808.jpg", "name": "Globular Cluster NGC 2808", "caption": "This dense swarm of stars lies at the center of the globular star cluster NGC 2808. Of the about 150 known globular clusters in our Milky Way galaxy, NGC 2808 is one of the most massive, containing more than a million stars.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/18/2124-Image.html", "year": 2006 }, { "date": "November 2 2019", "image": "november-2-2019-hubble-ultra-deep-field.jpg", "name": "Hubble Ultra Deep Field", "caption": "This image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field includes infrared observations that allowed Hubble to peer deeper into the universe than it ever had before. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are galaxies that formed 600 million years after the big bang.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/31/2644-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "November 3 2019", "image": "november-3-2019-einstein-ring-sdss-j0946-1006.jpg", "name": "Einstein Ring SDSS J0946+1006", "caption": "Einstein rings like this form when two galaxies are almost perfectly aligned, one behind the other, and the gravitational field of the closer galaxy bends the light from the more distant galaxy into bright arcs around itself.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/04/2245-Image.html", "year": 2006 }, { "date": "November 4 2019", "image": "november-4-2019-supernova-remnant-0509-67-5.jpg", "name": "Supernova Remnant 0509-67.5", "caption": "This red bubble is made of gas that is being shocked by the expanding blast wave from a supernova explosion. Called SNR 0509-67.5, the bubble is 23 light-years across and is expanding at more than 11 million miles per hour.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/27/2759-Image.html", "year": 2010 }, { "date": "November 5 2019", "image": "november-5-2019-horsehead-nebula.jpg", "name": "Horsehead Nebula", "caption": "The backlit wisps along the Horsehead Nebula's upper ridge are being illuminated by a young five-star system just off the top of this image, taken in infrared light. Harsh radiation from one of these bright stars is slowly evaporating the nebula.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2013/12/3165-Image.html", "year": 2012 }, { "date": "November 6 2019", "image": "november-6-2019-storm-on-neptune.png", "name": "Storm on Neptune", "caption": "This image reveals a dark storm on Neptune, seen at top center. The storm is roughly 6,800 miles across. To the right of the dark feature are bright white \"companion clouds,\" which have also been seen alongside previous storms on Neptune.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2019/06/4320-Image.html?itemsPerPage=100&page=1&filterUUID=8a87f02e-e18b-4126-8133-2576f4fdc5e2&news=true", "year": 2018 }, { "date": "November 7 2019", "image": "november-7-2019-horsehead-nebula.jpg", "name": "Horsehead Nebula", "caption": "The backlit wisps along the Horsehead Nebula's upper ridge are being illuminated by a young five-star system just off the top of this image, taken in infrared light. Harsh radiation from one of these bright stars is slowly evaporating the nebula.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2013/12/3165-Image.html", "year": 2012 }, { "date": "November 8 2019", "image": "november-8-2019-star-cluster-ngc-265.jpg", "name": "Star Cluster NGC 265", "caption": "This image displays a cluster of stars called NGC 265. The cluster resides in the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the small galaxies orbiting our Milky Way galaxy.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2006/17/1899-Image.html", "year": 2004 }, { "date": "November 9 2019", "image": "november-9-2019-galaxy-ngc-4150.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 4150", "caption": "This image captures the ancient ellipitical galaxy NGC 4150, located about 44 million light-years away. It shows streamers of dust and gas wrapped around the galaxy's core. Closer views of the core reveal clumps of young, blue stars less than a billion years old.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2010/news-2010-38.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "November 10 2019", "image": "november-10-2019-galaxy-ngc-1600.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 1600", "caption": "The huge elliptical galaxy NGC 1600 is located 209 million light-years from Earth. The black hole that lurks at the center of the galaxy is one of the most massive black holes ever detected and 10 times more massive than expected for a galaxy of its size.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2016/12/3723-Image.html", "year": 1998 }, { "date": "November 11 2019", "image": "november-11-2019-interacting-galaxies-ngc-2207-and-ic-2163.jpg", "name": "Interacting Galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163", "caption": "This image shows two interacting galaxies. The larger and more massive galaxy on the left is NGC 2207, and the smaller one on the right is IC 2163. Strong tidal forces from NGC 2207 have distorted the shape of IC 2163.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1999/41/914-Image.html", "year": 1998 }, { "date": "November 12 2019", "image": "november-12-2019-galaxy-pair-ngc-6090.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Pair NGC 6090", "caption": "NGC 6090 is a pair of spiral galaxies with overlapping central regions and two long tidal tails made of material ripped out of the galaxies by gravitational interactions. The two visible cores are approximately 10,000 light-years apart.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/16/2310-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "November 13 2019", "image": "november-13-2019-nebula-n44c.jpg", "name": "Nebula N44C", "caption": "These wispy clouds of glowing gas make up a nebula known as N44C. It is part of the larger N44 complex, which includes young, hot, massive stars, other nebulas, and a \"superbubble\" blown out by multiple supernova explosions.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2002/12/1193-Image.html", "year": 1996 }, { "date": "November 14 2019", "image": "november-14-2019-reflection-nebula-n30b.jpg", "name": "Reflection Nebula N30B", "caption": "A unique, peanut-shaped cocoon of dust surrounds a cluster of young, hot stars in this image. This reflection nebula, named N30B, is embedded in a much larger nebula called DEM L 106. The wispy filaments of DEM L 106 fill much of the image.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2002/29/1272-Image.html", "year": 1998 }, { "date": "November 15 2019", "image": "november-15-2019-planetary-nebula-ngc-2371.jpg", "name": "Planetary Nebula NGC 2371", "caption": "This image captures the planetary nebula NGC 2371, the glowing remains of a Sun-like star. The remnant star visible at the center of NGC 2371 is the super-hot core of the former red giant, now stripped of its outer layers.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/13/2277-Image.html", "year": 2007 }, { "date": "November 16 2019", "image": "november-16-2019-galaxy-ngc-1052-df2.png", "name": "Galaxy NGC 1052-DF2", "caption": "This galaxy, NGC 1052-DF2, is so diffuse we can see right through it to view more distant galaxies located behind it. The unusual galaxy is also missing most, if not all, of its dark matter.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2018/16/4139-Image.html", "year": 2016 }, { "date": "November 17 2019", "image": "november-17-2019-v838-monocerotis-light-echo.jpg", "name": "V838 Monocerotis Light Echo", "caption": "This image captures a light echo from the star V838 Monocerotis. After the star brightened temporarily, light from that eruption began propagating outward through a dusty cloud around the star. The light reflects or \"echoes\" off the dust and then travels to Earth.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2006/50/2005-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "November 18 2019", "image": "november-18-2019-galaxy-cluster-cl-0024-17.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster Cl 0024+17", "caption": "In this image of the galaxy cluster Cl 0024+17, blue streaks are images of very distant galaxies that are behind the cluster. The distant galaxies appear distorted because their light is bent and magnified by the cluster's gravity.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/17/2122-Image.html", "year": 2004 }, { "date": "November 19 2019", "image": "november-19-2019-dumbbell-nebula.jpg", "name": "Dumbbell Nebula", "caption": "This image captures a small part of the Dumbbell Nebula, which resides more than 1,200 light-years away. Known as a planetary nebula, it is the result of an old star that has shed its outer layers in a glowing display of color. It was the first planetary nebula ever discovered.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2003/06/1295-Image.html", "year": 2001 }, { "date": "November 20 2019", "image": "november-20-2019-interacting-galaxies-arp-148.jpg", "name": "Interacting Galaxies Arp 148", "caption": "Arp 148 is the aftermath of an encounter between two galaxies, resulting in a ring-shaped galaxy and an elongated companion. The shapes and arrangement of the galaxies suggest that this is a snapshot of an ongoing collision.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/16/2309-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "November 21 2019", "image": "november-21-2019-galaxy-cluster-macs-j1149-6-2223.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster MACS J1149.6+2223", "caption": "This massive cluster of galaxies is MACS J1149.6+2223. In this image, light from a distant supernova appears in four different places. The multiple supernova images are created as the exploding star's light is bent by the powerful gravity of a large galaxy in the cluster.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2015/08/3496-Image.html", "year": 2014 }, { "date": "November 22 2019", "image": "november-22-2019-galaxy-ngc-1313.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 1313", "caption": "This image captures the central region of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1313. The galaxy is located roughly 14 million light-years away in the constellation Reticulum.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/05/2044-Image.html", "year": 2003 }, { "date": "November 23 2019", "image": "november-23-2019-galaxy-cluster-abell-2744.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster Abell 2744", "caption": "Located 3.5 billion light-years away, Abell 2744 contains several hundred galaxies and might be a pile-up of at least four smaller galaxy clusters. Abell 2744’s strong gravitational field acts as a lens, brightening and magnifying the light of nearly 3,000 distant background galaxies.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/3868-Image", "year": 2013 }, { "date": "November 24 2019", "image": "november-24-2019-galaxy-cluster-abell-2744.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster Abell 2744", "caption": "Located 3.5 billion light-years away, Abell 2744 contains several hundred galaxies and might be a pile-up of at least four smaller galaxy clusters. Abell 2744’s strong gravitational field acts as a lens, brightening and magnifying the light of nearly 3,000 distant background galaxies.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/3868-Image", "year": 2013 }, { "date": "November 25 2019", "image": "november-25-2019-star-cluster-westerlund-2.jpg", "name": "Star Cluster Westerlund 2", "caption": "This image captures a giant cluster of about 3,000 stars called Westerlund 2. The cluster resides inside a vibrant stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29, located 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Carina.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2015/12/3519-Image.html", "year": 2014 }, { "date": "November 26 2019", "image": "november-26-2019-galaxy-ngc-3079.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 3079", "caption": "This image reveals the dramatic activities within the core of the galaxy NGC 3079, where a bubble of hot gas is rising from a cauldron of glowing material. The structure is more than 3,000 light-years wide and rises 3,500 light-years above the galaxy's disk.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2001/28/1096-Image.html", "year": 1998 }, { "date": "November 27 2019", "image": "november-27-2019-planetary-nebula-ngc-2818.jpg", "name": "Planetary Nebula NGC 2818", "caption": "The spectacular structure of the planetary nebula NGC 2818 contains the outer layers of a dying star that were expelled into interstellar space. Our own Sun will undergo a similar process, but not for another 5 billion years or so.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/05/2464-Image.html", "year": 2008 }, { "date": "November 28 2019", "image": "november-28-2019-supernova-1987a.jpg", "name": "Supernova 1987A", "caption": "Many bright spots glow along a ring of gas like pearls on a necklace. These cosmic \"pearls\" are produced as a shock wave from a supernova called SN 1987A slams into the gas ring at more than a million miles per hour. The collision heats the ring, causing it to glow.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/09/1475-Image.html", "year": 2003 }, { "date": "November 29 2019", "image": "november-29-2019-mars.jpg", "name": "Mars", "caption": "Hubble took this image of Mars as part of a sequence tracking a storm near the planet's northern polar cap. The remnants of the storm are visible as salmon-colored streaks against the cap.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1996/news-1996-34.html", "year": 1996 }, { "date": "November 30 2019", "image": "november-30-2019-star-cluster-westerlund-2.jpg", "name": "Star Cluster Westerlund 2", "caption": "This image captures a giant cluster of about 3,000 stars called Westerlund 2. The cluster resides inside a vibrant stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29, located 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Carina.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2015/12/3519-Image.html", "year": 2014 }, { "date": "December 1 2019", "image": "december-1-2019-mars.jpg", "name": "Mars", "caption": "Hubble captured this image of Mars soon before the planet made its closest approach to Earth in 2007. White clouds cover the north polar region. The long, dark feature to the lower left of center is the canyon system Valles Marineris.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/45/2224-Image.html", "year": 2007 }, { "date": "December 2 2019", "image": "december-2-2019-whirlpool-galaxy-in-infrared.jpg", "name": "Whirlpool Galaxy in Infrared", "caption": "This image reveals the Whirlpool galaxy's skeletal dust structure, as seen in infrared light. The red color in this infrared image traces the galaxy's dust, which is punctuated by hundreds of clumps of stars, each about 65 light-years wide.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2011/03/2810-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "December 3 2019", "image": "december-3-2019-nebula-and-star-cluster-ngc-3603.jpg", "name": "Nebula and Star Cluster NGC 3603", "caption": "In NGC 3603, a glittering cluster of stars is surrounded by clouds of gas and dust. The cluster contains some of the most massive stars known. These huge stars live fast and die young, ultimately ending their lives in supernova explosions.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/22/2750-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "December 4 2019", "image": "december-4-2019-andromeda-galaxy-halo.jpg", "name": "Andromeda Galaxy Halo", "caption": "This image captures the light from 300,000 stars (and a star cluster) in the Andromeda galaxy's halo, a vast spherical cloud of stars surrounding the galaxy's bright disk. Also embedded in the image are many background galaxies that are much farther away.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2003/15/1338-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "December 5 2019", "image": "december-5-2019-galaxy-m81.jpg", "name": "Galaxy M81", "caption": "The arms of the \"grand design\" spiral galaxy M81 are filled with young, bluish, hot stars. The greenish regions in the image are bright, gaseous clouds where new stars are forming.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/19/2127-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "December 6 2019", "image": "december-6-2019-supernova-1987a.jpg", "name": "Supernova 1987A", "caption": "This image shows the remnant of Supernova 1987A, a stellar explosion in a nearby galaxy that astronomers witnessed in 1987. A shock wave of material unleashed by the stellar blast is slamming into a surrounding ring of gas, causing it to glow.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/30/2768-Image.html", "year": 2006 }, { "date": "December 7 2019", "image": "december-7-2019-southern-ring-nebula.jpg", "name": "Southern Ring Nebula", "caption": "This image of the Southern Ring Nebula clearly shows two stars near the center of the nebula: a bright, white one, and a fainter companion to its upper right. The faint star is actually the star that has ejected the material that forms the nebula.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1998/39/729-Image.html", "year": 1995 }, { "date": "December 8 2019", "image": "december-8-2019-supernova-1987a.jpg", "name": "Supernova 1987A", "caption": "This image shows the remnant of Supernova 1987A, a stellar explosion in a nearby galaxy that astronomers witnessed in 1987. A shock wave of material unleashed by the stellar blast is slamming into a surrounding ring of gas, causing it to glow.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/30/2768-Image.html", "year": 2006 }, { "date": "December 9 2019", "image": "december-9-2019-supernova-1987a.jpg", "name": "Supernova 1987A", "caption": "This image shows the remnant of Supernova 1987A, a stellar explosion in a nearby galaxy that astronomers witnessed in 1987. A shock wave of material unleashed by the stellar blast is slamming into a surrounding ring of gas, causing it to glow.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/30/2768-Image.html", "year": 2006 }, { "date": "December 10 2019", "image": "december-10-2019-galaxy-m81.jpg", "name": "Galaxy M81", "caption": "The arms of the \"grand design\" spiral galaxy M81 are filled with young, bluish, hot stars. The greenish regions in the image are bright, gaseous clouds where new stars are forming.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/19/2127-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "December 11 2019", "image": "december-11-2019-galaxy-m81.jpg", "name": "Galaxy M81", "caption": "The arms of the \"grand design\" spiral galaxy M81 are filled with young, bluish, hot stars. The greenish regions in the image are bright, gaseous clouds where new stars are forming.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/19/2127-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "December 12 2019", "image": "december-12-2019-galaxy-cluster-sdss-j1004-4112.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster SDSS J1004+4112", "caption": "This picture captures a galaxy cluster called SDSS J1004+4112 that's so massive that its gravity bends light from galaxies behind it. The light of a distant quasar (the brilliant core of an active galaxy) has been bent around the cluster, appearing in five places in this image.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2006/23/1929-Image.html?itemsPerPage=100&page=6&filterUUID=8a87f02e-e18b-4126-8133-2576f4fdc5e2&news=true", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "December 13 2019", "image": "december-13-2019-comet-wirtanen.png", "name": "Comet Wirtanen", "caption": "In this image, the nucleus of comet 46P/Wirtanen is hidden in the center of a fuzzy glow from the comet's coma. The coma is a cloud of gas and dust that the comet has ejected as it is heated by the Sun during its passage through the inner solar system.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2018/63/4300-Image.html", "year": 2018 }, { "date": "December 14 2019", "image": "december-14-2019-galaxy-cluster-macs-j1149-6-2223.jpg", "name": "Galaxy Cluster MACS J1149.6+2223", "caption": "This massive cluster of galaxies is MACS J1149.6+2223. In this image, light from a distant supernova appears in four different places. The multiple supernova images are created as the exploding star's light is bent by the powerful gravity of a large galaxy in the cluster.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2015/08/3496-Image.html", "year": 2014 }, { "date": "December 15 2019", "image": "december-15-2019-galaxy-m81.jpg", "name": "Galaxy M81", "caption": "The arms of the \"grand design\" spiral galaxy M81 are filled with young, bluish, hot stars. The greenish regions in the image are bright, gaseous clouds where new stars are forming.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/19/2127-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "December 16 2019", "image": "december-16-2019-andromeda-galaxy-halo.jpg", "name": "Andromeda Galaxy Halo", "caption": "This image captures the light from 300,000 stars (and a star cluster) in the Andromeda galaxy's halo, a vast spherical cloud of stars surrounding the galaxy's bright disk. Also embedded in the image are many background galaxies that are much farther away.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2003/15/1338-Image.html", "year": 2002 }, { "date": "December 17 2019", "image": "december-17-2019-interacting-galaxies-arp-273.jpg", "name": "Interacting Galaxies Arp 273", "caption": "Arp 273 is of a pair of interacting galaxies that form a shape resembling a rose. The larger of the spiral galaxies, known as UGC 1810, has a disk that is distorted by the gravitational pull of the galaxy below it, known as UGC 1813.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2011/11/2836-Image.html", "year": 2010 }, { "date": "December 18 2019", "image": "december-18-2019-hubble-deep-field.jpg", "name": "Hubble Deep Field", "caption": "Called the Hubble Deep Field, this image captures several hundred galaxies that had never been seen before. Some galaxies are near and some are very far. Their various shapes and colors provide clues about the evolution of the universe.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1996/01/385-Image.html", "year": 1995 }, { "date": "December 19 2019", "image": "december-19-2019-hubble-deep-field.jpg", "name": "Hubble Deep Field", "caption": "Called the Hubble Deep Field, this image captures several hundred galaxies that had never been seen before. Some galaxies are near and some are very far. Their various shapes and colors provide clues about the evolution of the universe.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1996/01/385-Image.html", "year": 1995 }, { "date": "December 20 2019", "image": "december-20-2019-globular-cluster-m15.jpg", "name": "Globular Cluster M15", "caption": "These stars belong to the globular cluster M15. Nestled among them is an astronomical oddity. The pinkish object to the upper left of the cluster's core is a gas cloud surrounding a dying star. Known as Kuestner 648, this was the first planetary nebula found in a globular cluster.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2000/25/981-Image.html", "year": 1998 }, { "date": "December 21 2019", "image": "december-21-2019-hubble-deep-field.jpg", "name": "Hubble Deep Field", "caption": "Called the Hubble Deep Field, this image captures several hundred galaxies that had never been seen before. Some galaxies are near and some are very far. Their various shapes and colors provide clues about the evolution of the universe.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1996/01/385-Image.html", "year": 1995 }, { "date": "December 22 2019", "image": "december-22-2019-galaxy-ngc-4214.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 4214", "caption": "The dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 is ablaze with young stars and gas clouds. This image captures intricate patterns of glowing hydrogen shaped during the star-birthing process, cavities blown clear of gas by stellar winds, and bright stellar clusters.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2011/14/2844-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "December 23 2019", "image": "december-23-2019-galaxy-ngc-4214.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 4214", "caption": "The dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 is ablaze with young stars and gas clouds. This image captures intricate patterns of glowing hydrogen shaped during the star-birthing process, cavities blown clear of gas by stellar winds, and bright stellar clusters.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2011/14/2844-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "December 24 2019", "image": "december-24-2019-galaxy-ngc-4214.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 4214", "caption": "The dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 is ablaze with young stars and gas clouds. This image captures intricate patterns of glowing hydrogen shaped during the star-birthing process, cavities blown clear of gas by stellar winds, and bright stellar clusters.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2011/14/2844-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "December 25 2019", "image": "december-25-2019-galaxy-ngc-4214.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 4214", "caption": "The dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 is ablaze with young stars and gas clouds. This image captures intricate patterns of glowing hydrogen shaped during the star-birthing process, cavities blown clear of gas by stellar winds, and bright stellar clusters.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2011/14/2844-Image.html", "year": 2009 }, { "date": "December 26 2019", "image": "december-26-2019-hubble-deep-field.jpg", "name": "Hubble Deep Field", "caption": "Called the Hubble Deep Field, this image captures several hundred galaxies that had never been seen before. Some galaxies are near and some are very far. Their various shapes and colors provide clues about the evolution of the universe.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1996/01/385-Image.html", "year": 1995 }, { "date": "December 27 2019", "image": "december-27-2019-galaxy-ngc-2976.jpg", "name": "Galaxy NGC 2976", "caption": "This picture shows the inner region of NGC 2976, located roughly 11 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Despite the lack of well-defined arms visible in this image, NGC 2976 is a spiral galaxy.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2010/05/2682-Image.html", "year": 2006 }, { "date": "December 28 2019", "image": "december-28-2019-galaxy-i-zwicky-18.jpg", "name": "Galaxy I Zwicky 18", "caption": "This image captures the irregular dwarf galaxy I Zwicky 18 and a companion galaxy to its upper right. The two galaxies are interacting, triggering star formation in I Zwicky 18.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/35/1621-Image.html", "year": 1997 }, { "date": "December 29 2019", "image": "december-29-2019-nebula-and-star-cluster-ngc-3603.jpg", "name": "Nebula and Star Cluster NGC 3603", "caption": "In NGC 3603, thousands of sparkling, young stars are nestled within a giant nebula. This stellar \"jewel box\" is one of the most massive young star clusters in our Milky Way galaxy.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/34/2189-Image.html", "year": 2005 }, { "date": "December 30 2019", "image": "december-30-2019-stephan-s-quintet.jpg", "name": "Stephan's Quintet", "caption": "This close-up shows four of the five galaxies that make up Stephan’s Quintet. The image reveals bright, blue clusters of stars, born from the violent interactions between some of the member galaxies.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2001/22/1082-Image.html", "year": 1998 }, { "date": "December 31 2019", "image": "december-31-2019-galaxy-m81.jpg", "name": "Galaxy M81", "caption": "The arms of the \"grand design\" spiral galaxy M81 are filled with young, bluish, hot stars. The greenish regions in the image are bright, gaseous clouds where new stars are forming.", "url": "https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/19/2127-Image.html", "year": 2006 } ]