Odd Couple Widely Separated by Time and Space: Appearances can be deceiving. In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, an odd celestial duo, the spiral galaxy NGC 4319 [center] and a quasar called Markarian 205 [upper right], appear to be neighbors. In reality, the two objects don't even live in the same city. They are separated by time and space. NGC 4319 is 80 million light-years from Earth. Markarian 205 (Mrk 205) is more than 14 times farther away, residing 1 billion light-years from Earth. The apparent close alignment of Mrk 205 and NGC 4319 is simply a matter of chance.

Name: Mrk205, NGC 4319, QSO B1219+7535
Type: Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : SpiralEarly Universe : Galaxy : Activity : AGN : Quasar
Category: Galaxies
Constellation: Draco
Release date: 3 October 2002, 06:00
Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Space Movie Reveals Shocking Secrets of the Crab Pulsar: Just when it seemed like the summer movie season had ended, two of NASA's Great Observatories have produced their own action movie. Multiple observations made over several months with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope captured the spectacle of matter and antimatter propelled to near the speed of light by the Crab pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star the size of Manhattan.

Name: Crab Pulsar
Type: Milky Way : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Neutron Star : Pulsar
Category: Stars
Constellation: Taurus
Distance: 6000 light years
Release date: 19 September 2002, 19:00
Credit: NASA/CXC/ASU/J. Hester et al., HST/ASU/J. Hester et al.

6 panel of Chandra & Hubble, full field: This comparison between the Chandra (left) and Hubble (right) images of the Crab Nebula shows 3 sets of full field views.

Name: Crab Nebula, Messier 1
Type: Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Supernova Remnant
Category: Nebulae
Distance: 6500 light years
Release date: 19 September 2002, 19:00
Credit: NASA/ESA/CXC/ASU/J. Hester et al., HST/ASU/J. Hester et al.

6 panel of Chandra & Hubble, close up: This close up view of the Chandra (left) and Hubble (right) images shows the motion of the wisps in 3 sets of the Crab Nebula joint observations.

Name: Crab Nebula, Messier 1
Type: Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Supernova Remnant
Category: Nebulae
Distance: 6500 light years
Release date: 19 September 2002, 19:00
Credit: NASA/ESA/CXC/ASU/J. Hester et al., HST/ASU/J. Hester et al.

Hubble - The Ghostbuster: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has caught a glimpse of a colorful cosmic ghost, the glowing remains of a dying star called NGC 6369. The glowing apparition is known to amateur astronomers as the 'Little Ghost Nebula', because it appears as a small, ghostly cloud surrounding the faint, dying central star.

Name: NGC 6369
Type: Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Planetary
Category: Nebulae
Constellation: Ophiuchus
Distance: 3500 light years
Release date: 7 November 2002, 06:00
Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Hubble makes precise measure of extrasolar world's true mass (artist's impression): An international team of astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to help make a precise measurement of the mass of a planet outside our solar system. The Hubble results show that the planet is 1.89 to 2.4 times as massive as Jupiter, our solar system's largest orbiting body. Previous estimates, about which there are some uncertainties, place the planet's mass at a much wider range: between 1.9 and 100 times that of Jupiter's. The planet, called Gliese 876b, orbits the star Gliese 876. It is only the second planet outside our solar system for which astronomers have determined a precise mass.

Name: Gliese 876b
Type: Milky Way : Star : Circumstellar Material : Planetary System
Category: Exoplanets
Distance: 20 light years
Release date: 3 December 2002, 06:00
Credit: NASA/ESA and G. Bacon (STScI)

Measuring minute variation of star Gl 876b: An international team of astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to help make a precise measurement of the mass of a planet outside our solar system. The Hubble results show that the planet is 1.89 to 2.4 times as massive as Jupiter, our solar system's largest orbiting body. Previous estimates, about which there are some uncertainties, place the planet's mass at a much wider range: between 1.9 and 100 times that of Jupiter's. The planet, called Gliese 876b, orbits the star Gliese 876. It is only the second planet outside our solar system for which astronomers have determined a precise mass.

Name: Gl 876b
Type: Milky Way : Star : Circumstellar Material : Planetary System
Category: Exoplanets
Distance: 15 light years
Release date: 3 December 2002, 06:00
Credit: NASA/ESA and A. Feild (STScI)

'Double Bubble' in Neighboring Galaxy: A unique peanut-shaped cocoon of dust, called a reflection nebula, surrounds a cluster of young, hot stars in this view from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The 'double bubble, ' called N30B, is inside a larger nebula, named DEM L 106. The larger nebula is embedded in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way located 160, 000 light-years away. The wispy filaments of DEM L 106 fill much of the image.

Name: DEM L 106, Large Magellanic Cloud, LHA 120-N 30B, N30B
Type: Local Universe : Nebula : Appearance : Reflection
Category: Nebulae
Constellation: Dorado
Distance: 170000 light years
Release date: 5 December 2002, 06:00
Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Hubble Looks Through Cosmic Zoom Lens: The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has used a natural 'zoom lens' in space to boost its view of the distant universe. Besides offering an unprecedented and dramatic new view of the cosmos, the results promise to shed light on galaxy evolution and dark matter in space. Hubble peered straight through the center of one of the most massive galaxy clusters known, called Abell 1689. For this observation, Hubble had to gaze at the distant cluster, located 2.2 billion light-years away, for more than 13 hours. The gravity of the cluster's trillion stars " plus dark matter " acts as a 2-million-light-year-wide 'lens' in space. This 'gravitational lens' bends and magnifies the light of galaxies located far behind it, distorting their shapes and creating multiple images of individual galaxies.

Name: Abell 1689
Type: Early Universe : Galaxy : Grouping : Supercluster
Category: CosmologyGalaxies
Constellation: Virgo
Distance: z=0.183 (redshift)
Release date: 7 March 2022, 16:00
Credit: NASA, N. Benitez (JHU), T. Broadhurst (The Hebrew University), H. Ford (JHU), M. Clampin(STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), G. Illingworth (UCO/Lick Observatory), the ACS Science Team and ESA

Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689 Details: The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has here used a natural "zoom lens" in space to peer straight through the center of one of the most massive galaxy clusters known, called Abell 1689. Some of the faintest objects in this picture are probably more than 13 billion light-years away.

Name: Abell 1689
Type: Early Universe : Galaxy : Grouping : Supercluster
Category: Galaxies
Constellation: Virgo
Distance: z=0.183 (redshift)
Release date: 7 January 2003, 18:20
Credit: NASA, N. Benitez (JHU), T. Broadhurst (The Hebrew University), H. Ford (JHU), M. Clampin(STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), G. Illingworth (UCO/Lick Observatory), the ACS Science Team and ESA