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	NASA Adjusts Target Launch Date for Last Mission to Hubble (09.05.2008) Launch of shuttle Atlantis' STS-125 mission to Hubble is now targeted for Oct. 10 + Read More Joint Integrated Simulation Held at JSC and GSFC (08.22.2008) A Joint Integrated Simulation (JIS) was held and supported by both Johnson Space Center and Goddard Space Flight Center + Read More SM4 EVA Astronauts Practice Installing WFC3 During Final Underwater Training (08.15.2008) SM4 Astronauts practice installing Hubble's new Wide Field Camera 3 during final underwater training at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center + Read More + View Hubble Program News Archive Images of Hubble View images of Hubble and astronauts working on it. + View Images


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A Clash of Clusters Provides New Clue to Dark Matter 27 Aug 2008

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A powerful collision of galaxy clusters has been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory. The observations of the cluster known as MACS J0025.4-1222 indicate that a titanic collision has separated the dark from ordinary matter and provide an independent confirmation of a similar effect detected previously in a target dubbed the Bullet Cluster. These new results show that the Bullet Cluster is not an anomalous case.

Hubble Sees Magnetic Monster in Erupting Galaxy 20 Aug 2008

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found an answer to a long-standing puzzle by resolving giant but delicate filaments shaped by a strong magnetic field around the active galaxy NGC 1275. It is the most striking example of the influence of the immense tentacles of extragalactic magnetic fields. The galaxy was photographed in July and August 2006 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys in three color filters.

Hubble Unveils Colorful and Turbulent Star-Birth Region on 100,000th Orbit Milestone 11 Aug 2008

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In commemoration of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope completing its 100,000th orbit in its 18th year of exploration and discovery, scientists at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., have aimed Hubble to take a snapshot of a dazzling region of celestial birth and renewal. Hubble peered into a small portion of the nebula near the star cluster NGC 2074 (upper, left). The region is a firestorm of raw stellar creation, perhaps triggered by a nearby supernova explosion. It lies about 170,000 light-years away near the Tarantula nebula, one of the most active star-forming regions in our Local Group of galaxies. This representative color image was taken on August 10, 2008, with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. Red shows emission from sulfur atoms, green from glowing hydrogen, and blue from glowing oxygen.

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