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2006 (continued)

4/27/2006 STScI-2006-18 21. Hubble Provides Spectacular Detail of a Comet's Breakup Hubble Space Telescope is providing astronomers with extraordinary views of Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3. The fragile comet is rapidly disintegrating as it approaches... (More)
4/11/2006 STScI-2006-16 22. Hubble Finds 'Tenth Planet' is Slightly Larger than Pluto NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has resolved the "tenth planet," nicknamed "Xena," for the first time and has found... (More)
3/10/2006 STScI-2006-15 23. Hubble's Latest Look at Pluto's Moons Supports a Common Birth The latest NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of Pluto's two newly discovered satellites reveal that the new moons have the same color as Charon. (More)
2/22/2006 STScI-2006-09 24. Hubble Confirms New Moons of Pluto Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the presence of two new moons around the distant planet Pluto. The moons were first discovered... (More)

12/22/2005 STScI-2005-33 25. NASA's Hubble Discovers New Rings and Moons Around Uranus Even though the Voyager 2 spacecraft paid a close-up visit to Uranus in 1986, the distant planet continues revealing surprises... (More)
11/3/2005 STScI-2005-34 26. Mars Kicks Up the Dust as it Makes Closest Approach to Earth NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped this picture of Mars on October 28, within a day of its closest approach... (More)
10/31/2005 STScI-2005-19 27. NASA's Hubble Reveals Possible New Moons Around Pluto NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted two possible new moons orbiting Pluto, the ninth planet in our solar system. If confirmed, the candidate moons could provide... (More)
10/19/2005 STScI-2005-29 28. NASA's Hubble Looks for Possible Moon Resources NASA has enlisted the Hubble Space Telescope's unique "vision" capabilities for making a new class of science observations of the Moon that support future human exploration. (More)
9/7/2005 STScI-2005-27 29. Largest Asteroid May Be 'Mini Planet' with Water Ice Observations of Ceres, the largest known asteroid, have revealed that the object may be a "mini planet," sharing many characteristics of the rocky, terrestrial... (More)
9/1/2005 STScI-2005-22 30. Hubble Makes Movie of Neptune's Dynamic Atmosphere NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the distant blue-green world, Neptune, and its satellites in this portrait. Astronomers used Hubble’s assortment of filters to pinpoint... (More)