2009

• 12/18/2009 STScI-2009-34 1. STScI Senior Astrophysicist Mario Livio Elected AAAS Fellow In November, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Council elected Space Telescope Science Institute's senior astrophysicist... (More)
• 12/16/2009 STScI-2009-33 2. Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris that is encircling... (More)
• 12/15/2009 STScI-2009-32 3. Hubble's Festive View of a Grand Star-Forming Region Just in time for the holidays: a Hubble Space Telescope picture postcard of hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds. The festive portrait... (More)
• 12/8/2009 STScI-2009-31 4. Hubble's Deepest View of Universe Unveils Never-Before-Seen Galaxies NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made the deepest image of the universe ever taken in near-infrared light. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are galaxies... (More)
• 11/18/2009 STScI-2009-30 5. Galaxy on Edge The magnificent galaxy NGC 4710 is tilted nearly edge-on to our view from Earth. This perspective allows astronomers to easily distinguish the central bulge of stars from its pancake-flat... (More)
• 11/10/2009 STScI-2009-28 6. NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy A never-before-seen view of the turbulent heart of our Milky Way galaxy is being unveiled by NASA on Nov. 10. This event will commemorate the 400 years since Galileo... (More)
• 11/5/2009 STScI-2009-29 7. Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth in M83, the Southern Pinwheel The spectacular new camera installed on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 in May has delivered the most detailed... (More)
• 10/14/2009 STScI-2009-27 8. Hubble Project Pioneer Rodger Doxsey Passes Away Dr. Rodger Doxsey, head of the Space Telescope Science Institute's (STScI) Hubble Mission Office, passed away on October 13 after a prolonged illness. (More)
• 10/9/2009 STScI-2009-26 9. Hubble Observes LCROSS Impact Event NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made a series of observations immediately preceding and following the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Centaur... (More)
• 9/9/2009 STScI-2009-25 10. Hubble Opens New Eyes on the Universe NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, ready to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the invisible backbone of the universe. (More)
• 8/5/2009 STScI-2009-24 11. Astronomers Find Hyperactive Galaxies in the Early Universe Even some galaxies may have been hyperactive youngsters. Looking almost 11 billion years into the past, astronomers have measured the motions... (More)
• 7/24/2009 STScI-2009-23 12. Hubble Captures Rare Jupiter Collision NASA scientists have interrupted the checkout and calibration of the Hubble Space Telescope to aim the recently refurbished observatory at a new expanding spot on the giant planet Jupiter. (More)
• 6/25/2009 STScI-2009-22 13. STScI Joins the Search for Other Earths in Space The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., is partnering on a historic search for Earth-size planets around other stars. (More)
• 5/10/2009 STScI-2009-21 14. Hubble Photographs a Planetary Nebula to Commemorate Decommissioning of Super Camera The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. (More)
• 5/7/2009 STScI-2009-08 15. Refined Hubble Constant Narrows Possible Explanations for Dark Energy Less than 100 years ago scientists didn't know if the universe was coming or going, literally. It even fooled the great mind of Albert Einstein. He assumed... (More)
• 4/30/2009 STScI-2009-19 16. Starbursts in Dwarf Galaxies are a Global Affair Bursts of star making in a galaxy have been compared to a Fourth of July fireworks display: They occur at a fast and furious pace, lighting... (More)
• 4/28/2009 STScI-2009-20 17. Space Telescope Science Institute Astrophysicist Elected to National Academy of Sciences Adam Riess was among 72 scientists elected today to membership in the National Academy of Sciences at the organization's 146th annual meeting... (More)
• 4/21/2009 STScI-2009-18 18. Hubble Celebrates Its 19th Anniversary with a "Fountain of Youth" Over the past 19 years Hubble has taken dozens of exotic pictures of galaxies going "bump in the night" as they collide with each other and have a variety... (More)
• 4/16/2009 STScI-2009-17 19. Galaxy Cluster MACS J0717 The most crowded collision of galaxy clusters has been identified by combining information from three different telescopes. This result gives scientists a chance to learn what happens... (More)
• 4/14/2009 STScI-2009-16 20. Hubble Witnesses Spectacular Flaring in Gas Jet from M87's Black Hole In our violent, discordant, and effervescent universe, reality always seems to be stranger than fiction. (More)