2012

• 12/21/2012 STScI-2012-50 1. New Free E-books Available about Two Famous NASA Space Telescopes NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been providing astounding images of the universe since April 1990 and has led to remarkable discoveries. (More)
• 12/18/2012 STScI-2012-49 2. A Cosmic Holiday Ornament, Hubble-Style 'Tis the season for holiday decorating and tree-trimming. Not to be left out, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have photographed a festive-looking nearby planetary... (More)
• 12/12/2012 STScI-2012-48 3. Hubble Provides First Census of Galaxies Near Cosmic Dawn Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a previously unseen population of seven primitive galaxies that formed more than 13 billion... (More)
• 12/6/2012 STScI-2012-45 4. Hubble Sees a Galaxy Hit a Bull's-Eye Bright pink nebulae almost completely encircle a spiral galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 922. The ring structure and the galaxy's distorted... (More)
• 11/30/2012 STScI-2012-42 5. 'Dark Core' May Not Be So Dark After All Now you see it, now you don't. Douglas Clowe of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, is reporting on new Hubble observations that do not find an unusually... (More)
• 11/29/2012 STScI-2012-47 6. A Multi-Wavelength View of Radio Galaxy Hercules A Spectacular jets powered by the gravitational energy of a supermassive black hole in the core of the elliptical galaxy Hercules A illustrate the combined imaging... (More)
• 11/15/2012 STScI-2012-36 7. NASA Great Observatories Find Candidate for Most Distant Galaxy Yet Known By combining the power of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and one of nature's own natural "zoom lenses" in space, astronomers... (More)
• 11/1/2012 STScI-2012-44 8. Asteroid Belts of Just the Right Size are Friendly to Life Solar systems with life-bearing planets may be rare if they are dependent on the presence of asteroid belts of just the right mass, according... (More)
• 10/29/2012 STScI-2012-46 9. Additional Kepler Data Now Available to All Planet Hunters The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., is releasing 12 additional months worth of planet-searching data meticulously collected... (More)
• 10/25/2012 STScI-2012-24 10. Monster Galaxy May Have Been Stirred Up By Black-hole Mischief Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of a whopper of an elliptical... (More)
• 10/23/2012 STScI-2012-43 11. Dr. Kathryn Flanagan Appointed Deputy Director of STScI Dr. Kathryn Flanagan has been appointed the Deputy Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md. STScI is the science operations... (More)
• 9/25/2012 STScI-2012-37 12. Hubble Goes to the eXtreme to Assemble Farthest Ever View of the Universe Like photographers assembling a portfolio of best shots, astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind's deepest-ever... (More)
• 9/19/2012 STScI-2012-31 13. NASA Telescopes Spy Ultra-Distant Galaxy Amidst Cosmic 'Dark Ages' With the combined power of NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, as well as a cosmic magnification effect, astronomers have spotted... (More)
• 9/6/2012 STScI-2012-38 14. Odd Galaxy Couple on Space Voyage Two very different galaxies drift through space together in this image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The peculiar galaxy pair is called Arp 116. Arp 116 is composed... (More)
• 8/23/2012 STScI-2012-40 15. Hubble's Photo Contest Selects Winners Congratulations to the winners of the European Space Agency's Hubble's Hidden Treasures Competition! The Hubble's Hidden Treasures contest asked amateur image processors... (More)
• 8/16/2012 STScI-2012-35 16. Hubble Watches Star Clusters on a Collision Course Astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have caught two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. The 30 Doradus... (More)
• 7/26/2012 STScI-2012-33 17. ESO Telescopes Find Most Stellar Heavyweights Don't Live Alone A new study using European Southern Observatory (ESO) telescopes, including the Very Large Telescope, has shown that most very bright high-mass... (More)
• 7/17/2012 STScI-2012-28 18. Why Is Earth So Dry? With large swaths of oceans, rivers that snake for hundreds of miles, and behemoth glaciers near the north and south poles, Earth doesn't seem to have a water shortage. (More)
• 7/11/2012 STScI-2012-32 19. Hubble Discovers a Fifth Moon Orbiting Pluto A team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is reporting the discovery of another moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The moon is estimated to be irregular... (More)
• 7/10/2012 STScI-2012-26 20. Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Astronomers have puzzled over why some puny, extremely faint dwarf galaxies spotted in our Milky Way galaxy's back yard contain so few stars. These ghost-like galaxies are thought... (More)