4/4/2013STScI-2013-111.Hubble Breaks Record in Search for Farthest Supernova
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a star detonated with enough energy to briefly shine with an intrinsic brightness of one billion of our suns. (More)
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12/12/2012STScI-2012-482.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)
12/21/2011STScI-2011-429.Distant Galaxy Bursts with Stars
One of the most distant galaxies known, called GN-108036, dates back to 750 million years after the Big Bang that created our universe. The galaxy's light took 12.9 billion... (More)
9/15/2011STScI-2011-2712.Even Low-Mass Galaxies Can Harbor Supermassive Black Holes
Using the slitless grism on Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 to probe the distant universe, astronomers have found supermassive black holes growing... (More)
4/12/2011STScI-2011-1213.NASA Telescopes Help Discover Surprisingly Young Galaxy
Astronomers have uncovered one of the youngest galaxies in the distant universe, with stars that formed 13.5 billion years ago, a mere 200 million years after the Big Bang. (More)
1/5/2010STScI-2010-0117.Galaxy History Revealed in This Colorful Hubble View
More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this unprecedented, panoramic, full-color view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. (More)
7/29/2008STScI-2008-2920.Barred Spiral Galaxies Are Latecomers to the Universe
In a landmark study of more than 2,000 spiral galaxies from the largest galaxy census conducted by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers found that so-called... (More)