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12/8/2009 STScI-2009-31 21. 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)
9/9/2009 STScI-2009-25 22. 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)
5/7/2009 STScI-2009-08 23. 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)

7/29/2008 STScI-2008-29 24. 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)
5/20/2008 STScI-2008-20 25. Hubble Survey Finds Missing Matter, Probes Intergalactic Web In the May 20 issue of The Astrophysical Journal, Charles Danforth and Mike Shull (University of Colorado, Boulder) report on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope... (More)
4/29/2008 STScI-2008-15 26. Compact Galaxies in Early Universe Pack a Big Punch Imagine receiving an announcement touting the birth of a baby 20 inches long and weighing 180 pounds. After reading this puzzling message, you would immediately... (More)
2/19/2008 STScI-2008-09 27. Hubble Discovers 67 New Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies in the Distant Universe Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have compiled a large catalog of gravitational lenses in the distant universe. The catalog contains... (More)

9/6/2007 STScI-2007-31 28. Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes Find "Lego-Block" Galaxies in Early Universe NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes have joined forces to discover nine of the smallest, faintest, most compact galaxies ever observed... (More)
3/6/2007 STScI-2007-06 29. Hubble Pans Across Heavens to Harvest 50,000 Evolving Galaxies Several hundred images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have been woven together into a rich tapestry of at least 50,000 galaxies. The Hubble view is yielding... (More)
1/7/2007 STScI-2007-01 30. Hubble Maps the Cosmic Web of "Clumpy" Dark Matter in 3-D An international team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has created a three-dimensional map that provides... (More)

11/16/2006 STScI-2006-52 31. Hubble Finds Evidence for Dark Energy in the Young Universe Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that dark energy is not a new constituent of space, but rather has been present... (More)
9/21/2006 STScI-2006-12 32. NASA's Hubble Finds Hundreds of Young Galaxies in Early Universe Astronomers analyzing two of the deepest views of the cosmos made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered a gold mine of galaxies... (More)
9/13/2006 STScI-2006-44 33. Tracing the Evolution of the First Galaxies in the Universe A systematic search for the first bright galaxies to form in the early universe has revealed a dramatic jump in the number of such galaxies... (More)
5/23/2006 STScI-2006-23 34. Hubble Captures a "Five-Star" Rated Gravitational Lens NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first-ever picture of a group of five star-like images of a single distant quasar. (More)
1/10/2006 STScI-2006-04 35. Monster Black Holes Grow After Galactic Mergers An analysis of the Hubble Space Telescope's deepest view of the universe offers compelling evidence that monster black holes in the centers of galaxies... (More)

9/27/2005 STScI-2005-28 36. Spitzer and Hubble Team Up to Find "Big Baby" Galaxies in the Newborn Universe Astronomers have used the penetrating power of two of NASA's Great Observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes... (More)
8/4/2005 STScI-2005-20 37. Hubble Spies a Zoo of Galaxies Gazing deep into the universe, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spied a menagerie of galaxies. Located within the same tiny region of space, these numerous galaxies display... (More)

9/23/2004 STScI-2004-28 38. Hubble Approaches the Final Frontier: The Dawn of Galaxies Detailed analyses of mankind's deepest optical view of the universe, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), by several expert teams have at last identified... (More)
7/22/2004 STScI-2004-21 39. A Day in the Lives of Galaxies Like a photographer clicking random snapshots of a crowd of people, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken a view of an eclectic mix of galaxies. In taking this picture... (More)
6/2/2004 STScI-2004-49 40. Hubble Takes Faintest Spectroscopic Survey of Distant Galaxies Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have measured accurate distances to several faint, red galaxies seen in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, confirming... (More)