2013

• 3/5/2013 STScI-2013-09 1. Gravitational Lens Creates Cartoon of Space Invader The universe is eerie enough without giving us an apparition of a 1980s video game alien attacker. This oddball-looking object is really a mirage created by the gravitational... (More)
• 2/21/2013 STScI-2013-07 2. Stellar Motions in Outer Halo Shed New Light on Milky Way Evolution Peering deep into the vast stellar halo that envelops our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered... (More)
• 2/5/2013 STScI-2013-06 3. Amateur and Professional Astronomers Team Up to Create a Cosmological Masterpiece Working with astronomical image processors at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., renowned astrophotographer Robert Gendler... (More)

2012

• 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)
• 10/25/2012 STScI-2012-24 8. 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)
• 9/6/2012 STScI-2012-38 9. 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)
• 7/10/2012 STScI-2012-26 10. 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)