2011

• 11/22/2011 STScI-2011-35 21. NASA's Hubble Finds Stellar Life and Death in a Globular Cluster A new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows globular cluster NGC 1846, a spherical collection of hundreds of thousands... (More)
• 11/17/2011 STScI-2011-37 22. NASA's Hubble Confirms that Galaxies Are the Ultimate Recyclers Galaxies learned to "go green" early in the history of the universe, continuously recycling immense volumes of hydrogen gas and heavy elements to build successive... (More)
• 10/27/2011 STScI-2011-30 23. Astronomers Pin Down Galaxy Collision Rate A new analysis of Hubble surveys, including the All-Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey (AEGIS), the Cosmological Evolution Survey (COSMOS), and the Great Observatories... (More)
• 10/13/2011 STScI-2011-25 24. Ambitious Hubble Survey Obtaining New Dark Matter Census Cluster MACS J1206.2-0847 (or MACS 1206 for short) is one of the first targets in a Hubble Space Telescope survey that will allow astronomers to construct... (More)
• 9/29/2011 STScI-2011-28 25. Space Telescopes Reveal Secrets of Turbulent Black Hole An international team of astronomers using five different telescopes has uncovered striking features around a supermassive black hole in the core of the distant... (More)
• 6/22/2011 STScI-2011-17 26. Pandora's Cluster – Clash of the Titans A team of scientists studying the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster, have pieced together the cluster's complex and violent history using telescopes... (More)
• 6/16/2011 STScI-2011-18 27. Firestorm of Star Birth in the Active Galaxy Centaurus A Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Hubble's panchromatic vision... (More)
• 5/23/2011 STScI-2011-15 28. Hubble Views the Star that Changed the Universe Though the universe is filled with billions upon billions of stars, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been trained on a single variable star that in 1923 altered... (More)
• 5/12/2011 STScI-2011-14 29. Galaxy NGC 4214: A Star-Formation Laboratory The dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 is ablaze with young stars and gas clouds. Located around 10 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs), the galaxy's... (More)
• 4/20/2011 STScI-2011-11 30. NASA's Hubble Celebrates 21st Anniversary with "Rose" of Galaxies To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's deployment into space, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore... (More)
• 4/12/2011 STScI-2011-12 31. 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)
• 3/14/2011 STScI-2011-08 32. NASA's Hubble Rules Out One Alternative to Dark Energy Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have ruled out an alternate theory on the nature of dark energy after recalculating the expansion... (More)
• 2/17/2011 STScI-2011-06 33. Hubble Shows New Image of Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a majestic disk of stars and dust lanes in this view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2841, which lies 46 million light-years... (More)
• 1/13/2011 STScI-2011-03 34. The Two-faced Whirlpool Galaxy These images by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show off two dramatically different face-on views of the spiral galaxy M51, dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy. ... (More)
• 1/10/2011 STScI-2011-01 35. Hubble Zooms in on a Space Oddity A ghostly, glowing, green blob of gas has become one of astronomy's great cosmic mystery stories. The space oddity was spied in 2007 by Dutch high-school teacher... (More)

2010

• 11/18/2010 STScI-2010-38 36. Hubble Captures New Life in an Ancient Galaxy Elliptical galaxies were once thought to be aging star cities whose star-making heyday was billions of years ago. But new observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope... (More)
• 11/11/2010 STScI-2010-37 37. Detailed Dark Matter Map Yields Clues to Galaxy Cluster Growth Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope received a boost from a cosmic magnifying glass to construct one of the sharpest... (More)
• 10/19/2010 STScI-2010-36 38. Pinwheel of Star Birth This face-on spiral galaxy, called NGC 3982, is striking for its rich tapestry of star birth, along with its winding arms. The arms are lined with pink star-forming regions of glowing hydrogen... (More)
• 10/7/2010 STScI-2010-31 39. Hubble Astronomers Uncover an Overheated Early Universe If you think global warming is bad, 11 billion years ago the entire universe underwent, well, universal warming. The consequence was that fierce blasts of radiation... (More)
• 8/19/2010 STScI-2010-26 40. First Use of Cosmic Lens to Probe Dark Energy An international team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has devised a new method for measuring perhaps the greatest puzzle of our universe... (More)