2011 (continued)

• 2/18/2011 STScI-2011-07 101. Astrophysicist Adam Riess Wins the 2011 Einstein Medal Adam Riess, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and a professor in physics and astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University, today was awarded... (More)
• 2/17/2011 STScI-2011-06 102. 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)
• 1/26/2011 STScI-2011-05 103. NASA's Hubble Finds Most Distant Galaxy Candidate Ever Seen in Universe How far is far? And, when do you know when you get there? This is not a Dr. Seuss riddle, but the ultimate "final frontier" confronting astronomers. (More)
• 1/13/2011 STScI-2011-03 104. 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)
• 1/12/2011 STScI-2011-04 105. In Deep Galaxy Surveys, Astronomers Get a Boost -- from Gravity Astronomers are finding that the idiom "can't see the forest for the trees" applies to the universe of galaxies as well. In a paper published... (More)
• 1/10/2011 STScI-2011-01 106. 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)
• 1/10/2011 STScI-2011-02 107. NASA's Hubble Finds that Puny Stars Pack a Big Punch A survey of more than 200,000 stars in our Milky Way galaxy has unveiled the sometimes petulant behavior of tiny dwarf stars. (More)

2010

• 12/14/2010 STScI-2010-27 108. Hubble Supernova Bubble Resembles Holiday Ornament A delicate sphere of gas, photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, floats serenely in the depths of space. The pristine shell, or bubble... (More)
• 11/18/2010 STScI-2010-38 109. 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-2010-37 110. 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)