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• 5/20/2008 STScI-2008-20 201. 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)
• 5/1/2008 STScI-2008-19 202. Riccardo Giacconi to Receive National Inventors Hall of Fame's Lifetime Achievement Award Riccardo Giacconi, founding director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., will receive the 2008 Lifetime... (More)
• 4/29/2008 STScI-2008-15 203. 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)
• 4/28/2008 STScI-2008-18 204. STScI and JHU Astronomer Adam Riess Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) astronomer and professor... (More)
• 4/24/2008 STScI-2008-16 205. Cosmic Collisions Galore! Astronomy textbooks typically present galaxies as staid, solitary, and majestic island worlds of glittering stars. But galaxies have a dynamical side. They have close encounters that sometimes... (More)
• 4/10/2008 STScI-2008-17 206. Hubble Pinpoints Record-Breaking Explosion Peering across 7.5 billion light-years and halfway back to the Big Bang, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the fading optical counterpart of a powerful... (More)
• 4/2/2008 STScI-2008-14 207. Astronomers Find Suspected Medium-Size Black Hole in Omega Centauri The core of the spectacular globular cluster Omega Centauri glitters with the combined light of 2 million stars. The entire cluster contains 10 million... (More)
• 3/19/2008 STScI-2008-11 208. Hubble Finds First Organic Molecule on an Exoplanet NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough... (More)
• 3/10/2008 STScI-2008-10 209. The Aesthetics of Hubble Images Showcased at Walters Art Museum Just as the early explorers ventured ever further into the oceans, recording the wonders they encountered, today's astronomers are probing farther... (More)
• 3/4/2008 STScI-2008-13 210. The Last Confessions of a Dying Star Probing a glowing bubble of gas and dust encircling a dying Sun-like star, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a wealth of previously unseen structures in planetary... (More)