2012

• 2/15/2012 STScI-2012-12 1. Astronomers Watch Delayed Broadcast of a Powerful Stellar Eruption Astronomers are watching a delayed broadcast of a spectacular outburst from the unstable, behemoth double-star system Eta Carinae, an event initially... (More)
• 2/2/2012 STScI-2012-08 2. Hubble Zooms in on a Magnified Galaxy A team of astronomers aimed Hubble at one of the most striking examples of gravitational lensing, a nearly 90-degree arc of light in the galaxy cluster RCS2 032727-132623. (More)
• 1/27/2012 STScI-2012-09 3. Space Telescope Science Institute Awarded for Being a "Best Place to Work" in Baltimore In its February 2012 issue, Baltimore Magazine has cited the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)... (More)
• 1/11/2012 STScI-2012-07 4. The Milky Way Contains at Least 100 Billion Planets According to Survey Our Milky Way galaxy contains a minimum of 100 billion planets according to a detailed statistical study based on the detection of three extrasolar... (More)
• 1/11/2012 STScI-2012-06 5. Hubble Solves Mystery on Source of Supernova in Nearby Galaxy Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have solved a longstanding mystery on the type of star, or so-called progenitor, that caused a supernova... (More)
• 1/11/2012 STScI-2012-02 6. NASA's Hubble Breaks New Ground with Distant Supernova Discovery NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a distant Type Ia supernova, the farthest stellar explosion that can be used to measure the expansion... (More)
• 1/11/2012 STScI-2012-04 7. Hubble Zooms in on Double Nucleus in Andromeda Galaxy A new Hubble Space Telescope image centers on the 100-million-solar-mass black hole at the hub of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31, or the Andromeda galaxy... (More)
• 1/11/2012 STScI-2012-03 8. Rare Ultra-blue Stars Found in Neighboring Galaxy's Hub Peering deep inside the hub of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a large, rare population of hot, bright stars. (More)
• 1/10/2012 STScI-2012-05 9. Hubble Pinpoints Farthest Protocluster of Galaxies Ever Seen NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a cluster of galaxies in the initial stages of construction — the most distant such grouping ever observed... (More)

2011

• 12/21/2011 STScI-2011-42 10. Distant Galaxy Bursts with Stars One of the most distant galaxies known, called GN-108036, dates back to 750 million years after the Big Bang that created our universe. The galaxy's light took 12.9 billion... (More)
• 12/19/2011 STScI-2011-41 11. Physicist and Former Astronaut John Grunsfeld to Head NASA Science Directorate NASA has named physicist and former astronaut John Grunsfeld as the new Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at the agency's... (More)
• 12/15/2011 STScI-2011-38 12. Hubble Serves Up a Holiday Snow Angel The bipolar star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106, or S106 for short, looks like a soaring, celestial snow angel. The outstretched "wings"... (More)
• 12/6/2011 STScI-2011-40 13. Hubble Racks Up 10,000 Science Papers NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has passed another milestone in its 21 years of exploration: the 10,000th refereed science paper has been published. This makes Hubble one of the most prolific... (More)
• 12/5/2011 STScI-2011-39 14. Fastest Rotating Star Found in Neighboring Galaxy An international team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope have found the fastest spinning star ever discovered. VFTS 102 rotates... (More)
• 11/22/2011 STScI-2011-35 15. 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 16. 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)
• 11/10/2011 STScI-2011-31 17. Hubble Uncovers Tiny Galaxies Bursting with Star Birth in Early Universe Using its near-infrared vision to peer 9 billion years back in time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered an extraordinary population... (More)
• 11/9/2011 STScI-2011-36 18. Was the Real Discovery of the Expanding Universe Lost in Translation? Writing in the Nov. 10 issue of the journal Nature, Space Telescope Science Institute astrophysicist Mario Livio solves the mystery of why paragraphs... (More)
• 10/27/2011 STScI-2011-30 19. 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 20. 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)
• 10/12/2011 STScI-2011-34 21. Giant Webb Space Telescope Model to "Land" in Baltimore Baltimore's Maryland Science Center is going to be the "landing site" for the full-scale model of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope... (More)
• 10/6/2011 STScI-2011-29 22. Astronomers Find Elusive Planets in Decade-Old Hubble Data In a painstaking re-analysis of Hubble Space Telescope images from 1998, astronomers have found visual evidence for two extrasolar planets that went undetected... (More)
• 10/4/2011 STScI-2011-33 23. Astrophysicist Adam Riess Wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics Adam Riess, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University... (More)
• 9/29/2011 STScI-2011-28 24. 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)
• 9/22/2011 STScI-2011-32 25. Light Fantastic: Laser at Inner Harbor Beams Hubble's Heartbeat Beginning on Sunday, September 25 an outdoor laser exhibit at the Maryland Science Center will present a unique blend of astronomy and art. Hubble spectral... (More)
• 9/15/2011 STScI-2011-27 26. Even Low-Mass Galaxies Can Harbor Supermassive Black Holes Using the slitless grism on Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 to probe the distant universe, astronomers have found supermassive black holes growing... (More)
• 8/31/2011 STScI-2011-20 27. Hubble Movies Provide Unprecedented View of Supersonic Jets from Young Stars A team of scientists has collected enough high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope images over a 14-year period to stitch together time-lapse... (More)
• 8/25/2011 STScI-2011-26 28. Fast Falling Clouds Fuel Milky Way Star Formation The long-term forecast for the Milky Way is cloudy with gaseous rain. A study by Nicolas Lehner and Christopher Howk of the University of Notre Dame concludes... (More)
• 8/11/2011 STScI-2011-24 29. Hubble Offers a Dazzling View of the 'Necklace' Nebula A giant cosmic necklace glows brightly in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. The object, aptly named the Necklace Nebula, is a recently discovered planetary... (More)
• 7/20/2011 STScI-2011-23 30. NASA's Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto These two images, taken about a week apart by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, show four moons orbiting the distant, icy dwarf planet Pluto. The green circle in both snapshots... (More)
• 7/12/2011 STScI-2011-19 31. Neptune Completes Its First Circuit Around The Sun Since Its Discovery These four images of Neptune were taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during the planet's 16-hour rotation. The snapshots were taken at roughly... (More)
• 7/5/2011 STScI-2011-22 32. NASA's Hubble Makes One Millionth Science Observation NASA's Hubble Space Telescope crossed another milestone in its 21-year space odyssey of exploration and discovery. On Monday, July 4, the Earth-orbiting observatory... (More)
• 6/22/2011 STScI-2011-17 33. 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 34. 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)
• 6/9/2011 STScI-2011-21 35. New Supernova Remnant Lights Up Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are witnessing the unprecedented transition of a supernova to a supernova remnant, where light from an exploding star in a neighboring... (More)
• 5/25/2011 STScI-2011-16 36. NASA's Hubble Finds Rare Blue Straggler Stars in the Milky Way's Hub Peering deep into the star-filled, ancient hub of our Milky Way (left), NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found a rare class of oddball... (More)
• 5/23/2011 STScI-2011-15 37. 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 38. 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)
• 4/28/2011 STScI-2011-13 39. NASA's SWIFT and Hubble Probe Asteroid Collision Debris Late last year, astronomers noticed an asteroid named Scheila had unexpectedly brightened, and it was sporting short-lived plumes. Data from NASA's Swift satellite... (More)
• 4/20/2011 STScI-2011-11 40. 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 41. 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)
• 4/7/2011 STScI-2011-10 42. NASA Telescopes Join Forces to Observe Unprecedented Explosion NASA's Swift satellite, Hubble Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to study one of the most puzzling cosmic blasts ever observed. (More)
• 3/29/2011 STScI-2011-09 43. Space Telescope Science Institute Announces the 2011 Hubble Fellows The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) announces today the selection of 17 new candidates for the Hubble Fellowship Program. This is one of the three prestigious... (More)
• 3/14/2011 STScI-2011-08 44. 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)
• 2/18/2011 STScI-2011-07 45. 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 46. 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 47. 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 48. 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 49. 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 50. 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 51. 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 52. 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 53. 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 54. 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)
• 10/26/2010 STScI-2010-28 55. Hubble Data Used to Look 10,000 Years into the Future The globular star cluster Omega Centauri has caught the attention of sky watchers ever since the ancient astronomer Ptolemy first catalogued... (More)
• 10/19/2010 STScI-2010-36 56. 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)
• 10/13/2010 STScI-2010-34 57. Hubble Finds that a Bizarre X-Shaped Intruder Is Linked to an Unseen Asteroid Collision Last January astronomers thought they had witnessed a fresh collision between two asteroids... (More)
• 10/8/2010 STScI-2010-33 58. NASA Mission to Asteroid Gets Help from Hubble Space Telescope NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of the large asteroid Vesta that will help scientists refine plans for the Dawn spacecraft's rendezvous... (More)
• 10/7/2010 STScI-2010-31 59. 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)
• 10/5/2010 STScI-2010-35 60. Hubble Probes Comet 103P/Hartley 2 in Preparation for DIXI/EPOXI Flyby Hubble Space Telescope observations of comet 103P/Hartley 2, taken on September 25, are helping in the planning for a November... (More)
• 9/16/2010 STScI-2010-29 61. Cosmic Ice Sculptures: Dust Pillars in the Carina Nebula Enjoying a frozen treat on a hot summer day can leave a sticky mess as it melts in the Sun and deforms. In the cold... (More)
• 9/13/2010 STScI-2010-32 62. Hubble Harvests Distant Solar System Objects This is an artist's concept of a craggy piece of solar system debris that belongs to a class of bodies called trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). (More)
• 9/2/2010 STScI-2010-30 63. New Hubble Observations of Supernova 1987A Trace Shock Wave An international team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope reports a significant brightening of the emissions from Supernova 1987A. The results... (More)
• 8/19/2010 STScI-2010-26 64. 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)
• 8/10/2010 STScI-2010-24 65. An "Island Universe" in the Coma Cluster A long-exposure Hubble Space Telescope image shows a majestic face-on spiral galaxy located deep within the Coma Cluster of galaxies, which lies 320 million light-years... (More)
• 8/5/2010 STScI-2010-25 66. A Galactic Spectacle A beautiful new image of two colliding galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light-years from Earth, are shown in this composite... (More)
• 7/22/2010 STScI-2010-19 67. Hyperfast Star Was Booted from Milky Way A hundred million years ago, a triple-star system was traveling through the bustling center of our Milky Way galaxy when it made a life-changing misstep. The trio wandered... (More)
• 7/15/2010 STScI-2010-21 68. Superhot Planet Likely Possesses Comet-like Tail As if the debate over what is and what is not a planet hasn't gotten confusing enough, Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have now confirmed the existence of a tortured... (More)
• 7/8/2010 STScI-2010-23 69. "Hubble Repairman" Becomes Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld has walked in space eight times and logged more than 800 hours floating in that deep, dark... (More)
• 7/6/2010 STScI-2010-22 70. Starburst Cluster Shows Celestial Fireworks Like a July 4 fireworks display, a young, glittering collection of stars looks like an aerial burst. The cluster is surrounded by clouds of interstellar gas and dust—the raw material... (More)
• 6/16/2010 STScI-2010-20 71. Mysterious Flash on Jupiter Left No Debris Cloud Detailed observations made by the Wide Field Camera 3 on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found an answer to the flash of light seen June 3 on Jupiter. (More)
• 6/3/2010 STScI-2010-16 72. Hubble Images Suggest Rogue Asteroid Smacked Jupiter Without warning, a mystery object struck Jupiter on July 19, 2009, leaving a dark bruise the size of the Pacific Ocean. The spot first caught the eye of an amateur astronomer... (More)
• 5/25/2010 STScI-2010-18 73. Supermassive Black Holes May Frequently Roam Galaxy Centers A team of astronomy researchers at Florida Institute of Technology and Rochester Institute of Technology in the United States and University... (More)
• 5/24/2010 STScI-2010-17 74. Out of Whack Planetary System Offers Clues to a Disturbed Past For just over a decade, astronomers have known that three Jupiter-type planets orbit the yellow-white star Upsilon Andromedae. But to their surprise... (More)
• 5/20/2010 STScI-2010-15 75. Hubble Finds Star Eating a Planet "The Star That Ate My Planet" may sound like a B-grade science fiction movie title, but this is really happening 600 light-years away. Like a moth in a candle flame, a doomed Jupiter-sized... (More)
• 5/11/2010 STScI-2010-14 76. Hubble Catches Heavyweight Runaway Star Speeding from 30 Doradus A blue-hot star, 90 times more massive than our Sun, is hurtling across space fast enough to make a round trip from Earth to the Moon in merely two hours. (More)
• 4/22/2010 STScI-2010-13 77. Starry-Eyed Hubble Celebrates 20 Years of Awe and Discovery NASA's best-recognized, longest-lived, and most prolific space observatory zooms past a threshold of 20 years of operation this month. (More)
• 4/6/2010 STScI-2010-03 78. Small Companion to Brown Dwarf Challenges Simple Definition As our telescopes grow more powerful, astronomers are uncovering objects that defy conventional wisdom. This latest example is the discovery of a planet-like... (More)
• 3/30/2010 STScI-2010-11 79. Exploring the Carina Nebula By Touch The Hubble Space Telescope's dramatic glimpse of the Carina Nebula, a gigantic cloud of dust and gas bustling with star-making activity, is a glorious feast for the eyes. Energetic... (More)
• 3/19/2010 STScI-2010-12 80. Experience Hubble's Universe in 3-D Take an exhilarating ride through the Orion Nebula, a vast star-making factory 1,500 light-years away. Swoop through Orion's giant canyon of gas and dust. Fly past behemoth... (More)
• 2/26/2010 STScI-2010-10 81. STScI Announces the 2010 Hubble Fellows The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md. has selected 17 new candidates for the 2010 Hubble Fellowship Program. The fellows may pursue their research... (More)
• 2/18/2010 STScI-2010-08 82. Jurassic Space: Ancient Galaxies Come Together After Billions of Years Imagine finding a living dinosaur in your backyard. Astronomers have found the astronomical equivalent of prehistoric life in our intergalactic backyard:... (More)
• 2/15/2010 STScI-2010-09 83. Hubble Captures Saturn's Double Light Show In January and March 2009, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took advantage of a rare opportunity to record Saturn when its rings were edge-on, resulting... (More)
• 2/4/2010 STScI-2010-06 84. New Hubble Maps of Pluto Show Surface Changes Since its discovery in 1930, Pluto has been a speck of light in the largest ground-based telescopes. But NASA's Hubble Space Telescope... (More)
• 2/2/2010 STScI-2010-07 85. Suspected Asteroid Collision Leaves Odd X-Pattern of Trailing Debris Something awfully curious is happening 100 million miles from Earth in the asteroid belt. There's a newly discovered object that superficially... (More)
• 1/14/2010 STScI-2010-05 86. Hubble Catches End of Star-Making Party in Nearby Dwarf Galaxy Galaxies throughout the universe are ablaze with star birth. But for a nearby, small spiral galaxy, the star-making party is almost over. Astronomers... (More)
• 1/5/2010 STScI-2010-02 87. Hubble Reaches the "Undiscovered Country" of Primeval Galaxies NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has broken the distance limit for galaxies and uncovered a primordial population of compact and ultra-blue galaxies... (More)
• 1/5/2010 STScI-2010-01 88. Galaxy History Revealed in This Colorful Hubble View More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this unprecedented, panoramic, full-color view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. (More)
• 1/4/2010 STScI-2010-04 89. Astronaut John Grunsfeld Appointed STScI Deputy Director Dr. John M. Grunsfeld has been appointed Deputy Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md. effective January 4, 2010. He succeeds Dr. Michael... (More)

2009

• 12/18/2009 STScI-2009-34 90. STScI Senior Astrophysicist Mario Livio Elected AAAS Fellow In November, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Council elected Space Telescope Science Institute's senior astrophysicist... (More)
• 12/16/2009 STScI-2009-33 91. Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris that is encircling... (More)
• 12/15/2009 STScI-2009-32 92. Hubble's Festive View of a Grand Star-Forming Region Just in time for the holidays: a Hubble Space Telescope picture postcard of hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds. The festive portrait... (More)
• 12/8/2009 STScI-2009-31 93. 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)
• 11/18/2009 STScI-2009-30 94. Galaxy on Edge The magnificent galaxy NGC 4710 is tilted nearly edge-on to our view from Earth. This perspective allows astronomers to easily distinguish the central bulge of stars from its pancake-flat... (More)
• 11/10/2009 STScI-2009-28 95. NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy A never-before-seen view of the turbulent heart of our Milky Way galaxy is being unveiled by NASA on Nov. 10. This event will commemorate the 400 years since Galileo... (More)
• 11/5/2009 STScI-2009-29 96. Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth in M83, the Southern Pinwheel The spectacular new camera installed on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 in May has delivered the most detailed... (More)
• 10/14/2009 STScI-2009-27 97. Hubble Project Pioneer Rodger Doxsey Passes Away Dr. Rodger Doxsey, head of the Space Telescope Science Institute's (STScI) Hubble Mission Office, passed away on October 13 after a prolonged illness. (More)
• 10/9/2009 STScI-2009-26 98. Hubble Observes LCROSS Impact Event NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made a series of observations immediately preceding and following the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Centaur... (More)
• 9/9/2009 STScI-2009-25 99. 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)
• 8/5/2009 STScI-2009-24 100. Astronomers Find Hyperactive Galaxies in the Early Universe Even some galaxies may have been hyperactive youngsters. Looking almost 11 billion years into the past, astronomers have measured the motions... (More)