2011 (continued)

• 7/5/2011 STScI-2011-22 31. 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 32. 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 33. 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 34. 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 35. 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 36. 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 37. 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 38. 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 39. 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 40. 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)