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• 6/26/2012 STScI-2012-19 41. NASA's Hubble Spots Rare Gravitational Arc from Distant, Hefty Galaxy Cluster Seeing is believing, except when you don't believe what you see. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found a puzzling... (More)
• 6/19/2012 STScI-2012-27 42. Most Quasars Live on Snacks, Not Large Meals Black holes in the early universe needed a few snacks rather than one giant meal to fuel their quasars and help them grow, a new study shows. Quasars are the brilliant... (More)
• 6/14/2012 STScI-2012-29 43. Chance Alignment Between Galaxies Mimics a Cosmic Collision NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows a rare view of a pair of overlapping galaxies, called NGC 3314. The two galaxies look as if they are colliding, but they are actually... (More)
• 5/31/2012 STScI-2012-20 44. NASA's Hubble Shows Milky Way is Destined for Head-on Collision with Andromeda Galaxy NASA astronomers announced Thursday they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy... (More)
• 5/30/2012 STScI-2012-25 45. Stellar Archaeology Traces Milky Way's History Unfortunately, stars don't have birth certificates. So, astronomers have a tough time figuring out their ages. Knowing a star's age is critical for understanding... (More)
• 5/4/2012 STScI-2012-22 46. Hubble to Use Moon as Mirror to See Venus Transit This mottled landscape showing the impact crater Tycho is among the most violent-looking places on our Moon. Astronomers... (More)
• 5/2/2012 STScI-2012-18 47. Black Hole Caught Red-handed in a Stellar Homicide Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close. NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer... (More)
• 4/19/2012 STScI-2012-21 48. Hubble Spots Aurorae on the Planet Uranus These are among the first clear images, taken from the distance of Earth, to show aurorae on the planet Uranus. This composite image combines 2011 Hubble observations... (More)
• 4/17/2012 STScI-2012-01 49. Hubble's 22nd Anniversary Image Shows Turbulent Star-making Region Several million young stars are vying for attention in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a raucous stellar breeding ground in 30 Doradus, located... (More)
• 4/5/2012 STScI-2012-17 50. Space Astronomy Archive and Distant Supernova Are Named in Honor Of U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski One of the world's largest astronomy archives, containing a treasure trove of information... (More)