2013

• 5/23/2013 STScI-2013-13 1. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Reveals the Ring Nebula's True Shape The distinctive shape of the Ring Nebula, the glowing shroud around a dying Sun-like star, makes it a popular celestial object that appears... (More)
• 5/9/2013 STScI-2013-18 2. Hubble Finds Dead Stars 'Polluted' with Planet Debris Deep inside the Hyades star cluster, a pair of burned-out stars are yielding clues to the presence of rocky planets that may have whirled around them. Asteroid... (More)
• 5/7/2013 STScI-2013-19 3. STScI Appoints New Mission Head for the James Webb Space Telescope The Space Telescope Science Institute has appointed Dr. Massimo Stiavelli as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Mission Head. Stiavelli... (More)
• 4/23/2013 STScI-2013-14 4. Hubble Captures Comet ISON Comet ISON is potentially the "comet of the century" because around the time the comet makes its closest approach to the Sun, on November 28, it may briefly become brighter than the full Moon. (More)
• 4/19/2013 STScI-2013-12 5. Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color Unlike other celestial objects there is no question how the Horsehead Nebula got its name. This iconic silhouette of a horse's head and neck pokes up mysteriously... (More)
• 4/9/2013 STScI-2013-16 6. NASA and STScI Select 17 Hubble Fellows for 2013 NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) have announced the selection of 17 new Hubble Fellows. The Hubble Fellowship Program now includes all research relevant... (More)
• 4/4/2013 STScI-2013-11 7. Hubble Breaks Record in Search for Farthest Supernova A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a star detonated with enough energy to briefly shine with an intrinsic brightness of one billion of our suns. (More)
• 4/4/2013 STScI-2013-17 8. Taken Under the "Wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope has made the first detection of X-ray emission from young solar-type stars that lie outside our Milky Way galaxy. (More)
• 3/13/2013 STScI-2013-15 9. NASA Helps Make Guinness World Record for Largest Astronomy Lesson at SXSW Looking up through hundreds of colored filters and spectral glasses, 526 people shattered the record for the Largest Astronomy Lesson. (More)
• 3/7/2013 STScI-2013-08 10. Hubble Finds Birth Certificate of Oldest Known Star You can't be older than your parents. But there is a nearby star that at first glance looks like it is older than the universe! Hubble Space Telescope astronomers... (More)
• 3/5/2013 STScI-2013-09 11. Gravitational Lens Creates Cartoon of Space Invader The universe is eerie enough without giving us an apparition of a 1980s video game alien attacker. This oddball-looking object is really a mirage created by the gravitational... (More)
• 2/21/2013 STScI-2013-07 12. Stellar Motions in Outer Halo Shed New Light on Milky Way Evolution Peering deep into the vast stellar halo that envelops our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered... (More)
• 2/19/2013 STScI-2013-10 13. NASA's Webb Telescope to Have a Texas-Sized Presence at the South by Southwest Festival Everything's bigger in Texas, and a life-sized model of the world's largest space telescope, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope... (More)
• 2/7/2013 STScI-2013-04 14. Strobe-like Flashes Discovered in a Suspected Binary Protostar A mysterious infant star, swaddled inside a dusty blanket, behaves like a police strobe light. The newly discovered object offers... (More)
• 2/5/2013 STScI-2013-06 15. Amateur and Professional Astronomers Team Up to Create a Cosmological Masterpiece Working with astronomical image processors at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., renowned astrophotographer Robert Gendler... (More)
• 1/23/2013 STScI-2013-05 16. Dr. Jason Kalirai Awarded the 2013 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize Jason Kalirai of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., has been awarded the 2013 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize. This annual prize from the American... (More)
• 1/8/2013 STScI-2013-02 17. NASA Space Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf Astronomers using NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have probed the stormy atmosphere of a brown dwarf named 2MASSJ22282889-431026, creating... (More)
• 1/8/2013 STScI-2013-01 18. Hubble Reveals Rogue Planetary Orbit for Fomalhaut b Newly released Hubble Space Telescope images of a vast debris disk encircling the nearby star Fomalhaut, and of a mysterious planet circling it, may provide forensic... (More)

2012

• 12/21/2012 STScI-2012-50 19. New Free E-books Available about Two Famous NASA Space Telescopes NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been providing astounding images of the universe since April 1990 and has led to remarkable discoveries. (More)
• 12/18/2012 STScI-2012-49 20. A Cosmic Holiday Ornament, Hubble-Style 'Tis the season for holiday decorating and tree-trimming. Not to be left out, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have photographed a festive-looking nearby planetary... (More)
• 12/12/2012 STScI-2012-48 21. Hubble Provides First Census of Galaxies Near Cosmic Dawn Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a previously unseen population of seven primitive galaxies that formed more than 13 billion... (More)
• 12/6/2012 STScI-2012-45 22. Hubble Sees a Galaxy Hit a Bull's-Eye Bright pink nebulae almost completely encircle a spiral galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 922. The ring structure and the galaxy's distorted... (More)
• 11/30/2012 STScI-2012-42 23. 'Dark Core' May Not Be So Dark After All Now you see it, now you don't. Douglas Clowe of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, is reporting on new Hubble observations that do not find an unusually... (More)
• 11/29/2012 STScI-2012-47 24. A Multi-Wavelength View of Radio Galaxy Hercules A Spectacular jets powered by the gravitational energy of a supermassive black hole in the core of the elliptical galaxy Hercules A illustrate the combined imaging... (More)
• 11/15/2012 STScI-2012-36 25. NASA Great Observatories Find Candidate for Most Distant Galaxy Yet Known By combining the power of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and one of nature's own natural "zoom lenses" in space, astronomers... (More)
• 11/1/2012 STScI-2012-44 26. Asteroid Belts of Just the Right Size are Friendly to Life Solar systems with life-bearing planets may be rare if they are dependent on the presence of asteroid belts of just the right mass, according... (More)
• 10/29/2012 STScI-2012-46 27. Additional Kepler Data Now Available to All Planet Hunters The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., is releasing 12 additional months worth of planet-searching data meticulously collected... (More)
• 10/25/2012 STScI-2012-24 28. Monster Galaxy May Have Been Stirred Up By Black-hole Mischief Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of a whopper of an elliptical... (More)
• 10/23/2012 STScI-2012-43 29. Dr. Kathryn Flanagan Appointed Deputy Director of STScI Dr. Kathryn Flanagan has been appointed the Deputy Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md. STScI is the science operations... (More)
• 9/25/2012 STScI-2012-37 30. Hubble Goes to the eXtreme to Assemble Farthest Ever View of the Universe Like photographers assembling a portfolio of best shots, astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind's deepest-ever... (More)
• 9/19/2012 STScI-2012-31 31. NASA Telescopes Spy Ultra-Distant Galaxy Amidst Cosmic 'Dark Ages' With the combined power of NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, as well as a cosmic magnification effect, astronomers have spotted... (More)
• 9/6/2012 STScI-2012-38 32. Odd Galaxy Couple on Space Voyage Two very different galaxies drift through space together in this image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The peculiar galaxy pair is called Arp 116. Arp 116 is composed... (More)
• 8/23/2012 STScI-2012-40 33. Hubble's Photo Contest Selects Winners Congratulations to the winners of the European Space Agency's Hubble's Hidden Treasures Competition! The Hubble's Hidden Treasures contest asked amateur image processors... (More)
• 8/16/2012 STScI-2012-35 34. Hubble Watches Star Clusters on a Collision Course Astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have caught two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. The 30 Doradus... (More)
• 7/26/2012 STScI-2012-33 35. ESO Telescopes Find Most Stellar Heavyweights Don't Live Alone A new study using European Southern Observatory (ESO) telescopes, including the Very Large Telescope, has shown that most very bright high-mass... (More)
• 7/17/2012 STScI-2012-28 36. Why Is Earth So Dry? With large swaths of oceans, rivers that snake for hundreds of miles, and behemoth glaciers near the north and south poles, Earth doesn't seem to have a water shortage. (More)
• 7/11/2012 STScI-2012-32 37. Hubble Discovers a Fifth Moon Orbiting Pluto A team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is reporting the discovery of another moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The moon is estimated to be irregular... (More)
• 7/10/2012 STScI-2012-26 38. Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Astronomers have puzzled over why some puny, extremely faint dwarf galaxies spotted in our Milky Way galaxy's back yard contain so few stars. These ghost-like galaxies are thought... (More)
• 7/3/2012 STScI-2012-30 39. NASA's Hubble Views a Cosmic Skyrocket Resembling a Fourth of July skyrocket, Herbig-Haro 110 is a geyser of hot gas from a newborn star that splashes up against and ricochets from the dense core of a cloud of molecular... (More)
• 6/28/2012 STScI-2012-23 40. Hubble, Swift Detect First-Ever Changes in an Exoplanet Atmosphere An international team of astronomers using data from the NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made an unparalleled observation, detecting significant changes... (More)
• 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)