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• 11/17/2011 STScI-2011-37 71. 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 72. 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 73. 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 74. 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 75. 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 76. 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 77. 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 78. 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 79. 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 80. 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)