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• 9/15/2011 STScI-2011-27 81. 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 82. 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 83. 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 84. 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 85. 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 86. 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 87. 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 88. 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 89. 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 90. 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)