2012

• 1/11/2012 STScI-2012-07 1. The Milky Way Contains at Least 100 Billion Planets According to Survey Our Milky Way galaxy contains a minimum of 100 billion planets according to a detailed statistical study based on the detection of three extrasolar... (More)
• 1/11/2012 STScI-2012-02 2. NASA's Hubble Breaks New Ground with Distant Supernova Discovery NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a distant Type Ia supernova, the farthest stellar explosion that can be used to measure the expansion... (More)

2011

• 12/5/2011 STScI-2011-39 3. Fastest Rotating Star Found in Neighboring Galaxy An international team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope have found the fastest spinning star ever discovered. VFTS 102 rotates... (More)
• 10/6/2011 STScI-2011-29 4. 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)
• 8/31/2011 STScI-2011-20 5. 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)
• 8/11/2011 STScI-2011-24 6. 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)
• 7/5/2011 STScI-2011-22 7. 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)
• 5/25/2011 STScI-2011-16 8. 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 9. 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)
• 3/14/2011 STScI-2011-08 10. NASA's Hubble Rules Out One Alternative to Dark Energy Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have ruled out an alternate theory on the nature of dark energy after recalculating the expansion... (More)