2004

• 10/27/2004 STScI-2004-34 11. Stellar Survivor from 1572 A.D. Explosion Supports Supernova Theory An international team of astronomers is announcing today that they have identified the probable surviving companion star to a titanic supernova explosion witnessed... (More)
• 10/6/2004 STScI-2004-29 12. NASA's Great Observatories May Unravel 400-Year Old Supernova Mystery Four hundred years ago, sky watchers, including the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler, were startled by the sudden appearance of a "new star" in the western... (More)
• 9/2/2004 STScI-2004-23 13. A Bright Supernova in the Nearby Galaxy NGC 2403 The explosion of a massive star blazes with the light of 200 million Suns in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. The arrow at top right points to the stellar... (More)
• 2/20/2004 STScI-2004-12 14. New Clues About the Nature of Dark Energy: Einstein May Have Been Right After All The good news from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is that Einstein was right — maybe. A strange... (More)
• 2/19/2004 STScI-2004-09 15. Supernova Shock Wave Is Producing a Spectacular New Light Show Seventeen years ago, astronomers spotted the brightest stellar explosion ever seen since the one observed by Johannes Kepler 400 years ago. (More)
• 1/27/2004 STScI-2004-43 16. Massive Old Star Reveals Secrets on Deathbed Like a doctor trying to understand an elderly patient's sudden demise, astronomers have obtained the most detailed observations ever of an old, but otherwise normal massive... (More)
• 1/7/2004 STScI-2004-41 17. Supernova Survivor: First Supernova Companion Star Found An international team of astronomers has, for the first time, observed a stellar "survivor" to emerge from a double star system involving an exploded supernova. (More)

2003

• 4/10/2003 STScI-2003-12 18. Far-Flung Supernovae Shed Light on Dark Universe New Hubble Space Telescope observations of a pair of very distant exploding stars, called Type Ia supernovae, provide new clues about the accelerating universe and its mysterious... (More)

2002

• 9/19/2002 STScI-2002-24 19. Space Movie Reveals Shocking Secrets of the Crab Pulsar Just when it seemed like the summer movie season had ended, two of NASA's Great Observatories have produced their own action movie. Multiple observations... (More)
• 7/3/2002 STScI-2002-15 20. Colorful Fireworks Finale Caps a Star's Life Glowing gaseous streamers of red, white, and blue — as well as green and pink — illuminate the heavens like Fourth of July fireworks. The colorful streamers... (More)