2013

• 5/9/2013 STScI-2013-18 1. 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 2. 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 3. 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 4. 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 5. 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 6. 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 7. 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 8. 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 9. 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 10. 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 11. 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 12. 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 13. 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 14. 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 15. 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 16. 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 17. 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 18. 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 19. 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 20. 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)