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• 9/6/2012 STScI-2012-38 31. Odd Galaxy Couple on Space Voyage Two very different galaxies drift through space together in this image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The peculiar galaxy pair is called Arp 116. Arp 116 is composed... (More)
• 8/23/2012 STScI-2012-40 32. Hubble's Photo Contest Selects Winners Congratulations to the winners of the European Space Agency's Hubble's Hidden Treasures Competition! The Hubble's Hidden Treasures contest asked amateur image processors... (More)
• 8/16/2012 STScI-2012-35 33. Hubble Watches Star Clusters on a Collision Course Astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have caught two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. The 30 Doradus... (More)
• 7/26/2012 STScI-2012-33 34. ESO Telescopes Find Most Stellar Heavyweights Don't Live Alone A new study using European Southern Observatory (ESO) telescopes, including the Very Large Telescope, has shown that most very bright high-mass... (More)
• 7/17/2012 STScI-2012-28 35. Why Is Earth So Dry? With large swaths of oceans, rivers that snake for hundreds of miles, and behemoth glaciers near the north and south poles, Earth doesn't seem to have a water shortage. (More)
• 7/11/2012 STScI-2012-32 36. Hubble Discovers a Fifth Moon Orbiting Pluto A team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is reporting the discovery of another moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The moon is estimated to be irregular... (More)
• 7/10/2012 STScI-2012-26 37. Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Astronomers have puzzled over why some puny, extremely faint dwarf galaxies spotted in our Milky Way galaxy's back yard contain so few stars. These ghost-like galaxies are thought... (More)
• 7/3/2012 STScI-2012-30 38. NASA's Hubble Views a Cosmic Skyrocket Resembling a Fourth of July skyrocket, Herbig-Haro 110 is a geyser of hot gas from a newborn star that splashes up against and ricochets from the dense core of a cloud of molecular... (More)
• 6/28/2012 STScI-2012-23 39. Hubble, Swift Detect First-Ever Changes in an Exoplanet Atmosphere An international team of astronomers using data from the NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made an unparalleled observation, detecting significant changes... (More)
• 6/26/2012 STScI-2012-19 40. NASA's Hubble Spots Rare Gravitational Arc from Distant, Hefty Galaxy Cluster Seeing is believing, except when you don't believe what you see. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found a puzzling... (More)