News Release Archive: 2005

2005 (continued)

• 9/27/2005 STScI-2005-28 11. Spitzer and Hubble Team Up to Find "Big Baby" Galaxies in the Newborn Universe Astronomers have used the penetrating power of two of NASA's Great Observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes... (More)
• 9/20/2005 STScI-2005-26 12. Hubble Finds Mysterious Disk of Blue Stars Around Black Hole Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have identified the source of a mysterious blue light surrounding a supermassive black hole in our neighboring... (More)
• 9/14/2005 STScI-2005-13 13. Black Hole in Search of a Home A team of European astronomers has used two of the most powerful astronomical facilities available, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's... (More)
• 9/13/2005 STScI-2005-25 14. Hubble Catches Scattered Light from the Boomerang Nebula NASA's Hubble Space Telescope caught the Boomerang Nebula in images taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys in early 2005. This reflecting... (More)
• 9/7/2005 STScI-2005-27 15. Largest Asteroid May Be 'Mini Planet' with Water Ice Observations of Ceres, the largest known asteroid, have revealed that the object may be a "mini planet," sharing many characteristics of the rocky, terrestrial... (More)
• 9/1/2005 STScI-2005-22 16. Hubble Makes Movie of Neptune's Dynamic Atmosphere NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the distant blue-green world, Neptune, and its satellites in this portrait. Astronomers used Hubble’s assortment of filters to pinpoint... (More)
• 8/31/2005 STScI-2005-24 17. Hubble Space Telescope Begins "Two-Gyro" Science Operations NASA's Hubble Space Telescope entered a new era of science operations this week, when engineers shut down one of the three operational gyroscopes aboard the observatory. (More)
• 8/9/2005 STScI-2005-23 18. FITS for Fun -- Create Spectacular Pictures in Minutes With the release of version 2 of the ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator image processing software, it's now even easier and faster to create stunning... (More)
• 8/4/2005 STScI-2005-20 19. Hubble Spies a Zoo of Galaxies Gazing deep into the universe, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spied a menagerie of galaxies. Located within the same tiny region of space, these numerous galaxies display... (More)
• 7/28/2005 STScI-2005-21 20. Hubble Pinpoints Doomed Star that Explodes as Supernova Amidst the glitter of billions of stars in the majestic spiral galaxy called the Whirlpool (M51), a massive star abruptly ends its life in a brilliant flash of light. (More)