News Release Archive: 2006

2006 (continued)

• 10/9/2006 STScI-2006-32 11. Hubble Observations Confirm that Planets Form from Disks Around Stars NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, in collaboration with ground-based observations, has provided definitive evidence for the existence of the nearest extrasolar... (More)
• 10/4/2006 STScI-2006-34 12. Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our Milky Way galaxy. (More)
• 10/3/2006 STScI-2006-49 13. JWST Project Scientist Wins Nobel Prize for Physics John C. Mather, a senior astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and senior project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)... (More)
• 9/28/2006 STScI-2006-47 14. Hubble Discovers Dark Cloud in the Atmosphere of Uranus Just as we near the end of the hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean, winds whirl and clouds churn 2 billion miles away in the atmosphere of Uranus, forming... (More)
• 9/21/2006 STScI-2006-12 15. NASA's Hubble Finds Hundreds of Young Galaxies in Early Universe Astronomers analyzing two of the deepest views of the cosmos made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered a gold mine of galaxies... (More)
• 9/13/2006 STScI-2006-44 16. Tracing the Evolution of the First Galaxies in the Universe A systematic search for the first bright galaxies to form in the early universe has revealed a dramatic jump in the number of such galaxies... (More)
• 9/7/2006 STScI-2006-31 17. Planet Or Failed Star? NASA's Hubble Telescope Photographs One of Smallest Stellar Companions Ever Seen Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have photographed one of the smallest objects... (More)
• 8/31/2006 STScI-2006-42 18. Hubble Captures a Rare Eclipse on Uranus This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image is a never-before-seen astronomical alignment of a moon traversing the face of Uranus, and its accompanying shadow. (More)
• 8/29/2006 STScI-2006-30 19. Cassiopeia A - The Colorful Aftermath of a Violent Stellar Death A new image taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope provides a detailed look at the tattered remains of a supernova explosion known as Cassiopeia... (More)
• 8/25/2006 STScI-2006-43 20. Robert Williams Named President-Elect of the International Astronomical Union The General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), meeting in Prague, Czech Republic, has named Dr. Robert Williams, Space Telescope Science... (More)