News Release Archive: 2007

2007

• 12/18/2007 STScI-2007-45 1. Mars: Closest Approach 2007 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this close-up of the red planet Mars when it was just 55 million miles – 88 million kilometers – away. This color image was assembled from a series of exposures... (More)
• 12/17/2007 STScI-2007-37 2. "Death Star" Galaxy Black Hole Fires at Neighboring Galaxy A powerful jet from a supermassive black hole is blasting a nearby galaxy, according to new data from NASA observatories. This never-before witnessed galactic... (More)
• 12/11/2007 STScI-2007-44 3. Hubble Finds that Extrasolar Planet Has a Hazy Sunset A team of astronomers, led by Frederic Pont from the Geneva University Observatory in Switzerland, has detected for the first time strong evidence... (More)
• 12/5/2007 STScI-2007-43 4. Planet Hunter Geoff Marcy to Give Annual John N. Bahcall Public Lecture Dec. 11 Dr. Geoffrey Marcy, professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, will deliver the annual John N. Bahcall... (More)
• 12/4/2007 STScI-2007-42 5. How White Dwarfs Get Their 'Kicks' NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is providing strong evidence that white dwarfs, the burned-out relics of stars, are given a "kick" when they form. The sharp vision of Hubble's Advanced... (More)
• 11/29/2007 STScI-2007-41 6. Holiday Wishes from the Hubble Space Telescope Resembling festive lights on a holiday wreath, this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the nearby spiral galaxy M74 is an iconic reminder of the impending season. (More)
• 11/15/2007 STScI-2007-40 7. Hubble Zooms In on Heart of Mystery Comet NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has probed the bright core of Comet 17P/Holmes, which, to the delight of sky watchers, mysteriously brightened by nearly a millionfold... (More)
• 10/30/2007 STScI-2007-36 8. 'Dancing with the Stars' Takes on a Whole New Twist Two galaxies perform an intricate dance in this new Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxies, containing a vast... (More)
• 10/25/2007 STScI-2007-39 9. Hubble Spies Shells of Sparkling Stars Around Quasar What has appeared as a mild-mannered elliptical galaxy in previous studies is revealing its wild side in new images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. (More)
• 10/16/2007 STScI-2007-35 10. Hubble Finds 'Dorian Gray' Galaxy NASA's Hubble Space Telescope quashed the possibility that what was previously believed to be a toddler galaxy in the nearby universe may actually be considered an adult. (More)
• 10/4/2007 STScI-2007-38 11. Astronomers Use Hubble and Keck to Identify Dwarf Galaxy A team of astronomers at the University of California at Santa Barbara report that they have resolved a dwarf galaxy 6 billion light-years away. Weighing... (More)
• 10/2/2007 STScI-2007-34 12. Star Cluster Bursts into Life in New Hubble Image Thousands of sparkling young stars are nestled within the giant nebula NGC 3603. This stellar "jewel box" is one of the most massive young star clusters... (More)
• 9/11/2007 STScI-2007-33 13. Hubble Captures Stars Going Out in Style The colorful, intricate shapes in these NASA Hubble Space Telescope images reveal how the glowing gas ejected by dying Sun-like stars evolves dramatically over time. (More)
• 9/6/2007 STScI-2007-31 14. Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes Find "Lego-Block" Galaxies in Early Universe NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes have joined forces to discover nine of the smallest, faintest, most compact galaxies ever observed... (More)
• 8/23/2007 STScI-2007-32 15. Going, Going, Gone: Hubble Captures Uranus's Rings on Edge This series of images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows how the ring system around the distant planet Uranus appears at ever more oblique (shallower)... (More)
• 8/22/2007 STScI-2007-22 16. Hubble Teams with Google to Bring the Cosmos Down to Earth Imagine cruising the heavens from your desktop and seeing all the spectacular images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Exploding... (More)
• 8/2/2007 STScI-2007-30 17. Uncovering the Veil Nebula NASA's Hubble Space Telescope photographed three magnificent sections of the Veil Nebula -- the shattered remains of a supernova that exploded thousands of years ago. This series of images provides... (More)
• 7/19/2007 STScI-2007-28 18. Astronomers Find Highly Elliptical Disk Around Young Star Dust and debris parade in an extremely misshapen ring around the young star, HD 15115. The disk, seen edge-on with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope... (More)
• 7/17/2007 STScI-2007-29 19. Gruber Cosmology Prize Awarded to STScI Dark Energy Discoverers Four astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md. are on two teams sharing the $500,000 2007 Gruber Cosmology Prize for their discovery... (More)
• 7/3/2007 STScI-2007-26 20. Stellar Fireworks Are Ablaze in Galaxy NGC 4449 On July 4, fireworks blaze over the skies of American cities in the annual Independence Day celebrations. But nearly 12.5 million light-years... (More)