News Release Archive: 2008

2008 (continued)

• 3/10/2008 STScI-2008-10 31. The Aesthetics of Hubble Images Showcased at Walters Art Museum Just as the early explorers ventured ever further into the oceans, recording the wonders they encountered, today's astronomers are probing farther... (More)
• 3/4/2008 STScI-2008-13 32. The Last Confessions of a Dying Star Probing a glowing bubble of gas and dust encircling a dying Sun-like star, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a wealth of previously unseen structures in planetary... (More)
• 2/19/2008 STScI-2008-09 33. Hubble Discovers 67 New Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies in the Distant Universe Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have compiled a large catalog of gravitational lenses in the distant universe. The catalog contains... (More)
• 2/15/2008 STScI-2008-12 34. STScI Astronomers to Head Two Studies of Next Generation Astronomy Missions Two astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., Dr. Marc Postman and Dr. Ken Sembach, have been selected... (More)
• 2/12/2008 STScI-2008-08 35. Astronomers Find One of the Youngest and Brightest Galaxies in the Early Universe NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, with a boost from a natural "zoom lens," have uncovered what may be one of the youngest... (More)
• 2/5/2008 STScI-2008-07 36. Isolated Galaxy or Corporate Merger? Hubble Spies NGC 1132 The elliptical galaxy NGC 1132 reveals the final result of what may have been a group of galaxies that merged together in the recent past. Another possibility... (More)
• 1/23/2008 STScI-2008-06 37. Internal Heat Drives Jupiter's Giant Storm Eruption Detailed analysis of two continent-sized storms that erupted in Jupiter's atmosphere in March 2007 shows that Jupiter's internal heat plays a significant role in generating... (More)
• 1/15/2008 STScI-2008-05 38. NASA Unveils Cosmic Images Book in Braille for Blind Readers At a ceremony today at the National Federation of the Blind, NASA unveiled a new book that brings majestic images taken by its Great Observatories... (More)
• 1/10/2008 STScI-2008-01 39. Circumstellar Dust Takes Flight in 'The Moth' What superficially resembles a giant moth floating in space is giving astronomers new insight into the formation and evolution of planetary systems. This is not your typical... (More)
• 1/10/2008 STScI-2008-04 40. Hubble Finds Double Einstein Ring The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. The double-ring... (More)