2009

• 12/18/2009 STScI-2009-34 1. STScI Senior Astrophysicist Mario Livio Elected AAAS Fellow In November, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Council elected Space Telescope Science Institute's senior astrophysicist... (More)
• 12/16/2009 STScI-2009-33 2. Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris that is encircling... (More)
• 12/15/2009 STScI-2009-32 3. Hubble's Festive View of a Grand Star-Forming Region Just in time for the holidays: a Hubble Space Telescope picture postcard of hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds. The festive portrait... (More)
• 12/8/2009 STScI-2009-31 4. Hubble's Deepest View of Universe Unveils Never-Before-Seen Galaxies NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made the deepest image of the universe ever taken in near-infrared light. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are galaxies... (More)
• 11/18/2009 STScI-2009-30 5. Galaxy on Edge The magnificent galaxy NGC 4710 is tilted nearly edge-on to our view from Earth. This perspective allows astronomers to easily distinguish the central bulge of stars from its pancake-flat... (More)
• 11/10/2009 STScI-2009-28 6. NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy A never-before-seen view of the turbulent heart of our Milky Way galaxy is being unveiled by NASA on Nov. 10. This event will commemorate the 400 years since Galileo... (More)
• 11/5/2009 STScI-2009-29 7. Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth in M83, the Southern Pinwheel The spectacular new camera installed on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 in May has delivered the most detailed... (More)
• 10/14/2009 STScI-2009-27 8. Hubble Project Pioneer Rodger Doxsey Passes Away Dr. Rodger Doxsey, head of the Space Telescope Science Institute's (STScI) Hubble Mission Office, passed away on October 13 after a prolonged illness. (More)
• 10/9/2009 STScI-2009-26 9. Hubble Observes LCROSS Impact Event NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made a series of observations immediately preceding and following the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Centaur... (More)
• 9/9/2009 STScI-2009-25 10. Hubble Opens New Eyes on the Universe NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, ready to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the invisible backbone of the universe. (More)
• 8/5/2009 STScI-2009-24 11. Astronomers Find Hyperactive Galaxies in the Early Universe Even some galaxies may have been hyperactive youngsters. Looking almost 11 billion years into the past, astronomers have measured the motions... (More)
• 7/24/2009 STScI-2009-23 12. Hubble Captures Rare Jupiter Collision NASA scientists have interrupted the checkout and calibration of the Hubble Space Telescope to aim the recently refurbished observatory at a new expanding spot on the giant planet Jupiter. (More)
• 6/25/2009 STScI-2009-22 13. STScI Joins the Search for Other Earths in Space The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., is partnering on a historic search for Earth-size planets around other stars. (More)
• 5/10/2009 STScI-2009-21 14. Hubble Photographs a Planetary Nebula to Commemorate Decommissioning of Super Camera The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. (More)
• 5/7/2009 STScI-2009-08 15. Refined Hubble Constant Narrows Possible Explanations for Dark Energy Less than 100 years ago scientists didn't know if the universe was coming or going, literally. It even fooled the great mind of Albert Einstein. He assumed... (More)
• 4/30/2009 STScI-2009-19 16. Starbursts in Dwarf Galaxies are a Global Affair Bursts of star making in a galaxy have been compared to a Fourth of July fireworks display: They occur at a fast and furious pace, lighting... (More)
• 4/28/2009 STScI-2009-20 17. Space Telescope Science Institute Astrophysicist Elected to National Academy of Sciences Adam Riess was among 72 scientists elected today to membership in the National Academy of Sciences at the organization's 146th annual meeting... (More)
• 4/21/2009 STScI-2009-18 18. Hubble Celebrates Its 19th Anniversary with a "Fountain of Youth" Over the past 19 years Hubble has taken dozens of exotic pictures of galaxies going "bump in the night" as they collide with each other and have a variety... (More)
• 4/16/2009 STScI-2009-17 19. Galaxy Cluster MACS J0717 The most crowded collision of galaxy clusters has been identified by combining information from three different telescopes. This result gives scientists a chance to learn what happens... (More)
• 4/14/2009 STScI-2009-16 20. Hubble Witnesses Spectacular Flaring in Gas Jet from M87's Black Hole In our violent, discordant, and effervescent universe, reality always seems to be stranger than fiction. (More)
• 4/3/2009 STScI-2009-14 21. Hubble Celebrates the International Year of Astronomy with the Galaxy Triplet Arp 274 On April 1-2, the Hubble Space Telescope photographed the winning target in the Space Telescope Science Institute's "You Decide" competition... (More)
• 4/1/2009 STScI-2009-15 22. Hubble Finds Hidden Exoplanet in Archival Data In 19 years of observations, the Hubble Space Telescope has amassed a huge archive of data. That archive may contain the telltale glow of undiscovered extrasolar planets... (More)
• 3/22/2009 STScI-2009-13 23. Hubble Uncovers an Unusual Stellar Progenitor to a Supernova Astronomers have detailed theories about what type of stars self-destruct in titanic supernova explosions. However, it would be useful to test stellar... (More)
• 3/17/2009 STScI-2009-12 24. Quadruple Saturn Moon Transit Snapped by Hubble Saturn's comparatively paper-thin rings are tilted edge on to Earth every 15 years. Because the orbits of Saturn's major satellites are in the ring plane, too, this alignment... (More)
• 3/12/2009 STScI-2009-11 25. Hubble Provides New Evidence for Dark Matter Around Small Galaxies When it comes to finding dark matter in space, astronomers need to go on sort of a ghost hunt. Dark matter can't be directly seen or isolated in a laboratory. (More)
• 3/3/2009 STScI-2009-10 26. Trio of Galaxies Mix It Up Though they are the largest and most widely scattered objects in the universe, galaxies do go bump in the night. The Hubble Space Telescope has photographed many pairs of galaxies... (More)
• 2/25/2009 STScI-2009-09 27. NASA Announces 2009 Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellows NASA has selected fellows in three areas of astronomy and astrophysics for its Einstein, Hubble, and Sagan Fellowships. The recipients of this year's postdoctoral fellowships... (More)
• 2/10/2009 STScI-2009-07 28. NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate the International Year of Astronomy with a National Unveiling of Spectacular Images In 1609, Galileo first turned his telescope to the heavens and gave birth to modern astronomy. To commemorate... (More)
• 1/28/2009 STScI-2009-06 29. Hubble's Next Discovery, You Decide In 1609, Galileo turned his telescope on the night sky for the first time. Now, 400 years later, your vote will help make the momentous decision of where to point modern astronomy's... (More)
• 1/15/2009 STScI-2009-05 30. Hubble Snaps a Splendid Planetary Nebula The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged striking details of the famed planetary nebula designated NGC 2818, which lies in the southern constellation of Pyxis (the Compass). The spectacular... (More)
• 1/7/2009 STScI-2009-03 31. Hubble Finds Stars That 'Go Ballistic' Resembling comets streaking across the sky, these four speedy stars are plowing through regions of dense interstellar gas and creating brilliant arrowhead structures and trailing... (More)
• 1/6/2009 STScI-2009-04 32. Star Light, Star Bright, Its Explanation is Out of Sight This pair of NASA Hubble Space Telescope pictures shows the appearance of a mysterious burst of light that was detected on February 21, 2006, brightened... (More)
• 1/5/2009 STScI-2009-02 33. Hubble Views Galactic Core in Unprecedented New Detail This composite color infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a new population of massive stars and new details in complex structures... (More)
• 1/5/2009 STScI-2009-01 34. Brown Dwarfs Don't Hang Out With Stars Brown dwarfs, objects that are less massive than stars but larger than planets, just got more elusive, based on studies of nearby multiple-star systems... (More)