2012

• 5/4/2012 STScI-2012-22 1. Hubble to Use Moon as Mirror to See Venus Transit This mottled landscape showing the impact crater Tycho is among the most violent-looking places on our Moon. Astronomers... (More)
• 5/2/2012 STScI-2012-18 2. Black Hole Caught Red-handed in a Stellar Homicide Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close. NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer... (More)
• 4/19/2012 STScI-2012-21 3. Hubble Spots Aurorae on the Planet Uranus These are among the first clear images, taken from the distance of Earth, to show aurorae on the planet Uranus. This composite image combines 2011 Hubble observations... (More)
• 4/17/2012 STScI-2012-01 4. Hubble's 22nd Anniversary Image Shows Turbulent Star-making Region Several million young stars are vying for attention in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a raucous stellar breeding ground in 30 Doradus, located... (More)
• 4/5/2012 STScI-2012-17 5. Space Astronomy Archive and Distant Supernova Are Named in Honor Of U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski One of the world's largest astronomy archives, containing a treasure trove of information... (More)
• 4/2/2012 STScI-2012-15 6. Space Telescope Science Institute Announces the 2012 Hubble Fellows The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) announces today the selection of 17 new candidates for the Hubble Fellowship Program. This is one of the three prestigious... (More)
• 3/27/2012 STScI-2012-16 7. Help Find Hubble's Hidden Treasures NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made over one million observations during its more than two decades in orbit. New images are published nearly every week, but hidden in Hubble's... (More)
• 3/15/2012 STScI-2012-14 8. Astronomers Using NASA's Hubble Discover Quasars Acting as Gravitational Lenses Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found several examples of galaxies containing quasars, which act as gravitational lenses, amplifying... (More)
• 3/2/2012 STScI-2012-10 9. Dark Matter Core Defies Explanation in Hubble Image Astronomers observed what appeared to be a clump of dark matter left behind during a bizarre wreck between massive clusters of galaxies. The dark matter collected... (More)
• 2/21/2012 STScI-2012-13 10. NASA's Hubble Reveals a New Class of Extrasolar Planet Observations of the extrasolar planet GJ1214b by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have come up with a new class of planet, a waterworld enshrouded... (More)