News Release Archive: Galaxy

2009

• 4/30/2009 STScI-2009-19 1. 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)
• 4/21/2009 STScI-2009-18 2. 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 3. 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 4. 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 5. 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)
• 3/12/2009 STScI-2009-11 6. 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 7. 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)
• 2/10/2009 STScI-2009-07 8. 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)
• 1/5/2009 STScI-2009-02 9. 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)

2008

• 11/20/2008 STScI-2008-38 10. Hubble Resolves Puzzle about Loner Starburst Galaxy Astronomers have long puzzled over why a small, nearby, isolated galaxy is pumping out new stars faster than any galaxy in our local neighborhood. (More)