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2001 (continued)

1/11/2001 STScI-2001-04 31. Hubble's Ultraviolet Views of Nearby Galaxies Yield Clues to Early Universe Astronomers are using these three Hubble telescope images of nearby galaxies to help tackle the question of why their distant relatives... (More)

5/3/2000 STScI-2000-18 32. Lost and Found: Hubble Finds Much of the Universe's Missing Hydrogen For the past decade astronomers have looked for vast quantities of hydrogen that were cooked up in the Big Bang but somehow managed to disappear... (More)

11/24/1999 STScI-1999-46 33. A Puzzle of Galactic Evolution is Solved — Massive Gas Clouds Seed the Galaxy with the Stuff of Stars Massive clouds of gas, discovered long ago but only recently identified... (More)
5/25/1999 STScI-1999-19 34. Hubble Completes Eight-Year Effort to Measure Expanding Universe The Hubble Space Telescope Key Project team today announced that it has completed efforts to measure precise distances to far-flung galaxies, an essential ingredient... (More)

10/8/1998 STScI-1998-32 35. Hubble Goes to the Limit In Search Of Farthest Galaxies Stretching the Hubble telescope's vision farther across space and further back into time than ever before, astronomers have peered into a previously... (More)
8/27/1998 STScI-1998-27 36. Far-Flung Galaxy Clusters May Reveal Fate of Universe A survey of galaxy clusters by the Hubble telescope has found what could be some of the most distant clusters ever seen. If ground-based telescopes confirm the distances... (More)
1/8/1998 STScI-1998-02 37. Hubble Pinpoints Distant Supernovae Peering halfway across the universe to analyze light from exploded stars that died long before our Sun even existed, the Hubble telescope has allowed astronomers to determine that the expansion... (More)
1/7/1998 STScI-1998-06 38. Hubble Finds Most of Visible Light in the Universe A closer look at the Hubble telescope's most detailed image, the Hubble Deep Field, reveals that the faint galaxies seen by Hubble could account... (More)

12/17/1996 STScI-1996-37 39. Hubble Census Tracks a Stellar "Baby Boom" Analyzing the pictures of some of the most distant galaxies in the universe, astronomers are uncovering intriguing new evidence that the Big Bang was followed by a stellar... (More)
11/19/1996 STScI-1996-35 40. Hubble Surveys the "Homes" of Quasars Dramatic Hubble telescope pictures reveal that quasars live in a remarkable assortment of galaxies, many of which are violently colliding. This complicated picture suggests... (More)