News Release Archive: Cosmology > Intergalactic Gas

2009

• 9/9/2009 STScI-2009-25 1. 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)

2008

• 5/20/2008 STScI-2008-20 2. Hubble Survey Finds Missing Matter, Probes Intergalactic Web In the May 20 issue of The Astrophysical Journal, Charles Danforth and Mike Shull (University of Colorado, Boulder) report on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope... (More)

2002

• 1/8/2002 STScI-2002-02 3. Stellar 'Fireworks Finale' Came First in the Young Universe The deepest views of the cosmos from the Hubble Space Telescope yield clues that the very first stars may have burst into the universe as brilliantly and spectacularly... (More)

2001

• 8/9/2001 STScI-2001-27 4. New View of Primordial Helium Traces the Structure of Early Universe NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite has given astronomers their best glimpse yet at the ghostly... (More)

2000

• 5/3/2000 STScI-2000-18 5. 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)

1999

• 11/24/1999 STScI-1999-46 6. 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)

1995

• 3/31/1995 STScI-1995-22 7. Hubble Data Suggest Galaxies Have Giant Halos NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has helped solve a two-decade-old cosmic mystery by showing that mysterious clouds of hydrogen in space may actually be vast halos of gas surrounding... (More)

1993

• 1/6/1993 STScI-1993-04 8. High Velocity Clouds Found to Dwell in Milky Way's Halo Astronomer Laura Danly of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) has taken a major step in solving a 3 year old mystery by measuring... (More)

1992

• 1/13/1992 STScI-1992-04 9. NASA Hubble Space Telescope Observations Indicate Nearby Hydrogen Clouds May Be Associated With Galaxies Astronomers reported today that recent ultraviolet observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope suggest... (More)
• 1/13/1992 STScI-1992-05 10. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Probes the Chemistry of the Early Universe Using a unique capability of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) astronomers announced today that they have detected the rare element... (More)