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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)
5/7/2009 STScI-2009-08 2. 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)

2008

7/29/2008 STScI-2008-29 3. Barred Spiral Galaxies Are Latecomers to the Universe In a landmark study of more than 2,000 spiral galaxies from the largest galaxy census conducted by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers found that so-called... (More)
5/20/2008 STScI-2008-20 4. 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)
4/29/2008 STScI-2008-15 5. Compact Galaxies in Early Universe Pack a Big Punch Imagine receiving an announcement touting the birth of a baby 20 inches long and weighing 180 pounds. After reading this puzzling message, you would immediately... (More)
2/19/2008 STScI-2008-09 6. Hubble Discovers 67 New Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies in the Distant Universe Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have compiled a large catalog of gravitational lenses in the distant universe. The catalog contains... (More)

2007

9/6/2007 STScI-2007-31 7. Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes Find "Lego-Block" Galaxies in Early Universe NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes have joined forces to discover nine of the smallest, faintest, most compact galaxies ever observed... (More)
3/6/2007 STScI-2007-06 8. Hubble Pans Across Heavens to Harvest 50,000 Evolving Galaxies Several hundred images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have been woven together into a rich tapestry of at least 50,000 galaxies. The Hubble view is yielding... (More)
1/7/2007 STScI-2007-01 9. Hubble Maps the Cosmic Web of "Clumpy" Dark Matter in 3-D An international team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has created a three-dimensional map that provides... (More)

2006

11/16/2006 STScI-2006-52 10. Hubble Finds Evidence for Dark Energy in the Young Universe Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that dark energy is not a new constituent of space, but rather has been present... (More)
9/21/2006 STScI-2006-12 11. NASA's Hubble Finds Hundreds of Young Galaxies in Early Universe Astronomers analyzing two of the deepest views of the cosmos made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered a gold mine of galaxies... (More)
9/13/2006 STScI-2006-44 12. Tracing the Evolution of the First Galaxies in the Universe A systematic search for the first bright galaxies to form in the early universe has revealed a dramatic jump in the number of such galaxies... (More)
5/23/2006 STScI-2006-23 13. Hubble Captures a "Five-Star" Rated Gravitational Lens NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first-ever picture of a group of five star-like images of a single distant quasar. (More)
1/10/2006 STScI-2006-04 14. Monster Black Holes Grow After Galactic Mergers An analysis of the Hubble Space Telescope's deepest view of the universe offers compelling evidence that monster black holes in the centers of galaxies... (More)

2005

9/27/2005 STScI-2005-28 15. Spitzer and Hubble Team Up to Find "Big Baby" Galaxies in the Newborn Universe Astronomers have used the penetrating power of two of NASA's Great Observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes... (More)
8/4/2005 STScI-2005-20 16. Hubble Spies a Zoo of Galaxies Gazing deep into the universe, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spied a menagerie of galaxies. Located within the same tiny region of space, these numerous galaxies display... (More)

2004

9/23/2004 STScI-2004-28 17. Hubble Approaches the Final Frontier: The Dawn of Galaxies Detailed analyses of mankind's deepest optical view of the universe, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), by several expert teams have at last identified... (More)
7/22/2004 STScI-2004-21 18. A Day in the Lives of Galaxies Like a photographer clicking random snapshots of a crowd of people, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken a view of an eclectic mix of galaxies. In taking this picture... (More)
6/2/2004 STScI-2004-49 19. Hubble Takes Faintest Spectroscopic Survey of Distant Galaxies Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have measured accurate distances to several faint, red galaxies seen in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, confirming... (More)
6/1/2004 STScI-2004-19 20. Spitzer Leads NASA's Great Observatories to Uncover Black Holes, Other Hidden Objects in the Distant Universe Astronomers unveiled the deepest images from NASA's new Spitzer Space Telescope today, and announced the detection... (More)
3/9/2004 STScI-2004-07 21. Hubble's Deepest View Ever of the Universe Unveils Earliest Galaxies Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute today unveiled the deepest portrait of the visible universe ever achieved by humankind. (More)
2/20/2004 STScI-2004-12 22. New Clues About the Nature of Dark Energy: Einstein May Have Been Right After All The good news from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is that Einstein was right — maybe. A strange... (More)

2003

6/19/2003 STScI-2003-18 23. The Secret Lives of Galaxies Unveiled in Deep Survey Two of NASA's Great Observatories, bolstered by the largest ground-based telescopes around the world, are beginning to harvest... (More)
4/10/2003 STScI-2003-12 24. Far-Flung Supernovae Shed Light on Dark Universe New Hubble Space Telescope observations of a pair of very distant exploding stars, called Type Ia supernovae, provide new clues about the accelerating universe and its mysterious... (More)
1/9/2003 STScI-2003-05 25. Scientists Find Faint Objects with Hubble that May Have Ended the Universe's 'Dark Ages' Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope believe they are seeing the conclusion... (More)

2002

9/17/2002 STScI-2002-18 26. Hubble Discovers Black Holes in Unexpected Places Medium-size black holes actually do exist, according to the latest findings from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, but scientists had to look in some unexpected... (More)
4/24/2002 STScI-2002-10 27. Hubble Uncovers Oldest "Clocks" in Space to Read Age of Universe Pushing the limits of its powerful vision, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the oldest burned-out stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. (More)
1/8/2002 STScI-2002-02 28. 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 29. 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)
4/2/2001 STScI-2001-09 30. Blast from the Past: Farthest Supernova Ever Seen Sheds Light on Dark Universe Gazing to the far reaches of space and time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope identified the farthest stellar explosion... (More)
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)

2000

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)

1999

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)

1998

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)

1996

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)
9/4/1996 STScI-1996-29 41. Hubble Sees Early Building Blocks of Today's Galaxies New Hubble telescope images unveil what may be galaxies under construction in the early universe. ... (More)
6/26/1996 STScI-1996-24 42. Findings from Hubble Deep Field Hone in on Distant Galaxies Astronomers analyzing the Hubble Deep Field — the faintest view of the universe taken with the Hubble telescope — may have identified... (More)
5/9/1996 STScI-1996-21 43. Hubble Space Telescope on Track for Measuring the Expansion Rate of the Universe Using the Hubble telescope, two international teams of astronomers are reporting major progress in converging on an accurate measurement... (More)
1/15/1996 STScI-1996-01 44. Hubble's Deepest View of the Universe Unveils Bewildering Galaxies across Billions of Years One peek into a small part of the sky, one giant leap back in time. The Hubble telescope has provided mankind's deepest, most detailed... (More)

1995

10/18/1995 STScI-1995-43 45. Hubble Discovers New Class of Gravitational Lens for Probing the Structure of the Cosmos The Hubble telescope has discovered a new, distant class of quadruple or cross-shaped gravitational lenses. (More)
7/24/1995 STScI-1995-08 46. Hubble Sheds Light on the "Faint Blue Galaxy" Mystery Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have solved a 20-year-old mystery by showing that a class of galaxies once thought to be rare is actually... (More)
4/5/1995 STScI-1995-14 47. Hubble Views Distant Galaxies through a Cosmic Lens This Hubble telescope image of a rich cluster of galaxies called Abell 2218 is a spectacular example of gravitational lensing. The arc-like pattern... (More)
3/31/1995 STScI-1995-22 48. 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)

1994

7/24/1995 STScI-1994-39 49. Hubble Space Telescope Deep Sky Survey Finds Huge Numbers of Irregular and Peculiar Galaxies NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a variety of galaxies with normal, irregular and peculiar shapes. These galaxies... (More)
12/6/1994 STScI-1994-52 50. Hubble Identifies Primeval Galaxies, Uncovers New Clues to the Universe's Evolution Astronomers using the Hubble telescope as a "time machine" have obtained the clearest views yet of distant galaxies that existed when the universe... (More)
10/26/1994 STScI-1994-49 51. Hubble Space Telescope Measures Precise Distance to the Most Remote Galaxy Yet Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have announced the most accurate distance measurement yet to the remote galaxy M100, located... (More)
3/21/1994 STScI-1994-15 52. Galaxy Drift Challenges Ideas About Universe's Evolution Two astronomers have discovered that our own Milky Way galaxy and most of its neighboring galaxies, contained within a huge volume of the universe, one billion light-years... (More)
1/13/1994 STScI-1994-02 53. The Spiral Galaxy M100 as Seen With the Hubble's Improved Vision An image of the grand design spiral galaxy M100 obtained with the second generation Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC-2), newly installed... (More)

1993

6/9/1993 STScI-1993-31 54. Hubble Takes Major Step in Determining the Age of the Universe A team of astronomers working with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope announced results today of a major step in the Key Project to measure... (More)
1/6/1993 STScI-1993-04 55. 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 56. 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 57. 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)