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3/7/2013 STScI-2013-08 1. Hubble Finds Birth Certificate of Oldest Known Star You can't be older than your parents. But there is a nearby star that at first glance looks like it is older than the universe! Hubble Space Telescope astronomers... (More)

1/11/2012 STScI-2012-02 2. NASA's Hubble Breaks New Ground with Distant Supernova Discovery NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a distant Type Ia supernova, the farthest stellar explosion that can be used to measure the expansion... (More)

11/9/2011 STScI-2011-36 3. Was the Real Discovery of the Expanding Universe Lost in Translation? Writing in the Nov. 10 issue of the journal Nature, Space Telescope Science Institute astrophysicist Mario Livio solves the mystery of why paragraphs... (More)
10/4/2011 STScI-2011-33 4. Astrophysicist Adam Riess Wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics Adam Riess, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University... (More)

1/5/2010 STScI-2010-02 5. Hubble Reaches the "Undiscovered Country" of Primeval Galaxies NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has broken the distance limit for galaxies and uncovered a primordial population of compact and ultra-blue galaxies... (More)

12/8/2009 STScI-2009-31 6. Hubble's Deepest View of Universe Unveils Never-Before-Seen Galaxies NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made the deepest image of the universe ever taken in near-infrared light. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are galaxies... (More)
5/7/2009 STScI-2009-08 7. 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)

5/20/2008 STScI-2008-20 8. 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)

9/6/2007 STScI-2007-31 9. 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)
1/7/2007 STScI-2007-01 10. 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)