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10/4/2007 STScI-2007-38 11. Astronomers Use Hubble and Keck to Identify Dwarf Galaxy A team of astronomers at the University of California at Santa Barbara report that they have resolved a dwarf galaxy 6 billion light-years away. Weighing... (More)

8/8/2006 STScI-2006-38 12. Hubble Identifies Stellar Companion to Distant Planet NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has for the first time identified the parent star of a distant planet (system name OGLE-2003-BLG-235L/MOA-2003-BLG-53L) discovered... (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)

11/17/2005 STScI-2005-32 14. Hubble, Sloan Quadruple Number of Known Optical Einstein Rings Astronomers have combined two powerful astronomical assets, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, to identify 19 new "gravitationally... (More)

7/22/2004 STScI-2004-21 15. 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)
7/15/2004 STScI-2004-24 16. Astronomers Measure Mass of a Single Star — First Since the Sun Astronomers have directly measured the mass of a single star — the first time such a feat has been accomplished for any solitary... (More)
2/15/2004 STScI-2004-08 17. Hubble and Keck Team Up to Find Farthest Known Galaxy in Universe An international team of astronomers may have set a new record in discovering what is the most distant known galaxy in the universe. Located... (More)

10/30/2003 STScI-2003-32 18. Megastar-Birth Cluster is Biggest, Brightest and Hottest Ever Seen A mysterious arc of light found behind a distant cluster of galaxies has turned out to be the biggest, brightest, and hottest star-forming... (More)
1/7/2003 STScI-2003-01 19. Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space Takes Hubble Deeper into the Universe The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has used a natural "zoom lens" in space to boost its view of the distant... (More)

2/15/2002 STScI-2002-06 20. New Instrument Package to Expand Space Telescope's Vision NASA's Servicing Mission 3B for the Hubble Space Telescope will give the orbiting observatory a new camera that will significantly increase Hubble's abilities... (More)