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2/19/2008 STScI-2008-09 1. 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)
2/12/2008 STScI-2008-08 2. Astronomers Find One of the Youngest and Brightest Galaxies in the Early Universe NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, with a boost from a natural "zoom lens," have uncovered what may be one of the youngest... (More)
1/10/2008 STScI-2008-04 3. Hubble Finds Double Einstein Ring The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. The double-ring... (More)

10/4/2007 STScI-2007-38 4. 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 5. 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 6. 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 7. 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 8. 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 9. 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 10. 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 11. 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 12. 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 13. 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)

10/5/2001 STScI-2001-32 14. Gravitational Lens Helps Hubble and Keck Discover Galaxy Building Block A very small, faint galaxy -- possibly one of the long sought "building blocks" of present-day galaxies -- has been discovered by a collaboration between... (More)
6/27/2001 STScI-2001-20 15. Hint of Planet-Sized Drifters Bewilders Hubble Scientists Piercing the heart of a globular star cluster, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope uncovered tantalizing clues to what could be a strange and unexpected population of wandering... (More)

1/24/2000 STScI-2000-07 16. Hubble Reopens Its Eye on the Universe The Hubble telescope reopened its "eye" on the universe following a successful December 1999 servicing mission by imaging a Sun-like star, dubbed the "Eskimo Nebula"... (More)
1/13/2000 STScI-2000-03 17. Lone Black Holes Discovered Adrift in the Galaxy Astronomers using the Hubble telescope and ground-based observatories have discovered the first examples of isolated, stellar-mass... (More)

5/13/1999 STScI-1999-18 18. Natural Lenses in Space Stretch Hubble's View of the Universe A Hubble telescope survey of the sky has uncovered exotic patterns, rings, arcs, and crosses that are all mirages produced by a gravitational... (More)

10/26/1998 STScI-1998-37 19. New Research That Uses Gravitationally Lensed Quasars to Measure Universe is Good News, Bad News for Cosmologists Astronomers who are using the Hubble telescope to observe the gravitational lensing of light from distant... (More)

7/30/1997 STScI-1997-25 20. World's Most Powerful Telescopes Team Up With a Lens in Nature to Discover Farthest Galaxy in the Universe An international team of astronomers has discovered the most distant galaxy in the universe... (More)