1/10/2008STScI-2008-043.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)
2007
10/4/2007STScI-2007-384.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)
2006
8/8/2006STScI-2006-385.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)
11/17/2005STScI-2005-327.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)
2004
7/22/2004STScI-2004-218.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)
2/15/2002STScI-2002-0613.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)
6/27/2001STScI-2001-2015.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)
2000
1/24/2000STScI-2000-0716.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)
1/13/2000STScI-2000-0317.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)