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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)
8/5/2009 STScI-2009-24 2. Astronomers Find Hyperactive Galaxies in the Early Universe Even some galaxies may have been hyperactive youngsters. Looking almost 11 billion years into the past, astronomers have measured the motions... (More)
5/7/2009 STScI-2009-08 3. 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

8/27/2008 STScI-2008-32 4. A Clash of Clusters Provides New Clue to Dark Matter A powerful collision of galaxy clusters has been captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory. The observations of the cluster... (More)
4/10/2008 STScI-2008-17 5. Hubble Pinpoints Record-Breaking Explosion Peering across 7.5 billion light-years and halfway back to the Big Bang, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the fading optical counterpart of a powerful... (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)
2/12/2008 STScI-2008-08 7. 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-2008-03 8. The Violent Lives of Galaxies: Caught in the Cosmic Dark Matter Web Astronomers are using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to dissect one of the largest structures in the universe as part of a quest to understand... (More)
1/10/2008 STScI-2008-04 9. 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

10/4/2007 STScI-2007-38 10. 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)