8/27/2008STScI-2008-321.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)
4/10/2008STScI-2008-172.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)
1/10/2008STScI-2008-046.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-2007-387.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)
5/15/2007STScI-2007-178.Hubble Finds Ring of Dark Matter
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a ghostly ring of dark matter that formed long ago during a titanic collision between two massive galaxy clusters. (More)
11/2/2006STScI-2006-5111.Host Galaxy Cluster to Largest Known Radio Eruption
This is a new composite image of galaxy cluster MS0735.6+7421, located about 2.6 billion light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis. (More)
8/21/2006STScI-2006-3912.NASA Finds Direct Proof of Dark Matter
Dark matter and normal matter have been wrenched apart by the tremendous collision of two large clusters of galaxies. This composite image shows the galaxy cluster 1E 0657-56... (More)
8/8/2006STScI-2006-3813.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)
5/16/2006STScI-2006-2115.Astronomer Wins Top Prize for Creating Black Hole Web Site
Explore the world of black holes in an award-winning Web site created by a team led by Roeland van der Marel, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science... (More)
11/17/2005STScI-2005-3217.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)
9/14/2005STScI-2005-1319.Black Hole in Search of a Home
A team of European astronomers has used two of the most powerful astronomical facilities available, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's... (More)
2004
7/22/2004STScI-2004-2120.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)