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2009 (continued)

• 4/28/2009 STScI-2009-20 11. Space Telescope Science Institute Astrophysicist Elected to National Academy of Sciences Adam Riess was among 72 scientists elected today to membership in the National Academy of Sciences at the organization's 146th annual meeting... (More)
• 4/21/2009 STScI-2009-18 12. Hubble Celebrates Its 19th Anniversary with a "Fountain of Youth" Over the past 19 years Hubble has taken dozens of exotic pictures of galaxies going "bump in the night" as they collide with each other and have a variety... (More)
• 4/16/2009 STScI-2009-17 13. Galaxy Cluster MACS J0717 The most crowded collision of galaxy clusters has been identified by combining information from three different telescopes. This result gives scientists a chance to learn what happens... (More)
• 4/14/2009 STScI-2009-16 14. Hubble Witnesses Spectacular Flaring in Gas Jet from M87's Black Hole In our violent, discordant, and effervescent universe, reality always seems to be stranger than fiction. (More)
• 4/3/2009 STScI-2009-14 15. Hubble Celebrates the International Year of Astronomy with the Galaxy Triplet Arp 274 On April 1-2, the Hubble Space Telescope photographed the winning target in the Space Telescope Science Institute's "You Decide" competition... (More)
• 4/1/2009 STScI-2009-15 16. Hubble Finds Hidden Exoplanet in Archival Data In 19 years of observations, the Hubble Space Telescope has amassed a huge archive of data. That archive may contain the telltale glow of undiscovered extrasolar planets... (More)
• 3/22/2009 STScI-2009-13 17. Hubble Uncovers an Unusual Stellar Progenitor to a Supernova Astronomers have detailed theories about what type of stars self-destruct in titanic supernova explosions. However, it would be useful to test stellar... (More)
• 3/17/2009 STScI-2009-12 18. Quadruple Saturn Moon Transit Snapped by Hubble Saturn's comparatively paper-thin rings are tilted edge on to Earth every 15 years. Because the orbits of Saturn's major satellites are in the ring plane, too, this alignment... (More)
• 3/12/2009 STScI-2009-11 19. Hubble Provides New Evidence for Dark Matter Around Small Galaxies When it comes to finding dark matter in space, astronomers need to go on sort of a ghost hunt. Dark matter can't be directly seen or isolated in a laboratory. (More)
• 3/3/2009 STScI-2009-10 20. Trio of Galaxies Mix It Up Though they are the largest and most widely scattered objects in the universe, galaxies do go bump in the night. The Hubble Space Telescope has photographed many pairs of galaxies... (More)