2001 (continued)

• 10/11/2001 STScI-2001-31 281. Scientists Track "Perfect Storm" on Mars A pair of eagle-eyed NASA spacecraft — the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) and Hubble Space Telescope — are giving amazed astronomers a ringside seat to the biggest... (More)
• 10/5/2001 STScI-2001-32 282. 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)
• 10/4/2001 STScI-2001-33 283. Peering into the Core of a Globular Cluster Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to peer into the center of a dense swarm of stars called Omega Centauri. Located some 17,000 light-years... (More)
• 9/12/2001 STScI-2001-29 284. Ancient Black Hole Speeds Through Sun's Galactic Neighborhood, Devouring Companion Star Data from the Space Telescope Science Institute's Digitized Sky Survey has played an important supporting role in helping radio and X-ray astronomers... (More)
• 9/6/2001 STScI-2001-26 285. A Galaxy Blazes With Star Formation Most galaxies form new stars at a fairly slow rate, but members of a rare class known as "starburst" galaxies blaze with extremely active star formation. (More)
• 8/16/2001 STScI-2001-28 286. Burst of Star Formation Drives Bubble in Galaxy's Core These NASA Hubble Space Telescope snapshots reveal dramatic activities within the core of the galaxy NGC 3079, where... (More)
• 8/9/2001 STScI-2001-27 287. New View of Primordial Helium Traces the Structure of Early Universe NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite has given astronomers their best glimpse yet at the ghostly... (More)
• 8/2/2001 STScI-2001-23 288. Hubble Photographs Warped Galaxy as Camera Passes Milestone The Hubble telescope has captured an image of an unusual edge-on galaxy, revealing remarkable details of its warped dusty disk and showing how colliding galaxies... (More)
• 7/26/2001 STScI-2001-21 289. Hubble's Panoramic Portrait of a Vast Star-Forming Region NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a panoramic portrait of a vast, sculpted landscape of gas and dust where thousands of stars are being born. This fertile... (More)
• 7/19/2001 STScI-2001-22 290. Star Clusters Born in the Wreckage of Cosmic Collisions In the beginning of the 1946 holiday film classic "It's a Wonderful Life," angelic figures take on the form of a famous group of compact galaxies... (More)