9/13/2010STScI-2010-3273.Hubble Harvests Distant Solar System Objects
This is an artist's concept of a craggy piece of solar system debris that belongs to a class of bodies called trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). (More)
8/19/2010STScI-2010-2675.First Use of Cosmic Lens to Probe Dark Energy
An international team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has devised a new method for measuring perhaps the greatest puzzle of our universe... (More)
8/10/2010STScI-2010-2476.An "Island Universe" in the Coma Cluster
A long-exposure Hubble Space Telescope image shows a majestic face-on spiral galaxy located deep within the Coma Cluster of galaxies, which lies 320 million light-years... (More)
8/5/2010STScI-2010-2577.A Galactic Spectacle
A beautiful new image of two colliding galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light-years from Earth, are shown in this composite... (More)
7/22/2010STScI-2010-1978.Hyperfast Star Was Booted from Milky Way
A hundred million years ago, a triple-star system was traveling through the bustling center of our Milky Way galaxy when it made a life-changing misstep. The trio wandered... (More)
7/15/2010STScI-2010-2179.Superhot Planet Likely Possesses Comet-like Tail
As if the debate over what is and what is not a planet hasn't gotten confusing enough, Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have now confirmed the existence of a tortured... (More)