2013

• 5/23/2013 STScI-2013-13 1. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Reveals the Ring Nebula's True Shape The distinctive shape of the Ring Nebula, the glowing shroud around a dying Sun-like star, makes it a popular celestial object that appears... (More)
• 5/9/2013 STScI-2013-18 2. Hubble Finds Dead Stars 'Polluted' with Planet Debris Deep inside the Hyades star cluster, a pair of burned-out stars are yielding clues to the presence of rocky planets that may have whirled around them. Asteroid... (More)
• 5/7/2013 STScI-2013-19 3. STScI Appoints New Mission Head for the James Webb Space Telescope The Space Telescope Science Institute has appointed Dr. Massimo Stiavelli as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Mission Head. Stiavelli... (More)
• 4/23/2013 STScI-2013-14 4. Hubble Captures Comet ISON Comet ISON is potentially the "comet of the century" because around the time the comet makes its closest approach to the Sun, on November 28, it may briefly become brighter than the full Moon. (More)
• 4/19/2013 STScI-2013-12 5. Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color Unlike other celestial objects there is no question how the Horsehead Nebula got its name. This iconic silhouette of a horse's head and neck pokes up mysteriously... (More)
• 4/9/2013 STScI-2013-16 6. NASA and STScI Select 17 Hubble Fellows for 2013 NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) have announced the selection of 17 new Hubble Fellows. The Hubble Fellowship Program now includes all research relevant... (More)
• 4/4/2013 STScI-2013-11 7. Hubble Breaks Record in Search for Farthest Supernova A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a star detonated with enough energy to briefly shine with an intrinsic brightness of one billion of our suns. (More)
• 4/4/2013 STScI-2013-17 8. Taken Under the "Wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope has made the first detection of X-ray emission from young solar-type stars that lie outside our Milky Way galaxy. (More)
• 3/13/2013 STScI-2013-15 9. NASA Helps Make Guinness World Record for Largest Astronomy Lesson at SXSW Looking up through hundreds of colored filters and spectral glasses, 526 people shattered the record for the Largest Astronomy Lesson. (More)
• 3/7/2013 STScI-2013-08 10. Hubble Finds Birth Certificate of Oldest Known Star You can't be older than your parents. But there is a nearby star that at first glance looks like it is older than the universe! Hubble Space Telescope astronomers... (More)