2004 (continued)

• 6/2/2004 STScI-2004-49 31. Hubble Takes Faintest Spectroscopic Survey of Distant Galaxies Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have measured accurate distances to several faint, red galaxies seen in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, confirming... (More)
• 5/6/2004 STScI-2004-48 32. Ethan J. Schreier to Become President of Associated Universities, Inc. The Board of Trustees of Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) has announced the appointment of Dr. Ethan J. Schreier as the next President of AUI. Schreier... (More)
• 5/4/2004 STScI-2004-47 33. HubbleSite.org Nominated for Best Science Web Site for the Eighth Annual Webby Awards The Webby Awards, the leading international honor for web sites and individual achievement in technology and creativity... (More)
• 5/3/2004 STScI-2004-46 34. Demise in Fire and Ice The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. The fiery, dying star at its center is shrouded by a blanket of icy hailstones. (More)
• 2/4/2004 STScI-2004-45 35. New Hubble Study Reveals How Black Holes Get Their Kicks When black holes collide, look out! The "kick" from an enormous burst of gravitational radiation that occurs during the collision... (More)
• 2/2/2004 STScI-2004-44 36. Oxygen and Carbon Found in Atmosphere of an Extrasolar Planet NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected, for the first time ever, the presence of oxygen and carbon in the atmosphere of a planet outside... (More)
• 1/27/2004 STScI-2004-43 37. Massive Old Star Reveals Secrets on Deathbed Like a doctor trying to understand an elderly patient's sudden demise, astronomers have obtained the most detailed observations ever of an old, but otherwise normal massive... (More)
• 1/12/2004 STScI-2004-42 38. Mining for Cosmic Treasures NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped an unparalleled image of a wide swath of the sky, unveiling 10,000 galaxies, which could help astronomers understand how large galaxies... (More)
• 1/7/2004 STScI-2004-41 39. Supernova Survivor: First Supernova Companion Star Found An international team of astronomers has, for the first time, observed a stellar "survivor" to emerge from a double star system involving an exploded supernova. (More)

2003

• 11/20/2003 STScI-2003-34 40. Vote for your Favorite Hubble Wide Field/Planetary Camera 2 Picture To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, you're invited... (More)