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7/10/2003 STScI-2003-19 21. Oldest Known Planet Identified NASA's Hubble Space Telescope precisely measured the mass of the oldest known planet in our Milky Way galaxy. At an estimated age of 13 billion years, the... (More)

9/17/2002 STScI-2002-18 22. Hubble Discovers Black Holes in Unexpected Places Medium-size black holes actually do exist, according to the latest findings from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, but scientists had to look in some unexpected... (More)
4/24/2002 STScI-2002-10 23. Hubble Uncovers Oldest "Clocks" in Space to Read Age of Universe Pushing the limits of its powerful vision, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the oldest burned-out stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. (More)

10/4/2001 STScI-2001-33 24. 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)
7/26/2001 STScI-2001-21 25. 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)
7/10/2001 STScI-2001-25 26. Hubble Snaps Picture of Remarkable Double Cluster These two dazzling clusters of stars, called NGC 1850, are found in one of our neighboring galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The photo's centerpiece is a young, "globular-like"... (More)
6/27/2001 STScI-2001-20 27. Hint of Planet-Sized Drifters Bewilders Hubble Scientists Piercing the heart of a globular star cluster, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope uncovered tantalizing clues to what could be a strange and unexpected population of wandering... (More)

10/31/2000 STScI-2000-33 28. Astronomers Ponder Lack of Planets in Globular Cluster Astronomers using the Hubble telescope made the first broad search for planets far beyond our local stellar neighborhood. They trained Hubble's... (More)
8/3/2000 STScI-2000-25 29. A Dying Star in Globular Cluster M15 The globular cluster M15 is shown in this color image obtained with the Hubble telescope. Lying some 40,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus... (More)

9/29/1999 STScI-1999-33 30. Hubble Captures a Grand View of the Birth of "Hefty" Stars Pictures taken in infrared and visible light by the Hubble telescope recount a vivid story of the turbulent birthing process of massive stars. (More)