2004

• 12/9/2004 STScI-2004-33 1. Spitzer and Hubble Capture Evolving Planetary Systems Two of NASA's Great Observatories, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, have provided astronomers an unprecedented look at dusty planetary... (More)
• 10/27/2004 STScI-2004-34 2. Stellar Survivor from 1572 A.D. Explosion Supports Supernova Theory An international team of astronomers is announcing today that they have identified the probable surviving companion star to a titanic supernova explosion witnessed... (More)
• 10/6/2004 STScI-2004-29 3. NASA's Great Observatories May Unravel 400-Year Old Supernova Mystery Four hundred years ago, sky watchers, including the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler, were startled by the sudden appearance of a "new star" in the western... (More)
• 9/2/2004 STScI-2004-23 4. A Bright Supernova in the Nearby Galaxy NGC 2403 The explosion of a massive star blazes with the light of 200 million Suns in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. The arrow at top right points to the stellar... (More)
• 7/15/2004 STScI-2004-24 5. Astronomers Measure Mass of a Single Star — First Since the Sun Astronomers have directly measured the mass of a single star — the first time such a feat has been accomplished for any solitary... (More)
• 6/15/2004 STScI-2004-51 6. Ultra-cool Diminutive Star Weighs In The power of the some of the world's biggest telescopes has been brought to bear to directly measure the mass, for the first time, of one of the smallest stars ever seen in the universe. (More)
• 4/8/2004 STScI-2004-13 7. Hubble Sees Stars as Numerous as Grains of Sand in Nearby Galaxy What appear as individual grains of sand on a beach in the image obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are actually myriads... (More)
• 3/4/2004 STScI-2004-10 8. Space Phenomenon Imitates Art in Universe's Version of van Gogh Painting This image resembling Vincent van Gogh's painting, "Starry Night," is Hubble's latest view of an expanding halo of light around a distant... (More)
• 2/20/2004 STScI-2004-12 9. New Clues About the Nature of Dark Energy: Einstein May Have Been Right After All The good news from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is that Einstein was right — maybe. A strange... (More)
• 2/19/2004 STScI-2004-09 10. Supernova Shock Wave Is Producing a Spectacular New Light Show Seventeen years ago, astronomers spotted the brightest stellar explosion ever seen since the one observed by Johannes Kepler 400 years ago. (More)