2008 (continued)

• 1/10/2008 STScI-2008-01 31. Circumstellar Dust Takes Flight in 'The Moth' What superficially resembles a giant moth floating in space is giving astronomers new insight into the formation and evolution of planetary systems. This is not your typical... (More)

2007

• 12/11/2007 STScI-2007-44 32. Hubble Finds that Extrasolar Planet Has a Hazy Sunset A team of astronomers, led by Frederic Pont from the Geneva University Observatory in Switzerland, has detected for the first time strong evidence... (More)
• 12/4/2007 STScI-2007-42 33. How White Dwarfs Get Their 'Kicks' NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is providing strong evidence that white dwarfs, the burned-out relics of stars, are given a "kick" when they form. The sharp vision of Hubble's Advanced... (More)
• 7/19/2007 STScI-2007-28 34. Astronomers Find Highly Elliptical Disk Around Young Star Dust and debris parade in an extremely misshapen ring around the young star, HD 15115. The disk, seen edge-on with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope... (More)
• 2/22/2007 STScI-2007-10 35. NASA's Hubble Telescope Celebrates SN 1987A's 20th Anniversary Twenty years ago, astronomers witnessed one of the brightest stellar explosions in more than 400 years. The titanic supernova... (More)
• 1/31/2007 STScI-2007-07 36. Hubble Probes Layer-cake Structure of Alien World's Atmosphere The powerful vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to study for the first time the layer-cake structure of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting... (More)
• 1/8/2007 STScI-2007-03 37. Astronomers Map a Hypergiant Star's Massive Outbursts Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory, Kameula, Hawaii, astronomers have learned that the gaseous outflow from one of the brightest super-sized... (More)
• 1/7/2007 STScI-2007-02 38. Hubble Observations Provide Insight into Planet Birth Hubble observed a "blizzard" of particles in a disk around a young star revealing the process by which planets grow from tiny dust grains. The particles... (More)

2006

• 12/11/2006 STScI-2006-54 39. Heavyweight Stars Light Up Nebula NGC 6357 The small open star cluster Pismis 24 lies in the core of the large emission nebula NGC 6357 in Scorpius, about 8,000 light-years away from Earth. Some of the stars in this cluster... (More)
• 11/16/2006 STScI-2006-52 40. Hubble Finds Evidence for Dark Energy in the Young Universe Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that dark energy is not a new constituent of space, but rather has been present... (More)