2012

• 1/11/2012 STScI-2012-02 1. NASA's Hubble Breaks New Ground with Distant Supernova Discovery NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a distant Type Ia supernova, the farthest stellar explosion that can be used to measure the expansion... (More)
• 1/11/2012 STScI-2012-04 2. Hubble Zooms in on Double Nucleus in Andromeda Galaxy A new Hubble Space Telescope image centers on the 100-million-solar-mass black hole at the hub of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31, or the Andromeda galaxy... (More)
• 1/11/2012 STScI-2012-03 3. Rare Ultra-blue Stars Found in Neighboring Galaxy's Hub Peering deep inside the hub of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a large, rare population of hot, bright stars. (More)
• 1/10/2012 STScI-2012-05 4. Hubble Pinpoints Farthest Protocluster of Galaxies Ever Seen NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a cluster of galaxies in the initial stages of construction — the most distant such grouping ever observed... (More)

2011

• 12/21/2011 STScI-2011-42 5. Distant Galaxy Bursts with Stars One of the most distant galaxies known, called GN-108036, dates back to 750 million years after the Big Bang that created our universe. The galaxy's light took 12.9 billion... (More)
• 11/10/2011 STScI-2011-31 6. Hubble Uncovers Tiny Galaxies Bursting with Star Birth in Early Universe Using its near-infrared vision to peer 9 billion years back in time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered an extraordinary population... (More)
• 10/27/2011 STScI-2011-30 7. Astronomers Pin Down Galaxy Collision Rate A new analysis of Hubble surveys, including the All-Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey (AEGIS), the Cosmological Evolution Survey (COSMOS), and the Great Observatories... (More)
• 9/15/2011 STScI-2011-27 8. Even Low-Mass Galaxies Can Harbor Supermassive Black Holes Using the slitless grism on Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 to probe the distant universe, astronomers have found supermassive black holes growing... (More)
• 1/26/2011 STScI-2011-05 9. NASA's Hubble Finds Most Distant Galaxy Candidate Ever Seen in Universe How far is far? And, when do you know when you get there? This is not a Dr. Seuss riddle, but the ultimate "final frontier" confronting astronomers. (More)
• 1/12/2011 STScI-2011-04 10. In Deep Galaxy Surveys, Astronomers Get a Boost -- from Gravity Astronomers are finding that the idiom "can't see the forest for the trees" applies to the universe of galaxies as well. In a paper published... (More)