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2009

11/10/2009 STScI-2009-28 1. NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy A never-before-seen view of the turbulent heart of our Milky Way galaxy is being unveiled by NASA on Nov. 10. This event will commemorate the 400 years since Galileo... (More)
1/5/2009 STScI-2009-02 2. Hubble Views Galactic Core in Unprecedented New Detail This composite color infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a new population of massive stars and new details in complex structures... (More)

2008

7/29/2008 STScI-2008-29 3. Barred Spiral Galaxies Are Latecomers to the Universe In a landmark study of more than 2,000 spiral galaxies from the largest galaxy census conducted by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers found that so-called... (More)
2/19/2008 STScI-2008-09 4. Hubble Discovers 67 New Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies in the Distant Universe Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have compiled a large catalog of gravitational lenses in the distant universe. The catalog contains... (More)

2007

9/6/2007 STScI-2007-31 5. Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes Find "Lego-Block" Galaxies in Early Universe NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes have joined forces to discover nine of the smallest, faintest, most compact galaxies ever observed... (More)
5/7/2007 STScI-2007-21 6. Institute Educator Will Lead Workshop for British Queen Queen Elizabeth II will learn about NASA education tomorrow, May 8, when she visits NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Bonnie Eisenhamer... (More)
1/7/2007 STScI-2007-01 7. Hubble Maps the Cosmic Web of "Clumpy" Dark Matter in 3-D An international team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has created a three-dimensional map that provides... (More)

2006

9/21/2006 STScI-2006-12 8. NASA's Hubble Finds Hundreds of Young Galaxies in Early Universe Astronomers analyzing two of the deepest views of the cosmos made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered a gold mine of galaxies... (More)
9/13/2006 STScI-2006-44 9. Tracing the Evolution of the First Galaxies in the Universe A systematic search for the first bright galaxies to form in the early universe has revealed a dramatic jump in the number of such galaxies... (More)
1/10/2006 STScI-2006-04 10. Monster Black Holes Grow After Galactic Mergers An analysis of the Hubble Space Telescope's deepest view of the universe offers compelling evidence that monster black holes in the centers of galaxies... (More)

2005

9/27/2005 STScI-2005-28 11. Spitzer and Hubble Team Up to Find "Big Baby" Galaxies in the Newborn Universe Astronomers have used the penetrating power of two of NASA's Great Observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes... (More)
8/4/2005 STScI-2005-20 12. Hubble Spies a Zoo of Galaxies Gazing deep into the universe, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spied a menagerie of galaxies. Located within the same tiny region of space, these numerous galaxies display... (More)

2004

9/23/2004 STScI-2004-28 13. Hubble Approaches the Final Frontier: The Dawn of Galaxies Detailed analyses of mankind's deepest optical view of the universe, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), by several expert teams have at last identified... (More)
7/22/2004 STScI-2004-21 14. A Day in the Lives of Galaxies Like a photographer clicking random snapshots of a crowd of people, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken a view of an eclectic mix of galaxies. In taking this picture... (More)
6/24/2004 STScI-2004-16 15. Hubble IMAX Film Takes Viewers on Ride Through Space and Time Take a virtual ride to the outer reaches of the universe and explore 10 billion years of galactic history, from fully formed and majestic... (More)
6/2/2004 STScI-2004-49 16. 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)
6/1/2004 STScI-2004-19 17. Spitzer Leads NASA's Great Observatories to Uncover Black Holes, Other Hidden Objects in the Distant Universe Astronomers unveiled the deepest images from NASA's new Spitzer Space Telescope today, and announced the detection... (More)
3/9/2004 STScI-2004-07 18. Hubble's Deepest View Ever of the Universe Unveils Earliest Galaxies Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute today unveiled the deepest portrait of the visible universe ever achieved by humankind. (More)
2/20/2004 STScI-2004-12 19. 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)

2003

6/19/2003 STScI-2003-18 20. The Secret Lives of Galaxies Unveiled in Deep Survey Two of NASA's Great Observatories, bolstered by the largest ground-based telescopes around the world, are beginning to harvest... (More)
4/10/2003 STScI-2003-12 21. Far-Flung Supernovae Shed Light on Dark Universe New Hubble Space Telescope observations of a pair of very distant exploding stars, called Type Ia supernovae, provide new clues about the accelerating universe and its mysterious... (More)

2001

4/2/2001 STScI-2001-09 22. Blast from the Past: Farthest Supernova Ever Seen Sheds Light on Dark Universe Gazing to the far reaches of space and time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope identified the farthest stellar explosion... (More)

1999

5/13/1999 STScI-1999-18 23. Natural Lenses in Space Stretch Hubble's View of the Universe A Hubble telescope survey of the sky has uncovered exotic patterns, rings, arcs, and crosses that are all mirages produced by a gravitational... (More)
1/7/1999 STScI-1999-02 24. Combined Deep View of Infrared and Visible Light Galaxies This narrow, deep view of the universe reveals a plethora of faint galaxies, as seen in visible and infrared light by the Hubble telescope. ... (More)

1998

11/23/1998 STScI-1998-41 25. The Universe "Down Under" is the Latest Target for Hubble's Latest Deep-View Turning its penetrating vision toward southern skies, the Hubble telescope has peered down a 12- billion-light-year-long corridor... (More)
10/8/1998 STScI-1998-32 26. Hubble Goes to the Limit In Search Of Farthest Galaxies Stretching the Hubble telescope's vision farther across space and further back into time than ever before, astronomers have peered into a previously... (More)
8/27/1998 STScI-1998-27 27. Far-Flung Galaxy Clusters May Reveal Fate of Universe A survey of galaxy clusters by the Hubble telescope has found what could be some of the most distant clusters ever seen. If ground-based telescopes confirm the distances... (More)
1/7/1998 STScI-1998-06 28. Hubble Finds Most of Visible Light in the Universe A closer look at the Hubble telescope's most detailed image, the Hubble Deep Field, reveals that the faint galaxies seen by Hubble could account... (More)

1996

9/4/1996 STScI-1996-29 29. Hubble Sees Early Building Blocks of Today's Galaxies New Hubble telescope images unveil what may be galaxies under construction in the early universe. ... (More)
6/26/1996 STScI-1996-24 30. Findings from Hubble Deep Field Hone in on Distant Galaxies Astronomers analyzing the Hubble Deep Field — the faintest view of the universe taken with the Hubble telescope — may have identified... (More)
1/15/1996 STScI-1996-01 31. Hubble's Deepest View of the Universe Unveils Bewildering Galaxies across Billions of Years One peek into a small part of the sky, one giant leap back in time. The Hubble telescope has provided mankind's deepest, most detailed... (More)

1995

7/24/1995 STScI-1995-08 32. Hubble Sheds Light on the "Faint Blue Galaxy" Mystery Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have solved a 20-year-old mystery by showing that a class of galaxies once thought to be rare is actually... (More)

1994

7/24/1995 STScI-1994-39 33. Hubble Space Telescope Deep Sky Survey Finds Huge Numbers of Irregular and Peculiar Galaxies NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a variety of galaxies with normal, irregular and peculiar shapes. These galaxies... (More)

1993

11/8/1993 STScI-1993-23 34. Hubble Space Telscope Deep-sky Survey Finds Interacting Galaxies in a Cluster In one of the deepest celestial surveys yet made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a small group of previously unknown... (More)

1992

7/1/1992 STScI-1992-21 35. HST Images Compact Young Radio Galaxy Observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have given a tantalizing glimpse of the time soon after galaxies formed, suggesting that these huge Systems... (More)
6/29/1992 STScI-1992-19 36. Hubble Space Telescope Sky Survey Reveals Embryonic Galaxies A "serendipitous" survey of the heavens with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is uncovering remote and unusual galaxies never before resolved by optical telescopes... (More)