2010

• 12/14/2010 STScI-2010-27 1. Hubble Supernova Bubble Resembles Holiday Ornament A delicate sphere of gas, photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, floats serenely in the depths of space. The pristine shell, or bubble... (More)
• 11/18/2010 STScI-2010-38 2. Hubble Captures New Life in an Ancient Galaxy Elliptical galaxies were once thought to be aging star cities whose star-making heyday was billions of years ago. But new observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope... (More)
• 11/11/2010 STScI-2010-37 3. Detailed Dark Matter Map Yields Clues to Galaxy Cluster Growth Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope received a boost from a cosmic magnifying glass to construct one of the sharpest... (More)
• 10/26/2010 STScI-2010-28 4. Hubble Data Used to Look 10,000 Years into the Future The globular star cluster Omega Centauri has caught the attention of sky watchers ever since the ancient astronomer Ptolemy first catalogued... (More)
• 10/19/2010 STScI-2010-36 5. Pinwheel of Star Birth This face-on spiral galaxy, called NGC 3982, is striking for its rich tapestry of star birth, along with its winding arms. The arms are lined with pink star-forming regions of glowing hydrogen... (More)
• 10/13/2010 STScI-2010-34 6. Hubble Finds that a Bizarre X-Shaped Intruder Is Linked to an Unseen Asteroid Collision Last January astronomers thought they had witnessed a fresh collision between two asteroids... (More)
• 10/8/2010 STScI-2010-33 7. NASA Mission to Asteroid Gets Help from Hubble Space Telescope NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of the large asteroid Vesta that will help scientists refine plans for the Dawn spacecraft's rendezvous... (More)
• 10/7/2010 STScI-2010-31 8. Hubble Astronomers Uncover an Overheated Early Universe If you think global warming is bad, 11 billion years ago the entire universe underwent, well, universal warming. The consequence was that fierce blasts of radiation... (More)
• 10/5/2010 STScI-2010-35 9. Hubble Probes Comet 103P/Hartley 2 in Preparation for DIXI/EPOXI Flyby Hubble Space Telescope observations of comet 103P/Hartley 2, taken on September 25, are helping in the planning for a November... (More)
• 9/16/2010 STScI-2010-29 10. Cosmic Ice Sculptures: Dust Pillars in the Carina Nebula Enjoying a frozen treat on a hot summer day can leave a sticky mess as it melts in the Sun and deforms. In the cold... (More)
• 9/13/2010 STScI-2010-32 11. Hubble Harvests Distant Solar System Objects This is an artist's concept of a craggy piece of solar system debris that belongs to a class of bodies called trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). (More)
• 9/2/2010 STScI-2010-30 12. New Hubble Observations of Supernova 1987A Trace Shock Wave An international team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope reports a significant brightening of the emissions from Supernova 1987A. The results... (More)
• 8/19/2010 STScI-2010-26 13. First Use of Cosmic Lens to Probe Dark Energy An international team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has devised a new method for measuring perhaps the greatest puzzle of our universe... (More)
• 8/10/2010 STScI-2010-24 14. An "Island Universe" in the Coma Cluster A long-exposure Hubble Space Telescope image shows a majestic face-on spiral galaxy located deep within the Coma Cluster of galaxies, which lies 320 million light-years... (More)
• 8/5/2010 STScI-2010-25 15. A Galactic Spectacle A beautiful new image of two colliding galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light-years from Earth, are shown in this composite... (More)
• 7/22/2010 STScI-2010-19 16. Hyperfast Star Was Booted from Milky Way A hundred million years ago, a triple-star system was traveling through the bustling center of our Milky Way galaxy when it made a life-changing misstep. The trio wandered... (More)
• 7/15/2010 STScI-2010-21 17. Superhot Planet Likely Possesses Comet-like Tail As if the debate over what is and what is not a planet hasn't gotten confusing enough, Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have now confirmed the existence of a tortured... (More)
• 7/8/2010 STScI-2010-23 18. "Hubble Repairman" Becomes Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld has walked in space eight times and logged more than 800 hours floating in that deep, dark... (More)
• 7/6/2010 STScI-2010-22 19. Starburst Cluster Shows Celestial Fireworks Like a July 4 fireworks display, a young, glittering collection of stars looks like an aerial burst. The cluster is surrounded by clouds of interstellar gas and dust—the raw material... (More)
• 6/16/2010 STScI-2010-20 20. Mysterious Flash on Jupiter Left No Debris Cloud Detailed observations made by the Wide Field Camera 3 on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found an answer to the flash of light seen June 3 on Jupiter. (More)
• 6/3/2010 STScI-2010-16 21. Hubble Images Suggest Rogue Asteroid Smacked Jupiter Without warning, a mystery object struck Jupiter on July 19, 2009, leaving a dark bruise the size of the Pacific Ocean. The spot first caught the eye of an amateur astronomer... (More)
• 5/25/2010 STScI-2010-18 22. Supermassive Black Holes May Frequently Roam Galaxy Centers A team of astronomy researchers at Florida Institute of Technology and Rochester Institute of Technology in the United States and University... (More)
• 5/24/2010 STScI-2010-17 23. Out of Whack Planetary System Offers Clues to a Disturbed Past For just over a decade, astronomers have known that three Jupiter-type planets orbit the yellow-white star Upsilon Andromedae. But to their surprise... (More)
• 5/20/2010 STScI-2010-15 24. Hubble Finds Star Eating a Planet "The Star That Ate My Planet" may sound like a B-grade science fiction movie title, but this is really happening 600 light-years away. Like a moth in a candle flame, a doomed Jupiter-sized... (More)
• 5/11/2010 STScI-2010-14 25. Hubble Catches Heavyweight Runaway Star Speeding from 30 Doradus A blue-hot star, 90 times more massive than our Sun, is hurtling across space fast enough to make a round trip from Earth to the Moon in merely two hours. (More)
• 4/22/2010 STScI-2010-13 26. Starry-Eyed Hubble Celebrates 20 Years of Awe and Discovery NASA's best-recognized, longest-lived, and most prolific space observatory zooms past a threshold of 20 years of operation this month. (More)
• 4/6/2010 STScI-2010-03 27. Small Companion to Brown Dwarf Challenges Simple Definition As our telescopes grow more powerful, astronomers are uncovering objects that defy conventional wisdom. This latest example is the discovery of a planet-like... (More)
• 3/30/2010 STScI-2010-11 28. Exploring the Carina Nebula By Touch The Hubble Space Telescope's dramatic glimpse of the Carina Nebula, a gigantic cloud of dust and gas bustling with star-making activity, is a glorious feast for the eyes. Energetic... (More)
• 3/19/2010 STScI-2010-12 29. Experience Hubble's Universe in 3-D Take an exhilarating ride through the Orion Nebula, a vast star-making factory 1,500 light-years away. Swoop through Orion's giant canyon of gas and dust. Fly past behemoth... (More)
• 2/26/2010 STScI-2010-10 30. STScI Announces the 2010 Hubble Fellows The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md. has selected 17 new candidates for the 2010 Hubble Fellowship Program. The fellows may pursue their research... (More)
• 2/18/2010 STScI-2010-08 31. Jurassic Space: Ancient Galaxies Come Together After Billions of Years Imagine finding a living dinosaur in your backyard. Astronomers have found the astronomical equivalent of prehistoric life in our intergalactic backyard:... (More)
• 2/15/2010 STScI-2010-09 32. Hubble Captures Saturn's Double Light Show In January and March 2009, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took advantage of a rare opportunity to record Saturn when its rings were edge-on, resulting... (More)
• 2/4/2010 STScI-2010-06 33. New Hubble Maps of Pluto Show Surface Changes Since its discovery in 1930, Pluto has been a speck of light in the largest ground-based telescopes. But NASA's Hubble Space Telescope... (More)
• 2/2/2010 STScI-2010-07 34. Suspected Asteroid Collision Leaves Odd X-Pattern of Trailing Debris Something awfully curious is happening 100 million miles from Earth in the asteroid belt. There's a newly discovered object that superficially... (More)
• 1/14/2010 STScI-2010-05 35. Hubble Catches End of Star-Making Party in Nearby Dwarf Galaxy Galaxies throughout the universe are ablaze with star birth. But for a nearby, small spiral galaxy, the star-making party is almost over. Astronomers... (More)
• 1/5/2010 STScI-2010-02 36. Hubble Reaches the "Undiscovered Country" of Primeval Galaxies NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has broken the distance limit for galaxies and uncovered a primordial population of compact and ultra-blue galaxies... (More)
• 1/5/2010 STScI-2010-01 37. Galaxy History Revealed in This Colorful Hubble View More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this unprecedented, panoramic, full-color view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. (More)
• 1/4/2010 STScI-2010-04 38. Astronaut John Grunsfeld Appointed STScI Deputy Director Dr. John M. Grunsfeld has been appointed Deputy Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md. effective January 4, 2010. He succeeds Dr. Michael... (More)