2013

• 4/4/2013 STScI-2013-11 1. Hubble Breaks Record in Search for Farthest Supernova A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a star detonated with enough energy to briefly shine with an intrinsic brightness of one billion of our suns. (More)

2012

• 12/12/2012 STScI-2012-48 2. Hubble Provides First Census of Galaxies Near Cosmic Dawn Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a previously unseen population of seven primitive galaxies that formed more than 13 billion... (More)
• 11/15/2012 STScI-2012-36 3. NASA Great Observatories Find Candidate for Most Distant Galaxy Yet Known By combining the power of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and one of nature's own natural "zoom lenses" in space, astronomers... (More)
• 10/25/2012 STScI-2012-24 4. Monster Galaxy May Have Been Stirred Up By Black-hole Mischief Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of a whopper of an elliptical... (More)
• 9/25/2012 STScI-2012-37 5. Hubble Goes to the eXtreme to Assemble Farthest Ever View of the Universe Like photographers assembling a portfolio of best shots, astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind's deepest-ever... (More)
• 9/19/2012 STScI-2012-31 6. NASA Telescopes Spy Ultra-Distant Galaxy Amidst Cosmic 'Dark Ages' With the combined power of NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, as well as a cosmic magnification effect, astronomers have spotted... (More)
• 1/11/2012 STScI-2012-02 7. 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)
• 1/10/2012 STScI-2012-05 8. 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 9. 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 10. 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)