2013

• 6/3/2013 STScI-2013-22 1. Rare Stellar Alignment Offers Opportunity to Hunt for Planets The ancients thought that stars were fixed pinpoints of light on the sky. Today we know that they are all moving, like fish in a pond. This so-called... (More)
• 3/5/2013 STScI-2013-09 2. Gravitational Lens Creates Cartoon of Space Invader The universe is eerie enough without giving us an apparition of a 1980s video game alien attacker. This oddball-looking object is really a mirage created by the gravitational... (More)

2012

• 11/30/2012 STScI-2012-42 3. 'Dark Core' May Not Be So Dark After All Now you see it, now you don't. Douglas Clowe of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, is reporting on new Hubble observations that do not find an unusually... (More)
• 11/15/2012 STScI-2012-36 4. 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)
• 7/10/2012 STScI-2012-26 5. Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Astronomers have puzzled over why some puny, extremely faint dwarf galaxies spotted in our Milky Way galaxy's back yard contain so few stars. These ghost-like galaxies are thought... (More)
• 6/26/2012 STScI-2012-19 6. NASA's Hubble Spots Rare Gravitational Arc from Distant, Hefty Galaxy Cluster Seeing is believing, except when you don't believe what you see. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found a puzzling... (More)
• 5/2/2012 STScI-2012-18 7. Black Hole Caught Red-handed in a Stellar Homicide Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close. NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer... (More)
• 3/15/2012 STScI-2012-14 8. Astronomers Using NASA's Hubble Discover Quasars Acting as Gravitational Lenses Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found several examples of galaxies containing quasars, which act as gravitational lenses, amplifying... (More)
• 3/2/2012 STScI-2012-10 9. Dark Matter Core Defies Explanation in Hubble Image Astronomers observed what appeared to be a clump of dark matter left behind during a bizarre wreck between massive clusters of galaxies. The dark matter collected... (More)
• 2/17/2012 STScI-2012-11 10. NASA's Hubble Spots a Relic from a Shredded Galaxy Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope may have found evidence for a cluster of young, blue stars encircling HLX-1, one of the first intermediate-mass... (More)