2011 (continued)

• 2/18/2011 STScI-2011-07 101. Astrophysicist Adam Riess Wins the 2011 Einstein Medal Adam Riess, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and a professor in physics and astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University, today was awarded... (More)
• 2/17/2011 STScI-2011-06 102. Hubble Shows New Image of Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a majestic disk of stars and dust lanes in this view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2841, which lies 46 million light-years... (More)
• 1/26/2011 STScI-2011-05 103. 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)
• 1/13/2011 STScI-2011-03 104. The Two-faced Whirlpool Galaxy These images by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show off two dramatically different face-on views of the spiral galaxy M51, dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy. ... (More)
• 1/12/2011 STScI-2011-04 105. 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)
• 1/10/2011 STScI-2011-01 106. Hubble Zooms in on a Space Oddity A ghostly, glowing, green blob of gas has become one of astronomy's great cosmic mystery stories. The space oddity was spied in 2007 by Dutch high-school teacher... (More)
• 1/10/2011 STScI-2011-02 107. NASA's Hubble Finds that Puny Stars Pack a Big Punch A survey of more than 200,000 stars in our Milky Way galaxy has unveiled the sometimes petulant behavior of tiny dwarf stars. (More)

2010

• 12/14/2010 STScI-2010-27 108. 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-2010-38 109. 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-2010-37 110. 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-2010-28 111. 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-2010-36 112. 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-2010-34 113. 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-2010-33 114. 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-2010-31 115. 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-2010-35 116. 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-2010-29 117. 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-2010-32 118. 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-2010-30 119. 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-2010-26 120. 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-2010-24 121. 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-2010-25 122. 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-2010-19 123. 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-2010-21 124. 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-2010-23 125. "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-2010-22 126. 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-2010-20 127. 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-2010-16 128. 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-2010-18 129. 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-2010-17 130. 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-2010-15 131. 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-2010-14 132. 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-2010-13 133. 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-2010-03 134. 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-2010-11 135. 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-2010-12 136. 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-2010-10 137. 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-2010-08 138. 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-2010-09 139. 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-2010-06 140. 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-2010-07 141. 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-2010-05 142. 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-2010-02 143. 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-2010-01 144. 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-2010-04 145. 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)

2009

• 12/18/2009 STScI-2009-34 146. STScI Senior Astrophysicist Mario Livio Elected AAAS Fellow In November, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Council elected Space Telescope Science Institute's senior astrophysicist... (More)
• 12/16/2009 STScI-2009-33 147. Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris that is encircling... (More)
• 12/15/2009 STScI-2009-32 148. Hubble's Festive View of a Grand Star-Forming Region Just in time for the holidays: a Hubble Space Telescope picture postcard of hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds. The festive portrait... (More)
• 12/8/2009 STScI-2009-31 149. Hubble's Deepest View of Universe Unveils Never-Before-Seen Galaxies NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made the deepest image of the universe ever taken in near-infrared light. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are galaxies... (More)
• 11/18/2009 STScI-2009-30 150. Galaxy on Edge The magnificent galaxy NGC 4710 is tilted nearly edge-on to our view from Earth. This perspective allows astronomers to easily distinguish the central bulge of stars from its pancake-flat... (More)
• 11/10/2009 STScI-2009-28 151. 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)
• 11/5/2009 STScI-2009-29 152. Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth in M83, the Southern Pinwheel The spectacular new camera installed on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 in May has delivered the most detailed... (More)
• 10/14/2009 STScI-2009-27 153. Hubble Project Pioneer Rodger Doxsey Passes Away Dr. Rodger Doxsey, head of the Space Telescope Science Institute's (STScI) Hubble Mission Office, passed away on October 13 after a prolonged illness. (More)
• 10/9/2009 STScI-2009-26 154. Hubble Observes LCROSS Impact Event NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made a series of observations immediately preceding and following the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Centaur... (More)
• 9/9/2009 STScI-2009-25 155. Hubble Opens New Eyes on the Universe NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, ready to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the invisible backbone of the universe. (More)
• 8/5/2009 STScI-2009-24 156. Astronomers Find Hyperactive Galaxies in the Early Universe Even some galaxies may have been hyperactive youngsters. Looking almost 11 billion years into the past, astronomers have measured the motions... (More)
• 7/24/2009 STScI-2009-23 157. Hubble Captures Rare Jupiter Collision NASA scientists have interrupted the checkout and calibration of the Hubble Space Telescope to aim the recently refurbished observatory at a new expanding spot on the giant planet Jupiter. (More)
• 6/25/2009 STScI-2009-22 158. STScI Joins the Search for Other Earths in Space The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., is partnering on a historic search for Earth-size planets around other stars. (More)
• 5/10/2009 STScI-2009-21 159. Hubble Photographs a Planetary Nebula to Commemorate Decommissioning of Super Camera The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. (More)
• 5/7/2009 STScI-2009-08 160. Refined Hubble Constant Narrows Possible Explanations for Dark Energy Less than 100 years ago scientists didn't know if the universe was coming or going, literally. It even fooled the great mind of Albert Einstein. He assumed... (More)
• 4/30/2009 STScI-2009-19 161. Starbursts in Dwarf Galaxies are a Global Affair Bursts of star making in a galaxy have been compared to a Fourth of July fireworks display: They occur at a fast and furious pace, lighting... (More)
• 4/28/2009 STScI-2009-20 162. Space Telescope Science Institute Astrophysicist Elected to National Academy of Sciences Adam Riess was among 72 scientists elected today to membership in the National Academy of Sciences at the organization's 146th annual meeting... (More)
• 4/21/2009 STScI-2009-18 163. Hubble Celebrates Its 19th Anniversary with a "Fountain of Youth" Over the past 19 years Hubble has taken dozens of exotic pictures of galaxies going "bump in the night" as they collide with each other and have a variety... (More)
• 4/16/2009 STScI-2009-17 164. Galaxy Cluster MACS J0717 The most crowded collision of galaxy clusters has been identified by combining information from three different telescopes. This result gives scientists a chance to learn what happens... (More)
• 4/14/2009 STScI-2009-16 165. Hubble Witnesses Spectacular Flaring in Gas Jet from M87's Black Hole In our violent, discordant, and effervescent universe, reality always seems to be stranger than fiction. (More)
• 4/3/2009 STScI-2009-14 166. Hubble Celebrates the International Year of Astronomy with the Galaxy Triplet Arp 274 On April 1-2, the Hubble Space Telescope photographed the winning target in the Space Telescope Science Institute's "You Decide" competition... (More)
• 4/1/2009 STScI-2009-15 167. Hubble Finds Hidden Exoplanet in Archival Data In 19 years of observations, the Hubble Space Telescope has amassed a huge archive of data. That archive may contain the telltale glow of undiscovered extrasolar planets... (More)
• 3/22/2009 STScI-2009-13 168. Hubble Uncovers an Unusual Stellar Progenitor to a Supernova Astronomers have detailed theories about what type of stars self-destruct in titanic supernova explosions. However, it would be useful to test stellar... (More)
• 3/17/2009 STScI-2009-12 169. Quadruple Saturn Moon Transit Snapped by Hubble Saturn's comparatively paper-thin rings are tilted edge on to Earth every 15 years. Because the orbits of Saturn's major satellites are in the ring plane, too, this alignment... (More)
• 3/12/2009 STScI-2009-11 170. Hubble Provides New Evidence for Dark Matter Around Small Galaxies When it comes to finding dark matter in space, astronomers need to go on sort of a ghost hunt. Dark matter can't be directly seen or isolated in a laboratory. (More)
• 3/3/2009 STScI-2009-10 171. Trio of Galaxies Mix It Up Though they are the largest and most widely scattered objects in the universe, galaxies do go bump in the night. The Hubble Space Telescope has photographed many pairs of galaxies... (More)
• 2/25/2009 STScI-2009-09 172. NASA Announces 2009 Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellows NASA has selected fellows in three areas of astronomy and astrophysics for its Einstein, Hubble, and Sagan Fellowships. The recipients of this year's postdoctoral fellowships... (More)
• 2/10/2009 STScI-2009-07 173. NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate the International Year of Astronomy with a National Unveiling of Spectacular Images In 1609, Galileo first turned his telescope to the heavens and gave birth to modern astronomy. To commemorate... (More)
• 1/28/2009 STScI-2009-06 174. Hubble's Next Discovery, You Decide In 1609, Galileo turned his telescope on the night sky for the first time. Now, 400 years later, your vote will help make the momentous decision of where to point modern astronomy's... (More)
• 1/15/2009 STScI-2009-05 175. Hubble Snaps a Splendid Planetary Nebula The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged striking details of the famed planetary nebula designated NGC 2818, which lies in the southern constellation of Pyxis (the Compass). The spectacular... (More)
• 1/7/2009 STScI-2009-03 176. Hubble Finds Stars That 'Go Ballistic' Resembling comets streaking across the sky, these four speedy stars are plowing through regions of dense interstellar gas and creating brilliant arrowhead structures and trailing... (More)
• 1/6/2009 STScI-2009-04 177. Star Light, Star Bright, Its Explanation is Out of Sight This pair of NASA Hubble Space Telescope pictures shows the appearance of a mysterious burst of light that was detected on February 21, 2006, brightened... (More)
• 1/5/2009 STScI-2009-02 178. 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)
• 1/5/2009 STScI-2009-01 179. Brown Dwarfs Don't Hang Out With Stars Brown dwarfs, objects that are less massive than stars but larger than planets, just got more elusive, based on studies of nearby multiple-star systems... (More)

2008

• 12/18/2008 STScI-2008-42 180. Hubble Catches Jupiter's Largest Moon Going to the 'Dark Side' NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has caught Jupiter's moon Ganymede playing a game of "peek-a-boo." In this crisp Hubble image, Ganymede... (More)
• 12/9/2008 STScI-2008-41 181. Hubble Finds Carbon Dioxide on an Extrasolar Planet NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This is an important step along the trail of finding... (More)
• 12/4/2008 STScI-2008-40 182. A Celestial Snow Globe of Stars Like a whirl of shiny flakes sparkling in a snow globe, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope catches an instantaneous glimpse of many hundreds of thousands... (More)
• 11/20/2008 STScI-2008-38 183. Hubble Resolves Puzzle about Loner Starburst Galaxy Astronomers have long puzzled over why a small, nearby, isolated galaxy is pumping out new stars faster than any galaxy in our local neighborhood. (More)
• 11/13/2008 STScI-2008-39 184. Hubble Directly Observes Planet Orbiting Fomalhaut Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet orbiting another star. The images show the planet, named Fomalhaut... (More)
• 10/30/2008 STScI-2008-37 185. Hubble Scores a Perfect Ten NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business. Just a couple of days after the orbiting observatory was brought back online, Hubble aimed its prime working camera... (More)
• 10/2/2008 STScI-2008-34 186. A Celestial Landscape in Celebration of 10 Years of Stunning Hubble Heritage Images The landmark 10th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's Hubble Heritage Project is being celebrated with a 'landscape'... (More)
• 9/30/2008 STScI-2008-35 187. When It Comes to Galaxies, Diversity Is Everywhere There's an old saying in astronomy: "Galaxies are like people. They're only normal until you get to know them." That view is supported by a group of astronomers... (More)
• 9/23/2008 STScI-2008-36 188. STScI Astrophysicist Adam Riess Receives MacArthur Fellowship The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today named Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and the Johns Hopkins University among 25 new MacArthur... (More)
• 9/16/2008 STScI-2008-33 189. Galaxy Silhouettes NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare alignment between two spiral galaxies. The outer rim of a small, foreground galaxy is silhouetted in front of a larger background galaxy. Skeletal... (More)
• 8/27/2008 STScI-2008-32 190. A Clash of Clusters Provides New Clue to Dark Matter A powerful collision of galaxy clusters has been captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory. The observations of the cluster... (More)
• 8/20/2008 STScI-2008-28 191. Hubble Sees Magnetic Monster in Erupting Galaxy NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found an answer to a long-standing puzzle by resolving giant but delicate filaments shaped by a strong magnetic... (More)
• 8/11/2008 STScI-2008-31 192. Hubble Unveils Colorful and Turbulent Star-Birth Region on 100,000th Orbit Milestone In commemoration of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope completing its 100,000th orbit in its 18th year of exploration and discovery, scientists... (More)
• 8/5/2008 STScI-2008-30 193. Globular Clusters Tell Tale of Star Formation in Nearby Galaxy Metropolis Globular star clusters, dense bunches of hundreds of thousands of stars, have some of the oldest surviving stars in the universe. (More)
• 7/29/2008 STScI-2008-29 194. 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)
• 7/17/2008 STScI-2008-27 195. Three Red Spots Mix it Up on Jupiter This sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images offers an unprecedented view of a planetary game of Pac-Man among three red spots clustered together in Jupiter's atmosphere. (More)
• 7/10/2008 STScI-2008-25 196. What's My Age? Mystery Star Cluster Has 3 Different Birthdays Imagine having three clocks in your house, each chiming at a different time. Astronomers have found the equivalent of three out-of-sync "clocks" in the ancient... (More)
• 7/8/2008 STScI-2008-26 197. Iain Neill Reid Appointed as Head of STScI Science Mission Office The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) has appointed Dr. Iain Neill Reid as Head of the STScI's Science Mission Office (SMO). (More)
• 7/1/2008 STScI-2008-22 198. Hubble Sees Stars and a Stripe in Celestial Fireworks A delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy. A contrail from an alien spaceship? A jet from a black-hole? Actually... (More)
• 6/10/2008 STScI-2008-24 199. Hubble's Sweeping View of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections... (More)
• 6/3/2008 STScI-2008-21 200. White Dwarf Lost in Planetary Nebula Call it the case of the missing dwarf. A team of stellar astronomers is engaged in an interstellar CSI (crime scene investigation). They have two suspects, traces of assault... (More)