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• 4/4/2013 STScI-2013-17 11. Taken Under the "Wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope has made the first detection of X-ray emission from young solar-type stars that lie outside our Milky Way galaxy. (More)
• 3/13/2013 STScI-2013-15 12. NASA Helps Make Guinness World Record for Largest Astronomy Lesson at SXSW Looking up through hundreds of colored filters and spectral glasses, 526 people shattered the record for the Largest Astronomy Lesson. (More)
• 3/7/2013 STScI-2013-08 13. Hubble Finds Birth Certificate of Oldest Known Star You can't be older than your parents. But there is a nearby star that at first glance looks like it is older than the universe! Hubble Space Telescope astronomers... (More)
• 3/5/2013 STScI-2013-09 14. 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)
• 2/21/2013 STScI-2013-07 15. Stellar Motions in Outer Halo Shed New Light on Milky Way Evolution Peering deep into the vast stellar halo that envelops our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered... (More)
• 2/19/2013 STScI-2013-10 16. NASA's Webb Telescope to Have a Texas-Sized Presence at the South by Southwest Festival Everything's bigger in Texas, and a life-sized model of the world's largest space telescope, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope... (More)
• 2/7/2013 STScI-2013-04 17. Strobe-like Flashes Discovered in a Suspected Binary Protostar A mysterious infant star, swaddled inside a dusty blanket, behaves like a police strobe light. The newly discovered object offers... (More)
• 2/5/2013 STScI-2013-06 18. Amateur and Professional Astronomers Team Up to Create a Cosmological Masterpiece Working with astronomical image processors at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., renowned astrophotographer Robert Gendler... (More)
• 1/23/2013 STScI-2013-05 19. Dr. Jason Kalirai Awarded the 2013 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize Jason Kalirai of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., has been awarded the 2013 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize. This annual prize from the American... (More)
• 1/8/2013 STScI-2013-02 20. NASA Space Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf Astronomers using NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have probed the stormy atmosphere of a brown dwarf named 2MASSJ22282889-431026, creating... (More)