2012 (continued)

• 3/27/2012 STScI-2012-16 51. Help Find Hubble's Hidden Treasures NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made over one million observations during its more than two decades in orbit. New images are published nearly every week, but hidden in Hubble's... (More)
• 3/15/2012 STScI-2012-14 52. 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 53. 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)
• 2/21/2012 STScI-2012-13 54. NASA's Hubble Reveals a New Class of Extrasolar Planet Observations of the extrasolar planet GJ1214b by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have come up with a new class of planet, a waterworld enshrouded... (More)
• 2/17/2012 STScI-2012-11 55. 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)
• 2/15/2012 STScI-2012-12 56. Astronomers Watch Delayed Broadcast of a Powerful Stellar Eruption Astronomers are watching a delayed broadcast of a spectacular outburst from the unstable, behemoth double-star system Eta Carinae, an event initially... (More)
• 2/2/2012 STScI-2012-08 57. Hubble Zooms in on a Magnified Galaxy A team of astronomers aimed Hubble at one of the most striking examples of gravitational lensing, a nearly 90-degree arc of light in the galaxy cluster RCS2 032727-132623. (More)
• 1/27/2012 STScI-2012-09 58. Space Telescope Science Institute Awarded for Being a "Best Place to Work" in Baltimore In its February 2012 issue, Baltimore Magazine has cited the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)... (More)
• 1/11/2012 STScI-2012-07 59. The Milky Way Contains at Least 100 Billion Planets According to Survey Our Milky Way galaxy contains a minimum of 100 billion planets according to a detailed statistical study based on the detection of three extrasolar... (More)
• 1/11/2012 STScI-2012-06 60. Hubble Solves Mystery on Source of Supernova in Nearby Galaxy Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have solved a longstanding mystery on the type of star, or so-called progenitor, that caused a supernova... (More)