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• 6/19/2012 STScI-2012-27 41. Most Quasars Live on Snacks, Not Large Meals Black holes in the early universe needed a few snacks rather than one giant meal to fuel their quasars and help them grow, a new study shows. Quasars are the brilliant... (More)
• 6/14/2012 STScI-2012-29 42. Chance Alignment Between Galaxies Mimics a Cosmic Collision NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows a rare view of a pair of overlapping galaxies, called NGC 3314. The two galaxies look as if they are colliding, but they are actually... (More)
• 5/31/2012 STScI-2012-20 43. NASA's Hubble Shows Milky Way is Destined for Head-on Collision with Andromeda Galaxy NASA astronomers announced Thursday they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy... (More)
• 5/30/2012 STScI-2012-25 44. Stellar Archaeology Traces Milky Way's History Unfortunately, stars don't have birth certificates. So, astronomers have a tough time figuring out their ages. Knowing a star's age is critical for understanding... (More)
• 5/4/2012 STScI-2012-22 45. Hubble to Use Moon as Mirror to See Venus Transit This mottled landscape showing the impact crater Tycho is among the most violent-looking places on our Moon. Astronomers... (More)
• 5/2/2012 STScI-2012-18 46. 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)
• 4/19/2012 STScI-2012-21 47. Hubble Spots Aurorae on the Planet Uranus These are among the first clear images, taken from the distance of Earth, to show aurorae on the planet Uranus. This composite image combines 2011 Hubble observations... (More)
• 4/17/2012 STScI-2012-01 48. Hubble's 22nd Anniversary Image Shows Turbulent Star-making Region Several million young stars are vying for attention in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a raucous stellar breeding ground in 30 Doradus, located... (More)
• 4/5/2012 STScI-2012-17 49. Space Astronomy Archive and Distant Supernova Are Named in Honor Of U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski One of the world's largest astronomy archives, containing a treasure trove of information... (More)
• 4/2/2012 STScI-2012-15 50. Space Telescope Science Institute Announces the 2012 Hubble Fellows The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) announces today the selection of 17 new candidates for the Hubble Fellowship Program. This is one of the three prestigious... (More)
• 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)