2010 (continued)

• 10/8/2010 STScI-2010-33 11. 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)
• 10/5/2010 STScI-2010-35 12. 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)
• 9/13/2010 STScI-2010-32 13. 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)
• 6/16/2010 STScI-2010-20 14. 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 15. 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)
• 2/15/2010 STScI-2010-09 16. 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 17. 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 18. 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)

2009

• 12/16/2009 STScI-2009-33 19. 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)
• 10/9/2009 STScI-2009-26 20. 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)