2013

• 6/13/2013 STScI-2013-20 1. Hubble Uncovers Evidence for Extrasolar Planet Under Construction Nearly 900 extrasolar planets have been confirmed to date, but now for the first time astronomers think they are seeing compelling evidence for a planet under construction... (More)
• 6/4/2013 STScI-2013-21 2. Hubble Maps 3-D Structure of Ejected Material Around Erupting Star After 45 years of peaceful bliss, the nova T Pyxidis erupted again in 2011. Astronomers took advantage of a flash of light accompanying... (More)
• 6/3/2013 STScI-2013-22 3. Rare Stellar Alignment Offers Opportunity to Hunt for Planets The ancients thought that stars were fixed pinpoints of light on the sky. Today we know that they are all moving, like fish in a pond. This so-called... (More)
• 5/9/2013 STScI-2013-18 4. Hubble Finds Dead Stars 'Polluted' with Planet Debris Deep inside the Hyades star cluster, a pair of burned-out stars are yielding clues to the presence of rocky planets that may have whirled around them. Asteroid... (More)
• 4/4/2013 STScI-2013-11 5. Hubble Breaks Record in Search for Farthest Supernova A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a star detonated with enough energy to briefly shine with an intrinsic brightness of one billion of our suns. (More)
• 2/7/2013 STScI-2013-04 6. 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)
• 1/8/2013 STScI-2013-02 7. 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)
• 1/8/2013 STScI-2013-01 8. Hubble Reveals Rogue Planetary Orbit for Fomalhaut b Newly released Hubble Space Telescope images of a vast debris disk encircling the nearby star Fomalhaut, and of a mysterious planet circling it, may provide forensic... (More)

2012

• 10/29/2012 STScI-2012-46 9. Additional Kepler Data Now Available to All Planet Hunters The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., is releasing 12 additional months worth of planet-searching data meticulously collected... (More)
• 7/26/2012 STScI-2012-33 10. ESO Telescopes Find Most Stellar Heavyweights Don't Live Alone A new study using European Southern Observatory (ESO) telescopes, including the Very Large Telescope, has shown that most very bright high-mass... (More)