2012

• 7/26/2012 STScI-2012-33 1. 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)
• 2/15/2012 STScI-2012-12 2. 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)

2011

• 12/5/2011 STScI-2011-39 3. Fastest Rotating Star Found in Neighboring Galaxy An international team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope have found the fastest spinning star ever discovered. VFTS 102 rotates... (More)

2010

• 7/22/2010 STScI-2010-19 4. Hyperfast Star Was Booted from Milky Way A hundred million years ago, a triple-star system was traveling through the bustling center of our Milky Way galaxy when it made a life-changing misstep. The trio wandered... (More)
• 5/11/2010 STScI-2010-14 5. Hubble Catches Heavyweight Runaway Star Speeding from 30 Doradus A blue-hot star, 90 times more massive than our Sun, is hurtling across space fast enough to make a round trip from Earth to the Moon in merely two hours. (More)

2009

• 9/9/2009 STScI-2009-25 6. Hubble Opens New Eyes on the Universe NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, ready to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the invisible backbone of the universe. (More)

2007

• 1/8/2007 STScI-2007-03 7. Astronomers Map a Hypergiant Star's Massive Outbursts Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory, Kameula, Hawaii, astronomers have learned that the gaseous outflow from one of the brightest super-sized... (More)

2006

• 1/9/2006 STScI-2006-03 8. Mystery Solved: High-Energy Fireworks Linked to Massive Star Cluster Call it the Bermuda Triangle of our Milky Way Galaxy: a tiny patch of sky that has been known for years to be the source of the mysterious... (More)

2001

• 7/12/2001 STScI-2001-19 9. Magnetic Fields Weave Rings Around Stars There are stars with planets. Stars with companion stars. Stars with pancake-shaped disks of rocky debris. But how about young, hot, hefty stars embedded in large inner tube-shaped... (More)

2000

• 7/13/2000 STScI-2000-23 10. Hubble Watches Star Tear Apart its Neighborhood The Hubble telescope has snapped a view of a stellar demolition zone in our Milky Way Galaxy: a massive star, nearing the end of its life, tearing apart the shell of surrounding... (More)