News Release Archive: HubbleSite Lite
News Releases 1-50 of 227
2010
2009
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11/18/2009
2. Galaxy on Edge
The magnificent galaxy NGC 4710 is tilted nearly edge-on to our view from Earth. This perspective allows astronomers to easily distinguish the central bulge of stars from its pancake-flat... (More)
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9/9/2009
5. 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)
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4/16/2009
8. Galaxy Cluster MACS J0717
The most crowded collision of galaxy clusters has been identified by combining information from three different telescopes. This result gives scientists a chance to learn what happens... (More)
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3/3/2009
12. Trio of Galaxies Mix It Up
Though they are the largest and most widely scattered objects in the universe, galaxies do go bump in the night. The Hubble Space Telescope has photographed many pairs of galaxies... (More)
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2008
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10/30/2008
16. Hubble Scores a Perfect Ten
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business. Just a couple of days after the orbiting observatory was brought back online, Hubble aimed its prime working camera... (More)
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9/16/2008
18. Galaxy Silhouettes
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare alignment between two spiral galaxies. The outer rim of a small, foreground galaxy is silhouetted in front of a larger background galaxy. Skeletal... (More)
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4/24/2008
25. Cosmic Collisions Galore!
Astronomy textbooks typically present galaxies as staid, solitary, and majestic island worlds of glittering stars. But galaxies have a dynamical side. They have close encounters that sometimes... (More)
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2007
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10/16/2007
33. Hubble Finds 'Dorian Gray' Galaxy
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope quashed the possibility that what was previously believed to be a toddler galaxy in the nearby universe may actually be considered an adult. (More)
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5/15/2007
36. Hubble Finds Ring of Dark Matter
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a ghostly ring of dark matter that formed long ago during a titanic collision between two massive galaxy clusters. (More)
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2/5/2007
40. Hubble Illuminates Cluster of Diverse Galaxies
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the diverse collection of galaxies in a galaxy cluster called Abell S0740, located more than 450 million light-years away in the constellation... (More)
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2006
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12/19/2006
42. Celestial Season's Greetings from Hubble
Swirls of gas and dust reside in this ethereal-looking region of star formation imaged by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This majestic view of LH 95, located in the Large Magellanic... (More)
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10/12/2006
45. Hubble Captures Galaxy in the Making
Images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have provided a dramatic glimpse of a large and massive galaxy under assembly by the merging of smaller, lighter galaxies. Astrophysicists... (More)
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8/21/2006
47. NASA Finds Direct Proof of Dark Matter
Dark matter and normal matter have been wrenched apart by the tremendous collision of two large clusters of galaxies. This composite image shows the galaxy cluster 1E 0657-56... (More)
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7/31/2006
48. Extraterrestrial Fireworks
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of a cosmic explosion that is quite similar to fireworks on Earth. In the nearby galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, a massive star has exploded... (More)
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6/13/2006
50. Hubble Eyes Star Birth in the Extreme
Staring into the crowded, dusty core of two merging galaxies, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a region where star formation has gone wild. (More)