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Horesehead Nebula in infrared

NASA's Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color

04.19.2013
Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light to mark the 23rd anniversary of the famous observatory's launch.
NICER principal investigator Keith Gendreau

NASA Selects Explorer Investigations for Formulation

04.05.2013
NASA's Astrophysics Explorer Program has selected two missions for launch in 2017: a planet-hunting satellite and an International Space Station instrument to observe X-rays from stars.
Hubble image of Fomalhaut system

NASA's Hubble Reveals Rogue Planetary Orbit For Fomalhaut B

01.08.2013
Newly released NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of a vast debris disk encircling the nearby star Fomalhaut and a mysterious planet circling it may provide forensic evidence of a titanic planetary disruption in the system.
Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the bright star Vega, as illustrated here at left in brown.

NASA, ESA Telescopes Find Evidence for Asteroid Belt Around Vega

01.08.2013
Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second brightest star in northern night skies.
HUDF

NASA'S Hubble Provides First Census of Galaxies Near Cosmic Dawn

12.12.2012
Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a previously unseen population of seven primitive galaxies that formed more than 13 billion years ago, when the universe was less than 4 percent of its present age.
Artist's concept of Kappa Andromedae b.

Astronomers Directly Image Massive Star's 'Super-Jupiter

11.19.2012
Astronomers using infrared data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii have discovered a "super-Jupiter" around the bright star Kappa Andromedae.
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The newly discovered galaxy, named MACS0647-JD.

NASA Great Observatories Find Candidate for Most Distant Object in the Universe to Date

11.15.2012
By combining the power of NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes and one of nature's own natural "zoom lenses" in space, astronomers have set a new record for finding the most distant galaxy seen in the universe.
Artist's impression of the exoplanet, Fomalhaut b.

New Study Brings a Doubted Exoplanet 'Back from the Dead'

10.25.2012
A second look at data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is reanimating the claim that the nearby star Fomalhaut hosts a massive exoplanet.
Artist concept of 55 Cancri e

NASA's Spitzer Sees the Light of Alien 'Super Earth'

05.08.2012
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a "super-Earth" planet beyond our solar system for the first time.
This image reveals 18 timy galaxies uncovered by HST.

NASA's Hubble Observes Young Dwarf Galaxies Bursting With Stars

11.10.2011
Using its near-infrared vision to peer 9 billion years back in time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered an extraordinary population of young dwarf galaxies brimming with star formation.
labeled image of SAO 206462

Spiral Arms Point to Possible Planets in a Star's Dusty Disk

10.19.2011
A new image of the disk of gas and dust around a sun-like star is the first to show spiral-arm-like structures. These features may provide clues to the presence of embedded but as-yet-unseen planets.
Images of the Pluto system taken by the HST's Wide Field Camera 3

NASA's Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto

07.20.2011
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto.
Blue straggler stars in the milky way

NASA's Hubble Finds Rare 'Blue Straggler' Stars in Milky Way's Hub

05.25.2011
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found a rare class of oddball stars called blue stragglers in the hub of our Milky Way, the first detected within our galaxy's bulge.
Cepheid variable star V1 in M31

Hubble Views the Star That Changed the Universe

05.23.2011
Though the universe is filled with billions upon billions of stars, the discovery of a single variable star in 1923 altered the course of modern astronomy. And, at least one famous astronomer of the time lamented that the discovery had shattered his world view.
This image is a composite of Hubble Wide Field Camera 3 data taken on December 17, 2010, with three separate filters that allow a broad range of wavelengths covering the ultraviolet, blue, and red portions of the spectrum.

NASA's Hubble Celebrates 21st Anniversary with "Rose" of Galaxies

04.20.2011
To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's deployment into space, astronomers pointed Hubble's eye at an especially photogenic pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273.
Lensing Galaxy Cluster Abell 383

NASA Telescopes Help Discover Surprisingly Young Galaxy

04.12.2011
Astronomers have uncovered one of the youngest galaxies in the distant universe, with stars that formed 13.5 billion years ago, a mere 200 million years after the Big Bang.
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/apr/HQ_M11-109_Young_Galaxy.html
Closeup of HUDF WFC3/IR Image Surrounding Object UDFj-39546284 With separate detail images

NASA's Hubble Finds Most Distant Galaxy Candidate Ever Seen in Universe

01.26.2011
Astronomers have pushed NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to its limits by finding what is likely to be the most distant object ever seen in the universe.
Images produced by computer models that track the movement of icy grains, representing snapshots of the Kuiper Belt.

Dust Models Paint Alien's View of Solar System

09.23.2010
New supercomputer simulations tracking the interactions of thousands of dust grains show what the solar system might look like to alien astronomers searching for planets.
http://geeked.gsfc.nasa.gov/?p=2934
An artist's depiction of an early stage in the destruction of a hot Jupiter by its star.

Deadly Tides Mean Early Exit for Hot Jupiters

09.09.2010
"Hot Jupiters" are likely destroyed by their host stars, which may be why so few of these planets have been found in globular clusters, say John Debes (Code 667) and Brian Jackson (Code 693).
artist concept of a planetary collision

Pulverized Planet Dust May Lie Around Double Stars

08.23.2010
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope spotted a surprisingly large amount of dust -- a possible aftermath of tremendous planetary collisions -- around three mature, close-orbiting star pairs.
Hubble image of galaxy NGC 4911

'Island Universe' in the Coma Cluster

08.10.2010
A long-exposure Hubble Space Telescope image shows a majestic face-on spiral galaxy located deep within the Coma Cluster of galaxies, which lies 320 million light-years away in the northern constellation Coma Berenices.
artist concept of hyperfast star being flung out of milky way galaxy

Hyperfast Star Was Booted from the Milky Way

07.23.2010
Hubble Telescope finds a triple-star system traveling through the Milky Way center wandered too close to the galaxy's giant black hole.
Artist concept of exoplanet HD 209458b

NASA Finds Super-Hot Planet with Comet-Like Tail

07.15.2010
Astronomers using Hubble have found a gas-giant planet outside our solar system that is so hot its atmosphere is escaping into space, giving it a peculiar comet-like tail.
artist concept of kepler spacecraft in orbit

NASA Releases Kepler Data on Potential Extrosolar Planets

06.15.2010
NASA's Kepler Mission has released 43 days of science data on more than 156,000 stars.
image of pluto surface

Hubble Images Document Seasonal Changes on Pluto

02.04.2010
New images of the dwarf planet show an icy, dark, molasses-colored world undergoing seasonal changes in its surface color and brightness.
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