2016

• 6/14/2016 STScI-2016-21 1. Gluttonous Star May Hold Clues to Planet Formation In 1936, astronomers observed signs that the young star FU Orionis had begun gobbling material from its surrounding disk of gas and dust with a sudden voraciousness. (More)
• 6/8/2016 STScI-2016-20 2. Cloudy Days on Exoplanets May Hide Atmospheric Water Water is a hot topic in the study of exoplanets, including "hot Jupiters," whose masses are similar to that of Jupiter, but lie... (More)
• 6/2/2016 STScI-2016-17 3. NASA's Hubble Finds Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Expected When astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered nearly 100 years ago that the universe was uniformly expanding in all directions, the finding was a big surprise. (More)
• 4/21/2016 STScI-2016-13 4. Hubble Sees a Star 'Inflating' a Giant Bubble Twenty-six candles grace NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's birthday cake this year, and now one giant space "balloon" will add to the festivities. (More)
• 2/18/2016 STScI-2016-05 5. Hubble Directly Measures Rotation of Cloudy 'Super-Jupiter' Though nearly 2,000 planets have been found around other stars, the light from only a handful of them has ever been collected by the world's most powerful telescopes. Ironically... (More)
• 1/21/2016 STScI-2016-03 6. Hubble Unveils a Tapestry of Dazzling Diamond-Like Stars Some of the Milky Way's "celebrity stars" — opulent, attention-getting, and short-lived — can be found in this Hubble Space Telescope image of the glittering... (More)
• 1/6/2016 STScI-2016-01 7. NASA's Spitzer, Hubble Find 'Twins' of Superstar Eta Carinae in Other Galaxies Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system located within 10,000 light-years of Earth, is best known for an enormous eruption... (More)

2015

• 12/17/2015 STScI-2015-42 8. Hubble Sees the Force Awakening in a Newborn Star Just about anything is possible in our remarkable universe, and it often competes with the imaginings of science fiction writers and filmmakers. Hubble's... (More)
• 12/16/2015 STScI-2015-46 9. Caught in the Act: Hubble Captures First-Ever Predicted Exploding Star Hubble has captured an image of the first-ever predicted supernova explosion. The reappearance of the supernova dubbed "Refsdal" was calculated by different... (More)
• 12/14/2015 STScI-2015-44 10. NASA Space Telescopes Solve Missing Water Mystery in Comprehensive Survey of Exoplanets A survey of Jupiter-sized exoplanets conducted with the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes has solved a long-standing mystery —... (More)