Space Telescope
Hubble Finds Stars that Go 'Ballistic'
Even some stars go ballistic, racing through interstellar space like bullets and tearing through clouds of gas.Images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal…
Star Light, Star Bright, Its Explanation is Out of Sight
A mysterious flash of light from somewhere near or far in the universe is still keeping astronomers in the dark long after it was first detected by NASA's…
Hubble Views Galactic Core in Unprecedented New Detail
This sweeping panorama is the sharpest infrared picture ever made of the Galactic core. It offers a nearby laboratory for how massive stars form and influence…
Milky Way a Swifter Spinner, More Massive, New Measurements Show
That increase in speed, said Mark Reid, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, increases the Milky Way's mass by 50 percent, bringing it even with…
Brown Dwarfs Don't Hang Out With Stars
Hubble found only two brown dwarfs as companions to normal stars. This means the so-called “brown dwarf desert” (the absence of brown dwarfs around solar-type…
Hubble Telescope to Get Last Tuneup During International Year of Astronomy
From troubled beginnings nearly 18 years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy and its stunning images have stirred the imaginations of…