News Release Archive: Exotic > Dark Matter

2000

• 8/24/2000 STScI-2000-29 11. Hubble Takes Census of Elusive Brown Dwarf Stars Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have carried out the most complete inventory to date of brown dwarfs, one of the universe's most elusive... (More)
• 5/3/2000 STScI-2000-18 12. Lost and Found: Hubble Finds Much of the Universe's Missing Hydrogen For the past decade astronomers have looked for vast quantities of hydrogen that were cooked up in the Big Bang but somehow managed to disappear... (More)

1999

• 5/6/1999 STScI-1999-16 13. Internet Voters Get Two Galaxies in One from Hubble Located about 130 million light-years away, NGC 4650A is one of only 100 known polar-ring galaxies. Their unusual disk-ring structure is not yet understood... (More)

1998

• 8/19/1998 STScI-1998-26 14. Distant Heavyweight Galaxy Cluster Clobbers Dense-Universe Theory A Space Telescope Science Institute astronomer has found the equivalent of the proverbial 900-pound gorilla in deep space. The "gorilla" is an extremely massive cluster... (More)
• 1/8/1998 STScI-1998-02 15. Hubble Pinpoints Distant Supernovae Peering halfway across the universe to analyze light from exploded stars that died long before our Sun even existed, the Hubble telescope has allowed astronomers to determine that the expansion... (More)

1997

• 1/14/1997 STScI-1997-02 16. Hubble Finds Intergalactic Stars The Hubble telescope has found a long-sought population of "stellar outcasts" ? stars tossed out of their home galaxies into the dark emptiness of intergalactic space. (More)

1996

• 5/9/1996 STScI-1996-21 17. Hubble Space Telescope on Track for Measuring the Expansion Rate of the Universe Using the Hubble telescope, two international teams of astronomers are reporting major progress in converging on an accurate measurement... (More)

1995

• 10/18/1995 STScI-1995-43 18. Hubble Discovers New Class of Gravitational Lens for Probing the Structure of the Cosmos The Hubble telescope has discovered a new, distant class of quadruple or cross-shaped gravitational lenses. (More)
• 3/31/1995 STScI-1995-22 19. Hubble Data Suggest Galaxies Have Giant Halos NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has helped solve a two-decade-old cosmic mystery by showing that mysterious clouds of hydrogen in space may actually be vast halos of gas surrounding... (More)
• 1/19/1995 STScI-1995-05 20. Hubble Identifies Huge Clouds of Intergalactic Gas Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered evidence that clouds of hydrogen found between galaxies at distances of billions of light-years... (More)