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1/7/2003 STScI-2003-01 31. Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space Takes Hubble Deeper into the Universe The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has used a natural "zoom lens" in space to boost its view of the distant... (More)

11/18/2002 STScI-2002-30 32. Fast-Flying Black Hole Yields Clues to Supernova Origin A nearby black hole is hurtling like a cannonball through the disk of our galaxy. The detection of this speed demon is the best evidence yet, some astronomers... (More)
9/17/2002 STScI-2002-18 33. Hubble Discovers Black Holes in Unexpected Places Medium-size black holes actually do exist, according to the latest findings from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, but scientists had to look in some unexpected... (More)
2/15/2002 STScI-2002-06 34. New Instrument Package to Expand Space Telescope's Vision NASA's Servicing Mission 3B for the Hubble Space Telescope will give the orbiting observatory a new camera that will significantly increase Hubble's abilities... (More)

10/5/2001 STScI-2001-32 35. Gravitational Lens Helps Hubble and Keck Discover Galaxy Building Block A very small, faint galaxy -- possibly one of the long sought "building blocks" of present-day galaxies -- has been discovered by a collaboration between... (More)
9/12/2001 STScI-2001-29 36. Ancient Black Hole Speeds Through Sun's Galactic Neighborhood, Devouring Companion Star Data from the Space Telescope Science Institute's Digitized Sky Survey has played an important supporting role in helping radio and X-ray astronomers... (More)
6/27/2001 STScI-2001-20 37. Hint of Planet-Sized Drifters Bewilders Hubble Scientists Piercing the heart of a globular star cluster, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope uncovered tantalizing clues to what could be a strange and unexpected population of wandering... (More)
4/2/2001 STScI-2001-09 38. Blast from the Past: Farthest Supernova Ever Seen Sheds Light on Dark Universe Gazing to the far reaches of space and time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope identified the farthest stellar explosion... (More)
1/11/2001 STScI-2001-03 39. 'Death Spiral' Around a Black Hole Yields Tantalizing Evidence of an Event Horizon The Hubble telescope may have, for the first time, provided direct evidence for the existence of black holes by observing... (More)

8/24/2000 STScI-2000-29 40. 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)