Put this back when we don't have two news articles.--> News NASA's Swift Satellite Discovers New Kind of Black Hole Explosion Scientists using NASA data are studying a newly recognized type of cosmic explosion called a hybrid gamma-ray burst. As with other gamma-ray bursts, this hybrid blast is likely signaling the birth of a new black hole. Full Story Nobel Prize Awarded to Mather and Smoot for NASA's Picture of a Newborn Universe The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006 jointly to John C. Mather of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and George F. Smoot University of California, Berkeley. The Academy awarded them the prize "for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation". Full Story More News: News Archive Happy 10th Anniversary Imagine the Universe! Happy 10th Anniversary Imagine the Universe! On April 17, 1996, we debuted the first learning center for high energy astronomy on the World Wide Web. We're celebrating our 10th Anniversary this year with a series of restrospectives, comparing what we know now vs what we knew 10 years ago. This series will cover a range of topics, with each article showing the scientific progress over this time. Our current topic is on Dark Energy. Special Feature Featured Scientist: Dr. Stefan Immler For his first science project in high school, Stefan determined the mass of Jupiter by observing its moons. He carried this out in a 17th century observatory located in the same city where Kepler developed his laws of planetary motion. Ironically, that was the last time Stefan ever set foot inside an observatory. Read more. Feature Scientist Archive