1992

• 12/16/1992 STScI-1992-29 1. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Discovers Protoplanetary Disks Around Newly Formed Stars NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the strongest evidence yet that many stars form planetary systems. Dr. C. Robert O'Dell of Rice University... (More)
• 12/1/1992 STScI-1992-28 2. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Peers Far Back in Time to Uncover the Secrets of Galaxy Evolution Looking far away and far back in time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has found some suspected ancestors... (More)
• 11/19/1992 STScI-1992-27 3. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Discovers a Disk Fueling a Possible Black Hole Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have gotten their best look yet at the disk of material that surrounds... (More)
• 11/13/1992 STScI-1992-26 4. NASA's Hubble Telescope Observes Most Distant Galaxy Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope an international team of astronomers Is uncovering intriguing new details about the most distant galaxy known, located... (More)
• 10/8/1992 STScI-1992-25 5. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Uses a Distant Gravitational Lens to Explore the Cosmos NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has photographed a striking mirror- image of a very distant galaxy. The observations... (More)
• 10/2/1992 STScI-1992-24 6. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Explores the Volcanic Moon Io NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is allowing several teams of astronomers to explore Io [EYE-oh] at a level of detail not possible since a pair of Voyager... (More)
• 9/10/1992 STScI-1992-23 7. Amateur Astronomers Will Use NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Six amateur astronomers will have a rare opportunity to use NASA'S Hubble Space Telescope to conduct original research. Officials at the Space Telescope Science Institute... (More)
• 7/11/1992 STScI-1992-22 8. Parker Receives Exceptional Achievement Award Patricia A. Parker, Head of the Operations Division at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, has received a 1992 Goddard Exceptional Achievement... (More)
• 7/1/1992 STScI-1992-21 9. HST Images Compact Young Radio Galaxy Observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have given a tantalizing glimpse of the time soon after galaxies formed, suggesting that these huge Systems... (More)
• 6/29/1992 STScI-1992-20 10. Hubble Space Telescope Begins To Provide Accurate Distances to Galaxies Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST), an international team of astronomers has taken a major first step in redetermining the expansion... (More)
• 6/29/1992 STScI-1992-19 11. Hubble Space Telescope Sky Survey Reveals Embryonic Galaxies A "serendipitous" survey of the heavens with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is uncovering remote and unusual galaxies never before resolved by optical telescopes... (More)
• 6/24/1992 STScI-1992-18 12. Merger of Two White Dwarf Stars This artist's illustration shows three steps in the merger of a pair of white dwarf stars. The illustration depicts how planets may form around massive... (More)
• 6/8/1992 STScI-1992-17 13. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Resolves a Dark "x" Across the Nucleus of M51 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with what may be their first direct view of an immense... (More)
• 6/2/1992 STScI-1992-16 14. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Uncovers a Starburst Galaxy NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has revealed a new class of object in the universe -- a grouping of gigantic star clusters produced by the collision of galaxies. (More)
• 5/7/1992 STScI-1992-15 15. Space Telescope Science Institute Prepares a "Desktop Universe" For Astronomers Imagine turning your home computer into the equivalent of a professional telescope which can display millions of stars and galaxies located anywhere... (More)
• 5/7/1992 STScI-1992-14 16. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Discovers a High Energy Jet in Galaxy NGC 3862 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an unusual and fascinating new optical jet in the nucleus of the elliptical galaxy NOC 3862. (More)
• 4/8/1992 STScI-1992-08 17. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Resolves a Planetary Nebula in the Large Magellanic Could The NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has imaged N66, a planetary nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud (a satellite... (More)
• 4/8/1992 STScI-1992-09 18. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Images the Dense Nucleus of Galaxy M32 Astronomers report that they have found new evidence that a black hole weighing 3 million times the... (More)
• 4/1/1992 STScI-1992-12 19. One of Hottest Known Stars Captured in Hubble Photograph This photograph from the NASA Hubble Space Telescope presents the first clear view of one of the hottest known stars, the central... (More)
• 4/1/1992 STScI-1992-13 20. NASA Hubble Space Telescope Photographs Jupiter Aurora The image at top right shows Jovian aurora observed on February 8, 1992, by the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera (FOC) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST). (More)
• 4/1/1992 STScI-1992-11 21. Clearest View Yet of Massive Star Cluster A new image processing technique has yielded the clearest view yet of an extraordinary star cluster located about 169,000 light years from Earth. The new technique... (More)
• 1/16/1992 STScI-1992-02 22. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Discovers Young Star Clusters in Giant Galaxy NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided intriguing new clues to cataclysmic events in the history of the peculiar galaxy NGC 1275, located... (More)
• 1/16/1992 STScI-1992-07 23. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Yields Clear View of Optical Jet in Galaxy M87 A NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) view of a 4,000 light-year long jet of plasma emanating from the bright nucleus... (More)
• 1/16/1992 STScI-1992-01 24. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Probes the Compact Nucleus of Galaxy M87 Astronomers report today that they have found intriguing evidence that a black hole weighing over 2.6 billion... (More)
• 1/14/1992 STScI-1992-10 25. Hubble Fellowship Program Selects Talented Young Astronomers for Studying Hubble Space Telescope Discoveries The Space Telescope Science Institute (ST ScI) has selected 13 new scientists for the Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. (More)
• 1/13/1992 STScI-1992-03 26. NASA Hubble Space Telescope "Snapshots" Probe the Early Universe Drs. Bahcall, Dan Maoz, Donald Schneider, and Brian Yanny, all of the Institute for Astronomers are reporting surprising and interesting initial results... (More)
• 1/13/1992 STScI-1992-04 27. NASA Hubble Space Telescope Observations Indicate Nearby Hydrogen Clouds May Be Associated With Galaxies Astronomers reported today that recent ultraviolet observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope suggest... (More)
• 1/13/1992 STScI-1992-05 28. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Probes the Chemistry of the Early Universe Using a unique capability of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) astronomers announced today that they have detected the rare element... (More)