1994

• 7/24/1995 STScI-1994-39 1. Hubble Space Telescope Deep Sky Survey Finds Huge Numbers of Irregular and Peculiar Galaxies NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a variety of galaxies with normal, irregular and peculiar shapes. These galaxies... (More)
• 12/21/1994 STScI-1994-53 2. Hubble Observes A New Saturn Storm This Hubble telescope picture of Saturn captures a rare storm that appears as a white arrowhead-shaped feature near the planet's equator. An upwelling of warmer air, similar... (More)
• 12/21/1994 STScI-1994-54 3. Hubble Finds One of the Smallest Stars in the Universe The Hubble telescope's crisp vision has captured a first-time view of one of the smallest stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. Called Gliese 623b or Gl623b... (More)
• 12/6/1994 STScI-1994-25 4. Observes the Lost Ancestors to Our Milky Way Galaxy This NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of the central portion of a remote cluster of galaxies (CL 0939+4713) as it looked when the universe was two-thirds... (More)
• 12/6/1994 STScI-1994-52 5. Hubble Identifies Primeval Galaxies, Uncovers New Clues to the Universe's Evolution Astronomers using the Hubble telescope as a "time machine" have obtained the clearest views yet of distant galaxies that existed when the universe... (More)
• 11/8/1994 STScI-1994-55 6. UA Scientist & Team Discover Surface Features Cover Titan Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. They mapped light and dark features over the surface... (More)
• 11/3/1994 STScI-1994-51 7. Astronomers Discover Nearby Spiral Galaxy Hidden Behind the Milky Way An international team of astronomers has uncovered a galaxy in our own cosmic back yard. Though only ten million light-years... (More)
• 11/2/1994 STScI-1994-50 8. Hubble Observes the Moons and Rings of the Planet Uranus This Hubble telescope snapshot of the planet Uranus reveals the planet's rings, at least five of the inner moons, and bright clouds in the Southern... (More)
• 10/26/1994 STScI-1994-49 9. Hubble Space Telescope Measures Precise Distance to the Most Remote Galaxy Yet Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have announced the most accurate distance measurement yet to the remote galaxy M100, located... (More)
• 10/17/1994 STScI-1994-40 10. Tale of Two Clusters Yields Secrets of Star Birth in the Early Universe The Hubble telescope has provided new insights into how stars may have formed many billions of years ago in the early universe. (More)
• 10/17/1994 STScI-1994-41 11. Hubble Rules Out a Leading Explanation for Dark Matter Astronomers have ruled out the possibility that red dwarf stars constitute the invisible matter, called dark matter, believed to account for more than 90 percent... (More)
• 9/29/1994 STScI-1994-44 12. Jupiter's Upper Atmospheric Winds Revealed in Ultraviolet Images by Hubble Telescope These four NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter, as seen in visible (violet) and far-ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths, show the remarkable... (More)
• 9/29/1994 STScI-1994-43 13. Evolution of the P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 "Gang of Four" Region This series of eight NASA Hubble Space Telescope "snapshots" shows the evolution of the P-Q complex, also called the "gang of four' region, of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy... (More)
• 9/29/1994 STScI-1994-48 14. Hubble Observations Shed New Light on Jupiter Collision In the weeks following comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9's spectacular July collision with Jupiter, a team of Hubble telescope astronomers has pored over imaging and spectroscopic... (More)
• 9/29/1994 STScI-1994-47 15. Jupiter Mapping Traces Changes in Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact Sites This series of color-composite maps of Jupiter, assembled from images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, allows astronomers to trace changes... (More)
• 9/29/1994 STScI-1994-46 16. Month Long Evolution of the D/G Jupiter Impact Sites from Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 This series of snapshots, taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows evolution of the comet P/Shoemaker-Levy... (More)
• 9/29/1994 STScI-1994-45 17. Hubble Sees Auroral Emission Arcs Following the k Impact In the Jupiter campaign, scientists wanted to see how the comet collisions affected the Jovian aurorae, rapid and irregular displays of colorful... (More)
• 9/21/1994 STScI-1994-42 18. Hubble Uncovers a Hidden Quasar in a Nearby Galaxy (Cygnus A) Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have found, to their surprise, that a relatively nearby galaxy harbors a powerful quasar. (More)
• 7/23/1994 STScI-1994-35 19. Hubble Ultraviolet Image of Multiple Comet Impacts on Jupiter Ultraviolet image of Jupiter taken by the Wide Field Camera of the Hubble Space Telescope. The image shows Jupiter's atmosphere at a wavelength of 2550 Angstroms... (More)
• 7/23/1994 STScI-1994-36 20. Flat Projection of Large Comet Impact on Jupiter This is a NASA's Hubble Space Telescope image of the impact sites of fragments "D" and "G" from Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 which collided with the giant planet Jupiter. (More)
• 7/23/1994 STScI-1994-37 21. "Bruised" Jupiter as Seen on Last Day of Comet Impacts A natural color NASA Hubble Space Telescope view of the full disk of the giant planet Jupiter shows numerous comet Shoemaker-Levy... (More)
• 7/23/1994 STScI-1994-38 22. Hubble Shows Evolution of Ejecta from the "A" Comet Impact Site This series of images, which spans more than five days beginning at 5:33 p.m. EDT on July 16, 1994, was obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's... (More)
• 7/22/1994 STScI-1994-34 23. Color Hubble Image of Multiple Comet Impacts on Jupiter Image of Jupiter with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's Planetary Camera. Eight impact sights are visible. From left to right are the E/F complex (barely visible... (More)
• 7/21/1994 STScI-1994-33 24. Color Hubble Image of Large Comet Impact on Jupiter This Hubble telescope image of the giant planet Jupiter reveals the impact sites of two fragments from comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Twenty-one... (More)
• 7/20/1994 STScI-1994-32 25. Hubble Image of Large Comet Impact on Jupiter These images of Jupiter, by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, reveal the impact sites of fragments "D" and "G" from Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. The upper right corners... (More)
• 7/18/1994 STScI-1994-31 26. Jupiter's Comet Collision Sites As Seen in Visible and Ultraviolet Light This comparison of visible light (blue) and far-ultraviolet (FUV) images of Jupiter taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera-2 (WFPC-2)... (More)
• 7/17/1994 STScI-1994-30 27. Hubble Sees Comet Fireball on Limb of Jupiter Sequence of images showing evidence for a plume near the terminator of Jupiter at the time of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9's fragmnet A impact with Jupiter in July 1994. (More)
• 7/17/1994 STScI-1994-29 28. Astronomers View Comet Impact with Jupiter Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute huddle around monitors to get a glimpse of images from fragment A of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9's collision with Jupiter... (More)
• 7/17/1994 STScI-1994-28 29. Hubble Image of Comet Shoemaker-Levy First Fragment Impact With Jupiter This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter's cloudtops was taken at 5:32 EDT on July 16, 1994, shortly after the impact of the first fragment... (More)
• 7/7/1994 STScI-1994-26 30. Photo Illustration of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 & Planet Jupiter This is a composite photo, assembled from separate images of Jupiter and cornet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9, as imaged by the Wide Field & Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), aboard. (More)
• 6/13/1994 STScI-1994-24 31. Hubble Confirms Abundance of Protoplanetary Disks around Newborn Stars Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that the planet-making process is common in the Milky Way Galaxy. ... (More)
• 5/25/1994 STScI-1994-23 32. Hubble Confirms Existence of Massive Black Hole at Heart of Active Galaxy Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have found seemingly conclusive evidence for a massive black hole in the center of the giant elliptical... (More)
• 5/19/1994 STScI-1994-22 33. Hubble Finds Mysterious Ring Structure around Supernova 1987a The Hubble telescope has obtained the best images yet of a mysterious mirror-imaged pair of rings of glowing gas encircling the site of the stellar explosion... (More)
• 5/19/1994 STScI-1994-20 34. Hubble Observes the Supernova in the Whirlpool Galaxy The Hubble telescope has returned valuable new images of supernova 1994I in the inner regions of the "Whirlpool Galaxy," M51, located 20 million light-years... (More)
• 5/18/1994 STScI-1994-21 35. Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 "Gang Of Four" This is a composite HST image taken in visible light showing the temporal evolution of the brightest region of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9. In this false-color representation, different... (More)
• 5/16/1994 STScI-1994-17 36. Hubble Portrait of the "Double Planet" Pluto & Charon This is the clearest view yet of the distant planet Pluto and its moon Charon, as revealed by the Hubble telescope. ... (More)
• 5/16/1994 STScI-1994-18 37. Hubble Space Telescope Resolves Volcanoes on Io The giant gaseous planet Jupiter and its moon Io are featured in this Hubble telescope picture. ... (More)
• 4/26/1994 STScI-1994-16 38. Hubble Resolves Quasars' Host Galaxies This Hubble telescope image [right] reveals a faint galaxy, the home of a quasar. The wealth of new detail in this picture helps solve a three-decade-old mystery... (More)
• 3/28/1994 STScI-1994-14 39. 1994 Hubble Fellows to Study HST Discoveries The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) has recently selected 11 young scientists for the 1994 Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. The awardees were selected... (More)
• 3/21/1994 STScI-1994-15 40. Galaxy Drift Challenges Ideas About Universe's Evolution Two astronomers have discovered that our own Milky Way galaxy and most of its neighboring galaxies, contained within a huge volume of the universe, one billion light-years... (More)
• 2/8/1994 STScI-1994-13 41. Hubble Space Telescope view of a Comet on a Collision Course with Jupiter These images of Comet P/Shoemaker- Levy 9 (1993e) fragments were made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The cometary... (More)
• 1/14/1994 STScI-1994-10 42. Hubble Probes the Great Orion Nebula A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a region of the Great Nebula in Orion, as imaged by the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. (More)
• 1/14/1994 STScI-1994-11 43. Hubble Uncovers Faint Stars in the Core of Globular Cluster These comparison images of the core of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae (NGC104) were taken with the COSTAR Corrected... (More)
• 1/14/1994 STScI-1994-09 44. Hubble Observes a Star On the Brink of Destruction A NASA Hubble Space Telescope "natural color" image of the material surrounding the star Eta Carinae, as imaged by the Wide Fuel Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC-2). (More)
• 1/14/1994 STScI-1994-12 45. Hubble Provides Clearest View Yet of Supernova 1987a This series of images of Supernova 1 987A was taken with ESA's Faint Object Camera aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, prior to and following the HST Servicing... (More)
• 1/13/1994 STScI-1994-08 46. Comparative View of a Star Before and After the Installation of the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR) This pair of images of a single star, taken with the European Space Agency's... (More)
• 1/13/1994 STScI-1994-02 47. The Spiral Galaxy M100 as Seen With the Hubble's Improved Vision An image of the grand design spiral galaxy M100 obtained with the second generation Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC-2), newly installed... (More)
• 1/13/1994 STScI-1994-03 48. Galaxy M100 Resolution Comparison This sequence of pictures shows successive steps in optical improvement from ground based telescopes to the newly improved Hubble Space Telescope and demonstrates the unique capability... (More)
• 1/13/1994 STScI-1994-04 49. Hubble's Improved Optics Reveal Incredible Detail in Giant Cloud of Gas and Dust An image of a star-forming region in the 30 Doradus nebula, surrounding the dense star cluster R136. The image was obtained... (More)
• 1/13/1994 STScI-1994-06 50. Hubble Sees Changes in Gas Shell around Nova Cygni 1992 The Hubble telescope has given astronomers their best look yet at a rapidly ballooning bubble of gas blasted off a star. ... (More)
• 1/13/1994 STScI-1994-01 51. Picture Perfect: Hubble's New Improved Optics Probe the Core of a Distant Galaxy This comparison image of the core of galaxy M100 shows the dramatic improvement in the Hubble telescope's view of the universe. (More)
• 1/13/1994 STScI-1994-07 52. HST Reveals the Central Region of an Active Galaxy The refurbished HST has provided this outstanding image of the nuclear region of the galaxy NGC 1068. NGC 1068 is located at a distance of approximately... (More)
• 1/13/1994 STScI-1994-05 53. Hubble Space Telescope Images of a Bright Star in the Large Magellanic Cloud These three images are of a very bright (Wolf-Rayet) star, Melnick 34, located in the giant star-forming region called 30 Doradus... (More)