1996 (continued)

• 4/24/1996 STScI-1996-10 21. Hubble Space Telescope Completes Sixth Year of Exploration A new golden era of space exploration and discovery began April 24, 1990 with the launch and deployment of the Hubble telescope. Over the past six years Hubble's... (More)
• 4/24/1996 STScI-1996-15 22. Hubble Captures Detailed Image of Uranus's Atmosphere The Hubble telescope has peered deep into Uranus's atmosphere to see clear and hazy layers created by a mixture of gases. Using infrared filters, Hubble captured detailed... (More)
• 4/24/1996 STScI-1996-16 23. Edge-On View of Saturn's Rings The Hubble telescope has captured snapshots of Saturn with its rings nearly edge-on to our view. (More)
• 4/24/1996 STScI-1996-17 24. Swirling Galaxy Parents Generations of Stars in Its Center The Hubble telescope has snapped a view of several generations of stars in the central region of the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51), located 23 million light-years... (More)
• 4/24/1996 STScI-1996-11 25. Hubble Spies Globular Cluster in Neighboring Galaxy The Hubble telescope has captured a view of a globular cluster called G1, a large, bright ball of light in the center of the photograph. (More)
• 4/17/1996 STScI-1996-19 26. 1996 Hubble Fellows to Study HST Discoveries The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) has selected nine young scientists for the 1996 Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. The awardees were selected... (More)
• 4/15/1996 STScI-1996-13 27. Hubble Finds Thousands of Gaseous Fragments Surrounding a Dying Star Resembling a bizarre setting from a science fiction movie, dramatic images sent back by the Hubble telescope have surprised astronomers by uncovering... (More)
• 3/27/1996 STScI-1996-14 28. Hubble Probes Inner Region of Comet Hyakutake The Hubble telescope snapped pictures of comet Hyakutake March 25, 1996, when the comet was just 9.3 million miles from Earth. ... (More)
• 3/7/1996 STScI-1996-09 29. Hubble Reveals Surface of Pluto for First Time For the first time since Pluto's discovery 66 years ago, astronomers have at last directly seen details on the surface of the solar system's farthest known planet. (More)
• 2/21/1996 STScI-1996-12 30. Hubble Opens Doorway to Systematic Search for Black Holes Hubble Space Telescope's ongoing black hole hunt has bagged yet another supermassive black hole in the universe. The compact... (More)
• 2/12/1996 STScI-1996-08 31. For First Time Ever, K-12 Students Get Hands on the Hubble Space Telescope as Part of Innovative "Passport to Knowledge" Project The planets Neptune and Pluto have been selected as targets for original... (More)
• 1/17/1996 STScI-1996-02 32. Disk around Star May Be Warped by Unseen Planet The Hubble telescope has provided strong evidence for the existence of a roughly Jupiter-sized planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. (More)
• 1/16/1996 STScI-1996-05 33. Hubble Telescope Photo Reveals Stellar Death Process This Hubble telescope picture of planetary nebula NGC 7027 reveals remarkable new details of the process by which a star like the Sun dies. The nebula is a glowing... (More)
• 1/16/1996 STScI-1996-07 34. Hubble Finds an Hourglass Nebula around a Dying Star This Hubble telescope snapshot of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula, reveals that the object has an hourglass shape with an intricate pattern of "etchings"... (More)
• 1/16/1996 STScI-1996-03 35. Hubble Finds Searchlight Beams and Multiple Arcs around a Dying Star This Hubble telescope picture of the Egg Nebula, also known as CRL2688, shows a pair of mysterious "searchlight" beams emerging... (More)
• 1/15/1996 STScI-1996-01 36. Hubble's Deepest View of the Universe Unveils Bewildering Galaxies across Billions of Years One peek into a small part of the sky, one giant leap back in time. The Hubble telescope has provided mankind's deepest, most detailed... (More)
• 1/10/1995 STScI-1996-06 37. Hubble Discovers Powerful Laser Beamed from Chaotic Star Darth Vader take heart. Astronomers have discovered a powerful ultraviolet laser beam, several times brighter than our Sun, shooting toward Earth from a super-hot... (More)