6/10/1997STScI-1997-2271.Mysterious Fireball From A Cataclysmic Explosion
The visible fireball from a titanic explosion in deep space, called a gamma-ray burst, blazes in the center of this image, taken with the Hubble telescope's imaging spectrograph. (More)
5/12/1997STScI-1997-1274.Hubble Records a Black Hole's Signature
The colorful "zigzag" on the right is not the work of a flamboyant artist, but the signature of a super-massive black hole in the center of galaxy M84, discovered... (More)
1/14/1997STScI-1997-0276.Hubble Finds Intergalactic Stars
The Hubble telescope has found a long-sought population of "stellar outcasts" ? stars tossed out of their home galaxies into the dark emptiness of intergalactic space. (More)
4/24/1996STScI-1996-1079.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)