2011

• 4/7/2011 STScI-2011-10 1. NASA Telescopes Join Forces to Observe Unprecedented Explosion NASA's Swift satellite, Hubble Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to study one of the most puzzling cosmic blasts ever observed. (More)

2008

• 4/10/2008 STScI-2008-17 2. Hubble Pinpoints Record-Breaking Explosion Peering across 7.5 billion light-years and halfway back to the Big Bang, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the fading optical counterpart of a powerful... (More)

2006

• 5/10/2006 STScI-2006-20 3. Hubble Finds that Earth is Safe from One Class of Gamma-ray Burst Homeowners may have to worry about floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes destroying their homes, but at least they can remove long-duration... (More)

1999

• 3/11/1999 STScI-1999-09 4. Hubble Views Home Galaxy of Record-Breaking Explosion Here are Hubble telescope views of the rapidly fading visible-light fireball from the most powerful cosmic explosion recorded to date. (More)

1998

• 5/6/1998 STScI-1998-17 5. Gamma-Ray Burst Found to be Most Energetic Event in Universe A team of astronomers has announced that a recently detected gamma-ray burst was as bright as the rest of the universe, releasing a hundred... (More)

1997

• 9/16/1997 STScI-1997-30 6. Hubble Stays on Trail of Fading Gamma-Ray Burst Fireball, Results Point to Extragalactic Origin Hubble telescope observations of the ever-fading fireball from one of the universe's most mysterious phenomena ? a gamma-ray... (More)
• 6/10/1997 STScI-1997-22 7. 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)
• 6/10/1997 STScI-1997-20 8. Gamma-Ray Bursts Common To Normal Galaxies? Hubble Data Offer New Clues and Puzzles Nature's most powerful explosions, gamma-ray bursts, occur among the normal stellar population inside galaxies scattered... (More)
• 4/1/1997 STScI-1997-10 9. Hubble Tracks the Fading Optical Counterpart of a Gamma-Ray Burst The Hubble telescope has made an important contribution toward solving one of astronomy's greatest enigmas by allowing astronomers to continue watching... (More)