1997 (continued)

• 3/20/1997 STScI-1997-09 601. Hubble's Sharpest View of Mars The recently refurbished Hubble telescope obtained the sharpest view of Mars ever taken from Earth. This stunning portrait was taken with March 10... (More)
• 3/19/1997 STScI-1997-06 602. 1997 Hubble Fellows to Study HST Discoveries The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) has selected fifteen young scientists for the 1997 Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. The awardees were selected... (More)
• 3/14/1997 STScI-1997-07 603. Hubble Camera Resumes Science Operation with Picture of "Butterfly" in Space The Hubble telescope is back at work, capturing this view of the butterfly-wing-shaped nebula, NGC 2346. ... (More)
• 1/14/1997 STScI-1997-02 604. 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)
• 1/14/1997 STScI-1997-03 605. Supernova Blast Begins Taking Shape Though the brightest supernova in four centuries lit up the southern sky almost exactly 10 years ago on Feb. 23, 1987, astronomers have waited a decade for the ballooning fireball... (More)
• 1/13/1997 STScI-1997-01 606. Massive Black Holes Dwell in Most Galaxies, According to Hubble Census Announcing the discovery of three black holes in three normal galaxies, astronomers suggest that nearly all galaxies may harbor super-massive... (More)

1996

• 1/22/1997 STScI-1996-38 607. Giant "Twisters" and Star Wisps in the Lagoon Nebula This Hubble telescope snapshot unveils a pair of one-half, light-year-long interstellar "twisters" ? eerie funnels and twisted-rope structures... (More)
• 12/17/1996 STScI-1996-37 608. Hubble Census Tracks a Stellar "Baby Boom" Analyzing the pictures of some of the most distant galaxies in the universe, astronomers are uncovering intriguing new evidence that the Big Bang was followed by a stellar... (More)
• 12/10/1996 STScI-1996-04 609. Hubble Space Telescope Captures First Direct Image of a Star This is the first direct image of a star other than the Sun. Called Alpha Orionis, or Betelgeuse, the star is a red super giant, a Sun-like star nearing... (More)
• 11/26/1996 STScI-1996-36 610. Hubble Spies Supersonic "Comet-Clouds" in Heart of Galaxy Analysis of dramatic Hubble telescope images reveals immense comet-shaped knots of gas in the heart of the Cartwheel Galaxy. The galaxy's unusual wagon-wheel... (More)
• 11/19/1996 STScI-1996-35 611. Hubble Surveys the "Homes" of Quasars Dramatic Hubble telescope pictures reveal that quasars live in a remarkable assortment of galaxies, many of which are violently colliding. This complicated picture suggests... (More)
• 11/1/1996 STScI-1996-34 612. Springtime Dust Storm Swirls at Martian North Pole Two Hubble telescope images of Mars, taken about a month apart, reveal a state-sized dust storm churning near the edge of the northern polar cap. (More)
• 10/24/1996 STScI-1996-33 613. Hubble Makes Movie of Neptune's Rotation and Weather The Hubble telescope has been used to assemble a time-lapse color movie showing a full 16-hour rotation of the distant planet Neptune. (More)
• 10/17/1996 STScI-1996-32 614. Hubble Follows Rapid Changes in Jupiter's Aurora The Hubble telescope's sharp view of the rapid, spectacular dance of luminescent gases high in Jupiter's atmosphere ? better known as aurora ? is allowing astronomers... (More)
• 10/11/1996 STScI-1996-31 615. Bright Star Birth Region in a Dim Galaxy Clusters of stars and a fishhook-shaped cloud of luminescent gases glow brilliantly in NGC 2363, a giant star-forming region in the Magellanic galaxy NGC 2366. ... (More)
• 10/4/1996 STScI-1996-30 616. Rare Hubble Portrait of Io and Jupiter This image shows Jupiter's volcanic moon Io passing above the turbulent clouds of the giant planet. The conspicuous black spot on Jupiter is Io's shadow. (More)
• 9/4/1996 STScI-1996-29 617. Hubble Sees Early Building Blocks of Today's Galaxies New Hubble telescope images unveil what may be galaxies under construction in the early universe. ... (More)
• 8/7/1996 STScI-1996-27 618. Giant Star Birth Region in Neighboring Galaxy The colorful picture on the right is a Hubble telescope snapshot of a vast nebula of dust and gas called NGC 604, which lies in the neighboring spiral galaxy M33. ... (More)
• 7/18/1996 STScI-1996-25 619. Hubble Achieves Milestone: 100,000th Exposure The Hubble telescope reached a milestone several years sooner than scientists expected when it snapped its 100,000th exposure June 22, 1996. The six-year-old orbiting observatory... (More)
• 7/8/1996 STScI-1996-26 620. Hubble Telescope Measures Diameters of Pulsating Stars The Hubble telescope has been used successfully to measure the diameters of a special class of pulsating star called a Mira variable, which rhythmically change size. (More)
• 6/26/1996 STScI-1996-24 621. Findings from Hubble Deep Field Hone in on Distant Galaxies Astronomers analyzing the Hubble Deep Field — the faintest view of the universe taken with the Hubble telescope — may have identified... (More)
• 6/10/1996 STScI-1996-23 622. Doomed Star Eta Carinae A huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds is captured in this stunning Hubble telescope picture of the super-massive star Eta Carinae. ... (More)
• 5/30/1996 STScI-1996-22 623. Hubble Astronomers Unveil "Crab Nebula - The Movie" Probing the mysterious heart of the Crab Nebula, the tattered remains of an exploding star, astronomers have found this object to be even more dynamic than previously... (More)
• 5/9/1996 STScI-1996-21 624. Hubble Space Telescope on Track for Measuring the Expansion Rate of the Universe Using the Hubble telescope, two international teams of astronomers are reporting major progress in converging on an accurate measurement... (More)
• 4/30/1996 STScI-1996-20 625. The Original National Geographic Society - Palomar Observatory Sky Survey to be Available on 8 CD-ROMs The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) are pleased to announce... (More)
• 4/26/1996 STScI-1996-18 626. Saturn Ring-Plane Crossing, November 1995 This is a rare view of Saturn's rings seen just after the Sun has set below the ring plane. ... (More)
• 4/24/1996 STScI-1996-10 627. 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-1996-15 628. 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-1996-16 629. 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-1996-17 630. 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-1996-11 631. 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-1996-19 632. 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-1996-13 633. 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-1996-14 634. 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-1996-09 635. 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-1996-12 636. 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-1996-08 637. 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-1996-02 638. 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-1996-05 639. 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-1996-07 640. 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-1996-03 641. 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-1996-01 642. 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-1996-06 643. 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)

1995

• 12/4/1995 STScI-1995-47 644. Hubble Finds a New Black Hole - and Unexpected New Mysteries Confirming the presence of yet another super-massive black hole in the universe, astronomers using the Hubble telescope have found unexpected... (More)
• 11/29/1995 STScI-1995-48 645. Astronomers Announce First Clear Evidence of a Brown Dwarf Astronomers have made the first unambiguous detection of an elusive type of object known as a brown dwarf. (More)
• 11/29/1995 STScI-1995-49 646. HST's Greatest Hits 1990-1995 Hubble Space Telescope evokes a new sense of awe and wonder about the infinite richness of our universe in dramatic, unprecedented pictures of celestial objects. Like a traveler sharing... (More)
• 11/20/1995 STScI-1995-45 647. Panoramic Hubble Picture Surveys Star Birth, Proto-Planetary Systems in the Great Orion Nebula This spectacular color panorama of the center of the Orion Nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual... (More)
• 11/9/1995 STScI-1995-46 648. Hubble Views the Galileo Probe Entry Site on Jupiter This Hubble telescope image of Jupiter [left] was taken when the giant planet was 534 million miles (854 million kilometers) from Earth. (More)
• 11/8/1995 STScI-1995-06 649. Hubble Peers Deep into the Crowded Heart of the Densest Known Star Cluster By pinpointing individual suns in the glare of the most tightly packed cluster of stars in our galaxy, the Hubble telescope... (More)
• 11/2/1995 STScI-1995-44 650. Embryonic Stars Emerge from Interstellar "Eggs" Eerie, dramatic pictures from the Hubble telescope show newborn stars emerging from "eggs" — not the barnyard variety — but rather, dense, compact pockets of interstellar... (More)
• 10/18/1995 STScI-1995-43 651. Hubble Discovers New Class of Gravitational Lens for Probing the Structure of the Cosmos The Hubble telescope has discovered a new, distant class of quadruple or cross-shaped gravitational lenses. (More)
• 10/10/1995 STScI-1995-38 652. Hubble Sees Thin Disk Around the Star Beta Pictoris This Hubble telescope image of a portion of a vast dust disk around the star Beta Pictoris [top picture] shows that the disk is thinner than previously thought. (More)
• 10/10/1995 STScI-1995-35 653. Hubble Photo Gallery of Jupiter's Galilean Satellites This is a Hubble telescope "family portrait" of Jupiter's four largest moons. (More)
• 10/10/1995 STScI-1995-39 654. Hubble Provides the First Images of Saturn's Aurorae The Hubble telescope has taken the first picture of bright aurorae at Saturn's northern and southern poles [top picture]. The picture at the bottom was taken in visible... (More)
• 10/10/1995 STScI-1995-36 655. Hubble Finds Ozone on Jupiter's Moon Ganymede Though ozone may be diminishing on Earth, it is being manufactured one-half billion miles away, on Jupiter's largest satellite, Ganymede. (More)
• 10/10/1995 STScI-1995-37 656. Hubble Discovers Bright New Spot on Io This pair of images of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, taken with the Hubble telescope, shows the surprising emergence of a 200-mile-wide, yellowish-white feature... (More)
• 10/10/1995 STScI-1995-41 657. Hubble Sees Material Ejected from Comet Hale-Bopp These Hubble telescope pictures of comet Hale-Bopp show a remarkable "pinwheel" pattern and a blob of free-flying debris near its center. (More)
• 10/10/1995 STScI-1995-40 658. Hubble Maps the Asteroid Vesta These two surface maps of the asteroid Vesta are derived from Hubble telescope images taken between November 28 and December 1, 1994. The pictures show surface details... (More)
• 9/14/1995 STScI-1995-33 659. Hubble Spies a Really Cool Star This Hubble telescope picture reveals one of the least massive and coolest stars ever seen [upper right]. This star is a diminutive companion... (More)
• 8/28/1995 STScI-1995-32 660. Hubble Space Telescope Finds Stellar Graveyard Peering deep into the globular star cluster M4 with the Hubble telescope, Canadian and American astronomers have discovered a large number of "stellar corpses,"... (More)
• 8/11/1995 STScI-1995-31 661. Hubble Again Views Saturn's Rings Edge-On Saturn's magnificent ring system is seen tilted edge-on — for the second time in 1995 - in this Hubble telescope picture taken Aug. 10, when the planet was 895 million... (More)
• 8/7/1995 STScI-1995-30 662. Hubble Uncovers Surprisingly Complex Structures in Radio Galaxies Probing some of the most distant and energetic galaxies in the universe, the Hubble telescope has uncovered surprisingly varied and intricate structures... (More)
• 7/28/1995 STScI-1995-29 663. Hubble Discovers New Moons Orbiting Saturn Astronomers have announced the discovery of at least two, and possibly as many as four, new moons orbiting the giant planet Saturn. This discovery was based upon Hubble telescope... (More)
• 7/24/1995 STScI-1995-08 664. Hubble Sheds Light on the "Faint Blue Galaxy" Mystery Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have solved a 20-year-old mystery by showing that a class of galaxies once thought to be rare is actually... (More)
• 6/14/1995 STScI-1995-07 665. Galaxy NGC 4881 and the Coma Cluster This Hubble telescope photo mosaic shows a field of distant galaxies. ... (More)
• 6/14/1995 STScI-1995-09 666. Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Neptune Two groups have recently used the Hubble telescope to acquire high-resolution images of the planet Neptune. These images represent the clearest views of Neptune since the Voyager... (More)
• 6/14/1995 STScI-1995-26 667. Hubble Identifies a Long-Sought Population of Comets Beyond Neptune The Hubble telescope has detected a long-sought population of comets dwelling at the icy fringe of the solar system. The observation, which is the astronomical... (More)
• 6/13/1995 STScI-1995-28 668. Astronomers Rule Out Starburst Galaxies as Contributing to the Far-Ultraviolet Background Astronomers using the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT), flown aboard the Shuttle ASTRO-2 mission, have been able to exclude one explanation... (More)
• 6/13/1995 STScI-1995-27 669. Heaviest Known Star Observed from Space Observations with the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT) of the most massive star currently known have revealed new features of its hot outer layers... (More)
• 6/6/1995 STScI-1995-24 670. Hubble Observes the Fire and Fury of a Stellar Birth The Hubble telescope has provided a detailed look at the fitful, eruptive, and dynamic processes accompanying the final stages of a star's "construction."... (More)
• 6/5/1995 STScI-1995-25 671. Hubble Views Saturn Ring-Plane Crossing This sequence of images from the Hubble telescope documents a rare astronomical alignment: Saturn's magnificent ring system turned edge-on. This event occurs when the Earth passes through... (More)
• 5/22/1995 STScI-1995-23 672. Hubble Probes the Workings of a Stellar Hydrogen Bomb Peering into the heart of two recently exploded double-star systems, the Hubble telescope has surprised researchers by finding... (More)
• 4/19/1995 STScI-1995-20 673. Asteroid or Mini-Planet? Hubble Maps the Ancient Surface of Vesta Hubble telescope images of the asteroid Vesta are providing astronomers with a glimpse of the oldest terrain... (More)
• 4/19/1995 STScI-1995-21 674. Hubble Discovers New Dark Spot on Neptune The distant, blue-green planet Neptune has again surprised astronomers with the emergence of a new great dark spot in the cloudy planet's Northern Hemisphere, discovered... (More)
• 4/10/1995 STScI-1995-13 675. Oxygen-Rich Supernova Remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud This is a Hubble telescope image of the tattered debris of a star that exploded 3,000 years ago as a supernova. This supernova remnant, called N132D, lies 169,000... (More)
• 4/5/1995 STScI-1995-14 676. Hubble Views Distant Galaxies through a Cosmic Lens This Hubble telescope image of a rich cluster of galaxies called Abell 2218 is a spectacular example of gravitational lensing. The arc-like pattern... (More)
• 3/31/1995 STScI-1995-18 677. Hubble Tracks Jupiter Storms The Hubble telescope is following dramatic and rapid changes in Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere that will be critical for planning observations for the Galileo space probe when it arrives... (More)
• 3/31/1995 STScI-1995-19 678. 1995 Hubble Fellows to Study HST Discoveries The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) has selected 12 young scientists for the 1995 Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. The awardees were selected from a pool of applications... (More)
• 3/31/1995 STScI-1995-22 679. Hubble Data Suggest Galaxies Have Giant Halos NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has helped solve a two-decade-old cosmic mystery by showing that mysterious clouds of hydrogen in space may actually be vast halos of gas surrounding... (More)
• 3/21/1995 STScI-1995-16 680. Hubble Monitors Weather on Neighboring Planets What's the weather for Mars and Venus? The Hubble telescope has given astronomers a peak. The telescope is serving as an interplanetary weather satellite for studying the climate... (More)
• 3/4/1995 STScI-1995-15 681. Comet Fragment Slams into Jupiter In July 1994, 21 chunks of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which had broken apart a year earlier, slammed into Jupiter. The Hubble telescope recorded this spectacular event. ... (More)
• 2/23/1995 STScI-1995-12 682. Hubble Finds Oxygen Atmosphere on Jupiter's Moon, Europa Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have identified the presence of an extremely tenuous atmosphere of molecular oxygen around Jupiter's moon, Europa. (More)
• 2/20/1995 STScI-1995-11 683. Hubble's Close-Up View of a Shock Wave from a Stellar Explosion This Hubble telescope image shows a small portion of a nebula called the "Cygnus Loop." This nebula is an expanding blast wave from a stellar... (More)
• 2/20/1995 STScI-1995-10 684. Hubble Probes the Violent Birth of Stars in Galaxy NGC 253 This Hubble telescope image of the core of the nearest starburst spiral galaxy, NGC 253, reveals violent star formation within a region 1,000 light-years... (More)
• 1/19/1995 STScI-1995-05 685. Hubble Identifies Huge Clouds of Intergalactic Gas Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered evidence that clouds of hydrogen found between galaxies at distances of billions of light-years... (More)
• 1/11/1995 STScI-1995-04 686. Surprising Hubble Images Challenge Quasar Theory Astronomers report today that new observations from the Hubble telescope challenge 30 years of scientific theory about quasars, the most energetic objects in the universe. (More)
• 1/11/1995 STScI-1995-01 687. Hubble Probes the Complex History of a Dying Star This Hubble telescope image shows one of the most complex planetary nebulae ever seen, NGC 6543, nicknamed the "Cat's Eye Nebula." Hubble reveals surprisingly... (More)
• 1/10/1995 STScI-1995-02 688. Hubble Views a Starry Ring World Born in a Head-On Collision A rare and spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies appears in this Hubble telescope picture of the Cartwheel Galaxy, located 500 million... (More)
• 1/10/1995 STScI-1995-03 689. Red Dwarf Dynamo Raises Puzzle over Interiors of Lowest Mass Stars The Hubble telescope has uncovered surprising evidence that powerful magnetic fields may exist around the lowest mass stars in the universe... (More)

1994

• 7/24/1995 STScI-1994-39 690. 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-1994-53 691. 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-1994-54 692. 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-1994-25 693. 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-1994-52 694. 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-1994-55 695. 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-1994-51 696. 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-1994-50 697. 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-1994-49 698. 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-1994-40 699. 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-1994-41 700. 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)