1996 (continued)

• 1/10/1995 STScI-1996-06 641. 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-1995-47 642. 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-1995-48 643. 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-1995-49 644. 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-1995-45 645. 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-1995-46 646. 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-1995-06 647. 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-1995-44 648. 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-1995-43 649. 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-1995-38 650. 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)