1998 (continued)

• 6/18/1998 STScI-1998-22 401. Hubble Uncovers Dust Disk around a Massive Black Hole Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700-light-year-wide dust disk encircles a 300-million- solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical... (More)
• 6/11/1998 STScI-1998-21 402. A Bright Ring of Star Birth around a Galaxy's Core This Hubble telescope snapshot reveals clusters of infant stars that formed in a ring around the core of the barred-spiral galaxy NGC 4314. This stellar... (More)
• 6/8/1998 STScI-1998-20 403. NASA Selects Home for Next Generation Space Telescope The duties of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., will be expanded to include the management of science operations for the Next Generation... (More)
• 5/28/1998 STScI-1998-19 404. Hubble Takes First Image of a Possible Planet around Another Star and Finds a Runaway World The Hubble telescope has given astronomers their first direct look at what is possibly a planet outside... (More)
• 5/14/1998 STScI-1998-14 405. Hubble Provides Multiple Views of How to Feed a Black Hole Astronomers have obtained an unprecedented look at the nearest example of galactic cannibalism — a massive... (More)
• 5/6/1998 STScI-1998-17 406. 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)
• 4/23/1998 STScI-1998-18 407. Hubble Space Telescope Completes Eighth Year Of Exploration In honor of NASA Hubble Space Telescope's eighth anniversary, we have gift-wrapped Saturn in vivid colors. Actually, this image is courtesy of Hubble's infrared camera... (More)
• 4/9/1998 STScI-1998-16 408. Hubble Finds That Even Massive Stars Just Fade Away Pinpointing the rapidly fading ember of a recently burned-out star, the Hubble telescope is giving astronomers a better estimate... (More)
• 4/1/1998 STScI-1998-15 409. Hubble Reveals Details of a Newly Born Planetary Nebula Astronomers have caught a peek at a rare moment in the final stages of a star's life: a ballooning shroud of gas cast off by a dying star flicking on its stellar... (More)
• 3/27/1998 STScI-1998-13 410. Comet Hyakutake The Hubble telescope has probed the inner regions of Comet Hyakutake. This picture captures sunlight scattered by dust particles in the comet's inner coma. ... (More)