News Release Archive: 1990

1990

• 1/16/1991 STScI-1990-23 1. The Hubble Reveals the Evolving Core of a Dense Star Cluster Astronomers today presented pictures taken with the Hubble Space Telescope of the heart of M15, a dense cluster of stars within our own Galaxy. (More)
• 1/16/1991 STScI-1990-25 2. The Hubble Reveals the Evolving Core of a Dense Star Cluster Astronomers today presented pictures taken with the Hubble Space Telescope of the heart of M15, a dense cluster of stars within our own Galaxy. (More)
• 11/20/1990 STScI-1990-27 3. Saturn's North Polar Hood This enlargement of the Saturn image reveals unprecedented detail in atmospheric features at the northern polar hood. Saturn's north pole is presently tilted toward Earth by 24 degrees. ... (More)
• 11/20/1990 STScI-1990-11 4. Saturn This color image of Saturn was taken with the HST's Wide Field /Planetary Camera (WF/PC) in the wide field mode at 8:25 A.M. EDT, August 26, 1990, when the planet was at a distance of 1.39 billion... (More)
• 10/14/1990 STScI-1990-12 5. Hubble Space Telescope Searches for a Historic Nova in Globular Cluster M14 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has successfully completed the first stage of a cosmic detective... (More)
• 10/4/1990 STScI-1990-15 6. R Aquarii - A Nearby Exploding Star NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has peered into the inner core of the nearby so-called "symbiotic star", R Aquarii, to reveal dramatic new details of the exploding star. (More)
• 10/4/1990 STScI-1990-14 7. First ESA Faint Object Camera Science Images Pluto - the "Double Planet" NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has obtained the clearest pictures ever of our solar system's most distant and enigmatic object:... (More)
• 10/4/1990 STScI-1990-22 8. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Discovers Jet Structure In The Orion Nebula This photograph, made with the Wide Field/Planetary Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, reveals the detailed structure of a newly discovered... (More)
• 10/4/1990 STScI-1990-16 9. First ESA Faint Object Camera Science Images The Radio Galaxy PKS 0521-36 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has obtained the most detailed and highest resolution optical images of the radio galaxy PKS 0521-36. (More)
• 10/4/1990 STScI-1990-26 10. "Window-Curtain" Structure of the Orion Nebula Revealed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Recent images made with the Wide Field Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the structure of a thin sheet of gas located... (More)
• 10/4/1990 STScI-1990-19 11. Comet Levy NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed the inner core surrounding the icy nucleus of Comet Levy more clearly than can be done with ground-based telescopes... (More)
• 10/4/1990 STScI-1990-24 12. Orion Nebula: Comparing Hubble Space Telescope to Ground Images This composite image shows the location of a one-light-year square region in the Orion Nebula which was imaged by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. (More)
• 10/4/1990 STScI-1990-29 13. Galactic Black Hole with Optical Jet The energy source needed to create and maintain the galactic jet in galaxy PKS 0521-36 is generated deep within the core of the galaxy, and is far too small to resolved. The favored... (More)
• 10/4/1990 STScI-1990-13 14. Hubble Space Telescope Probes a Galaxy with an Active Nucleus NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has provided an unprecedented, detailed view of highly energetic events in the core of a galaxy 30 million light-years... (More)
• 9/13/1990 STScI-1990-17 15. First ESA Faint Object Camera Science Images - Supernova 1987A The European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera on board NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided a fascinating close-up view of Supernova... (More)
• 9/13/1990 STScI-1990-20 16. First ESA Faint Object Camera Science Images the Gravitational Lens G2237 + 0305 The European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera on board NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the most detailed... (More)
• 8/29/1990 STScI-1990-07 17. Hubble Space Telescope Resolves Gaseous Ring Around Supernova The Hubble Space Telescope has resolved, to an unprecedented detail of 0.1 arcsecond, a mysterious elliptical ring of material around the remnants of Supernova 1987A. (More)
• 8/29/1990 STScI-1990-08 18. Hubble Space Telescope Peers Into Core of Distant Galaxy NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided a remarkably new detailed view of the core of a galaxy which lies 40 million light-years... (More)
• 8/13/1990 STScI-1990-09 19. Hubble Space Telescope Photographs Extragalactical Stellar Nursery NASA is releasing today a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) photograph of the most remarkable star forming region in the Local Group of Galaxies, 30 Doradus. The photograph... (More)
• 6/22/1990 STScI-1990-06 20. ESA's Faint Object Camera First Images The European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, has successfully taken its first engineering test pictures of the heavens. (More)
• 5/22/1990 STScI-1990-05 21. The Resolving Power of the Hubble Space Telescope The image on the right is a portion of the first image returned by the Wide Field/Planetary Camera on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). (More)
• 5/20/1990 STScI-1990-04 22. HST WC/PC First Light Image On the right is part of the first image taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) Wide Field/Planetary Camera. It is shown with a ground-based picture from a Las Campanas... (More)