News Release Archive: 1995

1995

• 12/4/1995 STScI-1995-47 1. 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 2. 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 3. 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 4. 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 5. 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 6. 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 7. 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 8. 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-1995-39 9. 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-1995-41 10. 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-1995-37 11. 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-1995-38 12. 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-1995-40 13. 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)
• 10/10/1995 STScI-1995-35 14. 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-1995-36 15. 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)
• 9/14/1995 STScI-1995-33 16. 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 17. 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 18. 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 19. 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 20. 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 21. 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-1995-26 22. 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)
• 6/14/1995 STScI-1995-09 23. 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-1995-07 24. Galaxy NGC 4881 and the Coma Cluster This Hubble telescope photo mosaic shows a field of distant galaxies. ... (More)
• 6/13/1995 STScI-1995-28 25. 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 26. 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 27. 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 28. 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 29. 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 30. 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 31. 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 32. 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 33. 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-1995-22 34. 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)
• 3/31/1995 STScI-1995-18 35. 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 36. 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)
• 3/21/1995 STScI-1995-16 37. 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 38. 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 39. 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 40. 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 41. 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 42. 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 43. 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 44. 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 45. 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 46. 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)