1997

• 12/17/1997 STScI-1997-38 1. Hubble Witnesses the Final Blaze of Glory of Sun-Like Stars The end of a Sun-like star's life was once thought to be simple: the star gracefully casts off a shell of glowing gas and then settles into a long retirement... (More)
• 12/4/1997 STScI-1997-39 2. One Star's Loss is Another's Gain: Hubble Captures Brief Moment in Life of Lively Duo Some stars in double-star systems have found a quick way to lose weight by dumping... (More)
• 11/20/1997 STScI-1997-37 3. Hubble Provides Infrared View of Moon, Ring, and Clouds Probing Jupiter's atmosphere for the first time, the Hubble telescope's infrared camera is providing a sharp glimpse of the planet's ring, moon, and high-altitude... (More)
• 11/20/1997 STScI-1997-36 4. Hubble Watches Uranus Using the Hubble telescope's visible-light camera, astronomers for the first time this century have detected clouds in the Northern Hemisphere of Uranus. The snapshots show banded structure... (More)
• 10/29/1997 STScI-1997-35 5. Hubble Catches Up with a Blue Straggler Star Astronomers have long been mystified by observations of a few hot, bright, apparently young stars residing in well-established communities where most of their neighbors... (More)
• 10/21/1997 STScI-1997-34 6. Hubble Reveals Stellar Fireworks Accompanying Galaxy Collisions The Hubble telescope has uncovered over 1,000 bright; young star clusters bursting to life in a brief, intense, brilliant "fireworks show" at the heart of a pair of colliding... (More)
• 10/8/1997 STScI-1997-33 7. Hubble Identifies What May Be the Most Luminous Star Known Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have identified what may be the most luminous star known ? a celestial mammoth that releases up to 10 million... (More)
• 9/24/1997 STScI-1997-32 8. Hubble Sees a Neutron Star Alone in Space Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have taken their first direct look in visible light at a lone neutron star. This view offers a unique opportunity to pinpoint... (More)
• 9/18/1997 STScI-1997-29 9. Blobs in Space: The Legacy of a Nova Nova eruptions by dying stars were thought to be simple, predictable acts of violence. Astronomers could point a telescope at the most recently exploded... (More)
• 9/17/1997 STScI-1997-31 10. Hubble Watches the Red Planet as Mars Global Surveyor Begins Aerobraking This Hubble telescope picture of Mars was taken Sept. 12, 1997, one day after the arrival of the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft... (More)