1997 (continued)

• 6/9/1997 STScI-1997-16 21. Hubble Snaps "Family Portrait" The Hubble telescope's infrared camera has peered into the Cone Nebula, revealing a stunning picture of six babies, Sun-like stars surrounding their mother, a bright, massive star. (More)
• 6/9/1997 STScI-1997-17 22. A Collision In The Heart Of A Galaxy The Hubble telescope's infrared camera has uncovered a collision between two spiral galaxies in the heart of the peculiar galaxy called Arp 220. The collision... (More)
• 6/9/1997 STScI-1997-18 23. Fireworks Near a Black Hole in the Core of Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4151 The Hubble telescope's imaging spectrograph simultaneously records, in unprecedented detail, the velocities of hundreds of gas knots streaming... (More)
• 6/9/1997 STScI-1997-19 24. Hubble Reveals Invisible High-Speed Collision around Supernova 1987A The highest velocity material expelled in a cataclysmic, stellar explosion 10 years ago has been detected for the first time by the Hubble telescope's imaging spectrograph. (More)
• 5/20/1997 STScI-1997-15 25. Hubble Finds Cloudy, Cold Weather Conditions for Mars-Bound Spacecraft As two NASA spacecraft speed toward a mid-year rendezvous with Mars, astronomers using the Hubble telescope are providing updated planetary weather reports... (More)
• 5/12/1997 STScI-1997-11 26. Hubble Peers into Heart of Dying Star The Egg Nebula, also known as CRL 2688, is shown on the left as it appears in visible light and on the right as it looks in infrared light. Both Hubble views recount... (More)
• 5/12/1997 STScI-1997-12 27. Hubble Records a Black Hole's Signature The colorful "zigzag" on the right is not the work of a flamboyant artist, but the signature of a super-massive black hole in the center of galaxy M84, discovered... (More)
• 5/12/1997 STScI-1997-13 28. Hubble Captures the Heart of the Orion Nebula The Hubble telescope's infrared vision is providing a dramatic new look at the beautiful Orion Nebula, which contains the nearest nursery for massive stars. ... (More)
• 5/12/1997 STScI-1997-14 29. Hubble Chemically Analyzes the Ring around Supernova 1987A These pictures from the Hubble telescope's imaging spectrograph provide a new and unprecedented look at one of the most unique and complex structures in the universe... (More)
• 4/1/1997 STScI-1997-10 30. Hubble Tracks the Fading Optical Counterpart of a Gamma-Ray Burst The Hubble telescope has made an important contribution toward solving one of astronomy's greatest enigmas by allowing astronomers to continue watching... (More)
• 3/27/1997 STScI-1997-08 31. Hale-Bopp Observations with Hubble and IUE Surprise Astronomers Completing an unprecedented yearlong study of Comet Hale-Bopp with two NASA observatories, including the Hubble telescope, astronomers report that they are surprised... (More)
• 3/20/1997 STScI-1997-09 32. Hubble's Sharpest View of Mars The recently refurbished Hubble telescope obtained the sharpest view of Mars ever taken from Earth. This stunning portrait was taken with March 10... (More)
• 3/19/1997 STScI-1997-06 33. 1997 Hubble Fellows to Study HST Discoveries The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) has selected fifteen young scientists for the 1997 Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. The awardees were selected... (More)
• 3/14/1997 STScI-1997-07 34. Hubble Camera Resumes Science Operation with Picture of "Butterfly" in Space The Hubble telescope is back at work, capturing this view of the butterfly-wing-shaped nebula, NGC 2346. ... (More)
• 1/14/1997 STScI-1997-02 35. Hubble Finds Intergalactic Stars The Hubble telescope has found a long-sought population of "stellar outcasts" ? stars tossed out of their home galaxies into the dark emptiness of intergalactic space. (More)
• 1/14/1997 STScI-1997-03 36. Supernova Blast Begins Taking Shape Though the brightest supernova in four centuries lit up the southern sky almost exactly 10 years ago on Feb. 23, 1987, astronomers have waited a decade for the ballooning fireball... (More)
• 1/13/1997 STScI-1997-01 37. Massive Black Holes Dwell in Most Galaxies, According to Hubble Census Announcing the discovery of three black holes in three normal galaxies, astronomers suggest that nearly all galaxies may harbor super-massive... (More)