News Release Archive: American Astronomical Society Meeting

2001

• 6/4/2001 STScI-2001-18 31. Bigger, Better Catalog Unveils Half a Billion Celestial Objects It's a very big universe out there, and an astronomer's work is never done when it comes to simply counting and cataloging... (More)
• 6/4/2001 STScI-2001-17 32. Build Your Own Space Scrapbook Want to learn more about your favorite star or galaxy? NASA Hubble Space Telescope pictures and other information about thousands of stars and galaxies... (More)
• 1/11/2001 STScI-2001-03 33. 'Death Spiral' Around a Black Hole Yields Tantalizing Evidence of an Event Horizon The Hubble telescope may have, for the first time, provided direct evidence for the existence of black holes by observing... (More)
• 1/9/2001 STScI-2001-02 34. Intergalactic 'Pipeline' Funnels Matter Between Colliding Galaxies This visible-light picture, taken by the Hubble telescope, reveals an intergalactic "pipeline" of material flowing between two battered galaxies... (More)

2000

• 11/9/2000 STScI-2000-35 35. Hubble Sees Bare Neutron Star Streaking Across Space It's as big as Manhattan Island, is 10 trillion times denser than steel, and is hurtling our way at speeds over 100 times faster than a supersonic jet. An alien spaceship?... (More)
• 6/5/2000 STScI-2000-22 36. Black Holes Shed Light on Galaxy Formation Astronomers are concluding that monstrous black holes weren't simply born big but instead grew on a measured diet of gas and stars controlled by their host galaxies... (More)
• 1/15/2000 STScI-2000-02 37. Beta Pictoris Disk Hides Giant Elliptical Ring System The planetary dust disk around the nearby star Beta Pictoris is dynamically "ringing like a bell," say astronomers investigating Hubble telescope images. The "clapper"... (More)
• 1/13/2000 STScI-2000-03 38. Lone Black Holes Discovered Adrift in the Galaxy Astronomers using the Hubble telescope and ground-based observatories have discovered the first examples of isolated, stellar-mass... (More)

1999

• 6/1/1999 STScI-1999-20 39. Hubble Snapshot Captures Life Cycle of Stars In this stunning picture of the giant galactic nebula NGC 3603, the Hubble telescope's crisp resolution captures various stages... (More)
• 1/8/1999 STScI-1999-03 40. Hubble Views of Dust Disks and Rings Surrounding Young Stars Yield Clues NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers their first views of a dust ring around the star HR 4796A and a dark gap dividing... (More)