News Release Archive: Early Release Observation

1994

• 1/14/1994 STScI-1994-09 11. Hubble Observes a Star On the Brink of Destruction A NASA Hubble Space Telescope "natural color" image of the material surrounding the star Eta Carinae, as imaged by the Wide Fuel Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC-2). (More)
• 1/13/1994 STScI-1994-08 12. Comparative View of a Star Before and After the Installation of the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR) This pair of images of a single star, taken with the European Space Agency's... (More)
• 1/13/1994 STScI-1994-02 13. The Spiral Galaxy M100 as Seen With the Hubble's Improved Vision An image of the grand design spiral galaxy M100 obtained with the second generation Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC-2), newly installed... (More)
• 1/13/1994 STScI-1994-01 14. Picture Perfect: Hubble's New Improved Optics Probe the Core of a Distant Galaxy This comparison image of the core of galaxy M100 shows the dramatic improvement in the Hubble telescope's view of the universe. (More)
• 1/13/1994 STScI-1994-03 15. Galaxy M100 Resolution Comparison This sequence of pictures shows successive steps in optical improvement from ground based telescopes to the newly improved Hubble Space Telescope and demonstrates the unique capability... (More)
• 1/13/1994 STScI-1994-04 16. Hubble's Improved Optics Reveal Incredible Detail in Giant Cloud of Gas and Dust An image of a star-forming region in the 30 Doradus nebula, surrounding the dense star cluster R136. The image was obtained... (More)
• 1/13/1994 STScI-1994-06 17. Hubble Sees Changes in Gas Shell around Nova Cygni 1992 The Hubble telescope has given astronomers their best look yet at a rapidly ballooning bubble of gas blasted off a star. ... (More)
• 1/13/1994 STScI-1994-07 18. HST Reveals the Central Region of an Active Galaxy The refurbished HST has provided this outstanding image of the nuclear region of the galaxy NGC 1068. NGC 1068 is located at a distance of approximately... (More)
• 1/13/1994 STScI-1994-05 19. Hubble Space Telescope Images of a Bright Star in the Large Magellanic Cloud These three images are of a very bright (Wolf-Rayet) star, Melnick 34, located in the giant star-forming region called 30 Doradus... (More)