News Release Archive: Entire Collection

2000 (continued)

• 4/11/2000 STScI-2000-16 381. April 24 Marks a Triumphant Ten Years in Space for Hubble Space Telescope In its first ten years, the 12.5-ton Earth-orbiting NASA's Hubble has studied 13,670 objects, has made 271,000 individual observations... (More)
• 4/6/2000 STScI-2000-12 382. The Glowing Eye of NGC 6751 The Hubble telescope has spied a giant celestial "eye," known as planetary nebula NGC 6751. The Hubble Heritage Project is releasing this picture to commemorate the Hubble telescope's... (More)
• 4/6/2000 STScI-2000-13 383. Suspected Protoplanet May Really Be a Distant Star Follow-up observations of an unusual object initially suspected to be the first directly detected planet outside our solar... (More)
• 3/16/2000 STScI-2000-05 384. Hubble Finds Young Stars in Cosmic Dance This composite image, made with two cameras aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows a pair of 12 light-year-long jets of gas blasted... (More)
• 3/9/2000 STScI-2000-09 385. Hubble Surveys Dying Stars in Nearby Galaxy From ground-based telescopes, the glowing gaseous debris surrounding dying, sun-like stars in a nearby galaxy, called the Large Magellanic Cloud, appear as small, shapeless... (More)
• 3/2/2000 STScI-2000-10 386. Hubble Takes a Close-up View of a Reflection Nebula in Orion Just weeks after NASA astronauts repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in December 1999, the Hubble Heritage Project snapped this picture... (More)
• 2/16/2000 STScI-2000-11 387. Onset of Titanic Collision Lights Up Supernova Ring NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a ringside seat to a never before seen violent celestial "main attraction" unfolding in a galaxy 169,000 light-years... (More)
• 2/3/2000 STScI-2000-06 388. Light and Shadow in the Carina Nebula When 19th century astronomer Sir John Herschel spied a swirling cloud of gas with a hole punched through it, he dubbed it the Keyhole Nebula. Now the Hubble telescope... (More)
• 1/24/2000 STScI-2000-07 389. Hubble Reopens Its Eye on the Universe The Hubble telescope reopened its "eye" on the universe following a successful December 1999 servicing mission by imaging a Sun-like star, dubbed the "Eskimo Nebula"... (More)
• 1/15/2000 STScI-2000-02 390. 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)