News Release Archive: Entire Collection

1999 (continued)

• 10/6/1999 STScI-1999-34 401. Starry Bulges Yield Secrets to Galaxy Growth The Hubble telescope is uncovering important new clues to a galaxy's birth and growth by peering into its heart — a bulge of millions of stars resembling a bulbous... (More)
• 9/29/1999 STScI-1999-33 402. Hubble Captures a Grand View of the Birth of "Hefty" Stars Pictures taken in infrared and visible light by the Hubble telescope recount a vivid story of the turbulent birthing process of massive stars. (More)
• 9/16/1999 STScI-1999-30 403. Hubble Spies Giant Star Clusters Near Galactic Center Penetrating 25,000 light-years of obscuring dust and myriad stars, the Hubble telescope has provided the clearest view yet of a pair of the largest young clusters... (More)
• 9/2/1999 STScI-1999-31 404. A Minuet of Galaxies This troupe of four galaxies, known as Hickson Compact Group 87 (HCG 87), is performing an intricate dance orchestrated by the mutual gravitational forces acting between them. (More)
• 8/24/1999 STScI-1999-32 405. Symbiotic Star Blows Bubbles into Space A tempestuous relationship between an unlikely pair of stars may have created an oddly shaped gaseous nebula that resembles nesting hourglasses. (More)
• 8/12/1999 STScI-1999-24 406. Bloated Stars Swallow Giant Planets The phrase "big fish eat little fish" may hold true when it comes to planets and stars. Perhaps as many as 100 million of the Sun-like stars in our galaxy harbor close-orbiting... (More)
• 8/5/1999 STScI-1999-29 407. Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter When 17th-century astronomers first turned their telescopes to Jupiter, they noted a conspicuous reddish spot on the giant planet. (More)
• 7/15/1999 STScI-1999-28 408. Cosmic Collisions - European HST Scientists Catch Merging Galaxies in the Act Exciting Hubble telescope images of more than a dozen very distant colliding galaxies indicate that, at least in some cases, big massive... (More)
• 7/1/1999 STScI-1999-26 409. Hubble Images a Swarm of Ancient Stars This stellar swarm is M80 (NGC 6093), one of the densest of the 147 known globular star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. Located about 28,000 light-years... (More)
• 6/30/1999 STScI-1999-27 410. A Closer Encounter with Mars Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using the Hubble telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. (More)