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1999 (continued)

1/8/1999 STScI-1999-03 431. 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)
1/7/1999 STScI-1999-02 432. Combined Deep View of Infrared and Visible Light Galaxies This narrow, deep view of the universe reveals a plethora of faint galaxies, as seen in visible and infrared light by the Hubble telescope. ... (More)
1/6/1999 STScI-1999-01 433. Looking Down a Barrel of Gas at a Doomed Star Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have obtained the sharpest view yet of a glowing loop of gas called the Ring Nebula (M57), first cataloged... (More)

1998

12/10/1998 STScI-1998-43 434. Extraterrestrial Civilizations: Coming of Age in the Milky Way If civilizations exist around other stars they are likely to be just emerging across our Galaxy right now: like an apple orchard suddenly maturing and ripening... (More)
12/3/1998 STScI-1998-42 435. Behind a Dusty Veil Lies a Cradle of Star Birth NGC 253 is a large, almost edge-on spiral galaxy, and is one of the nearest galaxies beyond our local neighborhood of galaxies. ... (More)
11/23/1998 STScI-1998-41 436. The Universe "Down Under" is the Latest Target for Hubble's Latest Deep-View Turning its penetrating vision toward southern skies, the Hubble telescope has peered down a 12- billion-light-year-long corridor... (More)
11/10/1998 STScI-1998-40 437. Leonid Meteor Storm Won't Deter Hubble from Space Observations The anticipated celestial bombardment called the Leonid meteor storm on the afternoon of November 17th, 1998 won't deter the Hubble telescope... (More)
11/5/1998 STScI-1998-39 438. A Glowing Pool of Light NGC 3132 is a striking example of a planetary nebula. This expanding cloud of gas surrounding a dying star is known to amateur astronomers in the Southern Hemisphere as the "Eight-Burst"... (More)
11/5/1998 STScI-1998-38 439. Great Balls of Fire! Hubble Sees Bright Knots Ejected From Brilliant Star Resembling an aerial fireworks explosion, this dramatic Hubble telescope picture of the energetic star WR124 reveals that it is surrounded... (More)
10/26/1998 STScI-1998-37 440. New Research That Uses Gravitationally Lensed Quasars to Measure Universe is Good News, Bad News for Cosmologists Astronomers who are using the Hubble telescope to observe the gravitational lensing of light from distant... (More)