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1997 (continued)

• 6/19/1997 STScI-1997-21 491. Hubble Captures Volcanic Eruption Plume From Io The Hubble telescope has snapped a picture of a 400-kilometer-high (250-mile-high) plume of gas and dust from a volcanic eruption on Io, Jupiter's large, innermost moon. (More)
• 6/10/1997 STScI-1997-20 492. Gamma-Ray Bursts Common To Normal Galaxies? Hubble Data Offer New Clues and Puzzles Nature's most powerful explosions, gamma-ray bursts, occur among the normal stellar population inside galaxies scattered... (More)
• 6/10/1997 STScI-1997-22 493. Mysterious Fireball From A Cataclysmic Explosion The visible fireball from a titanic explosion in deep space, called a gamma-ray burst, blazes in the center of this image, taken with the Hubble telescope's imaging spectrograph. (More)
• 6/9/1997 STScI-1997-17 494. A Collision In The Heart Of A Galaxy The Hubble telescope's infrared camera has uncovered a collision between two spiral galaxies in the heart of the peculiar galaxy called Arp 220. The collision... (More)
• 6/9/1997 STScI-1997-18 495. Fireworks Near a Black Hole in the Core of Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4151 The Hubble telescope's imaging spectrograph simultaneously records, in unprecedented detail, the velocities of hundreds of gas knots streaming... (More)
• 6/9/1997 STScI-1997-19 496. Hubble Reveals Invisible High-Speed Collision around Supernova 1987A The highest velocity material expelled in a cataclysmic, stellar explosion 10 years ago has been detected for the first time by the Hubble telescope's imaging spectrograph. (More)
• 6/9/1997 STScI-1997-16 497. Hubble Snaps "Family Portrait" The Hubble telescope's infrared camera has peered into the Cone Nebula, revealing a stunning picture of six babies, Sun-like stars surrounding their mother, a bright, massive star. (More)
• 5/20/1997 STScI-1997-15 498. Hubble Finds Cloudy, Cold Weather Conditions for Mars-Bound Spacecraft As two NASA spacecraft speed toward a mid-year rendezvous with Mars, astronomers using the Hubble telescope are providing updated planetary weather reports... (More)
• 5/12/1997 STScI-1997-14 499. Hubble Chemically Analyzes the Ring around Supernova 1987A These pictures from the Hubble telescope's imaging spectrograph provide a new and unprecedented look at one of the most unique and complex structures in the universe... (More)
• 5/12/1997 STScI-1997-13 500. Hubble Captures the Heart of the Orion Nebula The Hubble telescope's infrared vision is providing a dramatic new look at the beautiful Orion Nebula, which contains the nearest nursery for massive stars. ... (More)