News Release Archive: Entire Collection

1995 (continued)

• 6/14/1995 STScI-1995-07 571. Galaxy NGC 4881 and the Coma Cluster This Hubble telescope photo mosaic shows a field of distant galaxies. ... (More)
• 6/13/1995 STScI-1995-28 572. Astronomers Rule Out Starburst Galaxies as Contributing to the Far-Ultraviolet Background Astronomers using the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT), flown aboard the Shuttle ASTRO-2 mission, have been able to exclude one explanation... (More)
• 6/13/1995 STScI-1995-27 573. Heaviest Known Star Observed from Space Observations with the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT) of the most massive star currently known have revealed new features of its hot outer layers... (More)
• 6/6/1995 STScI-1995-24 574. Hubble Observes the Fire and Fury of a Stellar Birth The Hubble telescope has provided a detailed look at the fitful, eruptive, and dynamic processes accompanying the final stages of a star's "construction."... (More)
• 6/5/1995 STScI-1995-25 575. Hubble Views Saturn Ring-Plane Crossing This sequence of images from the Hubble telescope documents a rare astronomical alignment: Saturn's magnificent ring system turned edge-on. This event occurs when the Earth passes through... (More)
• 5/22/1995 STScI-1995-23 576. Hubble Probes the Workings of a Stellar Hydrogen Bomb Peering into the heart of two recently exploded double-star systems, the Hubble telescope has surprised researchers by finding... (More)
• 4/19/1995 STScI-1995-20 577. Asteroid or Mini-Planet? Hubble Maps the Ancient Surface of Vesta Hubble telescope images of the asteroid Vesta are providing astronomers with a glimpse of the oldest terrain... (More)
• 4/19/1995 STScI-1995-21 578. Hubble Discovers New Dark Spot on Neptune The distant, blue-green planet Neptune has again surprised astronomers with the emergence of a new great dark spot in the cloudy planet's Northern Hemisphere, discovered... (More)
• 4/10/1995 STScI-1995-13 579. Oxygen-Rich Supernova Remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud This is a Hubble telescope image of the tattered debris of a star that exploded 3,000 years ago as a supernova. This supernova remnant, called N132D, lies 169,000... (More)
• 4/5/1995 STScI-1995-14 580. Hubble Views Distant Galaxies through a Cosmic Lens This Hubble telescope image of a rich cluster of galaxies called Abell 2218 is a spectacular example of gravitational lensing. The arc-like pattern... (More)