News Release Archive: Miscellaneous

1998 (continued)

• 7/1/1998 STScI-1998-24 61. Hubble Simulcast Links Outer Space to Cyberspace Expanding its broadcast universe far beyond the Baltimore area and into cyberspace, the popular WJHU radio program "The Marc Steiner... (More)
• 6/8/1998 STScI-1998-20 62. NASA Selects Home for Next Generation Space Telescope The duties of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., will be expanded to include the management of science operations for the Next Generation... (More)
• 1/27/1998 STScI-1998-09 63. Space Telescope Science Institute Gets New Director An agreement has been reached in principle to appoint Dr. Steven V. W. Beckwith director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), in Baltimore. The agreement... (More)
• 1/9/1998 STScI-1998-01 64. Astronomers Discover an Infrared Background Glow in the Universe Astronomers have assembled the first definitive detection of a background infrared glow across the sky produced by dust warmed by all the stars that have existed... (More)

1997

• 3/19/1997 STScI-1997-06 65. 1997 Hubble Fellows to Study HST Discoveries The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) has selected fifteen young scientists for the 1997 Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. The awardees were selected... (More)

1996

• 7/18/1996 STScI-1996-25 66. Hubble Achieves Milestone: 100,000th Exposure The Hubble telescope reached a milestone several years sooner than scientists expected when it snapped its 100,000th exposure June 22, 1996. The six-year-old orbiting observatory... (More)
• 7/8/1996 STScI-1996-26 67. Hubble Telescope Measures Diameters of Pulsating Stars The Hubble telescope has been used successfully to measure the diameters of a special class of pulsating star called a Mira variable, which rhythmically change size. (More)
• 4/30/1996 STScI-1996-20 68. The Original National Geographic Society - Palomar Observatory Sky Survey to be Available on 8 CD-ROMs The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) are pleased to announce... (More)
• 4/17/1996 STScI-1996-19 69. 1996 Hubble Fellows to Study HST Discoveries The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) has selected nine young scientists for the 1996 Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. The awardees were selected... (More)
• 2/12/1996 STScI-1996-08 70. For First Time Ever, K-12 Students Get Hands on the Hubble Space Telescope as Part of Innovative "Passport to Knowledge" Project The planets Neptune and Pluto have been selected as targets for original... (More)