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8/3/2000 STScI-2000-25 21. A Dying Star in Globular Cluster M15 The globular cluster M15 is shown in this color image obtained with the Hubble telescope. Lying some 40,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus... (More)
4/6/2000 STScI-2000-12 22. The Glowing Eye of NGC 6751 The Hubble telescope has spied a giant celestial "eye," known as planetary nebula NGC 6751. The Hubble Heritage Project is releasing this picture to commemorate the Hubble telescope's... (More)
3/9/2000 STScI-2000-09 23. Hubble Surveys Dying Stars in Nearby Galaxy From ground-based telescopes, the glowing gaseous debris surrounding dying, sun-like stars in a nearby galaxy, called the Large Magellanic Cloud, appear as small, shapeless... (More)
1/24/2000 STScI-2000-07 24. Hubble Reopens Its Eye on the Universe The Hubble telescope reopened its "eye" on the universe following a successful December 1999 servicing mission by imaging a Sun-like star, dubbed the "Eskimo Nebula"... (More)

10/19/1999 STScI-1999-39 25. The "Rotten Egg" Nebula: A Planetary Nebula in the Making This oddly shaped object is an aging, Sun-like star near the end of its life. The Hubble telescope's infrared camera, called the Near Infrared... (More)
10/7/1999 STScI-1999-35 26. Hubble Heritage Project's First Anniversary To mark the first anniversary of the Hubble Heritage Project, we present four Hubble telescope images of nebulae surrounding stars in our own Milky Way Galaxy. ... (More)
8/24/1999 STScI-1999-32 27. 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)
1/6/1999 STScI-1999-01 28. 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)

11/5/1998 STScI-1998-39 29. 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)
10/22/1998 STScI-1998-36 30. Turtle in Space Describes New Hubble Image The Hubble telescope has shown us that the shrouds of gas surrounding dying, Sun-like stars (called planetary nebulae) come in a variety of strange shapes, from an "hourglass"... (More)