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2009

9/9/2009 STScI-2009-25 1. Hubble Opens New Eyes on the Universe NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, ready to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the invisible backbone of the universe. (More)
7/24/2009 STScI-2009-23 2. Hubble Captures Rare Jupiter Collision NASA scientists have interrupted the checkout and calibration of the Hubble Space Telescope to aim the recently refurbished observatory at a new expanding spot on the giant planet Jupiter. (More)

2008

12/18/2008 STScI-2008-42 3. Hubble Catches Jupiter's Largest Moon Going to the 'Dark Side' NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has caught Jupiter's moon Ganymede playing a game of "peek-a-boo." In this crisp Hubble image, Ganymede... (More)
7/17/2008 STScI-2008-27 4. Three Red Spots Mix it Up on Jupiter This sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images offers an unprecedented view of a planetary game of Pac-Man among three red spots clustered together in Jupiter's atmosphere. (More)
5/22/2008 STScI-2008-23 5. New Red Spot Appears on Jupiter In what's beginning to look like a case of planetary measles, a third red spot has appeared alongside its cousins — the Great Red Spot and Red Spot Jr. — in the turbulent... (More)
1/23/2008 STScI-2008-06 6. Internal Heat Drives Jupiter's Giant Storm Eruption Detailed analysis of two continent-sized storms that erupted in Jupiter's atmosphere in March 2007 shows that Jupiter's internal heat plays a significant role in generating... (More)

2007

6/28/2007 STScI-2007-25 7. Hubble Catches Jupiter Changing Its Stripes Massive Jupiter is undergoing dramatic atmospheric changes that have never been seen before with the keen "eye" of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. (More)
3/1/2007 STScI-2007-11 8. Hubble Monitors Jupiter in Support of the New Horizons Flyby NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has recently taken images of Jupiter in support of the New Horizons Mission. The images were taken with Hubble's... (More)

2006

5/4/2006 STScI-2006-19 9. Hubble Snaps Baby Pictures of Jupiter's "Red Spot Jr." NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers their most detailed view yet of a second red spot emerging on Jupiter. For the first time in history, astronomers... (More)

2004

11/4/2004 STScI-2004-30 10. Hubble Spots Rare Triple Eclipse on Jupiter At first glance, Jupiter looks like it has a mild case of the measles. Five spots – one colored white, one blue, and three black – are scattered... (More)

2000

12/14/2000 STScI-2000-38 11. Satellite Footprints Seen in Jupiter Aurora In this Hubble telescope picture, a curtain of glowing gas is wrapped around Jupiter's north pole like a lasso. This curtain of light, called an aurora, is produced when high-energy... (More)

1999

8/5/1999 STScI-1999-29 12. Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter When 17th-century astronomers first turned their telescopes to Jupiter, they noted a conspicuous reddish spot on the giant planet. (More)
4/20/1999 STScI-1999-13 13. Hubble Clicks Images of Io Sweeping across Jupiter While hunting for volcanic plumes on Io, the Hubble telescope captured these images of the volatile moon sweeping across the giant face of Jupiter. (More)

1998

1/7/1998 STScI-1998-04 14. Hubble Provide Complete View of Jupiter's Auroras The Hubble telescope has captured a complete view of Jupiter's northern and southern auroras. Images taken in ultraviolet light show both auroras, the oval-shaped objects... (More)

1997

11/20/1997 STScI-1997-37 15. Hubble Provides Infrared View of Moon, Ring, and Clouds Probing Jupiter's atmosphere for the first time, the Hubble telescope's infrared camera is providing a sharp glimpse of the planet's ring, moon, and high-altitude... (More)
6/19/1997 STScI-1997-21 16. 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)

1996

10/17/1996 STScI-1996-32 17. Hubble Follows Rapid Changes in Jupiter's Aurora The Hubble telescope's sharp view of the rapid, spectacular dance of luminescent gases high in Jupiter's atmosphere ? better known as aurora ? is allowing astronomers... (More)
10/4/1996 STScI-1996-30 18. Rare Hubble Portrait of Io and Jupiter This image shows Jupiter's volcanic moon Io passing above the turbulent clouds of the giant planet. The conspicuous black spot on Jupiter is Io's shadow. (More)

1995

11/29/1995 STScI-1995-49 19. HST's Greatest Hits 1990-1995 Hubble Space Telescope evokes a new sense of awe and wonder about the infinite richness of our universe in dramatic, unprecedented pictures of celestial objects. Like a traveler sharing... (More)
11/9/1995 STScI-1995-46 20. Hubble Views the Galileo Probe Entry Site on Jupiter This Hubble telescope image of Jupiter [left] was taken when the giant planet was 534 million miles (854 million kilometers) from Earth. (More)
10/10/1995 STScI-1995-37 21. Hubble Discovers Bright New Spot on Io This pair of images of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, taken with the Hubble telescope, shows the surprising emergence of a 200-mile-wide, yellowish-white feature... (More)
10/10/1995 STScI-1995-36 22. Hubble Finds Ozone on Jupiter's Moon Ganymede Though ozone may be diminishing on Earth, it is being manufactured one-half billion miles away, on Jupiter's largest satellite, Ganymede. (More)
10/10/1995 STScI-1995-35 23. Hubble Photo Gallery of Jupiter's Galilean Satellites This is a Hubble telescope "family portrait" of Jupiter's four largest moons. (More)
3/31/1995 STScI-1995-18 24. Hubble Tracks Jupiter Storms The Hubble telescope is following dramatic and rapid changes in Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere that will be critical for planning observations for the Galileo space probe when it arrives... (More)
3/4/1995 STScI-1995-15 25. Comet Fragment Slams into Jupiter In July 1994, 21 chunks of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which had broken apart a year earlier, slammed into Jupiter. The Hubble telescope recorded this spectacular event. ... (More)
2/23/1995 STScI-1995-12 26. Hubble Finds Oxygen Atmosphere on Jupiter's Moon, Europa Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have identified the presence of an extremely tenuous atmosphere of molecular oxygen around Jupiter's moon, Europa. (More)

1994

9/29/1994 STScI-1994-46 27. Month Long Evolution of the D/G Jupiter Impact Sites from Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 This series of snapshots, taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows evolution of the comet P/Shoemaker-Levy... (More)
9/29/1994 STScI-1994-44 28. Jupiter's Upper Atmospheric Winds Revealed in Ultraviolet Images by Hubble Telescope These four NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter, as seen in visible (violet) and far-ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths, show the remarkable... (More)
9/29/1994 STScI-1994-45 29. Hubble Sees Auroral Emission Arcs Following the k Impact In the Jupiter campaign, scientists wanted to see how the comet collisions affected the Jovian aurorae, rapid and irregular displays of colorful... (More)
9/29/1994 STScI-1994-48 30. Hubble Observations Shed New Light on Jupiter Collision In the weeks following comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9's spectacular July collision with Jupiter, a team of Hubble telescope astronomers has pored over imaging and spectroscopic... (More)
9/29/1994 STScI-1994-43 31. Evolution of the P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 "Gang of Four" Region This series of eight NASA Hubble Space Telescope "snapshots" shows the evolution of the P-Q complex, also called the "gang of four' region, of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy... (More)
9/29/1994 STScI-1994-47 32. Jupiter Mapping Traces Changes in Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact Sites This series of color-composite maps of Jupiter, assembled from images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, allows astronomers to trace changes... (More)
7/23/1994 STScI-1994-37 33. "Bruised" Jupiter as Seen on Last Day of Comet Impacts A natural color NASA Hubble Space Telescope view of the full disk of the giant planet Jupiter shows numerous comet Shoemaker-Levy... (More)
7/23/1994 STScI-1994-35 34. Hubble Ultraviolet Image of Multiple Comet Impacts on Jupiter Ultraviolet image of Jupiter taken by the Wide Field Camera of the Hubble Space Telescope. The image shows Jupiter's atmosphere at a wavelength of 2550 Angstroms... (More)
7/23/1994 STScI-1994-36 35. Flat Projection of Large Comet Impact on Jupiter This is a NASA's Hubble Space Telescope image of the impact sites of fragments "D" and "G" from Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 which collided with the giant planet Jupiter. (More)
7/23/1994 STScI-1994-38 36. Hubble Shows Evolution of Ejecta from the "A" Comet Impact Site This series of images, which spans more than five days beginning at 5:33 p.m. EDT on July 16, 1994, was obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's... (More)
7/22/1994 STScI-1994-34 37. Color Hubble Image of Multiple Comet Impacts on Jupiter Image of Jupiter with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's Planetary Camera. Eight impact sights are visible. From left to right are the E/F complex (barely visible... (More)
7/21/1994 STScI-1994-33 38. Color Hubble Image of Large Comet Impact on Jupiter This Hubble telescope image of the giant planet Jupiter reveals the impact sites of two fragments from comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Twenty-one... (More)
7/20/1994 STScI-1994-32 39. Hubble Image of Large Comet Impact on Jupiter These images of Jupiter, by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, reveal the impact sites of fragments "D" and "G" from Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. The upper right corners... (More)
7/18/1994 STScI-1994-31 40. Jupiter's Comet Collision Sites As Seen in Visible and Ultraviolet Light This comparison of visible light (blue) and far-ultraviolet (FUV) images of Jupiter taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera-2 (WFPC-2)... (More)
7/17/1994 STScI-1994-28 41. Hubble Image of Comet Shoemaker-Levy First Fragment Impact With Jupiter This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter's cloudtops was taken at 5:32 EDT on July 16, 1994, shortly after the impact of the first fragment... (More)
7/17/1994 STScI-1994-29 42. Astronomers View Comet Impact with Jupiter Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute huddle around monitors to get a glimpse of images from fragment A of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9's collision with Jupiter... (More)
7/17/1994 STScI-1994-30 43. Hubble Sees Comet Fireball on Limb of Jupiter Sequence of images showing evidence for a plume near the terminator of Jupiter at the time of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9's fragmnet A impact with Jupiter in July 1994. (More)
7/7/1994 STScI-1994-26 44. Photo Illustration of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 & Planet Jupiter This is a composite photo, assembled from separate images of Jupiter and cornet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9, as imaged by the Wide Field & Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), aboard. (More)
5/18/1994 STScI-1994-21 45. Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 "Gang Of Four" This is a composite HST image taken in visible light showing the temporal evolution of the brightest region of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9. In this false-color representation, different... (More)
5/16/1994 STScI-1994-18 46. Hubble Space Telescope Resolves Volcanoes on Io The giant gaseous planet Jupiter and its moon Io are featured in this Hubble telescope picture. ... (More)
2/8/1994 STScI-1994-13 47. Hubble Space Telescope view of a Comet on a Collision Course with Jupiter These images of Comet P/Shoemaker- Levy 9 (1993e) fragments were made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The cometary... (More)

1993

10/18/1993 STScI-1993-22 48. Hubble Investigates Comet on a Collision Course with Jupiter NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed look yet at the comet hurtling toward a July 1994 collision with the giant planet Jupiter. Hubble's... (More)

1992

10/2/1992 STScI-1992-24 49. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Explores the Volcanic Moon Io NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is allowing several teams of astronomers to explore Io [EYE-oh] at a level of detail not possible since a pair of Voyager... (More)
4/1/1992 STScI-1992-13 50. NASA Hubble Space Telescope Photographs Jupiter Aurora The image at top right shows Jovian aurora observed on February 8, 1992, by the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera (FOC) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST). (More)