News Release Archive: Solar System

1995 (continued)

• 8/11/1995 STScI-1995-31 101. Hubble Again Views Saturn's Rings Edge-On Saturn's magnificent ring system is seen tilted edge-on — for the second time in 1995 - in this Hubble telescope picture taken Aug. 10, when the planet was 895 million... (More)
• 7/28/1995 STScI-1995-29 102. Hubble Discovers New Moons Orbiting Saturn Astronomers have announced the discovery of at least two, and possibly as many as four, new moons orbiting the giant planet Saturn. This discovery was based upon Hubble telescope... (More)
• 6/14/1995 STScI-1995-26 103. Hubble Identifies a Long-Sought Population of Comets Beyond Neptune The Hubble telescope has detected a long-sought population of comets dwelling at the icy fringe of the solar system. The observation, which is the astronomical... (More)
• 6/14/1995 STScI-1995-09 104. Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Neptune Two groups have recently used the Hubble telescope to acquire high-resolution images of the planet Neptune. These images represent the clearest views of Neptune since the Voyager... (More)
• 6/5/1995 STScI-1995-25 105. 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)
• 4/19/1995 STScI-1995-20 106. 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-1995-21 107. 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)
• 3/31/1995 STScI-1995-18 108. 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)
• 3/21/1995 STScI-1995-16 109. Hubble Monitors Weather on Neighboring Planets What's the weather for Mars and Venus? The Hubble telescope has given astronomers a peak. The telescope is serving as an interplanetary weather satellite for studying the climate... (More)
• 3/4/1995 STScI-1995-15 110. 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-1995-12 111. 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

• 12/21/1994 STScI-1994-53 112. Hubble Observes A New Saturn Storm This Hubble telescope picture of Saturn captures a rare storm that appears as a white arrowhead-shaped feature near the planet's equator. An upwelling of warmer air, similar... (More)
• 11/8/1994 STScI-1994-55 113. UA Scientist & Team Discover Surface Features Cover Titan Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. They mapped light and dark features over the surface... (More)
• 11/2/1994 STScI-1994-50 114. Hubble Observes the Moons and Rings of the Planet Uranus This Hubble telescope snapshot of the planet Uranus reveals the planet's rings, at least five of the inner moons, and bright clouds in the Southern... (More)
• 9/29/1994 STScI-1994-48 115. 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-1994-44 116. 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-1994-45 117. 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-1994-46 118. 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-1994-43 119. 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-1994-47 120. 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-1994-35 121. 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-1994-36 122. 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-1994-38 123. 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)
• 7/23/1994 STScI-1994-37 124. "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)
• 7/22/1994 STScI-1994-34 125. 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-1994-33 126. 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-1994-32 127. 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-1994-31 128. 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-1994-30 129. 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)
• 7/17/1994 STScI-1994-28 130. 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-1994-29 131. 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)
• 7/7/1994 STScI-1994-26 132. 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-1994-21 133. 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-1994-18 134. Hubble Space Telescope Resolves Volcanoes on Io The giant gaseous planet Jupiter and its moon Io are featured in this Hubble telescope picture. ... (More)
• 5/16/1994 STScI-1994-17 135. Hubble Portrait of the "Double Planet" Pluto & Charon This is the clearest view yet of the distant planet Pluto and its moon Charon, as revealed by the Hubble telescope. ... (More)
• 2/8/1994 STScI-1994-13 136. 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-1993-22 137. 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-1992-24 138. 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-1992-13 139. 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)

1991

• 10/11/1991 STScI-1991-13 140. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Produces Clear Color Photo of Jupiter This is the first true-color photograph of the giant planet Jupiter from the Wide Field Planetary Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. All features... (More)
• 5/30/1991 STScI-1991-11 141. Mars, Three-color Composite Exposures taken through separate red, green, and blue filters and used to create a color image of Mars (lower right). The red filter shows the best surface detail. Because Mars' atmosphere scatters... (More)
• 5/17/1991 STScI-1991-09 142. HST's First Observation Of Jupiter This black and white picture of Jupiter, taken in green light at 1:14 a.m. on the 11th March, 1991 by the Planetary Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope... (More)
• 3/18/1991 STScI-1991-05 143. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope To Monitor Changes On Mars NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has begun a long-term program to monitor seasonal and interannual changes that occur on the surface and in the atmosphere... (More)
• 1/17/1991 STScI-1991-04 144. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Views Major Storm On Saturn The accompanying movie shows the Saturn white spot, a great storm in the equatorial region of Saturn, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field/Planetary... (More)

1990

• 11/20/1990 STScI-1990-11 145. Saturn This color image of Saturn was taken with the HST's Wide Field /Planetary Camera (WF/PC) in the wide field mode at 8:25 A.M. EDT, August 26, 1990, when the planet was at a distance of 1.39 billion... (More)
• 11/20/1990 STScI-1990-27 146. Saturn's North Polar Hood This enlargement of the Saturn image reveals unprecedented detail in atmospheric features at the northern polar hood. Saturn's north pole is presently tilted toward Earth by 24 degrees. ... (More)
• 10/4/1990 STScI-1990-14 147. First ESA Faint Object Camera Science Images Pluto - the "Double Planet" NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has obtained the clearest pictures ever of our solar system's most distant and enigmatic object:... (More)
• 10/4/1990 STScI-1990-19 148. Comet Levy NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed the inner core surrounding the icy nucleus of Comet Levy more clearly than can be done with ground-based telescopes... (More)