News Release Archive: Star Cluster > Globular

1999 (continued)

• 7/1/1999 STScI-1999-26 21. Hubble Images a Swarm of Ancient Stars This stellar swarm is M80 (NGC 6093), one of the densest of the 147 known globular star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. Located about 28,000 light-years... (More)

1998

• 4/9/1998 STScI-1998-16 22. Hubble Finds That Even Massive Stars Just Fade Away Pinpointing the rapidly fading ember of a recently burned-out star, the Hubble telescope is giving astronomers a better estimate... (More)

1997

• 10/29/1997 STScI-1997-35 23. Hubble Catches Up with a Blue Straggler Star Astronomers have long been mystified by observations of a few hot, bright, apparently young stars residing in well-established communities where most of their neighbors... (More)

1996

• 4/24/1996 STScI-1996-11 24. Hubble Spies Globular Cluster in Neighboring Galaxy The Hubble telescope has captured a view of a globular cluster called G1, a large, bright ball of light in the center of the photograph. (More)

1995

• 11/8/1995 STScI-1995-06 25. Hubble Peers Deep into the Crowded Heart of the Densest Known Star Cluster By pinpointing individual suns in the glare of the most tightly packed cluster of stars in our galaxy, the Hubble telescope... (More)
• 8/28/1995 STScI-1995-32 26. Hubble Space Telescope Finds Stellar Graveyard Peering deep into the globular star cluster M4 with the Hubble telescope, Canadian and American astronomers have discovered a large number of "stellar corpses,"... (More)
• 6/14/1995 STScI-1995-07 27. Galaxy NGC 4881 and the Coma Cluster This Hubble telescope photo mosaic shows a field of distant galaxies. ... (More)

1994

• 10/17/1994 STScI-1994-40 28. Tale of Two Clusters Yields Secrets of Star Birth in the Early Universe The Hubble telescope has provided new insights into how stars may have formed many billions of years ago in the early universe. (More)
• 10/17/1994 STScI-1994-41 29. Hubble Rules Out a Leading Explanation for Dark Matter Astronomers have ruled out the possibility that red dwarf stars constitute the invisible matter, called dark matter, believed to account for more than 90 percent... (More)
• 1/14/1994 STScI-1994-11 30. Hubble Uncovers Faint Stars in the Core of Globular Cluster These comparison images of the core of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae (NGC104) were taken with the COSTAR Corrected... (More)