News Release Archive: Star Cluster

1994 (continued)

• 10/17/1994 STScI-1994-41 41. 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 42. 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)
• 1/13/1994 STScI-1994-04 43. Hubble's Improved Optics Reveal Incredible Detail in Giant Cloud of Gas and Dust An image of a star-forming region in the 30 Doradus nebula, surrounding the dense star cluster R136. The image was obtained... (More)

1993

• 8/27/1993 STScI-1993-20 44. Core of the Globular Cluster NGC 6624 This is a comparison of pictures of the core of the globular cluster NGC 6624, as imaged with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. (More)
• 6/17/1993 STScI-1993-10 45. Comparison of a WFPC2 Thermal Vacuum Globular Cluster-Mask Image to Wfpc1 After NASA Hubble Space Telescope's refurbishment to correct spherical aberration, its resolution for imaging stars is expected to increase... (More)
• 6/9/1993 STScI-1993-13 46. Hubble Finds Evidence of Stellar Close Encounters: Bright Blue Stars and Naked Cores NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has discovered a new population of stars isolated deep in the core of M15, one of the densest... (More)
• 5/25/1993 STScI-1993-11 47. What Happens When Galaxies Collide? Hubble Space Telescope Finds New Surprises NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has discovered a new population of exceptionally bright and young star clusters at the heart of a head-on... (More)

1992

• 4/1/1992 STScI-1992-11 48. Clearest View Yet of Massive Star Cluster A new image processing technique has yielded the clearest view yet of an extraordinary star cluster located about 169,000 light years from Earth. The new technique... (More)
• 1/16/1992 STScI-1992-02 49. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Discovers Young Star Clusters in Giant Galaxy NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided intriguing new clues to cataclysmic events in the history of the peculiar galaxy NGC 1275, located... (More)

1991

• 7/24/1991 STScI-1991-12 50. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Finds "Blue Straggler" Stars in the Core of a Globular Cluster High resolution observations of the core of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae, made with the European Space Agency's... (More)

1990

• 1/16/1991 STScI-1990-25 51. The Hubble Reveals the Evolving Core of a Dense Star Cluster Astronomers today presented pictures taken with the Hubble Space Telescope of the heart of M15, a dense cluster of stars within our own Galaxy. (More)
• 1/16/1991 STScI-1990-23 52. The Hubble Reveals the Evolving Core of a Dense Star Cluster Astronomers today presented pictures taken with the Hubble Space Telescope of the heart of M15, a dense cluster of stars within our own Galaxy. (More)
• 10/14/1990 STScI-1990-12 53. Hubble Space Telescope Searches for a Historic Nova in Globular Cluster M14 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has successfully completed the first stage of a cosmic detective... (More)
• 8/13/1990 STScI-1990-09 54. Hubble Space Telescope Photographs Extragalactical Stellar Nursery NASA is releasing today a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) photograph of the most remarkable star forming region in the Local Group of Galaxies, 30 Doradus. The photograph... (More)
• 6/22/1990 STScI-1990-06 55. ESA's Faint Object Camera First Images The European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, has successfully taken its first engineering test pictures of the heavens. (More)
• 5/20/1990 STScI-1990-04 56. HST WC/PC First Light Image On the right is part of the first image taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) Wide Field/Planetary Camera. It is shown with a ground-based picture from a Las Campanas... (More)