2007

• 1/8/2007 STScI-2007-03 1. Astronomers Map a Hypergiant Star's Massive Outbursts Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory, Kameula, Hawaii, astronomers have learned that the gaseous outflow from one of the brightest super-sized... (More)

2006

• 1/9/2006 STScI-2006-03 2. Mystery Solved: High-Energy Fireworks Linked to Massive Star Cluster Call it the Bermuda Triangle of our Milky Way Galaxy: a tiny patch of sky that has been known for years to be the source of the mysterious... (More)

2001

• 7/12/2001 STScI-2001-19 3. Magnetic Fields Weave Rings Around Stars There are stars with planets. Stars with companion stars. Stars with pancake-shaped disks of rocky debris. But how about young, hot, hefty stars embedded in large inner tube-shaped... (More)

2000

• 7/13/2000 STScI-2000-23 4. Hubble Watches Star Tear Apart its Neighborhood The Hubble telescope has snapped a view of a stellar demolition zone in our Milky Way Galaxy: a massive star, nearing the end of its life, tearing apart the shell of surrounding... (More)
• 4/6/2000 STScI-2000-13 5. Suspected Protoplanet May Really Be a Distant Star Follow-up observations of an unusual object initially suspected to be the first directly detected planet outside our solar... (More)
• 1/13/2000 STScI-2000-04 6. An Expanding Bubble in Space A star 40 times more massive than the Sun is blowing a giant bubble of material into space. In this colorful picture, the Hubble telescope has captured a glimpse of the expanding bubble... (More)

1999

• 9/29/1999 STScI-1999-33 7. Hubble Captures a Grand View of the Birth of "Hefty" Stars Pictures taken in infrared and visible light by the Hubble telescope recount a vivid story of the turbulent birthing process of massive stars. (More)
• 6/10/1999 STScI-1999-23 8. A Butterfly-Shaped "Papillon" Nebula Yields Secrets of Massive Star Birth Here is a Hubble telescope view of a turbulent cauldron of star birth called N159, which is taking place 170,000 light-years away in our satellite galaxy... (More)
• 6/1/1999 STScI-1999-20 9. Hubble Snapshot Captures Life Cycle of Stars In this stunning picture of the giant galactic nebula NGC 3603, the Hubble telescope's crisp resolution captures various stages... (More)

1998

• 11/5/1998 STScI-1998-38 10. Great Balls of Fire! Hubble Sees Bright Knots Ejected From Brilliant Star Resembling an aerial fireworks explosion, this dramatic Hubble telescope picture of the energetic star WR124 reveals that it is surrounded... (More)
• 10/21/1998 STScI-1998-28 11. Astronomers Unveil Colorful Hubble Photo Gallery A vibrant celestial photo album of some of NASA Hubble Space Telescope's most stunning views of the universe is being unveiled today on the Internet. Called the Hubble Heritage... (More)

1997

• 10/29/1997 STScI-1997-35 12. 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)
• 10/8/1997 STScI-1997-33 13. Hubble Identifies What May Be the Most Luminous Star Known Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have identified what may be the most luminous star known ? a celestial mammoth that releases up to 10 million... (More)
• 1/14/1997 STScI-1997-02 14. Hubble Finds Intergalactic Stars The Hubble telescope has found a long-sought population of "stellar outcasts" ? stars tossed out of their home galaxies into the dark emptiness of intergalactic space. (More)

1996

• 12/10/1996 STScI-1996-04 15. Hubble Space Telescope Captures First Direct Image of a Star This is the first direct image of a star other than the Sun. Called Alpha Orionis, or Betelgeuse, the star is a red super giant, a Sun-like star nearing... (More)
• 6/10/1996 STScI-1996-23 16. Doomed Star Eta Carinae A huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds is captured in this stunning Hubble telescope picture of the super-massive star Eta Carinae. ... (More)
• 1/10/1995 STScI-1996-06 17. Hubble Discovers Powerful Laser Beamed from Chaotic Star Darth Vader take heart. Astronomers have discovered a powerful ultraviolet laser beam, several times brighter than our Sun, shooting toward Earth from a super-hot... (More)

1995

• 6/13/1995 STScI-1995-27 18. Heaviest Known Star Observed from Space Observations with the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT) of the most massive star currently known have revealed new features of its hot outer layers... (More)

1994

• 1/14/1994 STScI-1994-09 19. Hubble Observes a Star On the Brink of Destruction A NASA Hubble Space Telescope "natural color" image of the material surrounding the star Eta Carinae, as imaged by the Wide Fuel Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC-2). (More)
• 1/13/1994 STScI-1994-05 20. Hubble Space Telescope Images of a Bright Star in the Large Magellanic Cloud These three images are of a very bright (Wolf-Rayet) star, Melnick 34, located in the giant star-forming region called 30 Doradus... (More)

1993

• 8/27/1993 STScI-1993-20 21. 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)

1992

• 1/13/1992 STScI-1992-05 22. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Probes the Chemistry of the Early Universe Using a unique capability of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) astronomers announced today that they have detected the rare element... (More)

1991

• 5/17/1991 STScI-1991-10 23. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Resolves Eruption of a Massive Star Observations of a massive, unstable star called Eta Carinae, made with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WF/PC) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope... (More)