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1/15/2000 STScI-2000-02 11. Beta Pictoris Disk Hides Giant Elliptical Ring System The planetary dust disk around the nearby star Beta Pictoris is dynamically "ringing like a bell," say astronomers investigating Hubble telescope images. The "clapper"... (More)

6/2/1999 STScI-1999-21 12. Hubble Picture Adds to Planet-Making Recipe The Hubble telescope has snapped a nearly face-on view of a swirling disk of dust and gas surrounding a developing star called AB Aurigae. The image, taken in visible... (More)
6/1/1999 STScI-1999-20 13. 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)
1/8/1999 STScI-1999-03 14. Hubble Views of Dust Disks and Rings Surrounding Young Stars Yield Clues NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers their first views of a dust ring around the star HR 4796A and a dark gap dividing... (More)

1/7/1998 STScI-1998-03 15. Astronomers Have Found a New Twist in a Suspected Proto-Planetary Disk A telltale new warp uncovered in a vast, thin disk of dust encircling the star Beta Pictoris may be caused by the gravitational tug of a bypassing... (More)

1/17/1996 STScI-1996-02 16. Disk around Star May Be Warped by Unseen Planet The Hubble telescope has provided strong evidence for the existence of a roughly Jupiter-sized planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. (More)

11/20/1995 STScI-1995-45 17. Panoramic Hubble Picture Surveys Star Birth, Proto-Planetary Systems in the Great Orion Nebula This spectacular color panorama of the center of the Orion Nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual... (More)
10/10/1995 STScI-1995-38 18. Hubble Sees Thin Disk Around the Star Beta Pictoris This Hubble telescope image of a portion of a vast dust disk around the star Beta Pictoris [top picture] shows that the disk is thinner than previously thought. (More)
5/22/1995 STScI-1995-23 19. Hubble Probes the Workings of a Stellar Hydrogen Bomb Peering into the heart of two recently exploded double-star systems, the Hubble telescope has surprised researchers by finding... (More)

6/13/1994 STScI-1994-24 20. Hubble Confirms Abundance of Protoplanetary Disks around Newborn Stars Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that the planet-making process is common in the Milky Way Galaxy. ... (More)