2008

• 1/10/2008 STScI-2008-01 1. Circumstellar Dust Takes Flight in 'The Moth' What superficially resembles a giant moth floating in space is giving astronomers new insight into the formation and evolution of planetary systems. This is not your typical... (More)

2007

• 7/19/2007 STScI-2007-28 2. Astronomers Find Highly Elliptical Disk Around Young Star Dust and debris parade in an extremely misshapen ring around the young star, HD 15115. The disk, seen edge-on with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope... (More)
• 1/7/2007 STScI-2007-02 3. Hubble Observations Provide Insight into Planet Birth Hubble observed a "blizzard" of particles in a disk around a young star revealing the process by which planets grow from tiny dust grains. The particles... (More)

2006

• 6/27/2006 STScI-2006-25 4. Hubble Reveals Two Dust Disks Around Nearby Star Beta Pictoris Detailed images of the nearby star Beta Pictoris, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, confirm the existence of not one but two dust disks encircling... (More)
• 1/19/2006 STScI-2006-05 5. Dusty Planetary Disks Around Two Nearby Stars Resemble Our Kuiper Belt These two bright debris disks of ice and dust appear to be the equivalent of our own solar system's Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy rocks outside... (More)

2005

• 6/22/2005 STScI-2005-10 6. Elusive Planet Reshapes a Ring Around Neighboring Star The top view, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is the most detailed visible-light image ever taken of a narrow, dusty ring around the nearby star Fomalhaut... (More)

2004

• 12/9/2004 STScI-2004-33 7. Spitzer and Hubble Capture Evolving Planetary Systems Two of NASA's Great Observatories, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, have provided astronomers an unprecedented look at dusty planetary... (More)

2003

• 1/6/2003 STScI-2003-02 8. Hubble Reveals Complex Circumstellar Disk NASA Hubble Space Telescope's new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) has given astronomers their clearest view yet of the dust disk around a young, 5-million-year-old star. (More)

2000

• 1/15/2000 STScI-2000-02 9. 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)

1999

• 6/2/1999 STScI-1999-21 10. 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 11. 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 12. 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)

1998

• 1/7/1998 STScI-1998-03 13. 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)

1996

• 1/17/1996 STScI-1996-02 14. 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)

1995

• 11/20/1995 STScI-1995-45 15. 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 16. 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 17. 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)

1991

• 5/17/1991 STScI-1991-08 18. Artist's Illustration of Beta Pictoris Gas Disk This is an artist's concept of the near stellar environment of the star Beta Pictoris. This illustration is based upon recent observations made with the Goddard High Resolution... (More)