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1998 (continued)

1/8/1998 STScI-1998-02 101. Hubble Pinpoints Distant Supernovae Peering halfway across the universe to analyze light from exploded stars that died long before our Sun even existed, the Hubble telescope has allowed astronomers to determine that the expansion... (More)
1/7/1998 STScI-1998-03 102. 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)

1997

12/4/1997 STScI-1997-39 103. One Star's Loss is Another's Gain: Hubble Captures Brief Moment in Life of Lively Duo Some stars in double-star systems have found a quick way to lose weight by dumping... (More)
10/29/1997 STScI-1997-35 104. 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-1997-33 105. 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)
9/24/1997 STScI-1997-32 106. Hubble Sees a Neutron Star Alone in Space Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have taken their first direct look in visible light at a lone neutron star. This view offers a unique opportunity to pinpoint... (More)
9/18/1997 STScI-1997-29 107. Blobs in Space: The Legacy of a Nova Nova eruptions by dying stars were thought to be simple, predictable acts of violence. Astronomers could point a telescope at the most recently exploded... (More)
8/6/1997 STScI-1997-26 108. Hubble Separates Stars in the Mira Binary System Although the giant star Mira has been known for about 400 years, astronomers have had to wait for the Hubble telescope to provide the first ultraviolet-light... (More)
6/9/1997 STScI-1997-19 109. Hubble Reveals Invisible High-Speed Collision around Supernova 1987A The highest velocity material expelled in a cataclysmic, stellar explosion 10 years ago has been detected for the first time by the Hubble telescope's imaging spectrograph. (More)
5/12/1997 STScI-1997-14 110. Hubble Chemically Analyzes the Ring around Supernova 1987A These pictures from the Hubble telescope's imaging spectrograph provide a new and unprecedented look at one of the most unique and complex structures in the universe... (More)
1/14/1997 STScI-1997-02 111. 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)
1/14/1997 STScI-1997-03 112. Supernova Blast Begins Taking Shape Though the brightest supernova in four centuries lit up the southern sky almost exactly 10 years ago on Feb. 23, 1987, astronomers have waited a decade for the ballooning fireball... (More)

1996

12/10/1996 STScI-1996-04 113. 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-1996-23 114. 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)
5/30/1996 STScI-1996-22 115. Hubble Astronomers Unveil "Crab Nebula - The Movie" Probing the mysterious heart of the Crab Nebula, the tattered remains of an exploding star, astronomers have found this object to be even more dynamic than previously... (More)
5/9/1996 STScI-1996-21 116. Hubble Space Telescope on Track for Measuring the Expansion Rate of the Universe Using the Hubble telescope, two international teams of astronomers are reporting major progress in converging on an accurate measurement... (More)
1/17/1996 STScI-1996-02 117. 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)
1/10/1995 STScI-1996-06 118. 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

11/29/1995 STScI-1995-48 119. Astronomers Announce First Clear Evidence of a Brown Dwarf Astronomers have made the first unambiguous detection of an elusive type of object known as a brown dwarf. (More)
11/29/1995 STScI-1995-49 120. HST's Greatest Hits 1990-1995 Hubble Space Telescope evokes a new sense of awe and wonder about the infinite richness of our universe in dramatic, unprecedented pictures of celestial objects. Like a traveler sharing... (More)
11/20/1995 STScI-1995-45 121. 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-1995-38 122. 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)
9/14/1995 STScI-1995-33 123. Hubble Spies a Really Cool Star This Hubble telescope picture reveals one of the least massive and coolest stars ever seen [upper right]. This star is a diminutive companion... (More)
6/13/1995 STScI-1995-27 124. 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)
6/6/1995 STScI-1995-24 125. Hubble Observes the Fire and Fury of a Stellar Birth The Hubble telescope has provided a detailed look at the fitful, eruptive, and dynamic processes accompanying the final stages of a star's "construction."... (More)
5/22/1995 STScI-1995-23 126. 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)
4/10/1995 STScI-1995-13 127. Oxygen-Rich Supernova Remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud This is a Hubble telescope image of the tattered debris of a star that exploded 3,000 years ago as a supernova. This supernova remnant, called N132D, lies 169,000... (More)
2/20/1995 STScI-1995-11 128. Hubble's Close-Up View of a Shock Wave from a Stellar Explosion This Hubble telescope image shows a small portion of a nebula called the "Cygnus Loop." This nebula is an expanding blast wave from a stellar... (More)
1/10/1995 STScI-1995-03 129. Red Dwarf Dynamo Raises Puzzle over Interiors of Lowest Mass Stars The Hubble telescope has uncovered surprising evidence that powerful magnetic fields may exist around the lowest mass stars in the universe... (More)

1994

12/21/1994 STScI-1994-54 130. Hubble Finds One of the Smallest Stars in the Universe The Hubble telescope's crisp vision has captured a first-time view of one of the smallest stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. Called Gliese 623b or Gl623b... (More)
10/26/1994 STScI-1994-49 131. Hubble Space Telescope Measures Precise Distance to the Most Remote Galaxy Yet Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have announced the most accurate distance measurement yet to the remote galaxy M100, located... (More)
6/13/1994 STScI-1994-24 132. 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)
5/19/1994 STScI-1994-22 133. Hubble Finds Mysterious Ring Structure around Supernova 1987a The Hubble telescope has obtained the best images yet of a mysterious mirror-imaged pair of rings of glowing gas encircling the site of the stellar explosion... (More)
5/19/1994 STScI-1994-20 134. Hubble Observes the Supernova in the Whirlpool Galaxy The Hubble telescope has returned valuable new images of supernova 1994I in the inner regions of the "Whirlpool Galaxy," M51, located 20 million light-years... (More)
1/14/1994 STScI-1994-11 135. 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)
1/14/1994 STScI-1994-09 136. 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)
1/14/1994 STScI-1994-12 137. Hubble Provides Clearest View Yet of Supernova 1987a This series of images of Supernova 1 987A was taken with ESA's Faint Object Camera aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, prior to and following the HST Servicing... (More)
1/13/1994 STScI-1994-02 138. The Spiral Galaxy M100 as Seen With the Hubble's Improved Vision An image of the grand design spiral galaxy M100 obtained with the second generation Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC-2), newly installed... (More)
1/13/1994 STScI-1994-06 139. Hubble Sees Changes in Gas Shell around Nova Cygni 1992 The Hubble telescope has given astronomers their best look yet at a rapidly ballooning bubble of gas blasted off a star. ... (More)
1/13/1994 STScI-1994-05 140. 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

9/30/1993 STScI-1993-21 141. Hubble Sees Gas Shell Around Nova Cygni 1992 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has given astronomers their earliest look at a rapidly ballooning bubble of gas blasted off a star. The shell surrounds... (More)
8/27/1993 STScI-1993-20 142. 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-1993-10 143. 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)
6/10/1993 STScI-1993-17 144. HST Reveals Stunning Detail in Herbig-Haro Object NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has provided astronomers with their clearest look yet at a vast cloud of gas being heated by the birth of a new star. Called Herbig-Haro... (More)
6/9/1993 STScI-1993-13 145. 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)
6/9/1993 STScI-1993-31 146. Hubble Takes Major Step in Determining the Age of the Universe A team of astronomers working with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope announced results today of a major step in the Key Project to measure... (More)
4/14/1993 STScI-1993-09 147. HST Reveals Growth Processes of Young Star NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has provided astronomers with their clearest look yet at a vast cloud of gas being heated by the birth of a new star. Called Herbig-Haro... (More)
1/6/1993 STScI-1993-01 148. Hubble Reveals New Details in a Supernova's Blast Wave This is an image of a small portion of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant, taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope... (More)

1992

12/16/1992 STScI-1992-29 149. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Discovers Protoplanetary Disks Around Newly Formed Stars NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the strongest evidence yet that many stars form planetary systems. Dr. C. Robert O'Dell of Rice University... (More)
6/29/1992 STScI-1992-20 150. Hubble Space Telescope Begins To Provide Accurate Distances to Galaxies Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST), an international team of astronomers has taken a major first step in redetermining the expansion... (More)
6/24/1992 STScI-1992-18 151. Merger of Two White Dwarf Stars This artist's illustration shows three steps in the merger of a pair of white dwarf stars. The illustration depicts how planets may form around massive... (More)
1/13/1992 STScI-1992-05 152. 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

7/24/1991 STScI-1991-12 153. 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)
5/17/1991 STScI-1991-08 154. 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)
5/17/1991 STScI-1991-10 155. 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)
1/16/1991 STScI-1991-03 156. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Establishes Accurate New Distance Measurement To Neighboring Galaxy Recent observations of the remnants of Supernova 1987A, conducted with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have provided an unexpected... (More)

1990

1/16/1991 STScI-1990-23 157. 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-1990-12 158. 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)
10/4/1990 STScI-1990-15 159. R Aquarii - A Nearby Exploding Star NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has peered into the inner core of the nearby so-called "symbiotic star", R Aquarii, to reveal dramatic new details of the exploding star. (More)
9/13/1990 STScI-1990-17 160. First ESA Faint Object Camera Science Images - Supernova 1987A The European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera on board NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided a fascinating close-up view of Supernova... (More)
8/29/1990 STScI-1990-07 161. Hubble Space Telescope Resolves Gaseous Ring Around Supernova The Hubble Space Telescope has resolved, to an unprecedented detail of 0.1 arcsecond, a mysterious elliptical ring of material around the remnants of Supernova 1987A. (More)
5/22/1990 STScI-1990-05 162. The Resolving Power of the Hubble Space Telescope The image on the right is a portion of the first image returned by the Wide Field/Planetary Camera on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). (More)