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2000 (continued)

2/16/2000 STScI-2000-11 81. Onset of Titanic Collision Lights Up Supernova Ring NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a ringside seat to a never before seen violent celestial "main attraction" unfolding in a galaxy 169,000 light-years... (More)
1/15/2000 STScI-2000-02 82. 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)
1/13/2000 STScI-2000-04 83. 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

12/2/1999 STScI-1999-44 84. Hubble Telescope Reveals Swarm of Glittering Stars in Nearby Galaxy Peering at a small area within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the Hubble telescope has provided the deepest color picture ever obtained in this satellite... (More)
10/7/1999 STScI-1999-35 85. Hubble Heritage Project's First Anniversary To mark the first anniversary of the Hubble Heritage Project, we present four Hubble telescope images of nebulae surrounding stars in our own Milky Way Galaxy. ... (More)
9/29/1999 STScI-1999-33 86. 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)
8/12/1999 STScI-1999-24 87. Bloated Stars Swallow Giant Planets The phrase "big fish eat little fish" may hold true when it comes to planets and stars. Perhaps as many as 100 million of the Sun-like stars in our galaxy harbor close-orbiting... (More)
6/10/1999 STScI-1999-23 88. 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)
6/2/1999 STScI-1999-21 89. 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 90. 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)
5/25/1999 STScI-1999-19 91. Hubble Completes Eight-Year Effort to Measure Expanding Universe The Hubble Space Telescope Key Project team today announced that it has completed efforts to measure precise distances to far-flung galaxies, an essential ingredient... (More)
3/4/1999 STScI-1999-08 92. A Mote in Hubble's Eye The Hubble telescope image is a typical Milky Way star field in the constellation Centaurus. Such snapshots can be used to study the evolution of stars that make up our galaxy. (More)
2/9/1999 STScI-1999-05 93. Vast Stellar Disks Set Stage for Planet Birth in New Hubble Images Dramatic pictures of eerie disks of dust encircling young stars are giving astronomers a new look at what may be the early formative... (More)
2/4/1999 STScI-1999-04 94. SN1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud Glittering stars and wisps of gas create a breathtaking backdrop for the self-destruction of a massive star, called supernova 1987A, in the Large Magellanic... (More)
1/8/1999 STScI-1999-03 95. 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

11/5/1998 STScI-1998-38 96. 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 97. 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)
5/28/1998 STScI-1998-19 98. Hubble Takes First Image of a Possible Planet around Another Star and Finds a Runaway World The Hubble telescope has given astronomers their first direct look at what is possibly a planet outside... (More)
2/10/1998 STScI-1998-08 99. Shock Wave Sheds New Light on Fading Supernova The Hubble telescope is giving astronomers a ringside seat to a never-before-seen titanic collision of an onrushing stellar shock wave with an eerie glowing... (More)
1/9/1998 STScI-1998-07 100. A New Class of X-ray Star? Teaming up space telescopes to make simultaneous ultraviolet and X-ray observations, astronomers may have solved a 20-year-old mystery and possibly discovered... (More)