1/8/1998STScI-1998-02101.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)
10/29/1997STScI-1997-35104.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)
9/24/1997STScI-1997-32106.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)
9/18/1997STScI-1997-29107.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)
8/6/1997STScI-1997-26108.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)
5/12/1997STScI-1997-14110.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)
1/14/1997STScI-1997-02111.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)
1/14/1997STScI-1997-03112.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)
6/10/1996STScI-1996-23114.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)
5/30/1996STScI-1996-22115.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)
1/17/1996STScI-1996-02117.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)
1/10/1995STScI-1996-06118.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)
11/29/1995STScI-1995-49120.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)
10/10/1995STScI-1995-38122.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)
9/14/1995STScI-1995-33123.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)
6/13/1995STScI-1995-27124.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)
6/6/1995STScI-1995-24125.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)
4/10/1995STScI-1995-13127.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)
12/21/1994STScI-1994-54130.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)
5/19/1994STScI-1994-20134.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)
1/14/1994STScI-1994-09136.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)
1/14/1994STScI-1994-12137.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)
9/30/1993STScI-1993-21141.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)
8/27/1993STScI-1993-20142.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)
6/10/1993STScI-1993-17144.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)
4/14/1993STScI-1993-09147.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)
1/6/1993STScI-1993-01148.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)