1/8/1998STScI-1998-0221.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)
5/12/1997STScI-1997-1423.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-1997-0324.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
5/30/1996STScI-1996-2225.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)
1995
11/29/1995STScI-1995-4926.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)
4/10/1995STScI-1995-1327.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)
5/19/1994STScI-1994-2030.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)