News Release Archive: Star > Variable Star

2003 (continued)

• 3/26/2003 STScI-2003-10 11. Hubble Watches Light from Mysterious Erupting Star Reverberate Through Space In January 2002, a dull star in an obscure constellation suddenly became 600,000 times more luminous than our Sun, temporarily making it the brightest... (More)

1999

• 5/25/1999 STScI-1999-19 12. 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)

1996

• 5/9/1996 STScI-1996-21 13. 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)

1994

• 10/26/1994 STScI-1994-49 14. 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)
• 1/13/1994 STScI-1994-02 15. 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)

1993

• 6/9/1993 STScI-1993-31 16. 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)

1992

• 6/29/1992 STScI-1992-20 17. 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)