3/27/1998STScI-1998-13461.Comet Hyakutake
The Hubble telescope has probed the inner regions of Comet Hyakutake. This picture captures sunlight scattered by dust particles in the comet's inner coma. ... (More)
3/22/1998STScI-1998-12462.Hubble Captures the Heart of Star Birth
The Hubble telescope has captured a flurry of star birth near the heart of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1808. (More)
3/19/1998STScI-1998-11463.Hubble Captures the Shrouds of Dying Stars
The Hubble telescope continues to capture stunning, colorful snapshots of stellar burnout. These images reveal the beauty and complexity of planetary nebulae, the glowing... (More)
3/9/1998STScI-1998-10464.Astronomers Track Down Asteroids in Hubble Archive
Astronomers have stumbled on an unusual asteroid hunting ground: the thousands of Hubble telescope images stored in the orbiting observatory's archive. ... (More)
2/10/1998STScI-1998-08465.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)
1/27/1998STScI-1998-09466.Space Telescope Science Institute Gets New Director
An agreement has been reached in principle to appoint Dr. Steven V. W. Beckwith director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), in Baltimore. The agreement... (More)
1/9/1998STScI-1998-07467.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)
1/8/1998STScI-1998-02469.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)
