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1998 (continued)

4/1/1998 STScI-1998-15 31. Hubble Reveals Details of a Newly Born Planetary Nebula Astronomers have caught a peek at a rare moment in the final stages of a star's life: a ballooning shroud of gas cast off by a dying star flicking on its stellar... (More)
3/19/1998 STScI-1998-11 32. 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)

12/17/1997 STScI-1997-38 33. Hubble Witnesses the Final Blaze of Glory of Sun-Like Stars The end of a Sun-like star's life was once thought to be simple: the star gracefully casts off a shell of glowing gas and then settles into a long retirement... (More)
5/12/1997 STScI-1997-11 34. Hubble Peers into Heart of Dying Star The Egg Nebula, also known as CRL 2688, is shown on the left as it appears in visible light and on the right as it looks in infrared light. Both Hubble views recount... (More)
3/14/1997 STScI-1997-07 35. Hubble Camera Resumes Science Operation with Picture of "Butterfly" in Space The Hubble telescope is back at work, capturing this view of the butterfly-wing-shaped nebula, NGC 2346. ... (More)

4/15/1996 STScI-1996-13 36. Hubble Finds Thousands of Gaseous Fragments Surrounding a Dying Star Resembling a bizarre setting from a science fiction movie, dramatic images sent back by the Hubble telescope have surprised astronomers by uncovering... (More)
1/16/1996 STScI-1996-05 37. Hubble Telescope Photo Reveals Stellar Death Process This Hubble telescope picture of planetary nebula NGC 7027 reveals remarkable new details of the process by which a star like the Sun dies. The nebula is a glowing... (More)
1/16/1996 STScI-1996-03 38. Hubble Finds Searchlight Beams and Multiple Arcs around a Dying Star This Hubble telescope picture of the Egg Nebula, also known as CRL2688, shows a pair of mysterious "searchlight" beams emerging... (More)
1/16/1996 STScI-1996-07 39. Hubble Finds an Hourglass Nebula around a Dying Star This Hubble telescope snapshot of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula, reveals that the object has an hourglass shape with an intricate pattern of "etchings"... (More)

11/29/1995 STScI-1995-49 40. 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)