1998

• 12/10/1998 STScI-1998-43 1. Extraterrestrial Civilizations: Coming of Age in the Milky Way If civilizations exist around other stars they are likely to be just emerging across our Galaxy right now: like an apple orchard suddenly maturing and ripening... (More)
• 12/3/1998 STScI-1998-42 2. Behind a Dusty Veil Lies a Cradle of Star Birth NGC 253 is a large, almost edge-on spiral galaxy, and is one of the nearest galaxies beyond our local neighborhood of galaxies. ... (More)
• 11/23/1998 STScI-1998-41 3. The Universe "Down Under" is the Latest Target for Hubble's Latest Deep-View Turning its penetrating vision toward southern skies, the Hubble telescope has peered down a 12- billion-light-year-long corridor... (More)
• 11/10/1998 STScI-1998-40 4. Leonid Meteor Storm Won't Deter Hubble from Space Observations The anticipated celestial bombardment called the Leonid meteor storm on the afternoon of November 17th, 1998 won't deter the Hubble telescope... (More)
• 11/5/1998 STScI-1998-39 5. A Glowing Pool of Light NGC 3132 is a striking example of a planetary nebula. This expanding cloud of gas surrounding a dying star is known to amateur astronomers in the Southern Hemisphere as the "Eight-Burst"... (More)
• 11/5/1998 STScI-1998-38 6. Great Balls of Fire! Hubble Sees Bright Knots Ejected From Brilliant Star Resembling an aerial fireworks explosion, this dramatic Hubble telescope picture of the energetic star WR124 reveals that it is surrounded... (More)
• 10/26/1998 STScI-1998-37 7. New Research That Uses Gravitationally Lensed Quasars to Measure Universe is Good News, Bad News for Cosmologists Astronomers who are using the Hubble telescope to observe the gravitational lensing of light from distant... (More)
• 10/22/1998 STScI-1998-36 8. Turtle in Space Describes New Hubble Image The Hubble telescope has shown us that the shrouds of gas surrounding dying, Sun-like stars (called planetary nebulae) come in a variety of strange shapes, from an "hourglass"... (More)
• 10/21/1998 STScI-1998-28 9. Astronomers Unveil Colorful Hubble Photo Gallery A vibrant celestial photo album of some of NASA Hubble Space Telescope's most stunning views of the universe is being unveiled today on the Internet. Called the Hubble Heritage... (More)
• 10/14/1998 STScI-1998-34 10. Hubble Provides a Moving Look at Neptune's Stormy Disposition Using powerful ground- and space-based telescopes, scientists have obtained a moving look at some of the wildest, weirdest weather in the solar system. ... (More)
• 10/14/1998 STScI-1998-35 11. Hubble Finds Many Bright Clouds on Uranus A Hubble telescope infrared view of Uranus reveals that the planet is surrounded by its four major rings and by 10 of its 17 known satellites. ... (More)
• 10/9/1998 STScI-1998-33 12. Second Hubble Web Simulcast Takes Listeners on a Tour of the Cosmos The popular National Public Radio program "The Marc Steiner Show" (WJHU, FM 88.1) and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore... (More)
• 10/8/1998 STScI-1998-32 13. Hubble Goes to the Limit In Search Of Farthest Galaxies Stretching the Hubble telescope's vision farther across space and further back into time than ever before, astronomers have peered into a previously... (More)
• 8/27/1998 STScI-1998-27 14. Far-Flung Galaxy Clusters May Reveal Fate of Universe A survey of galaxy clusters by the Hubble telescope has found what could be some of the most distant clusters ever seen. If ground-based telescopes confirm the distances... (More)
• 8/19/1998 STScI-1998-26 15. Distant Heavyweight Galaxy Cluster Clobbers Dense-Universe Theory A Space Telescope Science Institute astronomer has found the equivalent of the proverbial 900-pound gorilla in deep space. The "gorilla" is an extremely massive cluster... (More)
• 7/23/1998 STScI-1998-25 16. Nearby Massive Star Cluster Yields Insights into Early Universe The Hubble telescope has taken a "family portrait" of young, ultra-bright stars nested in their embryonic cloud of glowing gases. The celestial maternity... (More)
• 7/1/1998 STScI-1998-24 17. Hubble Simulcast Links Outer Space to Cyberspace Expanding its broadcast universe far beyond the Baltimore area and into cyberspace, the popular WJHU radio program "The Marc Steiner... (More)
• 6/24/1998 STScI-1998-23 18. Hubble Space Telescope Helps Find Evidence that Neptune's Largest Moon Is Warming Up Observations obtained by the Hubble telescope and ground-based instruments reveal that Neptune's largest moon, Triton... (More)
• 6/18/1998 STScI-1998-22 19. Hubble Uncovers Dust Disk around a Massive Black Hole Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700-light-year-wide dust disk encircles a 300-million- solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical... (More)
• 6/11/1998 STScI-1998-21 20. A Bright Ring of Star Birth around a Galaxy's Core This Hubble telescope snapshot reveals clusters of infant stars that formed in a ring around the core of the barred-spiral galaxy NGC 4314. This stellar... (More)
• 6/8/1998 STScI-1998-20 21. NASA Selects Home for Next Generation Space Telescope The duties of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., will be expanded to include the management of science operations for the Next Generation... (More)
• 5/28/1998 STScI-1998-19 22. Hubble Takes First Image of a Possible Planet around Another Star and Finds a Runaway World The Hubble telescope has given astronomers their first direct look at what is possibly a planet outside... (More)
• 5/14/1998 STScI-1998-14 23. Hubble Provides Multiple Views of How to Feed a Black Hole Astronomers have obtained an unprecedented look at the nearest example of galactic cannibalism — a massive... (More)
• 5/6/1998 STScI-1998-17 24. Gamma-Ray Burst Found to be Most Energetic Event in Universe A team of astronomers has announced that a recently detected gamma-ray burst was as bright as the rest of the universe, releasing a hundred... (More)
• 4/23/1998 STScI-1998-18 25. Hubble Space Telescope Completes Eighth Year Of Exploration In honor of NASA Hubble Space Telescope's eighth anniversary, we have gift-wrapped Saturn in vivid colors. Actually, this image is courtesy of Hubble's infrared camera... (More)
• 4/9/1998 STScI-1998-16 26. Hubble Finds That Even Massive Stars Just Fade Away Pinpointing the rapidly fading ember of a recently burned-out star, the Hubble telescope is giving astronomers a better estimate... (More)
• 4/1/1998 STScI-1998-15 27. 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)
• 3/27/1998 STScI-1998-13 28. 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)
• 3/22/1998 STScI-1998-12 29. 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)
• 3/19/1998 STScI-1998-11 30. 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)
• 3/9/1998 STScI-1998-10 31. 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)
• 2/10/1998 STScI-1998-08 32. 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)
• 1/27/1998 STScI-1998-09 33. 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)
• 1/9/1998 STScI-1998-01 34. Astronomers Discover an Infrared Background Glow in the Universe Astronomers have assembled the first definitive detection of a background infrared glow across the sky produced by dust warmed by all the stars that have existed... (More)
• 1/9/1998 STScI-1998-07 35. 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)
• 1/8/1998 STScI-1998-02 36. 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)
• 1/7/1998 STScI-1998-03 37. Astronomers Have Found a New Twist in a Suspected Proto-Planetary Disk A telltale new warp uncovered in a vast, thin disk of dust encircling the star Beta Pictoris may be caused by the gravitational tug of a bypassing... (More)
• 1/7/1998 STScI-1998-04 38. Hubble Provide Complete View of Jupiter's Auroras The Hubble telescope has captured a complete view of Jupiter's northern and southern auroras. Images taken in ultraviolet light show both auroras, the oval-shaped objects... (More)
• 1/7/1998 STScI-1998-05 39. Hubble Provides Clear Images of Saturn's Aurora Here is the picture of Saturn taken by the Hubble telescope in ultraviolet light. The glowing, swirling material at Saturn's poles is its auroral "curtains,"... (More)
• 1/7/1998 STScI-1998-06 40. Hubble Finds Most of Visible Light in the Universe A closer look at the Hubble telescope's most detailed image, the Hubble Deep Field, reveals that the faint galaxies seen by Hubble could account... (More)