1999

• 12/2/1999 STScI-1999-44 1. Hubble Telescope Reveals Swarm of Glittering Stars in Nearby Galaxy Peering at a small area within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the Hubble telescope has provided the deepest color picture ever obtained in this satellite... (More)
• 11/24/1999 STScI-1999-46 2. A Puzzle of Galactic Evolution is Solved — Massive Gas Clouds Seed the Galaxy with the Stuff of Stars Massive clouds of gas, discovered long ago but only recently identified... (More)
• 11/22/1999 STScI-1999-45 3. Multiple Galaxy Collisions Surprise Hubble Astronomers Wrecks between two galaxies were a common occurrence in the early cosmos. But pileups among several galaxies? Astronomers conducting a three-year survey of ultra-luminous infrared... (More)
• 11/9/1999 STScI-1999-42 4. The Trifid Nebula: Stellar Sibling Rivalry This Hubble telescope image of the Trifid Nebula reveals a stellar nursery being torn apart by radiation from a nearby, massive star. The picture also provides a peek at embryonic... (More)
• 11/4/1999 STScI-1999-41 5. A Grazing Encounter between Two Spiral Galaxies The Hubble telescope has caught a cosmic dance between two spiral galaxies. The larger galaxy, NGC 2207, is on the left; the smaller one, IC 2163, is on the right. (More)
• 10/27/1999 STScI-1999-43 6. Very Long Baseline Array Reveals Formation Region of Giant Cosmic Jet Near a Black Hole Astronomers have seen the exhaust products of black hole "engines": narrow beams of material traveling... (More)
• 10/26/1999 STScI-1999-40 7. Hubble Identifies Source of Ultraviolet Light in an Old Galaxy The Hubble telescope's sharp vision has clearly seen - for the first time - hot blue stars deep inside an elliptical galaxy. Hubble confirms... (More)
• 10/19/1999 STScI-1999-39 8. The "Rotten Egg" Nebula: A Planetary Nebula in the Making This oddly shaped object is an aging, Sun-like star near the end of its life. The Hubble telescope's infrared camera, called the Near Infrared... (More)
• 10/7/1999 STScI-1999-35 9. Hubble Heritage Project's First Anniversary To mark the first anniversary of the Hubble Heritage Project, we present four Hubble telescope images of nebulae surrounding stars in our own Milky Way Galaxy. ... (More)
• 10/6/1999 STScI-1999-34 10. Starry Bulges Yield Secrets to Galaxy Growth The Hubble telescope is uncovering important new clues to a galaxy's birth and growth by peering into its heart — a bulge of millions of stars resembling a bulbous... (More)