January 1998 Press and Photo releases

Photo release STScI-PRC98-04; NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a complete view of Jupiter's norther and southern auroras. Images taken in ultraviolet light by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) show both auroras, the oval shaped objects in the inset photos. Photo release STScI-PRC98-05; This is the first image of Saturn's ultraviolet aurora taken by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on board the Hubble Space Telescope in October 1997, when Saturn was a distance of 810 million miles (1.3 billion kilometers) from Earth. Photo release STScI-PRC98-02; These Hubble Space Telescope images pinpoint three distant supernovae, which exploded and died billions of years ago…Imaged of SN 1997cj are in the left hand column; SN 1997ce, in the middle; and SN 1997ck, on the right. Press release STScI-PR98-03 discusses the potential cause for a warp discovered around the star Beta Pictoris. Photo release STScI-PRC98-03; These two Hubble Space Telescope visible-light views of the edge-on disk of dusk around the star Beta Pictoris yield telltale evidence for the existence of planets and possibly the gravitational tug of a companion brown dwarf or bypassing star. Press release STScI-PR98-01 details the detection of a background infrared glow across the sky, produced by all the stars that have existed since the beginning of time. Photo release STScI-PRC98-01; These three pictures are maps of the full sky as seen in infrared light. The top two are composite images taken in wavelengths of 60, 100, and 240 micrometers. The 60-micrometer brightness is shown in blue, the 100-micrometer brightness in green, and the 240-micrometer brightness in red. Press release STScI-PR98-07 discusses the simultaneous use of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer in order to make ultraviolet and X-ray observations of the hot star gamma Cassiopeiae.