February 1999 Press and Photo releases

A document featuring an artist's rendition of how circumstellar disks form and evolve. Photo release STScI-PRC99-04 features the remnant of supernova 1987A, surrounded by inner and outer rings of material and diffused clouds of gas. Press release STScI-PR99-05 discusses images captured by Hubble of eerie disks of dust encircling young stars. Photo release STScI-PRC99-05a features six infrared images of young stellar disks CoKu Tau/1, DG Tau B, Haro 6-5B, I04248, and I04302. Photo release STScI-PRC99-05b features four images of disks surrounding young stars Herbig-Haro 30 (HH 30), DG Tauri B, Haro 6-5B, and HK Tauri. Press release STScI-PR99-06 discusses the discovery of a system of star clusters which was created, or perhaps orphaned, during the destruction of its planet galaxy. Photo release STScI-PRC99-06; This beautiful, eerie silhouette of dark dust clouds against the glowing nucleus of the elliptical galaxy NGC 1316 may represent the aftermath of a 100 million year old cosmic collision between the elliptical and a smaller companion galaxy.