#624 Solar Wind And Milky Way Credit: March 04, 1997“The Sun is bright, so bright that it overwhelms the light from other stars even for most satellite-borne telescopes. But LASCO, a coronograph onboard

#616 The Trail of the Intruder Credit: February 24, 1997“In yesterday's episode our hero, the Cartwheel galaxy, had survived a chance cosmic collision with a small intruder galaxy - triggering an expanding

#609 A Wind From The Sun Credit: February 17, 1997“A wind from the Sun blows through our Solar System. The behaviour of comet tails as they flapped and waved in this interplanetary breeze gave astronomers

#601 The Deep Field Credit: February 09, 1997“Galaxies like colorful pieces of candy fill the Hubble Deep Field - humanity's most distant yet optical view of the Universe. The dimmest, some as faint as

#592 Hamlet of Oberon Credit: January 31, 1997“What's in a name? Since 1919, the International Astronomical Union has been charged with the task of establishing "conventional" nomenclature for

#585 Supernova 1987a Fireball Resolved Credit: January 24, 1997“Ten years ago the most notable supernova of modern times was observed. In February 1987, light reached Earth from a star which exploded in

#576 Black Holes Signature From Advective Disks Research Credit: January 15, 1997“What does a black hole look like? If alone, a black hole would indeed appear quite black, but many black hole candidates

#568 Red Sun Streaming January 07, 1997“The Sun is leaking. In fact, it is gushing: particles stream away from the Sun at hundreds of kilometers per second. Some of these particles strike the Earth and

#559 Dark Bok Globules in IC 2944 December 29, 1996“The dark spots in the above picture are not photographic defects but an unusual type of interstellar cloud known as a Bok globule. Bok globules, named

#550 The UV SMC from UIT Credit: December 20, 1996“Translated from the "acronese" the title reads - The UltraViolet Small Magellanic Cloud from the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope. FYI, the four

#540 Comet Halley's Nucleus Credit: December 10, 1996“Here is what a comet nucleus really looks like. For all active comets except Halley, it was only possible to see the surrounding opaque gas cloud called

#530 Aurora Astern Credit: November 30, 1996“Sailing upside down, 115 nautical miles above Earth, the crew of the Space Shuttle Endeavour made this spectacular time exposure of the southern aurora (aurora

#522 Fliers Around the Blue Snowball Nebula Credit: November 22, 1996“Planetary nebulae are strange. First, they are gas clouds and have nothing to do with our Solar System's planets. Next, although hundreds

#514 Supernova Remnant and Neutron Star November 14, 1996“A massive star ends life as a supernova, blasting its outer layers back to interstellar space. The spectacular death explosion is initiated by

#504 The Martian Spring Credit: November 04, 1996“As spring comes to the northern latitudes of Mars, increased solar heating brings warmth and a change in the weather. The winds produced by the large

#494 A Flyby View of Ganymede October 25, 1996“This is what it would look like to fly over the surface of Jupiter's moon Ganymede. NASA's robot spacecraft Galileo recently approached only 6000 miles from

#487 Jupiter's Auroras Credit: October 18, 1996“Auroras are especially large on Jupiter. In pictures released yesterday, the Hubble Space Telescope imaged these unusual light displays in more detail than

#478 M31: The Andromeda Galaxy October 09, 1996“Andromeda is the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy. Our Galaxy is thought to look much like Andromeda. Together these two galaxies dominate

#469 News Flash: September 30, 1996“How do planets, stars, and galaxies form? How do they evolve? The International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) satellite was launched in 1978 and operated by NASA/ ESA/

#461 Information: September 22, 1996“Today the Sun crosses the celestial equator heading south -- marking the Autumnal Equinox, the first day of Autumn. Equinox means equal night and with the Sun on the