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Observation of the Week Archive

1999 || 1998 || 1997 || 1996 || 1995

  		 
Earth Sciences -- 1997
 
November 26 Extraterrestrial Object Hit Nevada 370 Million Years Ago
November 5 Landsat -- 25 Years of Imaging the Earth
September 24 Mt. Rainier Viewed from Space
August 20 Can You Name These Places?
July 9 Can You Name These Cities?
July 2 Mt. Vesuvius Seen with Space Radar
June 18 March 1997 Tornadoes and Flooding in the US Midwest
June 11 The Atlantic Hurricane Season
May 28 The Greening of Earth's Northern Latitudes
April 30 The International Year of the Coral Reef
April 9 Flooding in Northern California
March 12 A Solar Smack!
February 19 Hawaiian Vacation
January 22 What Has Happened to the Ozone Hole?

Sun and Solar System -- 1997
 
December 17 Why Is the Sun's Corona So Hot?
October 22 Uncovering the Secrets of Asteroid Mathilde
October 8 Cassini -- Mission to Saturn
September 3 Mars Global Surveyor Arrived at the Red Planet
August 27 Asteroid 3753 -- Earth's Newly Discovered Companion
July 30 Callisto Retains Its Virgin Structure
June 4 Mars Pathfinder -- Thirty Days to Touchdown
May 14 Comet Hale-Bopp from the Space Shuttle
April 23 Europa -- Jupiter's Remarkable Moon
April 16 HST Monitors Martian Weather
April 2 Comet Collisions
March 5

Solar Eclipse over Russia on March 9, 1997

February 26 Comet Hale-Bopp -- A Visitor from Deep Space
January 1 1997 -- The Year of Mars

Stars, Galaxies, Universe -- 1997
 
December 31 An Unusual Pulsar -- The Product of a Supernova 2,000 Years Ago
December 3 Rotating Black Hole Drags Space-Time
November 19 Solving the Mystery of the Gamma Ray Bursts
November 12 Fireworks in the Sky
October 29 Supermassive Star in the Pistol Nebula
September 17 The Most Distant Galaxy
August 13 Colliding Supernova Shells
July 23 Interstellar Clouds -- Ultimate Source of Terrestrial Water
July 16 HST Peers Deep into Star-Forming Region
May 21 Fountain of Antimatter from Center of Milky Way
May 7 Galaxy Encounter Spawns New Galaxies
March 19 Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxies
January 28 Quasars -- The Enigma Deepens
January 15 Gamma Ray Bursts -- Astronomy's Great Mystery

Education -- 1997
 
March 26 Dinosaur Extinction -- Mainly for Kids

Human Spaceflight -- 1997
 
August 6 The International Space Station
May 14 Comet Hale-Bopp from the Space Shuttle
February 12 Honoring African-American Astronauts
February 5 The Second HST Servicing Mission

Technology -- 1997
 
October 1 Venture Star -- Launch Vehicle for the 21st Century
June 25 NASA's Next Generation Space Telescope
February 5 The Second HST Servicing Mission

History -- 1997
 
February 28 Congratulations, Pioneer 10!

Observatorium Greetings -- 1997
 
December 24 Season's Greetings

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