FOR RELEASE: 9:00 am (EST) December 19, 2006

PHOTO NO.: STScI-PRC06-55

CELESTIAL SEASON'S GREETINGS FROM HUBBLE

Swirls of gas and dust reside in this ethereal-looking region of star
formation imaged by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This majestic view of
LH 95, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, reveals a region where
low-mass, infant stars and their much more massive stellar neighbors
reside. A shroud of blue haze gently lingers amid the stars. The image
was taken in March 2006 with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble
Collaboration
Acknowledgment: D. Gouliermis (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy,
Heidelberg)

To see and read more about LH 95 on the Web, visit:
http://hubblesite.org/news/2006/55
http://heritage.stsci.edu/2006/55

For more information, please contact:
Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.
(Phone: 410-338-4514; E-mail: )

Lars Lindberg Christensen
Hubble/ESA, Garching, Germany
(Phone: 011-49-89-3200-6306; Cell: 011-49-173-3872-621; E-mail:
)

Keith Noll
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.
(Phone: 410-338-1828; E-mail: )

The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation
between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). The Space Telescope
Science Institute in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations. The
Institute is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for
Research in Astronomy, Inc., Washington.