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SUPER STAR CLUSTERS IN THE ANTENNAE GALAXIES (STScI-PRC06-46-Heritage)



 
 
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Default SUPER STAR CLUSTERS IN THE ANTENNAE GALAXIES (STScI-PRC06-46-Heritage)

FOR RELEASE: October 17, 2006


PHOTO NO.: STScI-PRC06-46

SUPER STAR CLUSTERS IN THE ANTENNAE GALAXIES

This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Antennae galaxies is
the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of
the collision, billions of stars will be formed. The brightest and most
compact of these star birth regions are called super star clusters. The
new image allows astronomers to better distinguish between the stars and
super star clusters created in the collision of two spiral galaxies.


Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble
Collaboration
Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, and B. Whitmore (Space Telescope Science
Institute)


To see and read more about the Antennae Galaxies on the Web, visit:

http://hubblesite.org/news/2006/46
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0615.html


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:
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Brad Whitmore
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.
(Phone: 410-338-4474; E-mail:
)


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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.


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