SPITZER AND HUBBLE FIND 'BIG BABY' GALAXIES IN NEWBORN UNIVERSE (STScI-PR05-28)

Erica Hupp/George Deutsch
Headquarters, Washington Sept. 27, 2005
(Phone: 202/358-1237/1753)

Gay Hill
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
(Phone: 818/354-0344)

Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore
(Phone: 410/338-4514)

Lars Lindberg Christensen
Hubble European Space Agency Information Center, Garching, Germany
(Phone: 011/4989-3200-6306)

Robert Tindol
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.,
(Phone: 626/395-3631)

Douglas Isbell
National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, Ariz.,
(Phone: 520/318-8214)


PRESS RELEASE NO.: STScI-PR05-28

SPITZER AND HUBBLE FIND "BIG BABY" GALAXIES IN NEWBORN UNIVERSE

Two of NASA's Great Observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble Space
Telescopes, have teamed up to "weigh" the stars in several distant
galaxies. One of these galaxies, among the most distant ever seen,
appears to be unusually massive and mature for its place in the
young universe.

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on the Web, visit:
http://hubblesite.org/news/2005/28
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0513.html
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media...es/ssc2005-19/
http://pr.caltech.edu/media/releases/
http://www.nasa.gov

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JPL manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science
Mission Directorate in Washington. Science operations are conducted at
the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology
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