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Happy Sweet Sixteen, Hubble Telescope!
FOR RELEASE: 9:00 am (EDT) April 24, 2006
PHOTO NO.: STScI-PRC06-14 HAPPY SWEET SIXTEEN, HUBBLE TELESCOPE! To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 16 years of success, the two space agencies involved in the project, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), are releasing this image of the magnificent starburst galaxy, Messier 82 (M82). This mosaic image is the sharpest wide-angle view ever obtained of M82. The galaxy is remarkable for its bright blue disk, webs of shredded clouds, and fiery-looking plumes of glowing hydrogen blasting out of its central regions. This Advanced Camera for Surveys observation was made in March 2006. Hubble was launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the space shuttle Discovery. Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Acknowledgment: J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin), M. Mountain (STScI), and P. Puxley (National Science Foundation) To see and read more about M82 on the Web, visit: http://hubblesite.org/news/2006/14 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0604.html http://heritage.stsci.edu/2006/14 For more information, contact: Ray Villard, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md., (phone) 410-338-4514, (e-mail) or Lars Lindberg Christensen, Hubble/ESA, Garching, Germany, (phone) 011-49-89-3200-6306, (cell phone) 011-49-173-3872-621, (e-mail) or Keith Noll, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md., (phone) 410-338-1828, (e-mail) or Jay Gallagher, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., (phone) 608-263-2456, (e-mail) The Hubble Space Telescope is an international cooperative project between NASA and the European Space Agency. 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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