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Hubble Images: Magellanic Gemstones in the Southern Sky
FOR RELEASE: 9:00 AM (EDT) April 18, 2006
PHOTO NO.: STScI-PRC06-17 MAGELLANIC GEMSTONES IN THE SOUTHERN SKY NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed images to date of the open star clusters NGC 265 and NGC 290 in the Small Magellanic Cloud -- two sparkling sets of gemstones in the southern sky. These images, taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys, show a myriad of stars in crystal clear detail. The brilliant open star clusters are located about 200,000 light-years away and are roughly 65 light-years across. The images were taken in October and November 2004. Image credit: European Space Agency & NASA Acknowledgment: E. Olszewski (University of Arizona) To see and read more about NGC 265 and NGC 290 on the Web, please visit: http://hubblesite.org/news/2006/17 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0603.html For additional information, please contact: S?ren Larsen Utrecht University, The Netherlands (phone) 011-31-30-25-35-204 (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 Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md. (phone) 410-338-4514 (e-mail) The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation 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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