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HUBBLE RESOLVES A BLAZE OF STARS IN A GALAXY'S CORE
The central region of the small galaxy NGC 1705 blazes with the
light of thousands of young and old stars in this image, taken by
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. At 17 million light-years away, the
individual stars of the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 1705 are out of
range of all but the sharp eyes of Hubble. NGC 1705 is classified
as a dwarf irregular because it is small and lacks any regular structure.
This image was taken in March 1999 and November 2000 by an
international science team led by Monica Tosi at Italy's National
Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) at the Osservatorio Astronomico
di Bologna.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Acknowledgment: M. Tosi (INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna)
To see and read more about galaxy NGC 1705, please click on
http://hubblesite.org/news/2003/07
http://heritage.stsci.edu/2003/07 and
http://sci.esa.int/hubble
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is operated by the
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA),
for NASA, under contract with the Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, MD. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of
international cooperation between NASA and the European Space
Agency (ESA).
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