August 1998 Press and Photo releases

Press release STScI-PR98-26 discusses the discovery of an extremely massive cluster of galaxies that existed when the universe was half its present age. Photo release STScI-PRC98-26; These images, taken by three different telescopes, show the distant, hefty galaxy cluster MS1054-0321, containing thousands of galaxies and trillions of stars. Press release STScI-PR98-27 discusses Hubble's survey of what could be some of the most distant galaxy clusters ever seen. Photo release STScI-PRC98-27; A selection of NASA Hubble Space Telescope snapshots of huge galaxy clusters that lie far away and far back in time. These are selected from a catalog of 92 new clusters uncovered during a six-year Hubble observing program known as the Medium Deep Survey.