October 1999 Press and Photo releases

Press release STScI-PR99-34 discusses the Hubble Space Telescope's capture of a bulge of millions of stars that may uncover new clues to galaxy birth and growth. Photo release STScI-PRC99-34a; This collage of images in visible and infrared light reveals how the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 is feeding material into its central region, igniting massive star birth and probably causing its bulge of stars to grow. Photo release STScI-PRC99-34b; Astronomers have combined information from the NASA Hubble Space Telescope's visible- and infrared-light cameras to show the hearts of four spiral galaxies peppered with ancient populations of stars. Photo release STScI-PRC99-35, created by the Hubble Heritage team, features an image of Herbig-Haro 32 to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Hubble Heritage Project. Photo release STScI-PRC99-36, created by the Hubble Heritage team, features an image of the Variable Nebula (NGC 2261) to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Hubble Heritage Project. Photo release STScI-PRC99-37, created by the Hubble Heritage team, features an image of planetary nebula NGC 2346 to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Hubble Heritage Project. Photo release STScI-PRC99-38, created by the Hubble Heritage team, features an image of planetary nebula NGC 2440 to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Hubble Heritage Project. Photo release STScI-PRC99-40; Hubble Space Telescope's exquisite resolution has allowed astronomers to resolve, for the first time, hot blue stars deep inside an elliptical galaxy. The swarm of nearly 8,000 blue stars resembles a blizzard of snowflakes near the core of the neighboring galaxy M32, located 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda.