Galaxies and Globular Clusters

Galaxies and Globular Clusters


These pictures were taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and are provided courtesy of the Space Telescope Science Institute. All images were imaged with the Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2.


Galaxies

thumbnail Image of the rich galaxy cluster, Abell 2218 (Image STScI-PF95-14) ( 40k)
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thumbnail Natural color image of the Antennae galaxies (NGC 4038/4039) compared with ground-based photo (Image STScI-PRC97-34a) ( 36k)
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thumbnail Higher-resolution color image of the Antennae galaxies (NGC 4038/4039) (Image STScI-PRC97-34a1) ( 345k)

thumbnail Four close-up views of the Antennae galaxies (NGC 4038/4039) (Image STScI-PRC97-34b) ( 36k)
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thumbnail True color image of faint blue galaxies (Image STScI-PRC95-08B) ( 101k)
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thumbnail Medium deep survey image of irregular and peculiar galaxies (Image STScI-PRC94-39B) ( 88k)
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thumbnail Deep survey image of spiral and elliptical galaxies (Image STScI-PRC96-01a) ( 582k)
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thumbnail Selected portions from the deep survey (Image STScI-PRC96-01b) ( 763k)
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Globular Clusters

thumbnail Image of the globular cluster M15 (Image STScI-PRC95-06) ( 320k)
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Randall Gordon, Eric Mackie, J.D. Scott, Marrisa Dietz