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
• Globular Clusters

Galaxies

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

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

Image of the globular cluster M15 (Image STScI-PRC95-06) ( 320k)
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