Hubble Celebrates Its 19th Anniversary with a "Fountain of Youth"
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 08:29
in Astronomy & Space
To commemorate the Hubble Space Telescope's 19 years of historic, trailblazing science, the orbiting telescope has photographed a peculiar system of galaxies known as Arp 194. This interacting group contains several galaxies, along with a "cosmic fountain" of stars, gas, and dust that stretches over 100,000 light-years.
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