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Subject: Hubble telescope 14th anniversary today


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Betty
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Date Posted: 08:01:31 04/24/04 Sat
In reply to: Betty 's message, "Hubbble telescope to die & be destoyed" on 12:26:05 02/15/04 Sun

Fourteen years ago this Saturday, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit, giving us an unprecedented view of the universe. In the years since, Hubble has relayed to Earth not only valuable data, but a series of intriguing pictures of unfathomably distant starscapes.

To commemorate Hubble's anniversary, NASA has released another photo, this one depicting the brilliant aftermath of a collision between galaxies. The resulting "ring galaxy" appears as a swirling ring of blue stars surrounding a yellow glow -- the remains of what had once been a spiral galaxy.

The ring galaxy was formed by a collision between two galaxies. The collision caused stars and gas in the galaxy shown to be pushed outward in an expanding ring. The compressed gases then collapsed under their own gravity and produced new stars, which are responsible for the blue color of the galaxy's ring.

The galaxy -- known scientifically as AM 0644-741 -- is located 300 million light-years from Earth, and its image was captured using Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys.

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