esahubble_heic9902n October 6th, 1999
Credit: NASA, ESA, and Reynier Peletier (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)
The bottom row represents composite pictures from Hubble's visible- and infrared-light cameras, the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2(WFPC2) and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer(NICMOS). Astronomers combined views from both cameras to obtain the true ages of the stars surrounding each galaxy's bulge. The Hubble telescope's sharper resolution allows astronomers to study the intricate structure of a galaxy's core.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic9902n/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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