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Date: 17 Aug 2006 15:21:52
From: INBOX ASTRONOMY: NEWS ALERT
Subject: HUBBLE SEES FAINTEST STARS IN A GLOBULAR CLUSTER (STScI-PR06-37)
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EMBARGOED UNTIL: 2:00 pm (EDT) August 17, 2006
Dwayne Brown/Erica Hupp
Headquarters, Washington
Phone: 202-358-1726/1237
Donna Weaver
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.
(Phone: 410-338-4493; E-mail: dweaver@stsci.edu)
Lars Lindberg Christensen
ESA/Hubble, Garching, Germany
(Phone: 011-49-89-3200-6306; E-mail: lars@eso.org)
Harvey Richer
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
(Phone: 604-822-4134 [office], 011-420-7761-796-56 [cell phone],
011-420-261-177-075 [IAU Press Office]; E-mail: richer@astro.ubc.ca)
PRESS RELEASE NO.: STScI-PR06-37
HUBBLE SEES FAINTEST STARS IN A GLOBULAR CLUSTER
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered what astronomers are reporting
as the dimmest stars ever seen in any globular star cluster. Globular
clusters are spherical concentrations of hundreds of thousands of
stars. These clusters formed early in the 13.7-billion-year-old universe. The
cluster NGC 6397 is one of the closest globular star clusters to Earth.
Seeing the whole range of stars in this area will yield insights into the
age, origin and evolution of the cluster.
To see and read more about NGC 6397 on the Web, visit:
Images and additional information about NGC 6397 are available on the Web at:
http://hubblesite.org/news/2006/37
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0608.html
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Date: 17 Aug 2006 23:31:45
From: George
Subject: Re: HUBBLE SEES FAINTEST STARS IN A GLOBULAR CLUSTER (STScI-PR06-37)
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"INBOX ASTRONOMY: NEWS ALERT" <hst-news@stsci.edu > wrote in message
news:ec2fkh$99q$1@tomm.stsci.edu...
> EMBARGOED UNTIL: 2:00 pm (EDT) August 17, 2006
>
> Dwayne Brown/Erica Hupp
> Headquarters, Washington
> Phone: 202-358-1726/1237
>
> Donna Weaver
> Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.
> (Phone: 410-338-4493; E-mail: dweaver@stsci.edu)
>
> Lars Lindberg Christensen
> ESA/Hubble, Garching, Germany
> (Phone: 011-49-89-3200-6306; E-mail: lars@eso.org)
>
> Harvey Richer
> University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
> (Phone: 604-822-4134 [office], 011-420-7761-796-56 [cell phone],
> 011-420-261-177-075 [IAU Press Office]; E-mail: richer@astro.ubc.ca)
>
>
> PRESS RELEASE NO.: STScI-PR06-37
>
> HUBBLE SEES FAINTEST STARS IN A GLOBULAR CLUSTER
That's a really cool image. I haven't counted them, but there are a whole
lot of galaxies in that image behind the GC.
George
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Date: 19 Aug 2006 07:27:15
From: mx
Subject: Re: HUBBLE SEES FAINTEST STARS IN A GLOBULAR CLUSTER (STScI-PR06-37)
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> That's a really cool image. I haven't counted them, but there are a whole
> lot of galaxies in that image behind the GC.
But compare with the Hubble Deep Field and Ultra Deep Field. For me,
those are the most profoundly interesting Hubble images, since they
convey the stunning size of the universe in a semi-comprehesible
fashion. Too many damned stars in the way in the glob!
After seeing the Deep Field images, I always thought the 2001: A Space
Oddesey line should have been "My God! It's full of galaxies!" Come
to think of it, that might make a good signature file tagline.
mx
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Date: 19 Aug 2006 17:56:32
From: George
Subject: Re: HUBBLE SEES FAINTEST STARS IN A GLOBULAR CLUSTER (STScI-PR06-37)
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"mx" <wagen13@yahoo.com > wrote in message
news:1155997635.400718.163990@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
> >
>> That's a really cool image. I haven't counted them, but there are a
>> whole
>> lot of galaxies in that image behind the GC.
>
> But compare with the Hubble Deep Field and Ultra Deep Field.
Why? There isn't any comparison, really, and I wasn't suggesting that
there was. The thing is, how many images of globular clusters are around
that show galaxies directly behind them?
> For me,
> those are the most profoundly interesting Hubble images, since they
> convey the stunning size of the universe in a semi-comprehesible
> fashion. Too many damned stars in the way in the glob!
>
> After seeing the Deep Field images, I always thought the 2001: A Space
> Oddesey line should have been "My God! It's full of galaxies!" Come
> to think of it, that might make a good signature file tagline.
> mx
lol.
George
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