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11/4/1999 STScI-1999-41 21. A Grazing Encounter between Two Spiral Galaxies The Hubble telescope has caught a cosmic dance between two spiral galaxies. The larger galaxy, NGC 2207, is on the left; the smaller one, IC 2163, is on the right. (More)
7/15/1999 STScI-1999-28 22. Cosmic Collisions - European HST Scientists Catch Merging Galaxies in the Act Exciting Hubble telescope images of more than a dozen very distant colliding galaxies indicate that, at least in some cases, big massive... (More)

10/21/1997 STScI-1997-34 23. Hubble Reveals Stellar Fireworks Accompanying Galaxy Collisions The Hubble telescope has uncovered over 1,000 bright; young star clusters bursting to life in a brief, intense, brilliant "fireworks show" at the heart of a pair of colliding... (More)
6/9/1997 STScI-1997-17 24. A Collision In The Heart Of A Galaxy The Hubble telescope's infrared camera has uncovered a collision between two spiral galaxies in the heart of the peculiar galaxy called Arp 220. The collision... (More)

11/26/1996 STScI-1996-36 25. Hubble Spies Supersonic "Comet-Clouds" in Heart of Galaxy Analysis of dramatic Hubble telescope images reveals immense comet-shaped knots of gas in the heart of the Cartwheel Galaxy. The galaxy's unusual wagon-wheel... (More)

11/29/1995 STScI-1995-49 26. HST's Greatest Hits 1990-1995 Hubble Space Telescope evokes a new sense of awe and wonder about the infinite richness of our universe in dramatic, unprecedented pictures of celestial objects. Like a traveler sharing... (More)
1/11/1995 STScI-1995-04 27. Surprising Hubble Images Challenge Quasar Theory Astronomers report today that new observations from the Hubble telescope challenge 30 years of scientific theory about quasars, the most energetic objects in the universe. (More)
1/10/1995 STScI-1995-02 28. Hubble Views a Starry Ring World Born in a Head-On Collision A rare and spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies appears in this Hubble telescope picture of the Cartwheel Galaxy, located 500 million... (More)

12/6/1994 STScI-1994-52 29. Hubble Identifies Primeval Galaxies, Uncovers New Clues to the Universe's Evolution Astronomers using the Hubble telescope as a "time machine" have obtained the clearest views yet of distant galaxies that existed when the universe... (More)

11/8/1993 STScI-1993-23 30. Hubble Space Telscope Deep-sky Survey Finds Interacting Galaxies in a Cluster In one of the deepest celestial surveys yet made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a small group of previously unknown... (More)