From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Tue Sep 27 2005 - 17:38:50 UTC
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Subject: SPITZER AND HUBBLE FIND 'BIG BABY' GALAXIES IN NEWBORN UNIVERSE (STScI-PR05-28)
Erica Hupp/George Deutsch
Headquarters, Washington Sept. 27, 2005
(Phone: 202/358-1237/1753)
Gay Hill
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
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Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore
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National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, Ariz.,
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PRESS RELEASE NO.: STScI-PR05-28
NASA FINDS "BIG BABY" GALAXIES IN NEWBORN UNIVERSE
Two of NASA's Great Observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble Space
Telescopes, have teamed up to "weigh" the stars in several distant
galaxies. One of these galaxies, among the most distant ever seen,
appears to be unusually massive and mature for its place in the young
universe.
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