Hubble Resolves Puzzle about Loner Starburst Galaxy

November 20, 2008 9:00AM (EST)Release ID: 2008-38
Hubble Resolves Puzzle about Loner Starburst Galaxy

Summary

Astronomers have long puzzled over why a small, nearby, isolated galaxy is pumping out new stars faster than any galaxy in our local neighborhood. Now NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has helped astronomers solve the mystery of the loner starburst galaxy, called NGC 1569, by showing that it is one and a half times farther away than astronomers thought. Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 and Advanced Camera for Surveys made the observations of NGC 1569 in September 1999, November 2006, and January 2007.

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