Hubble celebrates its 19th anniversary with a 'fountain of youth'
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 11:14
in Astronomy & Space
To commemorate the Hubble Space Telescope's 19 years of historic, trailblazing science, the orbiting telescope has photographed a peculiar system of galaxies known as Arp 194. This interacting group contains several galaxies, along with a 'cosmic fountain' of stars, gas, and dust that stretches over 100,000 light-years...