FOR RELEASE: 9:00 am (EST) March 31, 2005
PHOTO NO.: STScI-PRC05-11
HUBBLE SPIES COSMIC DUST BUNNIES
Like dust bunnies that lurk in corners and under beds, surprisingly
complex loops and blobs of cosmic dust lie hidden in the giant
elliptical galaxy NGC 1316. This image made from data obtained in
March 2003 with the NASA Hubble Space Telescope reveals the dust
lanes and star clusters of this giant galaxy that give evidence that
it was formed from a past merger of two gas-rich galaxies.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Acknowledgment: P. Goudfrooij (STScI)
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Keith Noll, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive,
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P. Goudfrooij, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin
Drive, Baltimore, Md. 21218, (phone) 410-338-4981, (fax) 410-338-4579,
(e-mail) goudfroo@stsci.edu.
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