Hubble Space Telescope Photographs Extragalactical Stellar Nursery

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES

09.21.2009

Courtesy Photo

NASA

*Description*: This is a 2.7 X 2.7 arc minute view of star cluster R136 as seen from a ground-based telescope under exceptional observing conditions. Star images are as small as 0.6 arc second. Technical facts about this news release: Back to entire collection [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/index/668/ ] Next release [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1990/06/ ] Previous release [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1990/07/ ] *News Release Number:*: STScI-1990-09d

NASA Identifier: SPD-HUBBLE-STScI-1990-09d

• Date Taken: 09.21.2009
• Date Posted: 10.17.2012 21:08
• Photo ID: 735211
• Resolution: 1536x1491
• Size: 150.58 KB
• Location: WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, US