Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jun 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992s%26t....83..619m&link_type=abstract
Sky & Telescope (ISSN 0037-6604), vol. 83, no. 6, June 1992, p. 619-625.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Elliptical Galaxies, Faint Object Camera, Galactic Nuclei, Globular Clusters, Hubble Space Telescope, Quasars, Big Bang Cosmology, Black Holes (Astronomy), Gravitational Lenses, Imaging Techniques, Stellar Spectra
Scientific paper
Latest observations by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) are described, including the first 'parallel' observations (on January 6, 1992) by the two of the Hubble's instruments of two different targets at the same time. On this date, the faint-object camera made images of the quasar 3C 273 in Virgo, while the wide-field and planetary camera recorded an adjacent field. The new HST images include those of the nucleus and the jet of M85, the giant elliptical galaxy at the heart of the Virgo cluster, and what appears to be a black hole of mass 2.6 billion solar masses in M87, and an image of N66, a planetary nebula in the LMC. Other images yield evidence of 'blue stragglers' in the core of 47 Tucanae, a globular cluster about 16,000 light-years from earth. The Goddard spectrograph recorded the spectrum of the star Capella at very high wavelength resolution, which made it possible to measure deuterium from the Big Bang.
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