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PHOTO CAPTION NO.: STScI-PRC94-39B
FOR RELEASE:JULY 24, 1995
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DEEP-SKY SURVEY FINDS
HUGE NUMBERS OF IRREGULAR AND PECULIAR GALAXIES
This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a variety of galaxies
with irregular and peculiar shapes. These galaxies are so far away
that they are seen when the universe was a fraction of its current
age. The bright blue regions indicate a rapid episode of star
formation. Hubble reveals that these objects once far outnumbered
large galaxies like our Milky Way, but have faded or self-destructed by
today.
This image is part of a serendipitous sky survey which has been
conducted over the past three years by Professor Richard Griffiths and
colleagues at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, with a team
of astronomers in the United States and Britain.
The survey is one of the key projects for Hubble. Over the past three
years the deep survey has uncovered a bizarre variety of shapes and
structures in distant galaxies, which previously appeared as fuzzy
blobs from ground-based telescopes.
Credit: Richard Griffiths (JHU), The Medium Deep Survey Team, and NASA