Background Information:

• Quasars: "The Light Fantastic"
• The Hubble Constant
• Cosmic Yardsticks
• Hubble Uncovers New Clues to Galaxy Formation
• Galaxy Formation
• Galaxy Shapes
• Dark Matter   Update: NASA Finds Direct Proof of Dark Matter
• Globular Star Clusters

• Stellar Disks and Jets
• The Search for the Kuiper Belt

Hubble Space Telescope News:

• Distant Exploding Stars Foretell the Fate of the Universe
• Hubble Pinpoints Distant Supernovae
• Hubble Completes Eight-Year Effort to Measure Expanding Universe
• Building a Ladder to the Stars: The 90-Year Quest for the Size of the Universe
• Refined Hubble Constant Narrows Possible Explanations for Dark Energy (May 7, 2009)

Also see:

• An Introduction to Galaxies
• Galaxy Building Block and Cold Dark Matter Theories

• Astronomers Discover an Infrared Background Glow in the Universe
• The Cosmic Microwave Background

  (and other Deep Space articles in ARVAL's Image Gallery)

STScI Public Outreach Home Page

STScI Electronic Information Service

Notes:

This material was created with the support of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), from NASA contract NAS5-26555, and is reproduced with permission from AURA/STScI.

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