From: baalke@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov   
      
   FOR RELEASE: October 2, 2003   
      
   CONTACT:   
   Ray Villard   
   Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD   
   (Phone: 410-338-4514; E-mail: villard@stsci.edu)   
      
   Keith Noll   
   Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD   
   (Phone: 410-338-1828; E-mail: noll@stsci.edu)   
      
   PRESS RELEASE NO.: STScI-PR03-28   
      
      
   HERITAGE PROJECT CELEBRATES FIVE YEARS OF HARVESTING   
   THE BEST IMAGES FROM HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE   
      
   The Hubble Heritage team of astronomers, who assemble many of the NASA   
   Hubble Space Telescope's most stunning pictures, is celebrating its   
   five-year anniversary with the release of the picturesque Sombrero   
   galaxy. One of the largest Hubble mosaics ever assembled, this   
   magnificent galaxy is nearly one-fifth the diameter of the full moon.   
   The team used Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys in May-June 2003 to   
   take six pictures of the galaxy and then stitched them together to   
   create the final composite image. The photo reveals a swarm of stars in   
   a pancake-shaped disk as well as a glowing central halo of stars.   
      
   Image Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)   
      
   To see and read more, please click on   
   http://hubblesite.org/news/2003/28   
   http://heritage.stsci.edu/2003/28   
      
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   international cooperation between NASA and the European Space   
   Agency (ESA).   
      
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