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The Growth of Bulges in Spiral Galaxies
- Release DateOctober 6, 1999
- Science ReleaseStarry Bulges Yield Secrets to Galaxy Growth
- CreditsScience Release PRC99-34a: Credits for the ground-based image: Allan Sandage (The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington) and John Bedke (Computer Sciences Corporation and the Space Telescope Science Institute) Credits for the WFPC2 image: NASA and John Trauger (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Credits for the NICMOS image: NASA, ESA, and C. Marcella Carollo (Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University); PRC99-34b: Credits for the ground-based images: Allan Sandage (The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington) and John Bedke (Computer Sciences Corporation and the Space Telescope Science Institute) Credits for WFPC2 and NICMOS composites: NASA, ESA, and Reynier Peletier (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)
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Claire Andreoli
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland
claire.andreoli@nasa.gov
