Jun 2 1992
From The Space Library
NASA reported that the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite would be launched aboard an Ariane IV launch vehicle from the Guiana Space Center (CSG) in Kourou, French Guiana. The satellite, a joint program of NASA and the Centre Nationale d'Etudes Spatiales, the French space agency, was to study ocean circulation and its role in regulating the global climate. (NASA Note N92-50)
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) revealed a new class of object in the universe-a grouping of gigantic star clusters produced by the collision of galaxies. Images of the core of the peculiar galaxy AT 220 show that stars are produced at a furious rate from the dust and gas supplied by the interaction of two galaxies. The discovery was made by Dr. Edward Shaya and graduate student Dan Dowling, University of Maryland, and the Wide Field/Planetary Camera Team. (NASA Release 92-80)
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