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Science 2 October 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5386, p. 39
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5386.39b
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Hovering at the outermost spiral arms of NGC 1232--a colorful pinwheel galaxy 100 million light-years from Earth--is a small, gravitationally distorted companion galaxy (lower left). In this image, captured by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, old stars in the galaxy's core appear red; young star-forming regions in the spiral arms are blue. The image was taken by FORS, the VLT's first scientific instrument, which glimpsed first light on 15 September. With its acute vision and power to study the composition, velocities, and distances of galaxies, the German-built FORS, the observatory claims, will be a "workhorse for the study of the distant universe."
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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)
