Image -- Jim Flood, Max Mutchler (Space Telescope Science Institute), and NASA. The Hubble image shows clusters of hot, young, blue stars in a 3,000 light-year segment of NGC 1808's starburst region. The ground-based image shows a faint halo surrounding the galaxy's disk - the aftereffect of dust filaments being ejected from the core by massive stars that exploded as supernovae in the starburst region. ... 1 April 1998 . for the July 1998 edition of Astronomy magazine) ...