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Details of individual distant galaxies
Details of individual distant galaxies
Colliding galaxies make love, not war
Colliding galaxies make love, not war

This Hubble image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. As the two galaxies smash together, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars. The brightest and most compact of these are called super star clusters.


Credit: Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration. Acknowledgement: B. Whitmore (Space Telescope Science Institute) and James Long (ESA/Hubble).



Original image at the Hubble Website

An Expanding Bubble in Space
An Expanding Bubble in Space

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