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Hubble Reveals Stellar Fireworks Accompanying Galaxy Collision PRC97-34a

Hubble Reveals Stellar Fireworks
Accompanying Galaxy Collision

Photo No.: STScI-PRC97-34a
October 21, 1997
This Hubble Space Telescope image provides a detailed look at a brilliant "fireworks show" at the center of a collision between two galaxies. Hubble has uncovered over 1,000 bright, young star clusters bursting to life as a result of the head-on wreck.
 
A ground-based telescopic view of the Antennae galaxies (known formally as NGC 4038/4039) - so named because a pair of long tails of luminous matter, formed by the gravitational tidal forces of their encounter, resembles an insect's antennae. The galaxies are located 63 million light-years away in the southern constellation Corvus.

 

 

Credit: Brad Whitmore (ST ScI), and NASA

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