Distant Galaxies
Explanation:
This
Hubble Space Telescope
image of a group of faint
galaxies "far, far away" is a
snap shot
of the Universe when it was young.
The bluish,
irregularly shaped galaxies revealed in the image
are up to eight billion light years away and seem to
have commonly undergone
galaxy collisions and bursts of star formation.
Studying these objects is difficult because they are so faint,
however they may
provide clues to how our own
Milky Way Galaxy formed.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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