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Colliding galaxies make love, not war

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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).

 

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Id:heic0615a
Object:NGC4038, NGC4039, Antennae Galaxies
Type:Galaxy
Instru-ment:ACS
Width:3915
Height:3885

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