New image gives insight into colliding galaxies (Reuters)

by Populux | October 18, 2006 at 08:06 pm
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A seemingly violent collision of two galaxies is in fact a fertile marriage that has birthed billions of new stars, and an image released on Tuesday gives astronomers their best view yet. The new image of the Antennae galaxies allows astronomers working with the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope " /> SEARCH News | News Photos | Images | Web " /> Hubble Space Telescope to distinguish between new stars and the star clusters that form them. Most of these clusters, created in the ...
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