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NASA's venerated Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking image of the larger galaxy NGC 7714 colliding with its smaller companion NGC 7715. A similar cataclysmic collision is due to take place between our own galaxy – the Milky Way – and our closest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, in around four billion years. The image itself is a composite, comprised of a number of images captured by Hubble over a wide range of wavelengths. .. Continue Reading Hubble captures stunning image of galaxies colliding
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via http://www.gizmag.com/
NASA's venerated Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking image of the larger galaxy NGC 7714 colliding with its smaller companion NGC 7715. A similar cataclysmic collision is due to take place between our own galaxy – the Milky Way – and our closest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, in around four billion years. The image itself is a composite, comprised of a number of images captured by Hubble over a wide range of wavelengths. .. Continue Reading Hubble captures stunning image of galaxies colliding
Section: Space
Tags: Andromeda Galaxy, Galaxy, Hubble, NASA, Space telescope, Star formation, Stars
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via http://www.gizmag.com/
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