Category: The Stephan Quintet

These two ‘colliding’ galaxies make a beautiful double portrait

Sep 9, 2022

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[ad_1] Just when we begins to forget the old Hubble Space Telectric scope, it’s back with another amazing look at the cosmos. That’s latest goal? Two spiral galaxies, more than a billion light years from Earth, appear to be colliding. To be clear: They are actually nowhere near each other, but from Hubble’s perspective, one…