Hubble Zooming on the Antennae Galaxy

From http://www.spacetelescope.org/:

Zooming through the nighttime sky into the constellation Corvus the crow, deeper into the Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys image of the Antennae galaxies. The "stellar fireworks" contain brilliant young clusters of tens of thousands of stars. Orange blobs to the left and right of center are the two cores of the original galaxies, criss-crossed by dark filaments of dust seen in silhouette. Brilliant blue star clusters, born in the collision, pepper the galaxies. Pinkish glowing hydrogen gas identify star birth regions glowing under the intense energy from newborn stars.

Credit: Akira Fujii, Digitized Sky Survey 2 and ESA/Hubble (Martin Kornmesser)

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[joekills312]

it looks like a peenut lol

[PocketHercules99]

Now all we have to do is find beings in this galaxy and fuck them!

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[luckyvet]

holy shit.

[faithlane7]

Awesome!!!

[FiliberkeNys]

Hubble Space Telescope's successor, James Webb Space Telescope (formerly named Next Generation Space Telescope) and the ground-based Extremely Large Telescope of ESO will even reveal deeper field images. Looking further in space is looking back in time!

[kapget]

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[masterj104]

nice