Dec 212008
Seen at this resolution…
… that really isn’t all that impressive or interesting. But download the higher resolution versions from the Hubble Space Telescope website, and see if you don’t change your mind. This is a combined Hubble/Chandra photo showing two galactic clusters in collision. Seen past a smattering of foreground stars, virtually everything in this photo is a separate and distinct galaxy containing billions or even hundreds of billions of stars.
Now *this* is “nature photo of the year” material.
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