Great picture from the Hubble telescope

This is pretty cool…

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Yahoo! News caption: This Hubble image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. As the two galaxies smash together, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars. The brightest and most compact of these are called super star clusters. (NASA, ESA/Hubble, and B. Whitmore – Space Telescope Science Institute/Handout/Reuters)

Here’s a 3 minute video about the Hubble – you just have to listen to a brief commercial first. Hubble Overture – Short Film


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