esahubble_opo9928b July 15th, 1999
Credit: ESA/NASA, Pieter van Dokkum (University of Groningen/Leiden), Marijn Franx (University of Groningen/Leiden)
Exciting Hubble Space Telescope images of more than a dozen very distant colliding galaxies indicate that, at least in some cases, big massive galaxies form through collisions between smaller ones, in a 'generation after generation' never-ending story.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9928b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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