esahubble_opo9734e October 21st, 1997
Credit: Brad Whitmore (STScI), and NASA/ESA
The collision triggers the birth of new stars in brilliant blue star clusters, the brightest of which contains roughly a million stars. The star clusters are blue because they are very young, the youngest being only a few million years old, a mere blink of the eye on the astronomical time scale.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9734e/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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