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Super Star Clusters in the Antennae Galaxies

This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of the collision, billions of stars will be formed. The brightest and most compact of these…

16 de outubro de 2006
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Super Star Clusters in the Antennae Galaxies
Visible light emitted by the Antennae galaxies is shown in various colors, including pink, blue, brown, and white. The overall shape of the two colliding galaxies resembles a curled-up shrimp, with one of the galaxy’s main spiral arm toward the top right and the other galaxy’s main spiral arm toward the bottom left.
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of the collision, billions of stars will be formed. The brightest and most compact of these star birth regions are called super star...

This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of the collision, billions of stars will be formed. The brightest and most compact of these star birth regions are called super star clusters. The new image allows astronomers to better distinguish between the stars and super star clusters created in the collision of two spiral galaxies.

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