Sunday, June 26, 2011

Antennae Galaxies by Hubble Telescope

"Galaxies make love, not war"


Large Image: Galaxies Collide in the Antennae Galaxies (NASA, Chandra, Hubble, Spitzer, 08/05/10)

A beautiful new image of two colliding galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth, are shown in this composite image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), the Hubble Space Telescope (gold), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (red). 


Read more: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2010/antennae

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