Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and many other telescopes on the ground and in space, an international team of astronomers has obtained the best view yet of a collision that took place between two galaxies when the Universe was only half its current age. They enlisted the help of a galaxy-sized magnifying glass to reveal otherwise invisible detail. These new studies of the galaxy H-ATLAS J142935.3-002836 have shown that this complex and distant object looks like the well-known local galaxy collision, the Antennae Galaxies.
The release, images and videos are available on:
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1417/
Kind regards,
ESA/Hubble Information Centre
The ESO Education and Public Outreach Department
26 August 2014
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28 July 2014: The 15th issue of Communicating Astronomy with the Public journal is out now!
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