Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Can someone please tell me a few things about this image from the Hubble Space Telescope?

This is a picture of Stephan's Quintet, a group of five galaxies close together in the sky, but not in space, because they are actually just an accidental grouping along our line of sight. The galaxy in the upper left is actually a fairly small galaxy relatively close to us, while the other galaxies are larger but much farther away.

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