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A telescope network that has spent years staring into deep space has finally delivered some of the most gloriously detailed images we ve ever seen of other galaxies.
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(Updated: April 24, 2021)
NASA, ESA, and Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA), W. Blair (STScI/ JHU) and R. O Connell (UVA) / TASCHEN
On April 24, 1990, the Hubble Telescope hitched a ride aboard the space shuttle
Discovery and began its ascent into low-earth orbit, where it has remained ever since, exploring the great unknown and projecting images that have helped scientists and the public at large make better sense of our place in the universe.
Expanding Universe. Photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope, a book published by TASCHEN, offers a collection of amazing images from the scope, which has explored everything from black holes to exoplanets. Here are 15 of its most magnificent pictures.
THESE rare and entrancing sights each shows an epic cosmic event: the merging of galaxies.
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These are unusual images since collisions, which drastically alter the appearance and composition of galaxies, are rare. The changes accelerate the birth of new stars during the merger as molecular clouds fall to the centre of each galaxy, where they collide with other molecular clouds, causing them to condense into new stars.
The exceptional resolution of the Hubble telescope can capture such changes, and home in on some of the features in the star clusters, such as ones that look like knots (actually, these are numerous compact young star clusters).