Hubble Shots: 2004-2006
The merging Antennae galaxies are seen in the sharpest image yet taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and released Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2006. As the two galaxies smash together, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars. The two spiral galaxies started to fuse together about 500 million years ago making the Antenna galaxies the nearest and youngest example of a pair of colliding galaxies.
Author: CBS News Staff
Credit: AP Photo/NASA-ESA
