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Hubble photographs colliding galaxies
ALONG TIME AGO, IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY...
GLOWING EYES FROM a ghastly face glowers in deep space in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The piercing ‘eyes’ of this creepy space face are the bright cores of two distant galaxies in the middle of a head-on collision, and they’re surrounded by a mishmash of stars from their respective galactic discs. A ring of young blue stars contours the shape of the eerie face, while dense clumps of stars have come together to form
