Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4696
read more at APOD/NASA; credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, A. Fabian
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Marked by an unusually bright central region, swirling dust lanes, and far flung tidal tails, peculiar NGC 3256 is the aftermath of a truly cosmic collision. The 500 million year old clash of two separate galaxies spans some 100 thousand light-years in this sharp Hubble view. Read more at APOD/NASA
Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Space Telescope
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Stars above Ohio, USA.
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Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our very own sun, is nestled in the Alpha Centauri star system. Read more at APOD/NASA; credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
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“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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