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Mayall Object… a stunning collision of two galaxies in deep space. The crash created this bright ring filled with newborn stars and cosmic dust.
This rare object is located nearly 500 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. What we see today actually happened hundreds of millions of years ago because light takes time to travel through space. This breathtaking image was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, showing how violent and beautiful the universe can be at the same time.
Credits: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, A. Evans University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University, K. Noll STScI, and J. Westphal Caltech
