Hubble Watches Star Clusters on a Collision Course
Thursday, August 16, 2012 - 11:31
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have caught two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. The clusters are 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy to our Milky Way.