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The majority of the image shows the black background of space. Two large, very bright galaxies dominate the center. The elliptical galaxy at left is extremely bright at its circular core, with dimmer white light extending to its transparent circular edges. At right is a bright spiral galaxy. It also has a bright white core, but has red and light purple spiral arms that start at the center and turn clockwise going outward. They end in faint red and appear to overlap the elliptical galaxy at left. Throughout the scene are a range of distant galaxies, the majority of which are very tiny and red, appearing as splotches.

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The majority of the image shows the black background of space. Two large, very bright galaxies dominate the center. The elliptical galaxy at left is extremely bright at its circular core, with dimmer white light extending to its transparent circular edges. At right is a bright spiral galaxy. It also has a bright white core, but has red and light purple spiral arms that start at the center and turn clockwise going outward. They end in faint red and appear to overlap the elliptical galaxy at left. Throughout the scene are a range of distant galaxies, the majority of which are very tiny and red, appearing as splotches.
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Space Telescope Science Inst. (spacetelescope@astrodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 05:01:06 JST Space Telescope Science Inst.

It’s always nice to have someone in your corner, or in this case, space!
Scientists combined Hubble and #NASAWebb data to build a fuller picture of galaxy pair VV 191, which is composed of an elliptical galaxy at left and spiral at right: https://bit.ly/4esprnX

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