| You are subscribed to Image of the Day for NASA. This information has recently been updated, and is now available. 08/22/2013 08:00 PM EDT At first glance, this Hubble picture appears to capture two space giants entangled in a fierce celestial battle, with two galaxies entwined and merging to form one. But this shows just how easy it is to misinterpret the jumble of sparkling stars and get the wrong impression — as it's all down to a trick of perspective. By chance, these galaxies appear to be aligned from our point of view. In the foreground, the irregular dwarf galaxy PGC 16389 — seen here as a cloud of stars — covers its neighboring galaxy APMBGC 252+125-117, which appears edge-on as a streak. This wide-field image also captures many other more distant galaxies, including a quite prominent face-on spiral towards the right of the picture. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Luca Limatola
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Wednesday 28 August 2013
Hubble Peers at a Cosmic Optical Illusion
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