This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image depicts the cosmic tangle that is MCG+05-31-045, a pair of interacting galaxies located 390 million light-years away and a part of the Coma galaxy cluster.
It was studied along with other galaxies like the nearby NGC 3109, shown above, to learn how galaxies form, as part of a project called The VLT Survey Telescope Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural ...
Hubble's image shows NGC 3201, a globular cluster of stars discovered in 1826 by James Dunlop, noted for its size and irregular centre. This Hubble image shows RS Puppis, a Cepheid variable star that ...