Hubble Snaps Rare Aligned Galaxies

A distant blob in space long thought to be a single object is actually two galaxies in rare alignment, a newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals. The larger background galaxy seen above is 780 million light-years away and roughly the size of the Milky Way. The foreground galaxy, seen with a core of bright white, is about ten times smaller. Together they have been named 2MASX J00482185-2507365.

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