Hubble watches star clusters on a collision course
Thursday, August 16, 2012 - 12:00
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) -- 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.