Galaxies’ Merger 'Drips' With New Stars | Video

Thursday, July 10, 2014 - 15:01 in Astronomy & Space

Like "beads on a string" star formation can be compared to droplets of rain New imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope merging elliptical galaxies reveals 19 compact clumps of young stars making up the string.

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