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Hubble Sees 'Ghost Light' From Dead Galaxies
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Hubble Sees 'Ghost Light' From Dead Galaxies

NASA / GSFC · 2017-12-08 · photograph (digital archive)

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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has picked up the faint, ghostly glow of stars ejected from ancient galaxies that were gravitationally ripped apart several billion years ago. The mayhem happened 4 billion light-years away, inside an immense collection of nearly 500 galaxies nicknamed “Pandora’s Cluster,” also known as Abell 2744. The scattered stars are no longer bound to any one galaxy, and drift freely between galaxies in the cluster.

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Credit lineHubble Sees 'Ghost Light' From Dead Galaxies. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000914.
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