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1/ 🥳 Happy 32, dear Hubble! To celebrate this anniversary, here is an unusual Hubble snapshot: a close-knit collection of five galaxies: the Hickson Compact Group 40. #Hubble32
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2/ This menagerie includes three spiral-shaped galaxies, an elliptical galaxy and a lenticular (lens-like) galaxy. Somehow, these different galaxies have crossed paths to create an exceptionally crowded and eclectic galaxy sampler.
3/ Caught in a leisurely gravitational dance, the whole group is so crowded that it could fit within a region of space that is less than twice the diameter of our Milky Way’s stellar disc.
