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I wanted to show you the beautiful Stephan's Quintet, a grouping of five galaxies. Four are part of a huge galactic pile-up collision at a distance of 300 million light-years. The other one (the brightest and unrelated) is in the foreground at a distance of 40 million light-years.

The X-ray image shows the collision of the galaxies has created a huge shock wave of super-heated intergalactic gas, bigger than our Milky Way galaxy. The HST and JWST images shows tidal tails of stars flung off in every direction and many areas of active star formation creating millions of sparkling new star clusters.

What a view to behold! - a moment in time in the ongoing evolution story of the Universe.

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