A 'Cosmic Joust' between a pair of galaxies 11 billion light years away
This distant snapshot of the two galaxies in the process of merging into one large galaxy is about 11 billion light-years away. The observations provide a rare look into earlier times in the universe, when star formation and galaxy mergers were more common.
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