Panning across Pandora’s Cluster | Hubble

Panning across Pandora’s Cluster | Hubble

This video shows a composite image of Hubble and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) observations of galaxy cluster Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster. This remarkable object seems to be the result of the collision of at least four separate galaxy clusters.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA) and D. Coe (STScI)/J. Merten (Heidelberg/Bologna)

Duration: 36 seconds

Release Date: Feb. 17, 2016

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