Space Telescopes Team Up to Capture Spectacular Galactic Collision

id="attachment_70532" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 581px">href="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/galaxy-hubble.jpg">src="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/galaxy-hubble-571x580.jpg" alt="" title="A new image of two tangled galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light-years from Earth, are shown in this composite image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), the Hubble Space Telescope (gold and brown), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (red). The Antennae galaxies take their name from the long antenna-like arms seen in wide-angle views of the system. These features were produced in the collision. Image credit: Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO, Spitzer: NASA/JPL-Caltech, Hubble: NASA/STScI " width="571" height="580" class="size-medium wp-image-70532" />class="wp-caption-text">A new image of two tangled galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light-years from Earth, are shown in this composite image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), the Hubble Space Telescope (gold and brown), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (red). The Antennae galaxies take their name from the long antenna-like arms seen in wide-angle views of the system. These features were produced in the collision. Image credit: Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO, Spitzer: NASA/JPL-Caltech, Hubble: NASA/STScI