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Swimming in Space

Swirling 420 million light years away in the constellation Draco, Hubble's new camera found an odd spiral galaxy, nicknamed the Tadpole. Sporting a 280,000 light years-mile long tail, the galaxy was probably distorted by gravitational forces from a hot, dense intruder galaxy, visible in the upper left corner of the Tadpole. Most interesting to scientists, however, are the 6,000 or so galaxies visible in the background, many of which formed shortly after the Big Bang explosion that is believed to have created the universe. The new camera imaged twice the number of galaxies in one-twelfth the time than those observed in Hubble's famous Deep Field image taken in 1995.


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