Hubble Captures Galaxy Cluster
22 May 2026, 11:37 GMT
Topic: Astrophysics
Source URL: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-captures-galaxy-cluster/
Look closely at this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and you’ll see galaxies of various shapes and sizes clustered together toward the center-left of the image. A few foreground stars shine brightly and are easily distinguished by the spikes that appear to extend outward from each star. These spikes, called diffraction spikes, are the