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Flies in a spider’s web: galaxy caught in the making

12 October 2006

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This image taken by NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Spiderweb Galaxy (MRC 1138-262) sitting at the centre of an emergent galaxy cluster, surrounded by hundreds of other galaxies from the cluster.

The image provides the best demonstration so far that large massive galaxies are built up by merging smaller ones.

Credits: NASA, ESA, George Miley and Roderik Overzier (Leiden Observatory, the Netherlands)

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This video provides a zoom into the Spiderweb Galaxy (MRC 1138-262) region, as imaged by NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Credits: Akira Fujii, Digitized Sky Survey 2 and ESA/Hubble

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This video provides a zoom into the Spiderweb Galaxy (MRC 1138-262) region, as imaged by NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Credits: ESA/Hubble

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