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  • Released Tuesday, January 28, 2014
  • Updated Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 12:35PM
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MACS J0025 was born when two galaxy clusters, each almost a million billion times the mass of the sun, collided and merged.

MACS J0025 was born when two galaxy clusters, each almost a million billion times the mass of the sun, collided and merged.

Abell 1689, which contains about a thousand galaxies and trillions of stars, is so enormous that it bends and warps the space around it.

Abell 1689, which contains about a thousand galaxies and trillions of stars, is so enormous that it bends and warps the space around it.



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NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
Cover image courtesy of NASA/CXC/M. Markevitch et al. and NASA/STScI/Magellan/University of Arizona/D. Clowe et al. and NASA/STScI/ESO/WFI/Magellan/University of Arizona/D. Clowe et al.
MACS J0717 image courtesy of NASA/ESA/University of Hawaii/LAM/Harald Ebeling and Jean-Paul Kneib
MACS J0025 image courtesy of NASA/CXC/Stanford/S. Allen and NASA/STScI/UCSB/M. Bradac
Abell 1689 image courtesy of NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA/Dominion Astrophysical Observatory/JHU/J. Blakeslee and H. Ford



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