Shrouded Starburst Wall Art including Frame Frame Colors:Walnut Even at its great distance

Even at its great distance

Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS

North is down and East is to the right in the image

400 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud tops

covering six full moons on the sky as seen from Earth

Shrouded Starburst Wall Art including Frame Frame Colors:Walnut Even at its great distanceA brilliant burst of star formation is revealed in this image combining observations from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes. The collision of two spiral galaxies has triggered this luminous starburst, the brightest ever seen away from the centers, or nuclei, of merging galaxies. The merging galaxies, known collectively as II Zw 096, can be clearly seen at shorter wavelengths of light from Hubble (blue hues). The real action in this galactic