This exciting photo by the Hubble Space Telescope is one of the deepest ever taken, and shows galaxies as far away as ever before photographed. Back then a large fraction of galaxies were colliding and interacting . In fact, the shapes of many galaxies in the above photo are more distorted than most nearby galaxies . At this early universe epoch many clusters of galaxies were just forming. The bright twisted group of galaxies below the photographs center contains the energetic radio galaxy 3C324.
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