Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. In a report released yesterday and soon to be published in Nature , astronomers have imaged an interesting distant patch of sky with the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope . A particularly dense bunch of these small blue merging objects are visible in the above picture. Although peculiar by present standards of galaxies , these blobs may have been normal in the distant past, many billions of years ago. This adds evidence that galaxies formed from the conglomeration of smaller objects instead of the fragmentation of larger objects .
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