![A cluster of reddish-white galaxies. An inset image provides a closer look at one of them, which is being gravitationally lensed.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/14-188-jpg.webp?w=4096&format=png)
SDSS J1531+3414
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope photographed a 100,000-light-year-long structure that looks like a string of pearls twisted into a corkscrew shape winds around the cores of the two massive galaxies. The “pearls” are superclusters of blazing, blue-white, newly born stars.
Credits: NASA/ESA
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