Asteroid trails in Abell 370 lithograph front
The Hubble Space Telescope encountered a local group of photobombers while
capturing this breathtaking image of a galaxy cluster known as Abell 370. A swarm of
white streaks appears to have invaded the sea of gravitationally bound galaxies that
make up the distant cluster.
The curved and s-shaped streaks seem to glide through the cluster of several
hundred galaxies. In reality, these objects are trails left on the image by nearby
asteroids, located only about 160 million miles away in our own solar system. In
contrast, Abell 370 is around 4 billion light-years distant.
Credits: NASA