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Happy 21st Birthday Hubble!

Apr 21, 2011 10:13 PMNov 19, 2019 9:36 PM

To celebrate, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md. pointed Hubble's eye at this pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273. Just beautiful.

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