HIGHLIGHTS 

NASA and the European Space Agency collaborated on Hubble (ESA)

Since its inception in 1990, it has been in use for more than three decades.

It has taken billions of breathtaking photos and shared many of them with the world.

WHY IN NEWS 

Because it is strategically located and offers an unconstrained perspective of the cosmos, NASA's Hubble telescope is famed for capturing stunning views of space objects. It just published a picture of NGC 7764A, which is a collection of three galaxies. These galaxies, which are located in the constellation Phoenix, are around 425 million light-years away from Earth. The image depicts galaxies interacting with one another, causing two galaxies in the top right to resemble the USS Enterprise, a spacecraft from the American science fiction media series Star Trek.

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 The lengthy tails of stars and gas stretching from the galaxy on the top right look to have been smashed and thrown into disorder by the one on the lower left. But that will not be the case. Galaxies interact over very vast time scales and seldom collide. According to NASA, it's unclear if the galaxy on the lower left interacts with the other two. They appear to be interacting since they are so close together. NGC 7764A1, NGC 7764A2, and NGC 7764A3 are the names of the three galaxies seen in this photograph. In a blog post, NASA said that the 'very random' nomenclature was likely due to the fact that many astronomy catalogues were collected more than a century ago. As a result, many celestial objects have names that are confusingly similar to the names of other things. Only lately has the use of contemporary technologies made it considerably simpler to standardise scientific language.

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Since its launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope, a joint effort of NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), has been in operation for more than three decades. It has taken billions of breathtaking photos and has shared many of them with the world. It just posted a photo of a galaxy in the constellation Vela, which is around 115 million light-years from Earth. Vela was once part of a larger constellation known as Argo Navis, named after the legendary Greek ship Argo.