Clash of the Titans (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Clash of the Titans

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An artist depicts the binary system LH54-425, which consists of two very massive stars. The larger star's powerful wind overpowers the smaller star's wind, creating a region of hot gas where the outflows collide. LH54-425 is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way about 165,000 light-years from Earth.

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NASA illustration by Casey Reed.

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