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What appears at first to be a delicate filament is therefore a structure of almost inconceivable scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYoung blue stars and star clusters populate both the spiral arms and the tidal tail. According to the release, each cluster represents the formation of as many as a million stars; their blue colour comes from exceptionally massive, hot and luminous members. The interaction has not merely distorted the galaxy’s shape. It has also generated a torrent of new star formation along the disturbance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eA closer look\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe galaxy’s inner region is compact and intensely luminous, surrounded by textured arms that seem to loosen as they pass into the tail. Cool turquoise and blue structures gather around warmer white and orange highlights, while fine dark lanes and irregular folds interrupt the glow. At the outer fringes, the material becomes more diffuse, giving the Tadpole a striking transition from dense, turbulent centre to attenuated stellar stream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlong that stream, small blue knots punctuate the fainter material. Two particularly prominent clumps are separated by a gap; astronomers consider them likely to develop into dwarf galaxies orbiting within the Tadpole’s halo. Elsewhere, newly formed clusters lie along the spiral arms, their concentrated light tracing the regions most affected by the encounter. The compact intruder itself can be found at the upper-left edge of the larger galaxy, seen against or through its disc as it apparently leaves the interaction behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe wider field changes the character of the composition. Hundreds of tiny forms are immediately apparent, and still more emerge on close examination: reddish flecks, pale ovals, sharp points and elongated galaxies dispersed across the dark blue ground. The official account places their total at about 3,000 — twice the number seen in the 1995 Hubble Deep Field. Their varied shapes form a deep visual backdrop to the Tadpole’s much nearer gravitational upheaval.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow this image was made\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys recorded the field on 1 and 9 April 2002, shortly after the instrument was installed aboard the telescope during Servicing Mission 3B. The camera combined a broad field of view with the sharpness required to distinguish the many faint and compact galaxies behind Arp 188.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe finished colour image was constructed from three separate observations made through blue, orange and near-infrared filters. It is therefore a composite rather than a single exposure. The different filtered views preserve distinctions among the Tadpole’s bright young clusters, its warmer central regions and the varied galaxy population spread across the background. The ACS obtained this field in one-twelfth of the observing time used for the Hubble Deep Field, while detecting even fainter objects in blue light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eImage details and provenance\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSubject:\u003c\/strong\u003e Arp 188, the Tadpole Galaxy, UGC 10214\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eObject type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Spiral and barred galaxy\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eConstellation:\u003c\/strong\u003e Draco\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDistance from Earth:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400 million light-years\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePhysical scale:\u003c\/strong\u003e The tidal tail extends for more than 280,000 light-years\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTelescope:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hubble Space Telescope\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInstrument:\u003c\/strong\u003e Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS)\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eObservation dates:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 and 9 April 2002\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWavelengths and filters:\u003c\/strong\u003e Near-infrared, orange and blue filters\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eImage construction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Colour composite constructed from three separate filtered images\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOriginal release date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 30 April 2002, 15:00\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eImage credit:\u003c\/strong\u003e NASA , Holland Ford (JHU), the ACS Science Team and ESA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChoosing the right size and finish\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFine art can feel intimate at smaller sizes and more architectural at larger ones. 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