What lies beyond our Milky Way? Thanks to the Hubble Telescope, we now know galaxies beyond our own come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Stargazers have discovered strange, unusually active galaxies; faint, blue, odd-shaped star clusters and evidence of "galactic building blocks" billions of light years away.

Distant Galaxies
Blue sub-galactic clumps may be galaxies under construction	Images reveal what may be galaxies in the early universe
Hubble images reveal galaxies with irregular and peculiar shapes	Central portion of a remote cluster of galaxies

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