denounced the committees report in a statement to CBS News.

that the science team nicknamed Mothra.which scientists expect will combine at point to form an even larger cluster.

Both images feature hundreds of galaxies.an astronomer with Arizona State University.that scientists believe existed about 3 billion years after the big bang roughly 11 billion years ago.

NASA said the coloring hints at the distances of galaxies seen in the survey.Some galaxies that appear red in the images contain copious amounts of cosmic dust that tends to absorb bluer colors of starlight.

Haojing Yan (University of Missouri) Were calling MACS0416 the Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster.

This image of galaxy cluster MACS0416 highlights one particular gravitationally lensed background galaxy.Climate conditions have only made things worse.

with normally flooded areas reduced to shriveled ponds.who is volunteering with a wildlife rescue group.

At one such spot along the dirt highway across the region.the corpse of another sits rotting on the bank.