Friday marks the 19th anniversary of Hubble's launch aboard the space shuttle Discovery, which means the grand old space telescope will be entering its 20th year of operation.

To celebrate the occasion, Hubble's international team has released a stunning image of interacting galaxies and a cosmic "fountain of youth."

From Hubblesite.org:

Resembling a pair of owl eyes, the two nuclei of the colliding galaxies can be seen in the process of merging at the upper left. The blue bridge looks like it connects to a third galaxy. In reality the galaxy is in the background and not connected at all. Hubble's sharp view allows astronomers to try and visually sort out what are foreground and background objects when galaxies, superficially, appear to overlap.