HUBBLE ATLAS

Galaxies

Merging galaxies galore

April 24, 2008 · ESA/Hubble

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Crossfades between different merging galaxies from a collection of fifty nine new images of colliding galaxies make up the largest collection of Hubble images ever released together. As this astonishing Hubble atlas of interacting galaxies illustrates, galaxy collisions produce a remarkable variety of intricate structures.