images

Colliding galaxies NGC 2623

by

Nasa/ESA/Novapix

Reference

a-gax26-23001

Date

2009-10-13

Located 250 million light-years away in the constellation of Cancer, these colliding galaxies are in the late stages of the merging process with the centres of the original galaxy pair now merged into one nucleus. Image obtained by the Hubble space telescope in 2007.