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Colliding galaxies NGC 2623

author: Nasa/ESA/Novapix

reference: a-gax26-23001

Image Size 300 DPI: 29 * 19 cm

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.

Keywords for this photo:

2007 - ACS - ARP 243 - ASTRONOMY - CANCER - COLLISION - GALAXY - HST - HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - INTERACTING - NGC 2623 - SPIRAL GALAXY - STAR -