Hubble Sees Three Galaxies Colliding

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Colliding trio SDSSCGB 10189
A spectacular trio of merging galaxies in the constellation Boötes takes centre stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. These three galaxies are set on a collision course and will eventually merge into a single larger galaxy, distorting one another’s spiral structure through mutual gravitational interaction in the process. An unrelated foreground galaxy appears to float serenely alongside the collision, and the smudged shapes of much more distant galaxies are visible in the background.
This colliding trio — known to astronomers as SDSSCGB 10189 — is a relatively rare combination of three large star-forming galaxies lying within only 50 000 light-years of one another. While that might sound like a safe distance, for galaxies this makes them extremely close neighbours! Our own galactic neighbours are much further away; Andromeda, the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way, is more than 2.5 million light-years away from Earth.
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ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Sun

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The fourth galaxy looking at us like "are you seeing this shit?!"

Flesh_Wizard
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Now speed it up to 10 light years per second.

cjdfv
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It actually, kinda, looks like there are 5 galaxies colliding.

WillowRaven
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I have a ques? If 2 stars collide can lead to born a black hole then there should be one when the big bang happened the one and only black hole which created from big bang explosion
Its just a question?

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it's a girl circulations on a baby girl galaxy

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