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Ref : S02005
Theme :
Galaxies (118 images)
Title : A GRAZING ENCOUNTER BETWEEN TWO SPIRAL galaxies
Caption :
A GRAZING ENCOUNTER BETWEEN TWO SPIRAL galaxies. In the direction of the constellation Canis Major, two spiral galaxies pass by each other like majestic ships in the night. The near-collision has been caught in images taken by The Space Telescope and its Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. The larger and more massive galaxy is cataloged as NGC 2207 (on the left in the image), and the smaller one on the right is IC 2163. Strong tidal forces from NGC 2207 have distorted the shape of IC 2163, flinging out stars and gas into long streamers stretching out a hundred thousand light-years toward the right-hand edge of the image.
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