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This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, depicts NGC 105, a spiral galaxy 215.5 million light-years away in the constellation of Pisces, and a smaller distant galaxy. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / D. Jones / Riess et al. / R. Colombari.

Hubble Space Telescope Observes Conjunction of Two Spiral Galaxies

Jan 3, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

While it looks like a spiral galaxy called NGC 105 is plunging edge-on into a collision with a neighboring spiral galaxy, this is just the result of the...