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About 670 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus, two galaxies are caught in a celestial embrace. The merging galaxies are distorted by gravity and twisted into a colossal ring, leaving their cores nestled side by side.
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Hubble Hunts an Unusual Galaxy

The galaxy merger Arp-Madore 417-391 steals the spotlight in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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Totte75
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I wonder what it looks like today, 670 million years later?
We can only speculate...
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podfeet
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The showstoppers in the foreground are brilliant but I just sat with this open staring at all that’s going on in the distance. Takes my breath away that we can see this.

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