esahubble_heic1208b June 14th, 2012
Credit: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 (Acknowledgement: Davide de Martin)
This image shows a wide field of view around the overlapping galaxy pair NGC 3314. While the two galaxies look as if they are in the midst of a collision, this is in fact a trick of perspective: the two are in chance alignment from our vantage point.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1208b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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