esahubble_opo9941a November 4th, 1999
Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI)
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 NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and its Wide Field Planetary Camera 2.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9941a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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