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Starfish Arm Wrestling

25 February 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hub­ble Her­itage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Col­lab­o­ra­tion, and K. Noll (STScI)

These galax­ies seem to me like starfish arm wrestling or toss­ing a ball. NGC 6050 and IC 1179 offer a stun­ning exam­ple of merg­ing spi­ral galax­ies in this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope.

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