Hubble has captured this beautiful new view of NGC 3314, two spiral galaxies located in the constellation Hydra, between 117 and 140 million light-years away from Earth. But they are not really colliding. If they were, they would look like this.
It’s an optical effect: NGC 3314A (on the foreground) and NGC 3314B (on the background) are just overlapping, separated “ten times the distance between our Milky Way and neighboring Andromeda galaxy.”
I just like to think they are in love and smooching. [NASA]
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(1) Spectacular View of Two Seemingly Colliding Galaxies Captured By Hubble [Astronomy]URL: http://gizmodo.com/5918696/hubble-captures-spectacular-view-of-two-seemingly-colliding-galaxies
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