Galaxies Collide to Create Hot, Huge Galaxy
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope combined to make this image of a pair of colliding galaxies called NGC 6240 shows them in a rare, short-lived phase of their evolution just before they merge into a single, larger galaxy.
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NASA ID
PIA11828
Date Created
March 16, 2009
Center
JPL
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image
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