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A Grazing Encounter Between Two Spiral Galaxies

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 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and its Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 .

  Image Credit: NASA and Hubble Heritage Team (STScI)