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This image was created by median combining 7 x 90 second unfiltered images taken with a Takahashi Epsilon 250 with SBIG ST-8XE CCD. The image has been cut down to be 15 x 15 arc minutes in size.
The nearest and youngest example of a pair of colliding galaxies with each galaxy’s gravitational field distorting its neighbour. The collision began about 100 million years ago and is still in progress.
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In collaboration with the Remote Astronomical Society Observatory
Martin Nicholson - Daventry, United Kingdom.
This page was last updated on January 19th 2008.