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A large spotted pink wheel-like galaxy with a small inner ellipse, with a hazy blue in the middle to the right, with two smaller spiral galaxies of about the same size to the left on a black background. This image of the Wheel Galaxy and its companion galaxies is a composite from the Near Infrared Camera and Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument, which reveals details that are difficult to see from the separate images alone. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

The Webb Space Telescope Peeps Into Chaos - Captures Stellar Gymnastics in the Wheel Galaxy

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Webb's instruments reveal new details about star formation
A merger of the Milky Way and Andromeda. Image: NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger

The violent history of the Andromeda galaxy, which is on its way to collide with the Milky Way

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The core of the dense Hixon cluster of galaxies 98 containing two Milky Way-like galaxies that appear as "smears" in the center of the head. The point between them is a star in the Milky Way, which is much closer to us. The tadpole-like shape contains the central pair of galaxies. It was formed when the pair of galaxies broke up a third, much smaller galaxy. Credit: From the collection of the "Pass 82" project of the Astrophysical Institute of the Canary Islands.

Evidence of a galaxy being 'preyed' by its neighbors

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NGC 5256 - a pair of galaxies in the final stages of merging. This object was previously imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope and released as part of a collection of 59 colliding galaxies on the Hubble Space Telescope's 18th birthday, April 24, 2008. The new data clearly show the gas and dust swirling around the galaxy and especially its double center more sharply. This image is a composite of data collected by the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Angle Camera #3. Photo: NASA/Hubble Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an amazing image of galaxies in the process of colliding

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An artist's rendering of how the "nearly exposed" supermassive black hole was formed. Credit: Bill Sexton, NRAO/AUI/NSF

Close galactic encounter leaves supermassive black hole 'almost exposed'

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Colliding galaxies in the cluster Obel 3827. Courtesy of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), NASA and the European Space Agency/Hubble Space Telescope

Dark matter throws a clue / Clara Moskowitz

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H-ATLAS J142935.3-002836 - An object in the distant universe consisting of two colliding galaxies. Combined photography: the Hubble Space Telescope and the ground telescopes Keck, Alma and the Very Large Array

Scientists observed galaxies colliding when the universe was half its current age

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Andromeda Galaxy and its satellite galaxies.

Small galaxies also collide with each other, and are not only 'destroyed' by the large ones

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arp 142 - A pair of galaxies about to collide. Photo: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope

It's not a bird, it's colliding galaxies

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The Antenna Galaxies: Combined Hubble, Spitzer, and Chandra Space Telescope Images, August 2010. Photo: NASA

Spectacular collision of galaxies

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