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Crash Snapshots
The Antennae
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The Cartwheel Galaxy
The unusual shape of the Cartwheel Galaxy is likely
due to a collision with one of the smaller galaxies
on the lower left several hundred million years ago.
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The Tadpole galaxy
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The Mice
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Arp 272
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NGC 3256
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Arp 87
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NGC 2207 and IC 2163
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NGC 520
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M 51
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Distant ultraluminous infrared galaxies
The Toomre sequence
In 1977 Alar Toomre selected 11 pairs of interacting
galaxies to represent sequential stages of a galaxy
merger. Optical images of these galaxies as obtained
by the Hubble Space Telescope can be found
here.
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