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This image, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows what happens when two galaxies become one. The twisted cosmic knot seen here is NGC 2623 — or Arp 243 — and is located about 250 million light-years away in the constellation of Cancer (The Crab).

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Image title	This image, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows what happens when two galaxies become one. The twisted cosmic knot seen here is NGC 2623— or Arp 243 — and is located about 250 million light-years away in the constellation of Cancer (The Crab). NGC 2623 gained its unusual and distinctive shape as the result of a major collision and subsequent merger between two separate galaxies. This violent encounter caused clouds of gas within the two galaxies to become compressed and stirred up, in turn triggering a sharp spike of star formation. This active star formation is marked by speckled patches of bright blue; these can be seen clustered both in the centre and along the trails of dust and gas forming NGC 2623’s sweeping curves (known as tidal tails). These tails extend for roughly 50 000 light-years from end to end. Many young, hot, newborn stars form in bright stellar clusters — at least 170 such clusters are known to exist within NGC 2623. NGC 2623 is in a late stage of merging. It is thought that the Milky Way willeventually resemble NGC 2623 when it collides with our neighbouring galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy, in four billion years time. In contrast to the image of NGC 2623 released in 2009 (heic0912), this new version contains data from recent narrow-band and infrared observations that make more featuresof the galaxy visible.
Date and time of data generation	06:00, 16 October 2017
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 (Windows)
File change date and time	14:32, 9 June 2017
Date and time of digitizing	23:08, 27 February 2017
Date metadata was last modified	16:32, 9 June 2017
Credit/Provider	ESA/Hubble & NASA
Source	ESA/Hubble
Unique ID of original document	xmp.did:6757e26d-6490-0940-a5ee-0aaf1cb7b4e6
Short title	A glimpse of the future
Keywords	Arp 243 NGC 2623
Contact information	http://www.spacetelescope.org Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Garching bei München, , D-85748 Germany
Usage terms	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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