Hubblecast 31: Sky merger yields sparkling dividends

A recent NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures what appears to be one very bright and bizarre galaxy, but is actually the result of a pair of spiral galaxies, like our own Milky Way, smashing together at incredible speeds. This object was a target of Hubble's and a handful of its "sibling" spacecraft as part of a massive comprehensive sky survey called GOALS.

The descriptions are available on the respective webpages, see:
http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic0912a/

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