Hubble's Next Discovery, You Decide

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Arp 274 is a pair of galaxies. Drawn together by their gravity, they are starting to interact. The spiral shapes of these galaxies are mostly intact, but evidence can be seen of the gravitational distortions they are creating within each other. When galaxies interact and merge together, the gas clouds inside them often form tremendous numbers of new stars.

Object Name: Arp 274

Image Type: Astronomical

Credit: Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), STScI/AURA, and Palomar/Caltech, and UKSTU/AAO

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Montage Image: Candidate Objects for 'Hubble's Next Discovery -- You Decide' Image Type: Astronomical/Illustration PRC2009-06b Star-Forming Region NGC 6334 Image Type: Astronomical Planetary Nebula NGC 6072 Image Type: Astronomical Planetary Nebula NGC 40 Image Type: Astronomical Spiral Galaxy NGC 5172 Image Type: Astronomical Edge-on Galaxy NGC 4289 Image Type: Astronomical

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