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Pictures & Press Releases
Newscenter: Images > Galaxy > Interacting NewsCenter: Images > Galaxy > Interacting

It's a cavalcade of cosmic collisions. See the images and learn the facts about the galaxies that starred in our shows. Includes many additional galaxy collision images and press releases.

Animations & Movies
Newscenter: Videos > Galaxy > Interacting NewsCenter: Videos > Galaxy > Interacting

Simulations are precise, computer-generated enactments of galactic collisions, designed to mimic the forces at play and predict the outcome. Watch smash-ups of astronomical proportions play out on the small screen.

General Information
Amazing Space: Capture the Cosmos > Galaxies Amazing Space: Capture the Cosmos > Galaxies

What are galaxies? What do they do besides crash into one another? Visit our sister site, Amazing Space, for galaxy-centric answers, pictures and interactive adventures.

Additional Images

M31 — Andromeda Galaxy
Image Credit: Tony & Daphne Hallas

Large & Small Magellanic Clouds (external link)
Image Credits: from UK Schmidt plates by David Malin © 1984 - 2002, Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh.

Sagittarius Dwarf (SagDEG) (external link)
Image Credit: R. Wyse, modified from Wyse, Gilmore & Franx (1997, Ann Rev Astron Astro 35, 637).

Night Time Sky (AF6d-01) (external link)
Image Credit: © Akira Fujii/DMI


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