March 31, 2011 - Wired Science
This new image from the Gemini South telescope in Chile captures a pair of galaxies locked in a graceful waltz that will eventually bring the two crashing together.
The telescope was aimed at these galaxies at the suggestion of a group of Australian students at the Sydney Girls High School Astronomy Club, who won a Gemini-sponsored contest searching for beautiful and scientifically useful images of the cosmos.
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