Just off the above photograph to the lower right is the smaller galaxy, moving away. The larger galaxy, pictured above , used to be a spiral galaxy but now is damaged and appears peculiar . Gravity has distorted the shapes of the galaxies. Although it is likely that no stars in the two galaxies directly collided , the gas, dust , and ambient magnetic fields do interact directly. In fact, a knot of gas pulled off the larger galaxy on the lower right has now begun to form stars.
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