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Samantha Mathewson

Hubble Space Telescope's view of a galactic collision gets turned into beautiful song

A sparkly blue galaxy is seen in the top left while a hazy, glowing, yellow-ish white one is in the borrom right.

NASA has composed a beautiful melody to represent the cosmic collision of two galaxies. 

The lenticular galaxy NGC 274 and barred spiral galaxy NGC 275, collectively known as Arp 140, are in the process of merging to form a single new structure. Following such a collision, the combination of interstellar material will trigger a burst of new star formation. 

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