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Photo Credit: NASA, ESA, R. Sharples (Univ. Durham)
Hickson Compact Group 90 -- as seen with the HST. The image shows three strongly interacting galaxies: a dusty spiral galaxy stretched and distorted between a pair of large elliptical galaxies. This appears to be an early stage of galaxy merger, which will result in a single large galaxy. Paul Hickson and colleagues identified and cataloged some 100 such compact groups of galaxies.

This image was featured as Astronomy Picture of the Day for 2009 March 13.

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