NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 in Corvus

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NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 in Corvus

The nearest and youngest example of a pair of colliding galaxies with
each galaxy's gravitational field distorting its neighbour. The
collision began about 100 million years ago and is still in progress.

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Martin Nicholson, Daventry, England.
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