June 14, 2012: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows a rare view
of a pair of overlapping galaxies, called NGC 3314. The two
galaxies look as if they are colliding, but they are actually
separated by tens of millions of light-years, or about ten times
the distance between our Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda
galaxy. The chance alignment of the two galaxies, as seen from
Earth, gives a unique look at the silhouetted spiral arms in the
closer face-on spiral, NGC 3314A. The motion of the two galaxies
indicates that they are both relatively undisturbed and that
they are moving in markedly different directions. The color
composite was produced from exposures taken in blue and red
light with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. The pair of
galaxies lie roughly 140 million light-years from Earth, in the
direction of the southern hemisphere constellation Hydra.See the
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