Scientists from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) released an image on Friday showing a pair of merging galaxies.
The galaxy merger, known as Arp-Madore 417-391, is located 671 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus.
Captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, it is the result of two galaxies being warped by gravity and twisted together into a ring.
Their cores were left nestled side by side.
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The telescope used its Advanced Survey Camera to capture this scene and the ESA said the instrument is optimized for searching for galaxies and galaxy clusters in the ancient universe.
The Arp-Madore catalog is a collection of strange galaxies spread across the southern sky.
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The photo is from a selection of Hubble observations designed to create an intriguing target list for follow-up observations with the James Webb International Space Telescope and other ground-based telescopes.
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Astronomers have chosen a list of previously unobserved galaxies for Hubble to inspect.