Documented: Galaxies Colliding all over the Cosmos!

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Astronomy textbooks typically present galaxies as staid, solitary, and majestic island worlds of glittering stars. But galaxies have a wild side. They have flirtatious close encounters that sometimes end in grand mergers and overflowing “maternity wards” of new star birth as the colliding galaxies morph into wondrous new shapes.
This new Hubble atlas dramatically illustrates how galaxy collisions produce a remarkable variety of intricate structures in never-before-seen detail
Read more at http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1356701/new_hubble_images_show_galaxies_gone_wild/#lD0dMIHXyAU7kOwg.99