"NASA's Hubble Telescope Captures Interstellar Connections and Cosmic Collisions"
TL;DR
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of ARP 271, a pair of interacting galaxies about 130 million light-years away, showing a bridge of stars connecting them. These interactions can trigger or quench star formation, and astronomers believe ARP 271 could serve as a blueprint for the eventual Milky Way/Andromeda interaction. Galaxies throughout the Universe are constantly interacting and merging, shaping the evolution of the cosmos over billions of years.
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