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Arp 87 Arp 87 is what tou get when two galaxies enter into a steel cage match---and only one leaves. Galactic collisions are actually pretty common and sometimes result in a lot of near misses, like what is going here. These two galaxies almost ran into one another a few billion years ago and gravity has strung out material between the two as they moved apart. it's likely that they'll sweep back toward one another in a series of near misses until they eventually merge into one big galaxy. for now, they remain tethered together by a thing stream of stars, gas, and dust particles, like enormous intergalatic bolas, which can only mean one thing: space Incas.
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