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Bullseye! Hubble Spots Ripples in Space From a Galaxy Collision


What happens when one galaxy shoots a bigger galaxy right through the heart? Like a rock thrown into a pond, the smashup creates a splash-up of starry ripples. At least that's what happened to the Bullseye galaxy, which is the focus of observations made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck Observatory in Hawaii.

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