ESO 576-69 in Virgo: The messy result of a galactic collision | HubbleThis image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope captures an ongoing cosmic collision between two galaxies—a spiral galaxy is in the process of colliding with a lenticular galaxy. The collision looks almost as if it is popping out of the screen in 3D with parts of the spiral arms clearly embracing the lenticular galaxy’s bulge. A lenticular, meaning "lens-…
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