Galactic Smash-Up Has Begun - Captured by Hubble

The Hubble Space Telescope captured imagery of the Arp 256 system, a pair of interacting spiral galaxies. The system is 350 million light-years away in the Cetus constellation.

Credit: Space.com / footage courtesy: ESA/Hubble, NASA, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Risinger / produced and edited by Steve Spaleta