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19 August 2019The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has immortalized the lethal dance of two galaxies destined to clash.
The pair of cosmic dancers, little poetically christened UGC 2369, is 424 million light years from the earth. The American space agency reports this on its website.

NASA experts explain that the two galaxies, extremely luminous, are so close to form a tenuous bridge of stars, gas and dust, made up of material that each galaxy tears away from its partner, due to the mutual gravitational attraction that holds them tight in a swirling dance.

These cosmic dances, NASA researchers explain, "are very common in the history of most galaxies". According to NASA, a similar show will also feature our galaxy. "The milky way - the experts conclude - in the next four billion years is, in fact, destined to progressively get closer to the andromeda galaxy, until it collides and melts".

Launched in 1990, the Hubble space telescope during its nearly thirty years of activity has given us breathtaking images of the universe, from the birth of the stars inside spectacular cosmic incubators to their violent death, often accompanied by huge explosions.