Interacting galaxies are found throughout the universe, sometimes as dramatic collisions that trigger bursts of star formation, on other occasions as stealthy mergers that result in new galaxies. Each of the various merging galaxies in this gallery is a snapshot of a different instant in the long interaction process. Many of the Hubble images seen here were taken as part of a large investigation of luminous and ultraluminous infrared galaxies called the Great Observatories All-sky LIRG Survey.
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(2009). Gallery. In: Christensen, L.L., Shida, R.Y., De Martin, D. (eds) Cosmic Collisions. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-93855-4_6
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