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This pair of colliding galaxies exemplifies cosmic chaos and beauty. Known as the Antennae galaxies, their interaction has produced long star streams extending over 500,000 light-years. Their collision triggers a starburst—a rapid formation of new stars—before eventually merging into a larger elliptical galaxy. The ongoing galactic collision is a spectacular display of the universe's dynamic nature, located 45 million light-years away.