Mergers of Galaxies

Strange objects

NGC 4038/4039, the Antennae Galaxies NGC_4038/39: VLT view of the center Figure caption	The Mice The Mice: Full resolution (7.9 MB) Figure caption
Tadpole galaxy Full resolution (9.5 MB) Figure caption	A gallery of tadpole galaxies in the HUDF Tadpole gallery: full resolution (2 MB) Locate the Tadpole galaxies in the HUDF Figure caption

NGC 2207 and IC 2163 NGC 2207 and IC 2163: Full resolution Figure caption	Spiral merger and boxy galaxy Figure caption
M51, Whirlpool galaxy M51: Full resolution Figure caption	NGC 6872 and IC 4970 Figure caption
Interacting system NGC 6745 Figure caption	Stephans quintet (HST) Stephans quintet: Full resolution (ground-based) Figure caption

Halo of M63 (NGC 5055)

NGC 4651, the Umbrella galaxy

The Ghost of a Dwarf Galaxy in the Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 5907

Early N-body simulation of the mice galaxies (A. Toomre 1972) Figure caption	N-body simulation of the mice galaxies Movie caption (1:16)
A model for "The mice", by J. Barnes Movie caption	Figure caption Movie caption
How to create galaxy "antennae" or filaments (A. Toomre 1972) Figure caption	The Antennae Galaxies, NGC 4038/4039 (ground-based view) Figure caption
Spiral Metamorphosis (J. Dubinski): Merger of our Galaxy with Andromeda Movie caption (6:24)	Merger of our Galaxy with Andromeda: the view from our Sun Movie caption (6:43)

M51: stellar light and gas density
(Neutral Hydrogen)

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THE ROGUES GALLERY
of interacting galaxies.

(Credit: John Hibbard, NRAO)

background photo: The Tadpole Galaxy UGC 10214
(Credit: NASA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth (UCSC/LO), M.Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), the ACS Science Team, and ESA)
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