The image above shows two galaxies colliding with each other. This event is about 60 million light-years away, in the direction of the constellation Corvus. Since the stars are so far apart, they do not collide with stars from the other galaxy, but the dust and gas clouds create new areas of star formation. The whole collision takes hundreds of millions of years, since they are so large and they are not moving very fast (relative to each other). The galaxies will likely tear each other apart due to the gravitational changes. Scientist think that the two galaxies have collided already and are going to continue to collide until they merge together into one.
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