7 breathtaking images of interacting shared by NASA

Resembling an erupting volcano, material flies out in opposite directions due to the gravitational interaction of two galaxies.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured the interacting galaxy pair ARP 273, called the “Rose”

This picture captures a multi-galaxy interaction along with a “cosmic fountain” of stars, gas and dust.

“The Mice” are a pair of spiral galaxies named for their long tails of stars, they will eventually collide to form a single giant galaxy.

A small group of galaxies around 3-billion light years away was captured interacting when the universe was only about 45th of its present age.

An elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy merge into a glowing guitar shape.

Galaxy AM 0644-741, a ring galaxy forms from a collision where one galaxy passes through the disk of another.