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Partner Galaxies Wildly Different In New WISE Image

20 January 2011

NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has captured a new view of two companion galaxies. The pair, named Messier 81 and Messier 82, had an encounter that occurred a few hundred million years ago.







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