Image Credit: Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and W. Keel (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa)

Meet AM 0500-620: a pair of interacting galaxies seen nearly face-on from our vantage point. Though one was once believed to be elliptical in nature, astronomers now know that both are highly-symmetric spirals. Any way you shake it, they compliment one another quite nicely, with one even providing the other with an extra source of light.

According to NASA,

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