See Hubble's captures of real-life star wars

Sometimes gravity unifies galaxies; sometimes it creates strife. But documenting these paradoxical processes is always a feat, even in the age of advanced space telescopes and astronomical modeling. On February 14, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) posted a Hubble image depicting three galaxies swirling into one. The newborn formation is located 681 million light-years away from Earth in the Cancer constellation. The gravitational force of the triple merger is so intense, it’s packing dust into new stars and causing bulges in the galactic cloud (an effect known as tidal distortion).