'Trainwreck' galaxy reflects the aftermath of a violent galactic collision (image)

The "peculiar," twisted galactic disk of the "trainwreck" lenticular galaxy NGC 4753 offers evidence of its violent collision with a dwarf galaxy over 1 billion years ago.

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