This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image depicts the cosmic tangle that is MCG+05-31-045, a pair of interacting galaxies located 390 million light-years away and a part of the Coma galaxy cluster.

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Astronomers have discovered two galaxies that are perfectly aligned, allowing their combined gravitational pull to act as a compound lens.

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