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This is an image of the interacting ‘rose galaxies.’ The smaller galaxy likely passed through the larger one, which is stretched into a rose shape by the gravitational tidal pull of its neighbor below. 

This image of the galaxies, formally called Arp 273, was released to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

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During a solar flare, magnetic field lines on the sun are often visible due to the flow of plasma—charged particles—along the lines. According to theory, these magnetic lines should remain intact, but they are sometimes observed breaking and reconnecting with other lines. An interdisciplinary team of researchers suggests that turbulence may be the missing link. In their magnetohydrodynamic simulation, they found that the presence of chaotic turbulent motions made the magnetic line motion entirely unpredictable, whereas laminar flows behaved according to conventional flux-freezing theory. (Photo credit: NASA SDO; Research credit: G. Eyink et al.; via SpaceRef; submitted by jshoer)

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