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Just in time for the holidays, NASA has released a new photo showing a spectacular light show created by a pair of merging galaxies 130 million light-years from Earth.

The photo is a composite image of the spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163, located in the constellation Canis Major.

The image is a mash-up of X-rays captured by NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory (shown in pink), visible light data from the Hubble Space Telescope (shown in red, green, and blue), and infrared data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope (shown in red).

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merging galaxiesSpiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163.

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