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NASA Space Technology NASA has released a beautiful composite image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope of a pair of two overlapping spiral galaxies: IC 2163 and NGC 2207.This composite image shows IC 2163 (left) and NGC 2207 (right) galaxies. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI.The IC 2163-NGC 2207 pair is located around 114 million light-years from us in the direction of the constellation of Canis Major.The larger and more massive galaxy is cataloged as NGC 2207, and the smaller one is IC 2163.Strong tidal forces from the former have distorted the shape of the latter, flinging out stars and gas into long streamers stretching out a hundred thousand light-years.IC 2163 is swinging past NGC 2207 in a counterclockwise direction, having made its closest...