A. Hall sends in this image of an anti-clockwise spiral galaxy beginning to lose its form, "possibly due to the influence of the spiral galaxy in the background? Could be the early stages of a merger taking place or in passing the spiral has broken down?".
A rather nice merger of two spirals, one clockwise, the other edge-on.
Another example of an anti-clockwise spiral galaxy, with an elliptical galaxy appearing next to it. Thanks to A. Manton for sending this one in.
An interesting merger of two spiral galaxies, sent in by A. Hall. He says: "it reminds me of a bird in flight".
Two nice spirals here, one clockwise and one anti-clockwise. Sent in by A. Manton.
The SDSS website doesn't recognise this as an object, hence the lack of an SDSS reference number (if you don't believe me, you can check by selecting the 'bounding boxes' on the link below). However, it is such a nice galaxy that I think it definitely needs to be included here. You can also see it's companion galaxy NGC 5195 very nicely here as well. Sorry for the slight artifact.
Two spiral galaxies that appear to be very close to one another, although this may simply be down to projection.
