This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way,

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This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way, or to imply the endorsement by ESO of any product, service or activity Interacting galaxies NGC 5426 and NGC 5427, VIMOS image. These two interacting spiral galaxies form a structure known as Arp 271. They are 110 million light years from Earth, in the constellation of Virgo. This optical image (published in 2018) was obtained with the Visible Multi-Object Spectrograph (VIMOS) instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT).

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