Notable Interacting Galaxies
| Name | Type | Distance (million ly) |
Magnitude | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) | SAc (SB0-a) | 37 | +8.4 | Satellite interacting with its primary |
| NGC 2207 and IC 2163 | SAc/SAbc | 114 | +11 | galaxies going through the first phase in galactic collision |
| Mice Galaxies (IC 819/20) | S0/SB(s)ab | 300 | +13.5 | galaxies going through the second phase in galactic collision |
| NGC 1097 | SB(s)bc (E6) | 45 | +9.5 | Satellite interacting with its primary |
| Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038/9) | SAc/SBm | 45 | +10.3 | galaxies going through the third phase in galactic collision |
| NGC 520 | S | 100 | +11.3 | galaxies going through the third phase in galactic collision |
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