HubbleSite: News - 'Dancing with the Stars' Takes on a Whole New Twist

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class="row"> <div class="col-lg-1"></div> <div class="col-lg-7"> <center> <p>'Dancing with the Stars' Takes on a Whole New Twist</p> </center> </div> <div class="col-lg-4"></div> </div> <div id="news_release_published_section" class="row"> <div class="col-lg-1"></div> <div class="col-lg-7 light_gray_text"> <center> Release date: Oct 30, 2007 9:00 AM (EDT) </center> </div> <div class="col-lg-4"></div> </div> <div id="news_release_abstract_section" class="row"> <div class="col-lg-1"></div> <div class="col-lg-7"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-1"></div> <div class="col-lg-10"> <span id="special_release_block">Release type: Hubble Heritage</span><br> </div> <div class="col-lg-1"></div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-1"></div> <div class="col-lg-10"> <br> <p>Two galaxies perform an intricate dance in this new Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxies, containing a vast number of stars, swing past each other in a graceful performance choreographed by gravity. The pair, known collectively as Arp 87, is one of hundreds of interacting and merging galaxies known in our nearby universe.</p> <p>Arp 87 is in the constellation Leo, the Lion, approximately 300 million light-years away from Earth. These observations were taken in February 2007 with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2.</p> </div> <div class="col-lg-1"></div> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-3"> <span class="light_gray_text">Release ID: STScI-2007-36<br></span> <a href="/web/20180925212017/http://hubblesite.org/image/2193/news_release/2007-36"> <div class="row"><div class="col-lg-12 blue_medium_title"> Release image </div></div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-5"> <img alt="Interacting Galaxy Pair Arp 87" class="img-responsive" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20180925212017im_/https://media.stsci.edu/uploads/image/thumbnail/2193/small_web.jpg 2x" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180925212017im_/https://media.stsci.edu/uploads/image/thumbnail/2193/low_small_web.jpg"/> </div> <div class="col-lg-7 media_title_link"> <p>Interacting Galaxy Pair Arp 87</p> </div> </div> </a> <div class="row"><div class="col-lg-12 blue_medium_title"> Tags </div></div> <div class="row"><div class="col-lg-12"> <a 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