An odd couple lives some 100 million light
years away. Here we find a spiral galaxy, NGC 2276 on the left,
and its neighbor NGC 2300 on the right. There are quite a few
intriguing questions concerning this pair. First of all NGC 2276
displays a perturbed spiral structure yet astronomers seem to
agree that NGC 2300 is not the source of the angst. Instead,
astronomers have learned that there is an abundance of gas (not
shown in this picture) surrounding these galaxies. It could be
that NGC 2276's motion through the gas affects its morphology.
