Hubble Images of Galaxies with Tidal Tails

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The Mice This colliding pair of spiral galaxies is known as "The Mice" because of the long tails of stars...
Two galaxies interacting that look like mice with tails.
Galaxy AM 1054-325 has been distorted into an S-shape from a normal pancake-like spiral shape by the gravitational pull of...
This is a picture of a galaxy with a peculiar S-shape. It has a bright milky-white core at the center. Twin arms of blue stars wrap around the core. One arm looks particularly stretched out due to the gravitational tidal pull of a neighboring galaxy. Bright, young, whitish star clusters are strung along the arm like a string of pearls. They formed as a result of the collision process.
This odd-looking galaxy with the long streamer of stars appears to be racing through space like a runaway pinwheel firework,...
At the top left of the image, a white spiral galaxy is seen with a long blue tail going diagonal down to the bottom right. In the background there are many distant galaxies.
This image of a pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273 was released to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the...
Top: a distorted spiral galaxy. One of its spiral arms extends in a sweeping arc below the galaxy. Below this spiral is another edge-on galaxy extending from the lower left toward image center.
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that only includes two...
A large spiral galaxy with a smaller neighboring galaxy. The spiral galaxy is wide and distorted, with colorful dust. Its companion lies close by, at the end of a spiral arm, to the lower left. A long, faint tail of stars reaches up from the right side of the spiral galaxy to the top of the image. Several small, distant galaxies are visible in the background, along with one bright star in the foreground.