"Greater Pumpkin" Galaxy Pair

This is a Hubble Space Telescope snapshot of the early stages of a collision between two galaxies that resembles a Halloween carved pumpkin. The "pumpkin's" glowing "eyes" are the bright, star-filled cores of each galaxy that contain supermassive black holes. An arm of newly forming stars give the imaginary pumpkin a wry smirk. The two mostly featureless galaxies, cataloged as NGC 2292 and NGC 2293, are located about 80 million light-years away in the constellation Canis Major.