A bridge of stars between two galaxies - Space and Astronomy. The evanescent star bridge was captured thanks to an image taken by Hubble of one of the three galaxies that form the group known as Arp 295.
When galaxies pass close enough to disturb each other, they are called interacting galaxies. These are interactions that take place over billions of years, and repeated close passages can also cause the two galaxies to merge, a phenomenon considered quite common. Our Milky Way is also predicted to merge with the massive nearby Andromeda galaxy in about four billion years. If the hypothesis is correct, the stars and gases contained in Andromeda will be visible to the naked eye in about threebillion years.