Arp 271 (from the Arp's Atlas of peculiar galaxies) is a pair of similarly sized interacting spiral galaxies, NGC 5426 and NGC 5427. This pair spans about 130,000 light years and lies about 90 million light-years away toward the constellation of Virgo. (wiki)

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