The area around NGC 3314 (ground-based view)
![](https://cdn.sci.esa.int/documents/34247/35306/1567217063423-heic1208b_410.jpg)
Date: 14 June 2012
Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
Depicts: NGC 3314
Copyright: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 (Acknowledgement: Davide de Martin)
This image shows a wide field of view around the overlapping galaxy pair NGC 3314. While the two galaxies look as if they are in the midst of a collision, this is in fact a trick of perspective: the two are in chance alignment from our vantage point.
Last Update: 1 September 2019