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(Thanks to Starts With A Bang! reader benhead.) The Hubble Space Telescope has released some beautiful images of colliding galaxies in a huge collection! Here are some of my favorites, with my very own names for them (real name in parentheses). We'll start with the Glowing Arrow (Arp 148): The Highway Windshield (NGC 6240) The Flaming Splinter (NGC 6670): And finally, I call this one "my new desktop wallpaper:" I was going to write a whole bunch about this, but I have been beaten to the punch by Universe Today, Bad Astronomy, and Will Gater. I'll have to wake up earlier next time! In the…