Under the slightly risqué headline ‘Galaxies gone wild!’ the Hubble Space Telescope team has released a series of images of hot galaxy merging action.

In total 59 candid snaps of colliding galaxies have been released, most of which are products of the GOALS project, combining data from the Spitzer, Hubble, Chandra and GALEX instruments.

More of our favourites from the 59 below the fold. Click on images for description.

Arp 256

NGC 6050

CGCG436-030

Images: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)