Image of the disc galaxy NGC 4762

Image of the disc galaxy NGC 4762, a member of the Virgo cluster of galaxies, roughly 60 million light-years distant. Visible in amateur telescopes as a very thin disc, successively deeper exposures reveal a distortion or "warp" in the disc. The deepest exposures transform the galaxy into a whimsical "shoe" defined by the debris, a collision likely to have occurred within the last billion years.