Arp 105 is a dazzling ongoing merger between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy drawn together by gravity, characterized by a long, drawn out tidal tail of stars and gas more than 362,000 light-years long. The immense tail, which extends beyond this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, was pulled from the two galaxies […]
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Astrophysics, Astrophysics Division, Elliptical Galaxies, Goddard Space Flight Center, Hubble Space Telescope, Interacting Galaxies, Spiral Galaxies, The Universe
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March 8, 2025
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