Hubble Peers at Pair of Closely Interacting Galaxies

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that only includes two galaxies interacting due to gravity: NGC 5996 (the large spiral galaxy) and NGC 5994 (its smaller companion, in the lower left of the image). Both galaxies lie approximately 160 million light-years from Earth, and their […]
Posted on April 5, 2024
Sign up for our newsletter:

Categories

26
1
177
10
1
12
3
5
2
1
1
1
16
19
3
77
1
1
1
36
4
1
2
296
4
1
6
2
6
1
1
1
3
1
239
2
107
38
10
10
1
5
4
45
28
6
4
3
545
1
1
1
11
197
2
6
2
3
3
Io
3
13
7
10
33
1
1
16
4
3
2
1
160
1

Blog Posts

Newsletter Archive