Categories: Astronomy

Hubble image shows collision of galaxies causing them to warp

This interacting galaxy duo is collectively called Arp 142.
Credit NASA

In this interesting image of two galaxies 326 million light years away, a collision between a spiral and an elliptical galaxy is making one of them warp into this shape. The flat disk of the spiral NGC 2936 is warped into the profile of a bird by the gravitational tug of the companion NGC 2937. The object was first cataloged as a “peculiar galaxy” by Halton Arp in the 1960s.

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