... 000 light-years and joins this famous peculiar pair of galaxies cataloged as Arp 295 ... result in the merger of this pair of galaxies into a larger single galaxy of stars ...
... 000 light-years and joins this famous peculiar pair of galaxies cataloged as Arp 295 ... result in the merger of this pair of galaxies into a larger single galaxy of stars ...
... One of the best studied examples of the jumble of star clusters, gas, and dust clouds produced by such a cosmic train wreck is the interacting galaxypair NGC 4038 / NGC 4039, the Antennae Galaxies , only sixty million light-years away. ...
... Explanation: Intriguing galaxypair M81 and M82 shine in this full-field view from the orbiting GALEX observatory. ... The striking irregular and spiral galaxypair are located only about 10 million light-years away in the northern constellation ...
... NGC 520 , at visual magnitude 12, has been noted to be one of the brightest interacting galaxies on the sky, after interacting pairs of galaxies known as the Antennae . ...
... of stars, gas, and dust stretches for over 75,000 light-years and joins this peculiar pair of galaxies cataloged as Arp 87 ... repeated close passages should ultimately result in the merger of this pair of galaxies into a larger single galaxy of stars ...