March 28, 2024

Hubble telescope spots a pair of ‘squabbling’ galaxies locked in cosmic dance

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a set of “squabbling” galaxies in action, according to the European Space Agency.The pair of things is known as Arp 86 and consists of 2 galaxies roughly 220 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pegasus.” The gravitational dance between the two galaxies will eventually result in NGC 7752 being tossed out into intergalactic space or completely engulfed by its much bigger next-door neighbor,” the added.Related: The finest Hubble Space Telescope images of all time!This view shows the full view of the interacting galaxies of Arp 86 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. The observatory taken a look at star clusters, gas clouds and dust clouds in numerous environments in the neighborhood, including other galaxies outside of Arp 86, ESA stated.The space telescopes work was combined with measurements from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a set of telescopes in the Chilean Andes enhanced to peer through galactic dust in young systems.