By ESA/Hubble
November 20, 2022
This image comes from a choice of Hubble observations designed to produce a list of intriguing targets for follow-up observations with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, along with other ground-based telescopes. Astronomers selected a list of formerly unnoticed galaxies for Hubble to inspect in between other arranged observations. Gradually, this lets astronomers develop up a menagerie of interesting galaxies while utilizing Hubbles limited observing time as totally as possible.
Stealing the spotlight in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is the galaxy merger Arp-Madore 417-391. It consists of a collection of discreetly connecting galaxies as well as more amazing colliding galaxies.
The two galaxies have been distorted by gravity and twisted into a colossal ring, leaving the cores of the two galaxies nestled side by side.
Hubble Space Telescope image includes the galaxy merger Arp-Madore 417-391, which lies around 670 million light-years away. Credit: ESA/Hubble & & NASA, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/ DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/ NSF/AURA, J. Dalcanton
Stealing the spotlight in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is the galaxy merger Arp-Madore 417-391. The Arp-Madore catalogue is a compilation of especially peculiar galaxies spread out throughout the southern sky. It consists of a collection of subtly connecting galaxies along with more amazing colliding galaxies.
Arp-Madore 417-391 is one such galactic crash. It is located approximately 670 million light-years far from Earth in the constellation Eridanus in the southern celestial hemisphere. The two galaxies have been misshaped by gravity and twisted into a gigantic ring, leaving the cores of the 2 galaxies nestled side by side.
Cropped Hubble Space Telescope view of the galaxy merger Arp-Madore 417-391. Credit: ESA/Hubble & & NASA, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/ DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/ NSF/AURA, J. Dalcanton
Hubble utilized its Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) to capture this scene– the instrument is optimized to hunt for galaxies and galaxy clusters in the ancient Universe. Hubbles ACS has actually been contributing to clinical discovery for 20 years, and throughout its life time it has been involved in whatever from mapping the circulation of dark matter to studying the development of galaxy clusters.
