Hubble Captures a Monster Merger

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features Arp 122, a peculiar galaxy that in fact comprises two galaxies - NGC 6040, the tilted, warped spiral galaxy and LEDA 59642, the round, face-on spiral - that are in the midst of a collision. This dramatic cosmic encounter is located at the very safe distance of roughly 570 million light-years from […]