An image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a galaxy merger 671 million light-years away
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Scientists from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) released an image on Friday showing a pair of merging galaxies.
The merging of galaxies, known as Arp-Madore 417-391is located 671 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus.
Captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, it is the result of two galaxies that have been twisted by gravity and twisted together into a ring.
Their cores were left nestled together.
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The galaxy merger Arp-Madore 417-391 catches the eye in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The Arp-Madore catalog is a collection of particularly peculiar galaxies scattered across the southern sky and includes a collection of subtly interacting galaxies as well as more spectacular colliding galaxies.
(ESA/Hubble & NASA, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, J. Dalcanton)
The telescope used its Advanced Camera for Surveys to capture this scene, and ESA said the instrument was optimized for hunting for galaxies and galaxy clusters in the ancient universe.
The Arp-Madore catalog is a collection of strange galaxies scattered across the southern sky.
Arp-Madore 417-391 up close
(Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, J. Dalcanton)
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The photo comes from a selection of Hubble observations designed to create a list of intriguing targets for follow-up observations with James Webb International Space Telescope and other ground-based telescopes.
An astronaut aboard the space shuttle Atlantis captured this picture with the Hubble Space Telescope on May 19, 2009.
(NASA)
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Astronomers selected a list of previously unobserved galaxies for Hubble to inspect.
