Image: Arp-Madore 2026-424

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Description: This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures two galaxies of equal size in a collision that appears to resemble a ghostly face. This observation was made on 19 June 2019 in visible light by the telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. Residing 704 million light-years from Earth, this system is catalogued as Arp-Madore 2026-424 (AM 2026-424) in the Arp-Madore “Catalogue of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations”.
Title: Arp-Madore 2026-424
Credit: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1919a/
Author: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B.F. Williams, and M. Durbin (University of Washington)
Usage Terms: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
License: CC BY 4.0
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