Two of the galaxies in the galactic triplet Arp 248 — also known as Wild's Triplet — are seen in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Arp 248 is located approximately 200 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. The two large spiral galaxies visible in this image —
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows two of the galaxies in the galactic triplet Arp 248 — also known as Wild’s Triplet — which lies around 200 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, J. Dalcanton
Two of the galaxies in the galactic triplet Arp 248 — also known as Wild’s Triplet — are seen in this image from the. Arp 248 is located approximately 200 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. The two largevisible in this image — which flank a smaller, unrelated background spiral galaxy — appear to be connected by a luminous bridge.
This observation comes from a project which delves into two rogues’ galleries of weird and wonderful galaxies: A Catalogue of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations, compiled by astronomers Halton Arp and Barry Madore, and the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, compiled by Halton Arp.
Hubble used its Advanced Camera for Surveys to scour this menagerie of eccentric galaxies in search of promising candidates for future observations with the NASA/ESA/CSA
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