Merging galaxies?
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by kalspaugh
Is this three or four galaxies merging? The bottom left cluster looks like it could be two galaxies almost merged.
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by ElisabethB moderator
The central galaxy appears to be interacting with the galaxy at 8 o'clock. The round object at 12 o'clock and the red one are foreground stars from our galaxy.
Hope this helps.
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by siliconbayou
Interestingly there appear to be tidal tails (debris) not only bridging the three interacting galaxies but the up and lower galaxies show tails on the opposite sides also.
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by ElisabethB moderator
The round object at the top is not a galaxy but a forground star fom our galaxy. Only two galaxies interacting here ! And there is a lot of noise in this image !
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