Hubble Captures Spectacular Interacting Galaxies

Hubble Space Telescope image of a part of interacting galaxies known as Arp-Madore 608-333. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, J. Dalcanton

The two spectacular interacting galaxies making up the pair known as Arp-Madore 608-333 seem to float side by side in this stunning image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Researchers scoured existing astronomical catalogs for a list of targets spread throughout the night sky to build up this archive. By so doing, they hoped to include cosmic objects that had already been identified as interesting and that would be easy for Hubble to observe no matter which direction it was pointing.

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