Hubble Space Telescope picture of Arp 86, a strange set of engaging galaxies which lies approximately 220 million light-years from Earth in the constellationPegasus Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, Dark Energy Survey, J. Dalcanton
This observation from the NASA/ ESA Hubble Space Telescope displays Arp 86, a strange set of engaging galaxies which lies approximately 220 million light-years from Earth in the constellationPegasus Arp 86 is made up of the 2 galaxies NGC 7752 and NGC 7753– NGC 7753 is the big spiral nebula controling this image, and NGC 7752 is its smaller sized buddy. The small buddy galaxy nearly seems connected to NGC 7753, and it is this peculiarity that has actually made the classification “Arp 86”– representing that the galaxy set appears in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies assembled by the astronomer Halton Arp in1966 The gravitational squabble in between the 2 galaxies is destined end catastrophically for NGC7752 It will ultimately either be flung out into intergalactic area or be completely swallowed up by its far bigger next-door neighbor.
Hubble observed Arp 86 as part of a bigger effort to comprehend the connections in between young stars and the clouds of cold gas in which they form. Hubble looked into star clusters and clouds of gas and dust in a range of environments dotted throughout neighboring galaxies. Combined with measurements from ALMA, a massive radio telescope set down high in the Chilean Andes, these Hubble observations supply a gold mine of information for astronomers working to comprehend how stars are born.
These observations likewise assisted plant the seeds of future research study with an approaching area telescope, the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This telescope, due to introduce later on this year, will study star development in dirty areas such as the galaxies of Arp 86.
