The NSF NOIRLab-operated Gemini North telescope captured stunning imagery of galaxies UGC 12914 and UGC 12915, aka 'Taffy Galaxies.' Their 'twisted appearance is the result of a head-on collision' ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has once again captivated us with a peculiar beauty in deep space. The iconic telescope captured a cosmic encounter between a barred spiral galaxy and a lenticular galaxy ...
Arp 300 consists of two interacting galaxies, UGC 05028 (the smaller face-on spiral galaxy) and UGC 05029 (the larger face-on spiral). This image of distant interacting galaxies, known collectively as ...
New and old stars alike twinkle in the dusty spiral arms of NGC 1087. Located 80 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus, NGC 1087 is a barred spiral galaxy. Against an inky black backdrop ...
The galaxies’ redness and the fact that telescopes like Hubble hadn’t seen them before have a common explanation. They give off very little visible light. Therefore, human eyes and Hubble can’t see ...