The Boogeyman Nebula, LDN 1622 // Dnnsrttn

The Twin Jet Nebula

Africa to the left. Europe to the right. Most insane photo ever taken!

Strike a pose, vogue! 📸

The galaxy on the left looks like it went with extreme eye makeup, while the one on the right went with a more natural look. Together, they’re known as Arp 107, a pair of colliding galaxies.

The glamorous galaxy on the left is an extremely energetic galaxy with a very active core. Its small companion is connected to it by a faint “bridge” of gas and dust. This view was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton.

ALT TEXT: A pair of merging galaxies. The galaxy on the left has a single, large spiral arm curving out from the core toward 3 o’clock and wrapping counterclockwise, ending in a straighter line pointing toward the bottom of the frame. This arm is bright blue with shades of brown mixed in. The right-hand galaxy has a bright core that is approximately the same size as the galaxy at left, but only a tiny bit of very faint material surrounds it. A broad curtain of gas connects the two galaxies’ cores and hangs beneath them. Small stars and galaxies are scattered throughout the black background of space.

Hubble inspects a contorted spiral galaxy by europeanspaceagency

Hubble Classic: Stars, Galaxies and Nebulae

Cartwheel Galaxy.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

No mask, no veins, no blood … In this new, crisp image from the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble, the smaller galaxy at left “slithered” behind the larger galaxy. The combo of mid-infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light allows us to see the galaxies in ghastly detail: https://webbtelescope.pub/48wDgQc

Cure

Do not separate them

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Centaurus A

M51 (NIRCam image) by James Webb Space Telescope