esahubble_opo9734d October 21st, 1997
Credit: Brad Whitmore (STScI), and NASA/ESA
The respective cores of the twin galaxies are the orange blobs, left and right of image center, crisscrossed by filaments of dark dust. A wide band of chaotic dust, called the overlap region, stretches between the cores of the two galaxies. The sweeping spiral- like patterns, traced by bright blue star clusters, shows the result of a firestorm of star birth activity which was triggered by the collision.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9734d/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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