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- 1Hubble and Dark Energy Camera capture colliding galaxy pair Arp 122●Hubble and Dark Energy Camera image of Arp 122, also known as NGC 6040 and LEDA 59642. This pair of galaxies NGC 6040, t
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Dark Energy Camera shows Arp 122, a pair of colliding galaxies made up of NGC 6040, a tilted, warped spiral, and LEDA 59642, a round, face-on spiral. The picture highlights the dramatic distortion caused by the two galaxies' ongoing merger. Credit goes to ESA, NASA and J. Dalcanton.