Found some 704 million light-years from Earth is a system catalogued in the Arp-Madore “Catalogue of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations.” The catalogued system, known as AM 2026-424, certainly belongs to the peculiar category because of how it looks. It looks like a skull with glowing eyes. In reality, it is just two galaxies of the same size in a collision… or is it?
This image was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on June 19, 2019.
(Image Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B.F. Williams, and M. Durbin (University of Washington))
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