Arp-Madore 2026-424

Data was taken by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS)

 

In this Hubble Space Telescope image, an uncanny pair of glowing eyes glares menacingly in our direction. The piercing "eyes" are the most prominent feature of what resembles the face of an otherworldly creature.

 

But this is no ghostly apparition. Hubble is looking at a titanic head-on collision between two galaxies.

 

Each "eye" is the bright core of a galaxy, one of which slammed into another. The outline of the face is a ring of young blue stars. Other clumps of new stars form a nose and mouth. The entire system is catalogued as Arp-Madore 2026-424.

 

Data was used from the following proposals:

archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.php?mission=hst&id=...

archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.php?mission=hst&id=...

 

R: 814w

G: 814 + 606w

B: 606w

 

All processing was done in pixinsight

 

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