eso_eso2509c May 21st, 2025
Credit: DESI Legacy Survey
This wide-field view shows the region of the sky around a pair of interacting galaxies, nicknamed the 'cosmic joust', in which one of them is piercing the other with intense radiation. The galaxies appear as a tiny white dot at the centre of this image. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) resolved them in great detail, and ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) studied the damage that one galaxy is inflicting on the other.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2509c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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