The advanced Hubble Space Telescope captured a recent image of 2 of 3 interacting galaxy groups, which NASA dubbed “Arp 248”.
And the American agency has revealed, according to the images captured, that this group of galaxies, also known as Wild’s Triplet, consists of three small spiral galaxies connected to each other by bridges of stars.
He revealed that the telescope was able to capture those images of galaxies 200 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, and the trio is named after Australian astronomer Paul Wilde.
Paul Wilde, a famous astronomer, was a leading researcher in the field of solar energy and studied the group in the 1950s.
The agency added in a statement that galaxies are called interacting because their gravity affects each other, which ultimately leads to the gravitational bond between the three galaxies together and the emergence of light bridges extending between galaxies.
The bridge glows with starlight and also contains dust and stars, forming an elongated region called the tide tail created by the galaxies that drag over each other.
