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