NASA Shares Dramatic Image of 2 Galaxies Locked in a Cosmic Dance - Gadgets 360

The event was taking place at a distance of about 220 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus and was captured by the space agency's powerful Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA said the gravitational pull between the two galaxies will eventually result in the smaller galaxy either being tossed out into space or it will be consumed by the larger one.

Eventually, the gravitational pull between them will result in the smaller galaxy being tossed out into space or engulfed by its larger neighbor.

NASA said in a statement that the Hubble found Arp 86 as part of a larger effort to understand the connections between young stars and the clouds of cold gas in which they form.

For these observations, Hubble makes use of data provided by ALMA, a gigantic radio telescope perched high in the Chilean Andes.

The space agency said these Hubble observations provide “a treasure trove of data” for astronomers trying to understand how stars are born.