(AP Photo/NASA-ESA)
A pair of interacting galaxies known as Arp 87 are shown in this photo released today by NASA and the European Space Agency. The Hubble Telescope captured the image of stars, gas and dust from the larger spiral galaxy on the right wrapping an arm around its smaller companion.
Arp 87 is located in the constellation of Leo, the Lion, and is about 300 million light-years away from Earth. Arp 87 was first cataloged in the 1960s.
The images were taken in February 2007 with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 with an exposure time of 6.3 hours. This image is roughly 2.3 arcminutes (203,000 light-years or 62 kiloparsecs) wide.
--Paul Chavez
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