IR-Bright Merging Galaxy (IMAGE)

Naval Research Laboratory

IR-Bright Merging Galaxy

Caption

This is an optical (left) and infrared (right) image of an IR-bright merging galaxy. The center of the merger is obscured in the left image, but in the infrared (right) the central disk is very bright and easily seen.

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Optical image from the Hubble Space Telescope and infrared image from the University of Hawaii 88

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