Sunny Priyan
Arp 105, nicknamed "The Guitar," is a stunning galactic merger with a 362,000-light-year tidal tail of stars and gas shaped by gravity.
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A dark dust lane from NGC 3561B feeds star-forming Ambartsumian’s Knot—a tidal dwarf galaxy born from the cosmic clash shaping the Guitar.
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Two bright star-forming regions light up the spiral’s edges, one mirroring Ambartsumian’s Knot, the other possibly a foreground galaxy still under study.
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Faint tendrils of gas and dust link the galaxies, offering clues to the timing and evolution of their cosmic collision.
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A host of distant background galaxies surrounds the merging pair, including a bright blue blob near Ambartsumian’s Knot that may be a luminous galaxy far beyond.
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Arp 105 shines brightly in the chaotic galaxy cluster Abell 1185, where Hubble studies the birth of stars within and between galaxies.
Credit: NASA, ESA and M. West