Galaxy ESO 69-6

by: Nasa/Esa/Hubble Heritage Team/Novapix
Reference: a-gax95-00250
Date: 2008-05-10

ESO 69-6 is an interacting pair of galaxies located in the constellation of Triangulum Australe, the Southern Triangle, about 650 million light-years away from Earth. Long tidal tails sweep out from the two galaxies: gas and stars were stripped out and torn away from the outer regions of the galaxies. The presence of these tails is the unique signature of an interaction. Image taken by the Hubble space telescope on april 8, 2002.

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