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Gran Telescopio Canarias image of Arp 271, also known as NGC 5426 and NGC 5427. The mutual gravitational interaction of this pair of spiral galaxies distorts their shapes and creates a bridge of gas, dust and young stars that connect the galaxies. Credit: GTC, IAC Source

Two spiral galaxies take up most of the frame. At left is a more oblique galaxy that has a bright yellow core and fainter spiral arms dotted with pink star forming regions. At right is a nearly face-on spiral galaxy. It has a smaller yellow core and two well-defined spiral arms dotted with blue star clusters and pink star forming regions. The upper arm forks in two near its end. Near the center of the galaxy, the arms are crossed with brown dust lanes. The spiral arms of the two galaxies appear to form a faint bridge connecting the pair. The black background of space is dotted with stars and small background galaxies.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 21h

Gemini South image of Arp 222, also known as NGC 7727. About a billion years ago, a smaller, galaxy collided and merged with NGC 7727, creating the swirling loops of material seen in its outskirts. Credit: International Gemini Observatory, NOIRLab, NSF, AURA Source

A chaotic, swirling galaxy merger remnant fills the frame. At the center is a cream-colored cat's eye shape, surrounded by a swirling haze of gas and stars. Emerging from this roughly circular central region are large tidal tails that loop around the galaxy several times. They look a little like a diagram of electrons orbiting an atom at different angles. The tidal tails are a translucent yellow-white color on their edges with a line of blue in their centers. The right side of one of the inner loops is streaked with red gas and dark brown dust. The black background of space is dotted with stars and small background galaxies.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Image of Arp 7, from Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1966). In the original catalog it was in the category: Spiral galaxies - Split arms. It is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Hydra. Source

A grainy, black and white image of a two-armed spiral galaxy with a bright core. The upper spiral arm forks into two as it curves around the top of the galaxy. Many white dots, which are stars, are seen on the black background.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sloan Digital Sky Survey image of Arp 285, also known as NGC 2854 and NGC 2856. This pair of galaxies is connected by a bridge of material, indicating a past interaction. The upper galaxy, NGC 2856, also has a clumpy tail perpendicular to its disk. Credit: SDSS Source

$A somewhat low-res image of a pair of widely-space interacting spiral galaxies. The galaxy in the top left has a bright disk seen at a slight angle so that it appears oval-shaped. Its spiral arms are fainter and hard to see. A thin, blue, clumpy line extends above the galaxy, perpendicular to its disk. The galaxy in the lower right has a strong bar and two spiral arms, forming a distinct S shape. The bar is brighter and yellow-ish. The arms are bluer and dotted with teal star clusters. Faint streams of blue material extend outwards from the ends of the spiral arms. The top stream almost connects with the galaxy in the top left. Several foreground stars are seen as bright points with eight diffraction spikes. The black background of space is dotted with stars and small background galaxies$

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hubble image of Arp 148, also known as Mayall's Object. The nickname comes from astronomer Nicholas Mayall, who first imaged the object in 1940 and noted it looked like a question mark. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Evans, K. Noll, and J. Westphal Source

A pair of interacting galaxies. The galaxy on the left is likely an edge-on disk galaxy, appearing as a slightly warped, fuzzy, white horizontal line with dust filaments at its center. The galaxy on the right is a ring galaxy, appearing as a blue circular ring, dotted with blue star clusters, that also has its center partially filled in with blue star clusters. The two galaxies overlap so that the right end of the edge-on galaxy intersects with the ring galaxy's center. It looks a bit like a big blue hand holding the Enterprise in a classic episode of Star Trek.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Image of Arp 282, also known as NGC 169 and NGC 169A, from Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1966). In the original catalog it was in the category: Double and multiple galaxies - Infall and attraction. Tidal streams visibly link the pair. Source

A grainy, black and white image of a large spiral galaxy is seen in the center of the frame. It's tilted at an angle, so that it's disk appears as an oval rather than a circle. The long axis of the oval is nearly vertical. Dramatic dark dust lanes cross in front of the center of the galaxy. To the right of the spiral is a smaller disk galaxy. It appears to be at almost a right angle to the large spiral. It is overexposed and no details are seen in the center of the galaxy. The two galaxies are connected by a bridge of material. A few white dots, which are stars, are seen on the black background.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Kitt Peak image of Arp 94, also known as NGC 3226 and NGC 3227. The large spiral galaxy, NGC 3227 is interacting with its elliptical galaxy companion, NGC 3226. Faint tidal streams of gas and dust link the pair. Credit: KPNO,NOIRLab,NSF/AURA/Sid Leach and Wil Milan/Adam Block Source

Two interacting galaxies. A large spiral galaxy with reddish brown dust lanes is in the center left of the image. It is tilted slightly, so that its disk forms an oval rather than a circle. The very faint ends of spiral arms extend beyond the edge of the disk and appear to connect to its companion galaxy. In the center right is a bright elliptical galaxy. It is oval shaped with a bright center that gets gradually fainter and more transparent towards its edges. The black background of space is dotted with foreground stars and tiny background galaxies.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Image of Arp 147, also known as IC 298, from Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1966). In the original catalog it was in the category: Amorphous galaxies - Associated rings. The right galaxy's ring formed when its companion hit its center. Source

A grainy, black-and-white image of two ring-like galaxies. On the left is a galaxy with a bright core surrounded by a ring. There is a gap between the core and ring where the black background of space shows through. The galaxy is tilted so that the circular ring appears oval-shaped. On the right is a another circular galaxy, made mostly of a ring of bright dots, which are star clusters. The center of the ring is empty and the black background of space shows through. Together, the galaxies look like the number 10.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hubble Space Telescope image of Arp 26, also known as M101 or the Pinwheel Galaxy. The image is made from 51 individual Hubble exposures, plus data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and Kitt Peak National Observatory. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI; CFHT, NOAO, AURA, NSF Source

A face-on spiral galaxy has a yellow core. Several spiral arms, dotted with blue stars and star clusters, spiral clockwise around the core. They are crossed by filamentary dust lanes. The arms are somewhat well-defined but asymmetric. One arm curls from about 6 o'clock to 9 o'clock and is mostly separated from the body of the galaxy. Another arm follows more closely to the core, from about 6 o'clock to 12 o'clock. Three other arms cover the area from 12 o'clock to 6 o'clock.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

GALEX and SDSS image of Arp 24, also known as NGC 3445. The left image from GALEX shows NGC 3445 in ultraviolet light. The right image shows the same galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in visible light. Credit: Fig. 1 from Smith et al. 2010. Source

A two-panel image. The left panel is labeled Arp 24 GALEX. A scale bar marks 1 arcminute, which is about 1/8 the width of the frame. The panel shows a low-res image in shades of yellow and blue. The frame is dominated by the large spiral. It has a small core that sits in the middle of a spiral structure. The one spiral arm begins at about 9 o'clock and curves clockwise around the galaxy, completing a full circle. The arm is unusually thick, fanning out with many bright, whiteish-blue star clusters. To the left of the spiral is a smaller galaxy, seen almost edge-on. It appears as an elongated oval dotted with stars. The long axis of the oval is almost horizontal. Connecting the two galaxies is a faint bridge of stars. A large yellow dot, which is a bright foreground star, fills the upper left corner.
The right panel is labeled Arp 24 SDSS and has a similar 1 arcminute scale bar. It shows the same galaxies at the same scale and is higher resolution. The star clusters in the spiral are better resolved, appearing as small blue dots.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ground-based image of Arp 25, also known as NGC 2276. NGC 2276 (left) is being pulled by the neighboring galaxy NGC 2300 (right). NGC 2276 is rich in new star formation along its spiral arms. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Adam Block (Steward Observatory) Source

$On a black, starry background are three bright objects in a horizontal row at the center. On the left is a bright star with four diffraction spikes. To its lower right is a large spiral galaxy filled with streaks of blue and pink. Its right-side arm appears to be breaking away from the rest of the galaxy, being pulled toward the third object on the far right, another galaxy. This galaxy is yellow and smoothly increases in brightness toward its center.$

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hubble Space Telescope image of Arp 4. This image contains two galaxies, a larger irregular galaxy, Arp 4, and a small spiral galaxy PGC 6629. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Julianne Dalcanton, Meli thev, Wikimedia Commons Source

A greyscale image of two galaxies. The upper galaxy is large and faint. It has a central bar and a loose, patchy ring of star clusters. The bottom galaxy is smaller and brighter. It has two well-defined spiral arms, which spiral clockwise from a bright central point. The arms are dotted with bright star clusters and outlined by dark dust lanes. The outer arms feature a less well defined haze of stars.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hubble image of Arp 321, also known as Hickson 40. This group of galaxies include three spiral galaxies, an elliptical galaxy, and a lenticular (lens-like) galaxy. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Judy Schmidt Source

Five galaxies appear close to each other in the sky. At upper left, a spiral galaxy is tilted, appearing wider than it is tall. It has a glowing yellow-white center and brown dust trails that spiral clockwise around it. Above the center is a large elliptical galaxy. Its round, glowing yellow-white center is surrounded by a fuzzy halo that fades away from the core. Toward the bottom right are three galaxies that appear to touch. The largest is in the center: a nearly vertical, edge-on spiral galaxy. Its glowing yellow-white core is mostly obscured by reddish-brown dust trails dotted with blue stars. To its bottom left is a smaller, tilted spiral galaxy with a glowing white center. Brown dust trails are dotted with blue stars. One spiral arm appears to touch the vertical galaxy to its right. At the spiral’s bottom right is a lenticular galaxy with a glowing central core in the middle of a hazy white disk, appearing almost face-on. It seems to touch the large spiral galaxy above it.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Image of Arp 122, also known as NGC 6040 and LEDA 59642, from Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1966). In the original catalog it was in the category: Elliptical galaxies - Close to and perturbing spiral galaxies. Source

A grainy, black-and-white image of a pair of merging galaxies. One is seen face-on and is circular in shape. There is no detail in the center. The other galaxy is seen as a disk tilted away from the viewer and it is partially warped. It has a rough American football shape. Various small galaxies and stars cover the scene, seen as fuzzy white points. The background of space is black.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Gran Telescopio Canarias image of Arp 288, also known as NGC 5221. In 2016, a supernova appeared in the galaxy's long tidal tail to the right, about 260 thousand light years from the galactic center. Credit: GTC, IAC Source

A disrupted spiral galaxy. The disk of the galaxy is tilted, so that it appears as an oval shape, rather than a circle. The galaxy has a bright yellow center and a dark ring of dust that circles the galaxy about half way out of the disk. Above and below the plane of the disk, the galaxy has some pretty intense tidal tails, blue streams of gas and stars that appear to be flowing off of the main galaxy. The ones below the disk form a rough V shape and the ones above fan out like smoke rising from a campfire. Dotted against the black background of space are many small background galaxies and foreground stars.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hubble Space Telescope image of Arp 26, also known as M101 or the Pinwheel Galaxy. This image shows a section of the galaxy, with over 3000 bright clusters of hot, young, blue stars. Credit: NASA, ESA Source

An arc of blue points makes a rough backwards C shape on the black background of space. These points are hot, young stars or star clusters. Interspersed within the blue points are red points, which are cooler stars. Near the edges of the arc are hazy areas of nebulosity.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Image of Arp 300, also known as UGC 05028 and UGC 05029, from Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1966). In the original catalog it was in the category: Double and multiple galaxies - Unclassified objects. Source

A grainy, black and white image of a pair of galaxies. The larger galaxy to the lower left is seen nearly face-on. It has a small core that transitions into clumpy spiral arms that are dotted with bright star clusters. More star clusters appear on the top of the galaxy, the side that faces its companion. The smaller galaxy to the upper right has a bright center that is surrounded by star clusters that only very roughly form spiral arms. Other distant galaxies and stars fill the black background of space.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

JWST image of Arp 220, also known as IC 4553. Arp 220 is two spiral galaxies in the process of merging. The merger sparked a burst of star formation in their cores. Those small, bright areas created the six large diffraction spikes. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A. Pagan Source

$A black, deep-space background is punctuated with more than a hundred randomly spaced red, white and orange galaxies in this astronomical image. These galaxies are various shapes and apparent sizes. Dominating the foreground is an object that at first appears to be a brilliant, 6-pointed, orange star surrounded by wisps of orange gas and bluish purple nebulosity. In reality, what seems to be a star is actually two colliding galaxies with merging cores. The brilliant light from the star-formation surrounding these cores creates diffraction spikes — the prominent starburst feature. Several tiny, whitish yellow regions appear almost dead center on this feature. On the outskirts of the merger are faint, grainy, nearly transparent areas that look like bluish purple clouds. Reddish orange streams and filaments appear across the foreground object.$

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

GALEX and SDSS image of Arp 283, also known as NGC 2798 and NGC 2799. The left galaxy in this interacting pair, NGC 2799, is viewed edge-on. A bridge with clumps of star formation appears to connect it to NGC 2798, at right. Credit: Fig. 12 from Smith et al. 2010. Source

A two-panel image. The left panel is labeled Arp 283 GALEX. A scale bar marks 1 arcminute, which is about 1/8 the width of the frame. The panel shows a low-res image of a pair of interacting galaxies. in shades of yellow and blue. The galaxy on the left is seen edge-on. It has a bright central core and a slightly warped blue disk. The edge of the disk arcs to the right, appearing to connect to its companion galaxy. The second galaxy is seen as a fuzzy yellow circle, with a brighter off-center core. The right panel is labeled Arp 283 SDSS and has a similar 1 arcminute scale bar. It shows the same galaxies at the same scale and is higher resolution. The galaxy on the left is seen edge-on. It has a bright yellow central core and a slightly warped blue disk. The edge of the disk arcs to the right, appearing to connect to its companion galaxy. The second galaxy is inclined, but seen closer to face-on. It has a central bar of blue-ish stars that is largely obscured by a haze of yellow stars and dust lanes in the circular core of the galaxy. Two spiral arms emerge from the core, which are wide, poorly defined, and mostly made of yellow older stars, which is unusual for a spiral galaxy.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Image of Arp 288, also known as NGC 5221, from Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1966). In the original catalog it was in the category: Double and multiple galaxies - Wind effects. Source

A grainy, black and white image of a field of stars and galaxies. Near the top of the frame is a small spiral galaxy. The galaxy has a bright center and a dark ring of dust that circles the galaxy about half way out of the disk. Above and below the plane of the disk, the galaxy has some pretty intense tidal tails, streams of gas and stars that appear to be flowing off of the main galaxy. The ones below the disk form a rough V shape and the ones above fan out like smoke rising from a campfire.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ALMA and Hubble image of Arp 220, also known as IC 4553. Dust blocks the center of a galaxy merger in the Hubble visible light view. However, ALMA sees two compact cores in millimeter wavelength light (red). Credit: ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team Source

A section of the center of a pair of merging galaxies. The image is dominated by brown dust, which forms a blotchy diagonal band that runs from upper right to lower left. It is backlit by the bright light from the center of the galaxies. In the background are blue stars and star clusters, seen as a grainy blue background interspersed with blue dots. In the center are two bright red dots. The top one is brighter and the lower one is slightly fainter.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

VLT image of Arp 289, also known as NGC 3981. This image was captured as part of the ESO Cosmic Gems Program, which uses the Very Large Telescope to photograph beautiful objects in the southern skies when conditions don’t allow scientific observations to be made. Credit: ESO Source

The yellow core of a disrupted spiral galaxy is surrounded by irregular, translucent spiral arms. The inner part of the galaxy is seen at an angle, so that it appears oval-shaped rather than circular. Dark brown dust lanes and pink star forming regions cross a yellow haze of older stars. The faint blue arms unfurl from the center, like paint flung out of a spinning canvas. They are dotted with blue star clusters. The arms stretch out to the right of the frame. The black background of space is filled with foreground stars and tiny background galaxies.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Image of Arp 15, also known as NGC 7393, from Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1966). In the original catalog it was in the category: Spiral galaxies - Detached segments. It is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Aquarius. Source

A grainy, black and white image of a nearly face-on spiral galaxy. Several white dots, which are stars, are seen on the black background.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hubble Space Telescope image of Arp 25, also known as NGC 2276. The lopsided galaxy has a core offset to the upper left and a spiral arm separated from the others. It is interacting with a nearby galaxy, just out of frame. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, P. Sell Source

Against the black background of space, which has distant stars and galaxies scattered across, is a large spiral galaxy filled with streaks of blue and pink. The galaxy has warped spiral arms that wrap clockwise around its bright yellow core. Toward the upper right, one of its arms appears to be breaking away from the rest of the galaxy.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Image of Arp 302, also known as UGC 9618 or VV 340, from Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1966). In the original catalog it was in the category: Double and multiple galaxies - Unclassified objects. The pair is beginning to interact. Source

A grainy, black and white image of a pair of spiral galaxies. The lower galaxy is seen face-on. It has a bright center that transitions into a series of loosely-wound spiral arms, looking something like a cinnamon roll. The arms are dotted with star clusters . The upper galaxy is seen edge on. It has a somewhat puffy disk, seen as a wide, vertical line. Together, the two galaxies look like an exclamation point. In the middle of the frame, where the two galaxies appear to touch, is a bright foreground star seen as a large dot. A few white dots, which are stars, are seen on the black background.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Image of Arp 30, also known as NGC 6365, from Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1966). In the original catalog it was in the category: Spiral galaxies - One heavy arm. This is actually a pair of galaxies, one face-on and one edge-on. Source

A grainy, black and white image of a pair of spiral galaxies, one seen nearly edge-on and one seen face-on. The face-on spiral at bottom has a bright central core and two well-defined spiral arms that loop counterclockwise around the galaxy. The outer arms are dotted with star clusters. One spiral arm begins at about 6 o'clock, curls around to the top of the galaxy at 12 o'clock and then ends at the bottom of the galaxy around 6 o'clock. The second arm begins at around 12 o'clock and curls around, ending at around 3 o'clock. The nearly edge-on galaxy overlaps at the top of the face-on galaxy, appearing like a continuation of the face-on galaxy's second spiral arm. It's disk is tilted, so it appears as a long, thin oval rather than a circle. The galaxy also has a bright central core and an outer edge dotted with star clusters. A few white dots, which are stars, are seen on the black background.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

NTT image of Arp 22, also known as NGC 4027. NGC 4027 is a barred spiral galaxy with a single spiral arm. It is interacting with a smaller companion galaxy, NGC 4027A, which is just out of frame. Credit: ESO Source

A face-on spiral galaxy. In the center is a small yellow bar structure. A single large blue spiral arm begins at the top and curves counter-clockwise from about the 12 o'clock to 11 o'clock positions. This gives the galaxy a teardrop-shape with a curved end, so that it resembles a paisley. Brown dust lanes, blue star clusters, and pink star forming regions are scattered throughout the galaxy.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hubble image of Arp 82, also known as NGC 2535 and NGC 2536. The larger galaxy's arms have evenly spaced "beads on a string" star clusters, created by recent gravitational interactions that led to a burst of star formation. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, J. Dalcanton, Judy Schmidt Source

$A black and white image of a pair of interacting spiral galaxies. In the center of the frame is the larger galaxy, a barred spiral galaxy seen face-on. It has a bright center that transitions into a small bar, crossed by filamentary, dark dust lanes. A ring of stars and star clusters circles the bar, giving the inner part of the galaxy a shape that resembles an eye. Two long spiral arms emerge from the ring, dotted with bright star clusters and outlined by dust filaments, forming an S-shape. The upper arm trails off in a faint arc to the right. The bottom arm appears to connect to its companion galaxy in the lower part of the frame. This galaxy is smaller and less well defined, but is still clearly a two-armed spiral with a bright center and wider, hazy arms. The black background of space is dotted with foreground stars and tiny background galaxies. A few particularly bright stars with diffraction spikes are seen to the right of the center galaxy.$

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

JWST MIRI image of Arp 107, also known as UGC 5984. In this pair of interacting galaxies, only the one-armed spiral glows brightly in mid-infrared light. Young, forming stars surrounded by dusty silicates and soot-like molecules glow in blue. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STSc Source

$A pair of interacting galaxies. The larger of the two is slightly right of center. It is a one-armed spiral galaxy with a hazy, bright, white center and a ring of blue, gaseous filaments. The center of this galaxy shows JWST’s eight-pronged diffraction pattern. The single spiral arm begins at about the 7 o'clock position and spirals counterclockwise to the 12 o'clock position, forming a ring structure. Toward the bottom left and right of the ring are filaments of gas spiraling inward toward the core. At the top left of the ring is a noticeable gap, bordered by two large, blue pockets of dust and gas. The smaller galaxy is made of hazy, light blue gas and dust. Many red, green, blue, and yellow galaxies are spread throughout, with some being hazier in composition and others having more defined spiral patterns.$

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hubble NICMOS image of Arp 220, also known as IC 4553. This infrared image shows two compact star clusters in the center of Arp 220. They are the remnant cores of two spiral galaxies that are in the process of merging. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, R. Thompson, N. Scoville Source

The center of a galaxy merger. A roughly circular blue-white area is crossed by a diagonal band of dark brown dust. In the center are two bright yellow-white blobs, which are star clusters. The left blob is partially covered by the dust band.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hubble image of Arp 22, also known as NGC 4028. NGC 4027 is a barred spiral galaxy with a single spiral arm. It is interacting with a smaller companion galaxy, NGC 4027A, just out of frame. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Julianne Dalcanton, Meli thev, Wikimedia Commons Source

A greyscale image of face-on spiral galaxy. In the center is a small bar structure. A single large blue spiral arm begins at the top and curves counter-clockwise from about the 11 o'clock to 9 o'clock positions. This gives the galaxy a teardrop-shape with a curved end, so that it resembles a paisley. Dark dust lanes, star clusters are scattered throughout the galaxy.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hubble image of Arp 200, also known as NGC 1134. NGC 1134 is likely interacting with its small companion, seen to the lower right, producing streamers of stars that trail off to the right. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Julianne Dalcanton, Meli thev, Wikimedia Commons Source

A greyscale image of a face-on spiral galaxy. The faint galaxy has a bright core, a small oval-shaped ring, and two loose spiral arms that emerge from the ring and wind counterclockwise around the galaxy. The arms are crossed by dark dust lanes and dotted with bright star clusters. At the bottom right edge of the galaxy is a smaller elliptical galaxy, seen as a bright dot surrounded by an oval-shaped haze. Faint, hazy, lines of stars appear from the point where the two galaxies overlap and stream off diagonally, down and to the right. The image has a noticeable amount of detector noise which has not been removed.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Kitt Peak National Observatory image of Arp 336, also known as NGC 2685. NGC 2685 is a polar ring galaxy. It has a ring of gas, stars, and dust that orbits perpendicular to the plane of the galaxy, seen as unusual whorls, or helical filaments. Credit: NOIRLab, AURA, NSF Source

A lenticular galaxy has an pale yellow central core that forms a fuzzy bar structure. Surrounding this a faint almond-shaped area. Together, they somewhat resemble an eye. Several faint, brown, slightly curved dust lanes cross the galaxy vertically on its left half. The black background of space is dotted with stars and smaller galaxies.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Image of Arp 140, also known as NGC 274 and NGC 275, from Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1966). In the original catalog it was in the category: Elliptical galaxies - Emanating material. The pair is a barred spiral and lenticular galaxy. Source

A grainy, black-and-white image of a two side-by-side galaxies. The left galaxy is a bright spiral galaxy with star clusters, crossed by dark dust lanes.. The right galaxy is a lenticular galaxy. It bright white center that gradually becomes more transparent near the edges, emitting a hazy glow. A few white dots, which are stars, are seen on the black background.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

JWST image of Arp 269, also known as NGC 4485 and NGC 4490. NGC 4490 (bottom left) and NGC 4485 (top right), are interacting dwarf galaxies. They are connected by a bridge of red gas and stars. Credit: ESA, NASA, CSA, A. Adamo, G. Bortolini, FEAST JWST team Source

Horizontal image shows two interacting galaxies forming a large, wide V shape. NGC 4490 occupies the left side of the image, while NGC 4485 appears as a white glowing hue in the top right of the field. Both galaxies are connected by a bright stream of red stretching from the top left of the image, through the bottom center, and ending at the right under galaxy NGC 4485. There are regions of bright blue gas visible in concentrated areas of the red stream. The background is black with multiple galaxies in various shapes throughout

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Chandra and Hubble image of Arp 302, also known as UGC 9618 or VV 340. The Chandra data (pink) shows that the upper galaxy has an obscured, active supermassive black hole. Credit: NASA, CXC, IfA, D.Sanders et al, STScI, NRAO, A.Evans et al Source

$A pair of spiral galaxies. The lower galaxy is seen face-on. It has a bright center and short bar structure that transitions into a series of loosely-wound spiral arms, looking something like a cinnamon roll. The arms are dotted with blue star clusters and crossed by darker dust filaments. A diffuse pink glow covers the center of the galaxy. The upper galaxy is seen edge on. It has a somewhat puffy disk, seen as a wide, vertical line. Running down the middle is a dark dust lane. A bright pink glow fills the center of the galaxy, extending beyond the disk. In the middle of the frame, where the two galaxies appear to touch, is a bright foreground star with four diffraction spikes. Other distant galaxies and stars fill the black background of space.$

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hubble and NuStar image of Arp 299, also known as NGC 3690. In the NuSTAR image (left panel), a supermassive black hole accretes gas and glows in X-rays. The black hole is in the right galaxy of a pair (see Hubble image, right panel). Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, GSFC Source

A three panel image. On the left is the NuStar image, in the center is the Hubble image, and in the middle is an image where the two are overlaid.
In the left panel is a blurry, abstract image with blobs of white, pink, blue and yellow colors. The brightest area is a white blob to the lower right.
In the center panel two merging galaxies form an abstract shape, which looks a little like an upside down rubber duck. Within the "head" and "body" of the duck are crossed brown swirls, which are dust and gas. The outside of the duck is outlined with hazy yellow swirls, which are streams of stars. Near the "neck" of the duck, at the point where the two merging galaxies touch, and slightly to the right is a bright white blob, surrounded by pink blobs. This is X-ray light from NuStar, which shows emission from an active supermassive black hole in the right galaxy.
In the right panel is two merging galaxies form an abstract shape, which looks a little like an upside down rubber duck. WIthin the "head" and "body" of the dusk are blue-white dots, which are star clusters, and brown swirls, which are dust and gas. The outside of the duck is outlined with hazy yellow swirls, which are older stars.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

JWST NIRCam image of Arp 142, also known as NGC 2936 and NGC 2937, or the Penguin and the Egg. The blue haze in the distorted spiral galaxy, elliptical galaxy, and the bridge connecting the two are stars. Red filaments are glowing dust. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Source

$Arp 142, two interacting galaxies, observed in near-infrared light. At left is NGC 2937, nicknamed the Egg. Its center is brighter and whiter. There are six diffraction spikes atop its gauzy blue layers. At right is NGC 2936, nicknamed the Penguin. Its beak-like region points toward and above the Egg. Where the eye would be is a small, opaque yellow spiral. The Penguin’s distorted arms and thin red dust lanes from the bird’s beak, back, and tail. The tail is wide and layered, like a beta fish’s tail. A semi-transparent blue hue traces the Penguin and extends from the galaxy, creating an upside-down U over top of both galaxies. At top right is another galaxy seen from the side, pointing roughly at a 45-degree angle. It is largely light blue. Its length appears approximately as long as the Egg’s height. One foreground star with large, bright blue diffraction spikes appears over top of the galaxy and another near it. The entire black background is filled with tiny, extremely distant galaxies.$

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hubble Space Telescope image of Arp 12, also known as NGC 2608. NGC 2608 is a barred spiral galaxy. Its arms are peppered by blue star clusters and red star forming regions and crossed by brown dust lanes. Credit: ESA, NASA, A. Riess et al. Source

$A face-on barred spiral galaxy fills most of the frame. It has a yellow central core and horizontal bar structure. Attached to the bar are several spiral arms which originate at the end of the bar and spiral clockwise. The arms are somewhat squished, so the galaxy appears oval-shaped, longer than it is tall. There are two foreground stars with diffraction spikes, one right above the core of the galaxy and one to the lower right. The black background of space is dotted with numerous tiny, distant galaxies.$

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hubble and Pan-STARRS image of Arp 300, also known as UGC 05028 and UGC 05029. In this image of an interacting galaxy pair, the luminosity comes from Hubble ACS/WFC observations, and color comes from Pan-STARRS. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, J. Dalcanton, Judy Schmidt, PanSTARRS Source

The frame is dominated by a pair of spiral galaxies. The larger galaxy to the upper left is seen nearly face-on. It has a small pale yellow core and a short bar that transitions into spiral arms that are dotted with bluish purple star clusters. More star clusters appear on the right of the galaxy, the side that faces its companion. There are a few dark dust lanes, concentrated near the inner spiral arms. The smaller spiral galaxy to the lower right has a pale yellow bar structure that is surrounded by bluish purple star clusters that only very roughly form spiral arms. On the bottom of the galaxy there is a yellow knot of stars that is brightest in its center, crossed by brown dust lanes. This may be a seperate dwarf galaxy that is either in front of the smaller spiral or is in the process of merging with it. Other distant galaxies and stars fill the black background of space.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hubble and Legacy Survey image of Arp 282, also known as NGC 169 and NGC 169A. Interactions between the two galaxies create delicate streams that visibly link the pair. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, J. Dalcanton, Judy Schmidt, Legacy Surveys, D. Lang, NERSC Source

A large spiral galaxy is seen in the center of the frame. It's tilted at an angle, so that it's disk appears as an oval rather than a circle. Dramatic dust lanes cross in front of the center of the galaxy and are backlit by a haze of yellow-white stars. Below the spiral is a smaller disk galaxy seen in shades of blue white. It appears to be at almost a right angle to the large spiral, falling out of the larger galaxy. The two galaxies are connected by a bridge of dusty tendrils, which are also backlit by the main galaxy. This galaxy pair looks a lot more 3D than most interacting galaxies because of their angles and the backlighting effect.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Image of Arp 299, also known as NGC 3690, from Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1966). In the original catalog it was in the category: Double and multiple galaxies - Unclassified objects. Interactions between the pair triggered a starburst. Source

A grainy, black and white image of two merging galaxies that form an abstract shape, which looks a little like a rubber duck. Within the "head" and "body" of the duck are dark swirls, which are dust and gas. The outside of the duck is outlined with hazy swirls, which are streams of stars.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Five galaxies appear close to each other in the sky. At upper left, a spiral galaxy is tilted, appearing wider than it is tall. It has a glowing yellow center and reddish-brown dust trails that spiral clockwise around it. Above the center is a large elliptical galaxy. Its round, glowing yellow center is surrounded by a fuzzy yellow halo that fades away from the core. Toward the bottom right are three galaxies that appear to touch. The largest is in the center: a nearly vertical, edge-on spiral galaxy. Its glowing yellow core is mostly obscured by reddish-brown dust trails dotted with blue stars. To its bottom left is a smaller, tilted spiral galaxy with a glowing yellow center. Reddish-brown dust trails are dotted with blue stars. One spiral arm appears to touch the vertical galaxy to its right. At the spiral’s bottom right is a lenticular galaxy with a glowing central core in the middle of a hazy yellow disk, appearing almost face-on. It seems to touch the large spiral galaxy above it.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Image of Arp 11, also known as UGC 717, from Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1966). In the original catalog it was in the category: Spiral galaxies - Split arms. UGC 717 is the large spiral galaxy at center. Source

A grainy, black and white image of a group of several spiral galaxies. The upper galaxy, UGC 717, has a small core, and a bar surrounded by a ring structure. On the outside of the ring are several spiral arms, including one arm that splits in two as it curves around the left side of the galaxy. The spiral in the bottom left, UGC 719, has a small core, and a bar surrounded by a ring structure. On the outside of the ring are several somewhat ill-defined spiral arms. In the background are several other smaller galaxies. Many white dots, which are stars, are seen on the black background.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Image of Arp 286, also known as NGC 5560, NGC 5566, and NGC 5569, from Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1966). In the original catalog it was in the category: Double and multiple galaxies - Infall and attraction. Source

A grainy, black and white image of three spiral galaxies. The largest is at the center of the frame. The disk of the galaxy is tilted, so that it appears oval-shaped, with the long axis running diagonally from upper right to lower left. It has a bright center, surrounded by a ring structure. Emerging from the ring are two spiral arms, defined by faint dust lanes. The arms trace the outline of the oval. A faint haze of stars fills in the interior of the oval. At the bottom left is a much smaller face-on spiral galaxy. Unlike the other two galaxies in the group, this galaxy does not appear distorted. It has a small core, surrounded by a faint disk. At upper left is a distorted spiral galaxy seen nearly edge-on. Its disk is warped, forming a thin, nearly vertical, backward S-shape.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hubble image of Arp 293, also known as NGC 6285 and NGC 6286. NGC 6285 (left) and NGC 6286 (right) have roughly equal masses. Their mutual gravitational attraction pulls streams of gas, stars, and dust from the galaxies as they interact. Credit: ESA,NASA, K. Larson et al. Source

A pair of interacting spiral galaxies. The galaxy on the left is seen nearly face-on. It has a bright central core surrounded by a disk seen in shades of pastel yellow and brown. The disk is dotted with star clusters and crossed by light brown dust lanes. At the edges of the disk are two short, faint, wide spiral arms. The galaxy on the right is seen edge-on. It's disk forms a yellow line, crossed by dark brown dust lanes. In the center of the galaxy, the circular bulge emerges on either side of the disk. The black background of space is dotted with stars and small background galaxies.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Composite image of Arp 26, also known as M101 or the Pinwheel Galaxy. X-rays from NuSTAR (green) show a supernova, on a visible light (KPNO, yellow and red) and far-UV (GALEX, blue) image of M101. Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, NOIRLab, NSF, AURA, B. Grefenstette, R. Hurt Source

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Image of Arp 293, also known as NGC 6285 and NGC 6286, from Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1966). In the original catalog it was in the category: Double and multiple galaxies - Wind effects. The pair's interactions pull tidal streams. Source

A grainy, black and white image of a pair of interacting spiral galaxies. The galaxy on the right is seen nearly face-on. It has a bright disk. At the edges of the disk are two short, faint, wide spiral arms. The galaxy on the left is seen edge-on. It's disk forms a line. In the center of the galaxy, the circular bulge emerges on either side of the disk. The black background of space is dotted with stars and small background galaxies. The black background of space is filled with white dots, which are foreground stars.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

JWST NIRCam and MIRI image of Arp 107, also known as UGC 5984. In the near-infrared, older stars and a bridge of gas and stars between the galaxies appear in white. In the mid-infrared, star-forming regions are in orange and red. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Source

A pair of interacting galaxies. The larger of the two is slightly right of center. It is a one-armed spiral galaxy with a hazy, bright, white center and a ring of gaseous filaments, which are different shades of red and orange. The single spiral arm begins at about the 7 o'clock position and spirals counterclockwise to the 12 o'clock position, forming a ring structure. Toward the bottom left and right of the ring are filaments of gas spiraling inward toward the core. At the top left of the ring, at the 11 o'clock position, is a noticeable gap, bordered by two large, orange pockets of dust and gas. The smaller elliptical galaxy to its left is made of hazy white gas and dust, which becomes more diffuse farther away from its center. To this galaxy’s bottom left, there is a smaller, more diffuse gas cloud that wafts outward toward the edges. Many red, orange, and white galaxies are spread throughout the background, with some hazier in composition and others having defined spiral patterns.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Spitzer, Hubble, and Chandra image of Arp 26, also known as M101 or the Pinwheel Galaxy. Spitzer's infrared light shows dust, Hubble's visible light highlights stars, Chandra's X-rays show things like hot gas and black holes. Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, JPL, Caltech, STScI Source

A three-panel image, showing Spitzer, Hubble, and Chandra views of the same Spiral Galaxy M101. On the left is the Spitzer view. From a small central core, several arms spiral clockwise. They are defined by a network of yellow-green filamentary dust lanes, which look somewhat like a cross section of a nautilus. The arms are dotted with pink star-forming regions and filled in with a haze of blue stars. One spiral arm curls from about 6 o'clock to 9 o'clock and is mostly separated from the body of the galaxy. The other spiral arms are less distinct. In the middle is the Hubble view. A face-on spiral galaxy has a yellow core. Several spiral arms, dotted with blue stars and star clusters, spiral clockwise around the core. They are crossed by filamentary dust lanes. The arms are somewhat well-defined but asymmetric. One arm curls from about 6 o'clock to 9 o'clock and is mostly separated from the body of the galaxy. Another arm follows more closely to the core, from about 6 o'clock to 12 o'clock. Three other arms cover the area from 12 o'clock to 6 o'clock. On the right is the Chandra view. In this panel, blue and purple splotches partially define spiral arms. These arms are smaller and less distinct than in the other views. White dots are scattered throughout the image, including a concentration of points at the galaxy's core. Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, JPL, Caltech, STScI. ssc2009-03b

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