The Hubble Space Telescope has a picture of two of the interacting galaxies. Three small spiral galaxies are linked together by bridges of stars.

The trio are named for an astronomer from Australia who studied the group in the 1950s.

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows two of the galaxies in the galactic triplet Arp 248 – also known as Wild's Triplet – which lies around 200 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. The two large spiral galaxies visible in this image – which flank a smaller, unrelated background spiral galaxy – appear connected by a luminous bridge. This elongated stream of stars and interstellar dust is known as a tidal tail, and it formed by the mutual gravitational attraction of the two foreground galaxies.
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows two of the galaxies in the galactic triplet Arp 248 – also known as Wild’s Triplet – which lies around 200 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. The two large spiral galaxies visible in this image – which flank a smaller, unrelated background spiral galaxy – appear connected by a luminous bridge. This elongated stream of stars and interstellar dust is known as a tidal tail, and it formed by the mutual gravitational attraction of the two foreground galaxies. ESA/Hubble & NASA, Dark Energy Survey/Department of Energy/Fermilab Cosmic Physics Center/Dark Energy Camera/Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory/NOIRLab/National Science Foundation/AURA Astronomy; J. Dalcanton

There are bright bridges between two of the galaxies in this image because of the gravity binding the three together A tidal tail is formed by the pull of the galaxies on each other as the bridge glows with starlight.

Hubble has shared a number of images of interacting galaxies recently, including two other interacting spiral galaxies that look like they are interacting, but are actually just overlaps, as one is closer to us than the other. The full drama of merging galaxies can be seen in a stunning image from the Gemini North Telescope or in a recent James Webb image that shows the bright effects of a merger.

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