English: This is a Hubble Space Telescope snapshot of the early stages of a collision between two galaxies that resembles a Halloween carved pumpkin. The "pumpkin's" glowing “eyes” are the bright, star-filled cores of each galaxy that contain supermassive black holes. An arm of newly forming stars give the imaginary pumpkin a wry smirk. The two galaxies, cataloged as NGC 2292 and NGC 2293, are located about 120 million light-years away in the constellation Canis Major.
These images are a composite of separate exposures acquired by the ACS/WFC instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope along with ground-based observations from the Pan-STARRS program. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are: Luminosity: F606W Blue: Pan-STARRS (g) Red: Pan-STARRS (z) The higher resolution, black & white Hubble image and the lower resolution, color Pan-STARRS images were combined using a technique that takes luminosity (brightness) information from the black and white ACS image and color information from the composite Pan-STARRS image. This preserves all of the higher-resolution detail from the Hubble data while also rendering a color image of this region of space.
Image is about 3 arcmin across (about 108,000 light-years)
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This is a Hubble Space Telescope snapshot of the early stages of a collision between two galaxies that resembles a Halloween carved pumpkin. The "pumpkin's" glowing "eyes" are the bright, star-filled cores of each galaxy that contain supermassive black holes. An arm of newly forming stars give the imaginary pumpkin a wry smirk. The two mostly featureless galaxies, cataloged as NGC?2292 and NGC?2293, are located about 80 million light-years away in the constellation Canis Major.