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Two face-on spiral galaxies at upper-left and lower-right corners. A long, faint, pale-blue streak joins them, crossing the field diagonally. A small, orange, edge-on spiral galaxy at left of the lower galaxy.

Hubble Inspects a Pair of Space Oddities

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.

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