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PIA23008: GOALS Merging Galaxies Arp 302

This image, by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, shows two merging galaxies known as Arp 302, also called VV 340.

Mission:	Spitzer Space Telescope
Instrument:	IRAC
Product Size:	1200 x 1200 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	IPAC-Caltech
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA23008.tif (906.8 kB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA23008.jpg (41.97 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This image shows two merging galaxies known as Arp 302, also called VV 340. It is composed of images from three Spitzer Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) channels: IRAC channel 1 in blue, IRAC channel 2 in green and IRAC channel 3 in red.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at Caltech in Pasadena, California. Spacecraft operations are based at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Littleton, Colorado. Data are archived at the Infrared Science Archive housed at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at Caltech. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

For more information about the Spitzer mission, visit http://www.nasa.gov/spitzer and http://spitzer.caltech.edu.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:

2019-02-27