PIA23009: GOALS Merging Galaxies
 Mission:  Spitzer Space Telescope
 Instrument:  IRAC
 Product Size:  2133 x 1200 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  IPAC-Caltech
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA23009.tif (2.94 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA23009.jpg (108.3 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

These three images show merging galaxies observed for the Great Observatories All-sky LIRG Survey, or GOALS. The merger on the left is Arp 302; in the middle are NGC 7752 and 7753; on the right is IIZw96.

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