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Composite image of Arp 16, also known as M66.

Includes X-ray data from Chandra (blue), infrared from Spitzer (red), and visible light from Hubble and the Very Large Telescope (yellow). The inset shows a bright central X-ray source, likely material falling onto a supermassive black hole.

Credit: NASA, STScI, JPL-Caltech, ESO, WFI, CXC, Ohio State Univ., C.Grier et al
Source: chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012

A face-on barred spiral galaxy anchored by its central region. It has a bright white circular area surrounded by a lighter pinkish diagonal bar structure made of a haze of stars, which forms an angled oval toward the top. Two distinct spiral arms made of stars, gas, and reddish brown filamentary dust lanes start at the center and extend outward, rotating clockwise. The outer spiral arms are made of many yellow clusters of stars. The background of space beyond the galaxy appears black. There are some large blue and red points of light surrounding the galaxy. A white box outlines the center part of the galaxy. An insert shows the X-ray only light from the area covered by the box. In the insert are blue points of light and a blue haze on a black background. The blue haze roughly corresponds to the location of the galaxy’s bar in images taken at other wavelengths. A series of bright blue points are at the center of the hazy structure.
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Image of Arp 297, also known as NGC 5755, NGC 5753, NGC 5754 and NGC 5752, from the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies by Halton Arp (1966).

In the original catalog, it was in the category: Double and multiple galaxies - Long filaments. While the left and right pairs of galaxies are interacting with their companions, the pairs are unrelated and are at different distances.

Source: ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Ar

A grainy, black and white image of four small galaxies, arranged in two pairs. The right pair of galaxies is a large face-on barred spiral galaxy and a smaller edge-on disk galaxy. The spiral has a bright, circular core that transitions into a diagonal bar structure. Two well-defined spiral arms circle around the core counter-clockwise, beginning at the ends of the bar. Above it is its smaller companion galaxy. It is oval-shaped, running diagonal and with the long axis parallel to the bar of the large spiral. The left pair is two nearly face-on spiral galaxies. The bottom galaxy of the pair has a bright core and asymmetric bar with two faint spiral arms that make an S-shape. The top galaxy of the pair has a bright core and just a hint of spiral arms. Many white dots, which are stars, are seen on the black background.
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Hubble Space Telescope image of Arp 6, also known as NGC 2537 or the Bear’s Paw Galaxy.

NGC 2537 has a nucleus that is rapidly forming stars, surrounded by a horseshoe-shaped structure that is also forming new stars. Since the stars in the nucleus are older, the horseshoe may be the result of a shockwave sent out by the nuclear starburst.

Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, J. Dalcanton, Judy Schmidt
Source: flickr.com/photos/geckzilla/46

A greyscale image of a galaxy with a line-like nucleus and a horseshoe-shaped arc above it. The horseshoe points down, and the nucleus is in the center of the arc. It looks like an upside down power symbol, ⏻. The nucleus and horseshoe are dotted with bright star clusters and dark dust lanes.
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