Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Pegasus (Peg)
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UGC 12914 Taffy Galaxies, Jerry Yesavage
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UGC 12914 Taffy Galaxies

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The interacting spiral galaxies UGC 12914 and UGC 12915 are joined by a radio continuum bridge whose brightness contours look like stretching strands of taffy as these two galaxies separate following a nearly head- on collision.

I was wasting imaging time and these filled in a three hour slot. If I only had a dark site.... I can only put so many pixels on them... the Hubble images are impressive.

They were processed with a pseudo L from the RGB channels.

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