A Tour of Arp 142

This video tours Arp 142, an interacting galaxy pair affectionately known as the Penguin and the Egg that lies 326 million lightyears from Earth. The journey begins and ends on a new mid and nearinfrared image from the James Webb Space Telescope, and includes a brief fade to a visible light image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The pair are separated by only 100, 000 lightyears relatively close in astronomical terms. Our Milky Way galaxy and nearest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, are separated by about 2. 5 million lightyears. This tour spotlights whats happened since theyve interacted, including a blue haze that joins them. Also look for contrasting views of the spiral galaxy at top right, which disappears in Webbs midinfrared view. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Danielle Kirshenblat (STScI)