Image Credit: Hubble Space Telescope Heritage Team/Nasa, Esa
The NASA's Hubble Space
Telescope and European Space Agency produced this image of two galaxies identified
as Arp 142 that muscularly look like a penguin protecting an egg. What is really
happening is enormously violent, as the two galaxies rip each other apart. The
galaxies are about 326 million light years from Planet Earth in the
constellation Hydra.
See a large version of this
image here.