Beautiful Galaxy Collision Captured by Hubble Telescope

The galaxy crash is known as IRAS 14348-1447 after the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) that discovered it and is seen here as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. Located more than a billion light-years from Earth, IRAS 14348-1447 is known as an ultraluminous infrared galaxy, a category of cosmic entities that shine distinctively —and unbelievably brightly — in the infrared spectrum, according to a NASA image description. IRAS 14348-1447 is gas-rich, which means the mass