Optical Images of the Spirals, Bridges, and Tails Interacting Galaxy Sample from the Sloan Digitized Sky Survey and other resources

These are color-coded to approximately true-color.


Arp 24


Arp 34


Arp 34: the northern galaxy


Arp 34: the southern galaxy


Arp 72. The long tail to the east is not really visible in this image, except for some blue clumps far from the main disk.


Arp 82
For more images of Arp 82 at other wavelengths, click
here.


Arp 84


Arp 85 (M51)


Arp 87
To see an Hubble Telescope image of Arp 87, click
here.


Arp 89


Arp 91. North is up and east to the left. There appears to be a short blue-ish tail to the northwest of the western galaxy. This may be caused by star formation in gas that flowed from the eastern galaxy (the bluer spiral), to the western elliptical-like galaxy (w/ a yellower color), and overshot its target (as in the northern tail of
Arp 285. Alternatively, it may be a tidal tail of the spiral galaxy that happens to be behind the elliptical.


Arp 101


Arp 103


Arp 104


Arp 105


Arp 107
For more images of Arp 107 at other wavelengths, click
here.


Arp 112


Arp 120


Arp 136


Arp 173


Arp 181


Arp 194. Notice the bright blue stars in the bridge.


Arp 192


Arp 202


Arp 205


Arp 205: eastern galaxy, close-up


Arp 240


Arp 242


Arp 269. North is up and east to the left. Notice the bright blue stars off-center in the northern galaxy. These may have formed from gas accreted from the companion.


Arp 270


Arp 280


Arp 280: Closer view


Arp 283


Arp 285
For more images of Arp 285 at other wavelengths, click
here.


Arp 285: Northern galaxy (NGC 2856)


Arp 285: Southern galaxy (NGC 2854)


Arp 290


Arp 290: Northern galaxy closer view.


Arp 290: Southern galaxy closer view.


Arp 294


Arp 294: Closer view


Arp 297. Note that this is two separate unrelated pairs at different redshifts, with the pair to the north being at a higher redshift.


I band Arp 297 from Palomar, in greyscale.


I band of bigger galaxy in Arp 297 from Palomar, in color.


I band of smaller galaxy in Arp 297 from Palomar, in color.


Arp 305. Notice the blue tidal debris between the two galaxies.


Arp 305: the southern galaxy


Arp 305: the northern galaxy


NGC 4567