Wild's Triplet

Wild's Triplet, also known as Arp 248, is a group of three small, interacting spiral galaxies.

[2] Two of the galaxies have a connecting stellar stream, probably formed as a result of gravitational tidal interactions.

The trio is located some 200 million light-years away.

The triplet is named after the Swiss astronomer Paul Wild (1925–2014), who studied the trio in the early 1950s.

This galaxy-cluster-related article is a stub.

Part of Wild's Triplet with Hubble