Wild's Triplet is a group of three small, interacting spiral galaxies.[1] The galaxies are visible in the constellation Virgo.[2] The triplet has luminous connecting bridges and is located some 200 million light-years away. The aforementioned bridges are probably formed as a result of gravitational tidal interactions among the galaxies. The triplet is named after the British-born and Australia-based astronomer Paul Wild (1923–2008), who studied the trio in the early 1950s.[3]
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Wild's Triplet.