Arp 273 are a pair of interacting galaxies, 300 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Andromeda.

This image shows a tenuous tidal bridge of material between the two galaxies that are separated from each other by tens of thousands of light-years.

The larger of the spiral galaxies, known as UGC 1810, has a disk that is tidally distorted into a rose-like shape by the gravitational tidal pull of the companion galaxy below it, known as UGC 1813.

A swath of blue jewels across the top is the combined light from clusters of intensely bright and hot young blue stars.

Location: Hubble Space Telescope
Data Source: Hubble Legacy Archive