Arp Bot 🤖Image of Arp 122, also known as NGC 6040 and LEDA 59642, from the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies by Halton Arp (1966).
In the original catalog, it was in the category: Elliptical galaxies - Close to and perturbing spiral galaxies. This pair of galaxies NGC 6040, the tilted, warped spiral galaxy and LEDA 59642, the round, face-on spiral are in the midst of a collision.
