NGC 5195- Heading for Milky Way?

[Arata]

Since in infrared, objects that are blue are moving towards you, while red moving way from you.
But M51's companion is blue in infrared.
Is it on a collision course with our Milky Way?

[monmarfori]

No. But Andromeda Will collide.

[Bla]

Blue in infrared? Infrared is fake colored, since it's invisible. Perhaps it could be colored in another way than just moving all the infrared wavelengths into the visible ones?
I don't know it though.

Could it be because it has many blue stars?

[atomic7732]

blue-shifted in infrared perhaps.Or if infrared was visible... well... then that would be blue-shifted.

[Bla]

Yes. If it was blue-shifted in infrared, it would turn normal red.
(or somewhere around)

[FGFG]

no...
The visible colours are decided by the people who made the image. They simply transformed the lenght of the light waves by a factor, which changes obviously.

However, maybe the image tells that the galaxy is getting nearer, but it doesn't mean that it will collide with us. An object can become nearer without colliding with us (e.g. the cars on the other lane).