Colliding Galaxies and a Love Heart in Space!
I've revisited this previously unpublished data and hope you enjoy the results.
Please check out the full res photo and have fun spotting all the teeny tiny galaxies in the background.
Some 60 million light-years away in the southerly constellation Corvus, the Antennae are a pair of spiral galaxies that are interacting and mingling their stars. They began their galactic dance over a few hundred million years ago and are currently in a period where their colliding gas clouds are bursting with new star formation. As the two galaxies merge, their gravitational interactions pull long tails of gas away from each other, and these tails are the sites of starburst activity. In a few billion years, the cores of these two galaxies will be combined into one large core, with a supermassive black hole at its heart. It will be surrounded by an elliptical galaxy of old stars.
Taken from a dark site in Country Victoria, Australia.
5.5 hrs LUM & RGB Data in 5 subs before the fog rolled in!
PS: I later sold this scope, which was then later resold - to my mate Blue, who owns the property where I originally took this photo!
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