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Antennae Galaxies - Hubble Legacy Archive, Bogdan Borz

Antennae Galaxies - Hubble Legacy Archive

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Antennae Galaxies - Hubble Legacy Archive, Bogdan Borz

Antennae Galaxies - Hubble Legacy Archive

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My take on data from Hubble with these spectacular colliding galaxies. Processed in Pixinsight. An HaRGB image

Credit HLA/NASA/ESA

Processing Bogdan Borz

From the Hubble site :

"The galaxies — also known as NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 — are locked in a deadly embrace. Once normal, sedate spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, the pair have spent the past few hundred million years sparring with one another. This clash is so violent that stars have been ripped from their host galaxies to form a streaming arc between the two. In wide-field images of the pair the reason for their name becomes clear — far-flung stars and streamers of gas stretch out into space, creating long tidal tails reminiscent of antennae."

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