Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Corvus (Crv)  ·  Contains:  Antennae  ·  Antennae Galaxies  ·  NGC 4027  ·  NGC 4038  ·  NGC 4039
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The Antennae Galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, Tom Peter AKA Astrovetteman
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The Antennae Galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039

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The Antennae Galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, Tom Peter AKA Astrovetteman
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The Antennae Galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039

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The Antennae Galaxies, NGC 4038 & NGC 4039 are a pair of colliding galaxies in the constellation Corvus. They lie at an approximate distance of 45,000,000 light-years from Earth. It's estimated that about 900,000,000 years ago, they began to interact, even passing through each other. Even though no stars probably collided, the gas and dust within each galaxy collided and initiated creation of billions of new stars in a starburst of activity. The same will occur when the Milky Way and Andromeda collide in several billion years.

This data was acquired at Deep Sky West-Chile with the TOA-150/FLI ML16200. There's 13.5 hours of data, LRGB subs @600s.

Anyway, hope ya like the first run on this...more to come!

Tom

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The Antennae Galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, Tom Peter AKA Astrovetteman