Astronomers Observe Pair of Colliding Spiral Galaxies astronomy space science
are a duo of unbarred spiral galaxies located about 60 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo.and the Siamese Twins, these galaxies are beginning to collide and merge into each other.“We may imagine them to be violent and catastrophic, but in reality they are surprisingly peaceful, like a waltz performed by stars, gas and dust, choreographed by gravity.”
The new image of the NGC 4567-NGC 4568 system was captured by the FORS2 instrument, which is mounted on ESO’s Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in the Chilean Andes.
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