🌌 Galaxy
Antennae Galaxies
Two galaxies crashing into each other, trailing long streamers of stars.
- Distance
- 65 million light-years away
- Discovered
- 1785, by William Herschel
Did you know?
- Long streamers of stars flung out by the crash look like an insect’s antennae, which gave them their name.
- A wide band of dust lies between their two centres, where the galaxies overlap.
- They are in the constellation Corvus, the Crow.
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