2011 April 29th
This object resides in Corvus which was one of the two constellations of the week. How coincidental. About 60 million light years away, two galaxies collided and resulted in this. The two stars in the respective galaxies did not collide however but there atmospheres and dust did creating an extremely prolific star formation area. Again, this object is named the Antennae for obvious reasons and the picture illustrates just how strong gravitational tidal forces are. The objects surrounding the Antennae have been formed and thrown away from the galaxies. Awesome.
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