esahubble_opo9734c October 21st, 1997
Credit: Brad Whitmore (STScI), and NASA/ESA
A ground-based telescopic view of the Antennae galaxies (known formally as NGC 4038/4039) - so named because a pair of long tails of luminous matter, formed by the gravitational tidal forces of their encounter, resembles an insect's antennae. The galaxies are located 63 million light-years away in the southern constellation Corvus.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9734c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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