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Image of the day 04/10/2018

    NGC 4038 (Antennae) - Deep Sky West Remote Observatory, Deep Sky West (Lloyd)
    NGC 4038 (Antennae) - Deep Sky West Remote Observatory
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    NGC 4038 (Antennae) - Deep Sky West Remote Observatory

    Link to TIFF/FITS: http://www.deepskywest.com

    Image of the day 04/10/2018

      NGC 4038 (Antennae) - Deep Sky West Remote Observatory, Deep Sky West (Lloyd)
      NGC 4038 (Antennae) - Deep Sky West Remote Observatory
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      NGC 4038 (Antennae) - Deep Sky West Remote Observatory

      Link to TIFF/FITS: http://www.deepskywest.com

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      NGC 4038 - From APOD....

      This galaxy is having a bad millennium. In fact, the past 100 million years haven't been so good, and probably the next billion or so will be quite tumultuous. Visible on the upper left, NGC 4038 used to be a normal spiral galaxy, minding its own business, until NGC 4039, toward its right, crashed into it. The evolving wreckage, known famously as the Antennae, is pictured above. As gravity restructures each galaxy, clouds of gas slam into each other, bright blue knots of stars form, massive stars form and explode, and brown filaments of dust are strewn about. Eventually the two galaxies will converge into one larger spiral galaxy. Such collisions are not unusual, and even our own Milky Way Galaxy has undergone several in the past and is predicted to collide with our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy in a few billion years.

      Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)

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      NGC 4038 (Antennae) - Deep Sky West Remote Observatory, Deep Sky West (Lloyd)